Certain platforms screen for a list of trigger words and reduce visibility in their algorithms, which leads to people self-censoring and/or using weird euphemisms like “unalive”. I think it’s stupid and will usually reverse image search to find an uncensored version before posting to Lemmy, but I didn’t have any luck with this one.
(I do also think it has become a trend for people to self-censor even when they don’t have to because they’re so used to seeing it that way on tiktok or whatever)
Ah, that makes sense. I was familiar with the “unalive” expression from YouTube and knowing how demonetization-happy they get. But I hadn’t really considered other platforms doing similar things.
What the fuck is with this trend of censoring words, even non-swear words, in images? I’m seeing this all over the place lately.
Certain platforms screen for a list of trigger words and reduce visibility in their algorithms, which leads to people self-censoring and/or using weird euphemisms like “unalive”. I think it’s stupid and will usually reverse image search to find an uncensored version before posting to Lemmy, but I didn’t have any luck with this one.
(I do also think it has become a trend for people to self-censor even when they don’t have to because they’re so used to seeing it that way on tiktok or whatever)
Ah, that makes sense. I was familiar with the “unalive” expression from YouTube and knowing how demonetization-happy they get. But I hadn’t really considered other platforms doing similar things.
Weird, it must be an instance-specific thing, because it’s not censored for me.