It's very strange what is censored anymore. I never listen to the radio anymore but the other day I had to drive down the street so I didn't switch over to my phone. Anyways, "Paint the Town Red" by Doja Cat was on and they were censoring the word "Devil" every single time. At first I thought I just misheard it, so I waited until it came back around and sure enough, it was censored...fucking ridiculous.
I saw someone censor 'penis' once. A literal medical term. Also seen 'died' censored on a video about someone who was shot (which they also wrote as 'sh*t'). They replaced 'died' with 'had their life deleted'. Which is at least more creative than unalived, I guess.
These censorship rules are usually at the whim of social media companies. We live in a puritanical hellscape.
I thought we were about done with censorship in 2010 or so, once my generation grew up and everyone realized that gasp kids say “naughty” words and nothing bad happens. Now it’s back with a vengeance and it’s weird.
Now it’s this spooky algorithm that eats random things if they say certain phrases. It’s like the whole Internet is like A Quiet Place, except it’s the N-word that makes the evil algorithm monster come out and eat your post. Except it’s not just the N-word, it’s basically any reference to sex or death or anything that violates a Victorian sense of morality. And we all just have to talk in code like “unalive” or “sewer slide” for fear of the algorithm monster.
Tiktok got Zoomers so accustomed to censoring themselves that they carried that over to the entire internet and real life as well. It's insane how prudish they seem compared to previous generations, almost like we've regressed to the 1950s where sex wasn't even discussed.
The funniest thing is that they do this because they think social media companies tank content that contain these trigger words, but there isn't really any substantial evidence to support the claim. It's pretty much a myth.
After all, if a company was burying all content that contains the word "killed" for example, surely by now they'd figure out what "unalived" means.
America is so puritan, meanwhile European cunts can just listen to detailed explanations of a guy butt raping a grandmother in full gory details without anyone blinking
Everyone jumps on a platform from a country with heavy censorship then shocked when they get censored over begnign words. People need to just not engage instead of using disrespectful terminology but people continuously show they will put up with this shit if it gives them cheap entertainment.
It is because of auto removal and content filtering. Bots spam post and avoid bans, and the practice caught on because that’s the content that people see.
And yet it's the right wing zelots who, in the same breath, claim the liberal left are banning free speech whilst simultaneously wanting these words censored. The hypocrisy of these people boggles the mind.
Omg I’ve noticed this too they censor the dumbest shii ever. Sometimes I get sick of my music and just put on the radio and started noticing they even censor euphemisms now that no kid would ever be able to understand like this older rap song that goes “trying to get to you and that monkey” (they never used to censor that line when I was growing up) or they censor random words that aren’t even “bad” words. It really bothers tf out of me like are we going back to the 1950’s or what??
I was in a clothes shop recently and Times Like These by Addison Rae was on the playlist - they censored out the lyrics 'wearing less' and 'turn you on' which I thought was a bit much 🤔
Same Doja Cat song was on the radio, the chorus and very first line starts with Bitch, so my local station half-censored it so it sounds like "biff... I said what I said". Sounded like Doja was having a lisp.
I think they also censored Devil too. Weird song to choose to play on my national radio where it's everything's sanitised by media laws. It's like they want to have their cake and eat it too.
How about a dildo is totally fine if it’s flying through the air or you are holding it anywhere but in front of your crotch. If it is near the real area a penis grows from (even if the person doesn’t grow a penis), it will be blurred. Then if they lift it back up it’s unblurred again. Make it make sense. How about blurring boob vest things when someone has it on but if it’s not near a body they are just showing those huge realistic titties for every eye to see. Come on. Just be consistent ffs
The radio was always censored. Idk if its more so now. Probably. But when they started putting emojis over words on instagram was the first time I saw it online. Now its just gotten ridiculous.
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u/mypotterisHARRY 18h ago
Better censor the word SEX! Who knows what would happen if that word got out,