minus-squareCoco@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why are people censoring "bad" words?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down2·7 months agoA 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. linkfedilink
minus-squareCoco@lemmy.blahaj.zonetolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Distros badlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoThis is what I use. I just downloaded Mint Cinnamon yesterday. Not sure if that means anything. linkfedilink
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.