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Why are people censoring "bad" words? (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Whats the point of writing prn, f@ck, sht or anything like that instead of the actual words? You can still read them, its not like they are gone if you replace a letter or two.

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[โ€“] 54 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I've seen that for words that are considered to be 'triggers', as if saying 'r@pe' is somehow different at all than just using the normal vowel.

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  • [โ€“] 80 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That behavior drives me up the fucking wall, because by munging the word they make it less likely to be caught by user-invoked blocklists. Meaning they're forcing people to be triggered after taking steps to avoid such.

    Don't fucking do that shit.

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  • [โ€“] 33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A lot of it comes from Tiktok culture. YouTube has started doing it too.

    Videos that say "kill", "rape", "died", etc are all deprioritized by the algorithm if not demonetized entirely.

    People have been editing subtitles to avoid these words, and the behavior spread.

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