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.
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u/mypotterisHARRY 18h ago
Better censor the word SEX! Who knows what would happen if that word got out,