Every time a swear word is censored on the internet, a cat video gets a million views, or something like that.
We've gone all the way around so now censoring a swear makes people more upset than actually saying it and I really don't understand why.
Year 2000
Say 'fuck'
People get irrationally mad
Year 2024
Say 'fxck'
People get irrationally mad
What happened?
The younger generations decided that being offended by swear words is fucking stupid.
And those motherfuckers are right.
Fuck y**h!
I'm an older generation and (generally) refrain from swearing myself, but seeing censored posts on Lemmy drives me fucking insane. This isn't a preschool nor is it an advertiser-friendly place. We should keep it that way.
In fact, we should actively try to make it hostile to advertisements.
Fuck your goods I wipe my ass with your services.
That should do it.
They're unaliving censorship, or however younger generations say it.
Lmao, the term unaliving is censorship. Tiktok won't let you say "kill".
That was their point lawl
But. Isn't it gen Z and older A's censoring shit?
They don't censor because they're offended by the words. They censor so platforms like tiktok don't delete their posts.
In my mind this makes it even worse
In adult-facing parts of the internet, including here, swears are typically used for an extra bit of "oomph" to spice up a sentence or make a point clear. (I know that there's an actual word for this but I can't think of it currently.) It's generally considered neutering that spice if you censor it; case in point is this meme. It just tends to look childish or dumb, especially if the word is just vaguely censored like this meme here again. At least Grawlixes ("$#@&!") have some mystery as to the word being said.
Intensifiers, goddammit!
I don't remember people being offended by the word fuck in 2000. Sure on TV it could be considered dicey but on the internet it was pretty fair game
If you want to make a post without swear words, just do it. Using a swear word and then censoring it completely defeats the purpose
Your comment implicates you are in favour of censoring swear words. Coukd uou enlighten us as to why?
tbf the cats deserve it
I didn't censor it so I'm not to blame
Oh, I wasn't blaming you one bit. I was just pointing out how odd it is.
It really is odd. What's even the point? Is it some kind of "saying it without saying it" thing? It's still explicitly saying it.
Certain platforms will negatively impact an account based off content they find inappropriate.
I don't know which, because I don't use any of those fuckin platforms.
Ok you didn't censor it. But did you consider uncensoring it?
that censoring...
Is the krabby patty actually any different than a Wendy's single? It looks the exact same on the menu and is the same price
The difference is the salsa secreta.
dame el fuente de este arte lujurioso
It's just the sauce that's different and it's not that good. You're paying more for a worse off burger.
Is this a real thing? If so is it meat based? Don't ask me why I know this but in SpongeBob lore the Krabby Patty is actually plant based.
don't mentally read in Plankton's voice: challenge level: impossible
You can almost read the word f*** is no one thinking of the americans here? What the fuck?
Americans?
This is a TickTock scourge.
Censoring swear words on text posts have been around long before TikTok, they just kicked it into overdrive. I really can't think of a reason why the censored version of memes get spread more than uncensored except to think that there are a dedicated group of people who pick up memes like this and spread the censored version before the uncensored version hits.
It makes some sort of sense for videos. TikTok and YouTube demonetized and suppress videos with swear words in them. And those platforms can make people money. I don't see why a text post would be censored, I don't know of many ways to make a lot of money off of reposting memes and even the few I could think of don't really care if they're censored.
This is almost as bad as when we had to carpet bomb another village to a crater last week to prevent the public from finding out that ...
^women^ ^have^ ^nipples^ ^too^
Wait what?
Oh no, cover your ears, poor innocent American! You heard nothing.
My reaction on seeing this was to wonder about the Wendy's Nasty Patty (tm).
This is Lemmy, you can say bad words here.
He still doesn't know what's in the secret sauce though.
Same as literally every "secret sauce"
It's just thousand island dressing
It literally is just peppery thousand island dressing. Also, the ingredients are on the side of the box the sauce ships in so it's not even secret to the employees lmao
Fucked
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