What is “g**r”?.
gear, common slang for steroids in the weightlifting scene. Since steroids are kinda sketchy it gets self censored like the other words
So the gearheads I’m thinking of aren’t the gearheads you’re thinking of?
Grinder
Best guess is gnar. People who say it are fucking gnarly
The fuck is g**r?
gear, common slang for steroids in the weightlifting scene. Since steroids are kinda dangerous it gets self censored like the other words
GWAR
God ** Racket
Dope.
Grrr >:3
gwar
Maybe gear? Performance enhancing drugs that Meatheads at the gym inject into their gluteus Medius muscle but nobody talks about it because it’s considered cheating but everyone’s doing it?
Holy forking shirtballs
wait, why cant i say fork?
There’s no swearing in the good place, obviously.
one does not simply walk into m*rd*r
I like to take an evening stroll down Murder to do some mordor.
Spineless bitch ass ad c*mpany ball fondling fucks, the lot of them.
I can’t figure out that last word f***k this is b******t g****r
GWAR!
This is the second time I’ve seen GWAR mentioned on Lemmy today, which isn’t a lot, but it’s enough to make me smile.
Oh that’s nasty
grrrrrrrrr
Gamr
What’s “g**r” ?
Engagement bait
No, that’s too many letters.
There is no R in that
goo
It’s utterly fucked that things get subtly thrown in like this to boost engagement. Nevermind AI slop, there is so much general slop content on the internet now.
Clearly “grrr”
Pshhh this guy doesn’t remember the controversy in 1972 when 8 year old poet Gerald “Little Milton” Bostock said the word “g**r”
Probably meant g*re?
I have no idea who Hank H*ll is tho.
Sam’s br*ther?
Sure. Censor gweer, but not w*ld
They’d rather unalive us all than miss out on profits.
Quick, let’s list all idiotic euphemisms due to social media. We already have
- unalive
Those scary words make the investors sad. :(
Eight words you can’t say on YouTube.
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Bigger.
Dunno why it’s so hard to figure out or why people bitch about it.
Posting certain words will often get your social media submission blocked, pushed way down by the algorithm, or run up against a rule of some kind.
So people make up stuff like “unalived” or “sh•t” or “f•ck” so they don’t run up against soft censorship.
That’s how it is. It’s not Earth shattering, it’s censorship.
The problem is the corporate system and that people are willing to abide by and accept that system, and when they bring the compromises due to the system to places (such as the Threadiverse) to which those compromises are irrelevant.
I’d like to see more outright bans against doing this.
Curse or don’t curse. Pick a fucking lane you snivelling cowards.
Except that there’s no evidence that saying “killed” or “murdered” for example, actually does push you down the algorithm. And if it did, surely saying “unalived” would have the same effect by now, since the algorithm could easily be extended to this term, and it’s been in use for ages.
People censoring themselves in this way, preemptively, with no certainty that it is making a difference is like late-stage Orwellian batshit insanity.
It’s enough of a reason on its own to avoid those platforms. When even the creators are disingenuous enough to self-censor inoffensive words in an effort to appease an opaque algorithm, the content cannot possibly be meaningful.There is plenty of evidence of people being demonitized for using certain words or phrases. I haven’t even seen anyone arguing that it hides their videos or anything like that, but they definitely stop giving you ad revenue if you violate the rules which are very clearly outlined on youtube and tiktok at least.
Youtube specifically has a list of words and phrases that may lead to being demonitized. They also used to have a rule saying you could not swear within the first minute or so of the video. That one has changed recently, tho.
And becsuse the big content creators are concerned about it, monkey see, monkey do. Most of this shit is by kids that know their favorite creators censor themselves so they also do it not necessarily knowing why, and it won’t even really affect them.
There is plenty of evidence of people being demonitized for using certain words or phrases
No, I don’t think this is true. I think that the context is what leads to demonetisation. I am not arguing that this is acceptable, but I don’t see any evidence that words alone will cause demonetisation. Even the most offensive racial slurs are allowed in the context of e.g. a linguist educating about their origins, or an uncensored music video.
they definitely stop giving you ad revenue if you violate the rules
Yep, and that’s fair enough. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom to get paid for speaking.
Youtube specifically has a list of words and phrases that may lead to being demonitized.
I don’t think there is such a list, at least not one published by YouTube. Can you find it? I can’t.
The advertisers say “don’t associate us with (x) words”. The algorithms push moneymaking videos to the top. If your video is full of things ad companies don’t like, you get fewer ads, down you go.
Nice way to say “We don’t (directly) prevent content from being shown.” It just conveniently works out that way.
