• @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I’m so happy they blurred out the died word otherwise THE AL GORE RHYTHM

      Edit: I commented this before reading below. I assumed I was still on Reddit. I didn’t think other people might call that out. I’m dumb for commenting before reading.

      I mean

      damn thats crazy

  • voxel
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    4211 months ago

    why the fuck did you censor the word “died”?

    • @gmtom@lemmy.world
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      Jc it’s not about “”“political correctness”“” the idea is that social media websites either shadowban or suppress posts that contain content that isn’t advertiser friendly. So people censor swear words or references to death or sex.

    • LEX
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      611 months ago

      It’s advertisers you should be blaming, not “political correctness.”

      Advertisers ruin everything they get their nasty little hands on.

    • IndiBrony
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      4211 months ago

      I’ve seen this a lot recently. I’m guessing a certain social media platform is perpetuating this. Not sure if it’s the platform itself taking action against accounts using these words or if it’s the users themselves collectively deciding to censor these topics.

      Either way it’s stupid to me how language is becoming increasingly taboo. We need to be more open to discussion not less so.

      • @saigot@lemmy.ca
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        611 months ago

        Tik Tok is the most aggressive. Saying Sex, kill, die or rape at all in your video has a pretty strong chance of getting your post hidden to varying degrees.

        • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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          I think this is because they were getting lawsuits when their wonderful algorithms kept sending suicidal kids more info on suicide.

          Dropping negative topics down the rankings is not a terrible idea, but it does lead to bonkers workarounds when people want to talk about it anyway and worry about keeping their social media metrics up.

          Hiding all the engagement metrics would probably do wonders for a lot of teens mental health, as they become desperate to be influencers.

          • @saigot@lemmy.ca
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            I think it’s more of a business decision. A lot of parents won’t let their kids on reddit (for good reason lol) but Tik tok actually does do an alright job of keeping age appropriate content off the platform, much tighter than most other social media sites. For my own interest I went looking for NSFW stuff on tik tok, the most intense I could find was some tame thirst traps, some national geographic style nudity (lots of discussion of adult themes, but I don’t think those are neccesarily a problem).

            on any other social media site I’ve ever used, even with child mode or whatever I have been able to find beheadings and hardcore sex. That’s a pretty big selling point if you want to primarily attract children.

            • IndiBrony
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              111 months ago

              I have been able to find beheadings and hardcore sex. That’s a pretty big selling point if you want to primarily attract children.

              ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

    • @emidio
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      People around the world don’t eat donuts regularly. At least not enough so that hundreds of millions would die of them. Sorry dear usian

  • @tox_solid@lemmy.world
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    2111 months ago

    The first sentence makes it sound like there was one weight lifting accident at the gym that lasted 17 years.

  • @Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Eating too many donuts and bad diet in general have long term consequences that leads to millions of deaths everywhere and every year. 17 years is probably enough for those consequences to catch up to you if you’re doing a particularly bad job of it, but by that time it’s hard to make the connection anyway.