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Raaaaaaid! (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by salty_chief@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Vince@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I have been winderjng about this. Is it people censoring themselves or is there some widespread initiative to clean up language on the internet? Is it a side effect of YouTube demonetising any videos with a somewhat controversial topic?

[–] st3ph3n@midwest.social 10 points 4 weeks ago

It's all about staying on the right side of the algorithms to get paid.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Some people think that when an advert is displayed as part of a post or video the advertiser is agreeing with the user generated content. So to keep the advertisers happy people use alternate words until those become "bad words for advertisers"