• Obinice
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    But what is he addicted to? We’ll never know!

    This new coddled baby internet for children where you can’t say adult words is getting tiring.

    When does the adult internet come back?

      • @wurstgulasch3000@lemmy.world
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        But that’s the stupid part. It’s not even about cursing. It’s about words like heroin, kill, rape, etc. I mean is this tiktok or what

    • Listening to a folk punk song that uses the word fuck to great effect on Spotify yesterday, wondering why the fuck the line ‘If you fuck up I will still be your friend’ reads ‘If you f up’.

      I just don’t get it. Fuck is a valid, if vulgar, part of the common English lexicon. It serves a purpose.

  • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Hey, if the little guy wants to stand in a stooped position and drool and think about birds flapping their wings to generate wind, who are you to get in the way of his dreams. Be an enabler.

  • @moakley@lemmy.world
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    74 hours ago

    My daughter once asked me, “Do rainbows stop the rain?”

    She was three and, in my opinion, very insightful. These rainbows keep showing up right about the time the rain stops. A little too convenient to be a coincidence, right?

  • @ddplf
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    did he just say her**n 😳 dude chill ☹

  • Bezier
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    Good thing I was protected from that last word.

    • @Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world
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      Is this stupid trend of censoring words a USA thing? And why is it so popular? I’m legit wondering since I cannot understand.

      • @chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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        Lots of social media now deprioritizes “advertiser unfriendly” content. Especially TikTok. So, the response to that is to self-censor so that you still reach full engagement. It’s an arms race to keep swearing without the algorithms silencing you for doing so.

      • @Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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        It’s a social media thing. Supposedly posts get deprioritized by the algorithm if they contain “family unfriendly” words like kill or drug references. No idea if it’s actually true or just a myth, but it’s why users edit out innocuous words in these screenshots.

        • Bezier
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          I think the correct term is “advertiser unfriendly”.

          I wouldn’t be surprised if that was true though.

      • @Vespair@lemm.ee
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        Honestly at this point it’s just engagement bait. Yes, the trend is awful and terrible and stupid, but also people cannot resist the temptation of calling that out as well, so now it serves double-duty of being easy comment farming (note: this applies more to places like reddit than here on Lemmy, but I’m speaking in generalities here).

        It’s a kind of damned if you do, damned if you don’t thing in terms of responding to this stupid self-censorship.

      • @webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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        148 hours ago

        Depends, actual censorship of words exist worldwide.

        Pointless censorship however i have only seen in US and Japan, but both for very different types of content.

    • @OpenStars@discuss.online
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      48 hours ago

      He’s protected from Her? It’s a sex thing.

      No wait, he’s protected from He - it’s even more of a sex thing.