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**What gets me…**
The other day, I decided to take my dog, Max, for a walk in the park. As we strolled, he spotted a squirrel and took off like a rocket, dragging me behind him. At that moment, I realized my morning coffee had kicked in, and I was attempting to break the world record for the fastest human-squirrel chase, complete with dramatic arm flailing and some rather unfortunate commando rolls.
I must have looked like a deranged blend of a marathon runner and a cartoon character, arms and legs flailing as I yelled, “Max, wait!” Meanwhile, he was blissfully unaware, probably considering himself the hero of an epic chase. As I finally regained control, panting and red-faced, I couldn’t help but chuckle at how a simple walk turned into an unintended slapstick routine. Who knew being yanked through a park could be my morning workout and entertainment all in one?
P
Still not as bad as “unalived”
G
“Sewer slide” actually angered me. It means suicide if you can’t figure it out.
C
Let’s not forget, when discussing someone who has been raped to call it “graped”. Otherwise it might be offend someone. It’s so fucking ridiculous. It’s like Apple changing the gun emoji to a water gun.
W
It’s not about offending people, it’s self-censorship to avoid getting banned or demonetised on platforms like YouTube and TikTok that don’t want people talking about rape, murder and suicide, because they either don’t want legal trouble or their advertisers don’t want to be shown alongside those subjects.
M
> It’s not about offending people > or their advertisers don’t want to be shown alongside those subjects. So it is about advertisers being offended
A
More about outreach with a lot of small time social media posts. Your message won’t reach anyone if the automated censorship bot shadowbans your video instantly and no one sees it.
M
But that automated censorship is only there because the advertisers demand it.
A
Correct. I was more addressing people calling the creators cowards, when in reality a lot of the content is important and people are only doing what they need to in order to get their message heard.
T
Agreed, nobody in YouTube comments is complaining that their favourite content creator said “raped” instead of “graped” when doing a video essay on some crime. This isn’t about being PC, or pearl clutchers, or trying to avoid trigger words – it’s just the algorithm saying “I detected 5+ adult words in this video, this is not for general audiences”. Which is such a subtle, indirect form of censorship.
M
so… it’s about the algorithm (and/or those who implemented it) being PC / pearl clutchers / triggered?
R
It’s not about offending people. It’s about offending capital.
W
It’s cowardice is what it is
N
That would be okay if it was just said in videos being monetized….but people are starting to say them everywhere, in comments, in person..it’s become too much
S
Just fucking offend people.
N
The funny thing about the water gun is I’m pretty sure they added the middle finger in the same update.
P
See, being a Whitest Kids You Know fan, I never even questioned the use of “graped” lol
Y
[Open wide kids, cus’ I’m gonna grape you in the mouth!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgUGY36gqM) xD
P
She’s begging to be graped! …will you listen to yourself?! Look what she’s wearing! …look what she’s wearing?! It’s purple.
K
Ah yes, Newspeak. But it came about 40 years later than predicted.
A
Suicide is something we should definitely talk about and not bury our heads in the sand and pretend it doesn’t exist.
Y
But don’t you understand it might make some people not look at every possible add!?
O
I didn’t know that. That is ridiculously disrespectful
R
God, that really sounds like powerful diarrhea though.
K
I have seen someone replacing that with Suicune
N
Dont forget about “pew pew” to describe a gun
E
You can generally get mad at youtube and other platforms for that. Their guidelines are what creators have to follow to not lose ads.
G
It was in a comment on reddit, but yea the platforms started creators self censoring which got users copying.
E
Yeah if there isn’t anything stopping people from saying the actual word then I definitely agree.
L
“Sewer side” was a way to get around profanity filters in game chats.
T
I like it, it fits as a euphonic substitute and is also a nice metaphor
O
“Negative patient outcome.”
R
“Walked off the census”
R
See, now this is creative.
C
Death called and was promptly answered.
O
See eggs
O
This is getting so bad. Crime documentary channels are becoming madlibs now. Yeah sometimes I would just hear the nasty word instead of someone censoring it with a meme soundbyte. Comes off a bit disrespectful to the victim.
S
Or when people type r\*\*\*. Don’t marginalize rape.
S
It’s that are typing “grape” or using the 🍇 emoji that pisses me off
C
It makes the thing sounds like a joke which is so wrong
R
To be honest, if you’re going to curse, do it. Don’t beep it as if it’s embarrassed.
C
Or “pdf”, do you want to print them or something?
F
I prefer croaked or if I’m feeling fancy, kicked the bucket. Maybe a little dirt nap? 🥱😴
M
The big sleep 💤
V
The newest version I heard a Youtube video use was “unsubscribed to life”
M
I like one that moreparz used in one video: “logged out of God’s Minecraft server”. They can be fun, sometimes. The reason for having to do them is annoying though.
H
Yeah, there have always been fun euphemisms for this kind of thing – what did “shuffled off this mortal coil” is pretty absurd, if read literally, but it dates back to Shakespeare.
G
…or how YouTubers talk about criminals who “write essays” on people.
T
I hate it too. But on tiktok if you call it suicide your post gets deleted. And because of that it made its way to the mainstream
W
Consider: stop using shitty services like tiktok
T
I dont use tiktok, but i do know where it came from
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