• bunnyBoy@pawb.social
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    18 hours ago

    We’ve gone all the way around so now censoring a swear makes people more upset than actually saying it and I really don’t understand why.

    Year 2000

    Say ‘fuck’

    People get irrationally mad

    Year 2024

    Say ‘fxck’

    People get irrationally mad

    What happened?

    • uienia@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Your comment implicates you are in favour of censoring swear words. Coukd uou enlighten us as to why?

    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Because self-censorship is done to avoid getting filtered or demonetized on certain platforms due to policies put in place by those platforms to attract advertisers. It is not done because of the person’s moral or ethical beliefs. It’s basically willing compliance with internet enshittification to whitewash everything and make it advertiser friendly.

    • mozingo@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      The younger generations decided that being offended by swear words is fucking stupid.

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      15 hours ago

      I don’t remember people being offended by the word fuck in 2000. Sure on TV it could be considered dicey but on the internet it was pretty fair game

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      18 hours ago

      In adult-facing parts of the internet, including here, swears are typically used for an extra bit of “oomph” to spice up a sentence or make a point clear. (I know that there’s an actual word for this but I can’t think of it currently.) It’s generally considered neutering that spice if you censor it; case in point is this meme. It just tends to look childish or dumb, especially if the word is just vaguely censored like this meme here again. At least Grawlixes (“$#@&!”) have some mystery as to the word being said.

    • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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      17 hours ago

      If you want to make a post without swear words, just do it. Using a swear word and then censoring it completely defeats the purpose