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[–] [email protected] 146 points 1 year ago (13 children)

why are kill and violence censored?

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's a thing that has started to appear because of mainstream social media deleting post with "bad vibes". Kill, suicide, and such vocabulary are actively repressed to "ensure happiness"

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That makes sense. Avoiding censorship is reasonable. I was thinking some people did it to avoid triggers, as if seeing 'r*pe' or 'k!ll' isn't the exact same thing as seeing the words spelled out.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's more of a demonetization thing. I see it all over the YouTube videos of homicide investigation police interviews, which makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yea YouTube and TikToks automated demonetization is definitely a big part to blame for this stupid trend. It also annoys me as an enjoyer of YouTube murder porn.

It's especially dumb because there is some extremely heinous stuff on YouTube that is still monetized, and when a video is demonetized for a channel they still play ads all over it, too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah that would be a pretty poor trigger warning.

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