Every time a swear word is censored on the internet, a cat video gets a million views, or something like that.
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?
The younger generations decided that being offended by swear words is fucking stupid.
I’m an older generation and (generally) refrain from swearing myself, but seeing censored posts on Lemmy drives me fucking insane. This isn’t a preschool nor is it an advertiser-friendly place. We should keep it that way.
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.
Your comment implicates you are in favour of censoring swear words. Coukd uou enlighten us as to why?
I just feel like people can choose for themselves. As another commenter said it takes a lot of the ‘oomph’ out of the swear which I believe does have a time and place. But many people seem to be over the top ofended if you choose to do so.
I’m certainly not suggesting that ‘everyone needs to censor their swears, think of the women and children!’ But lemmy seems to get more angry than I would consider reasonable if someone does censor themselves.
Best anti-censor swears argument I keep seeing is that people are doing it to be more advertiser friendly which is making the internet worse overall, and I whole heartedly agree with that, but sometimes with no other motive than I would prefer it, I like to say fxck instead of fuck.
It really is odd. What’s even the point? Is it some kind of “saying it without saying it” thing? It’s still explicitly saying it.
that censoring…
Is the krabby patty actually any different than a Wendy’s single? It looks the exact same on the menu and is the same price
It’s just the sauce that’s different and it’s not that good. You’re paying more for a worse off burger.
Hard agree. It’s like a sweeter burger sauce but in the worst way possible. At least you get stickers.
You got stickers? I literally got nothing but a bad sandwich in a bag. I wouldn’t have known it was a Krabby patty meal if I wasn’t the one who bought it. Afaik mine didn’t even have a special sauce - or any sauce for that matter. And they were out of vanilla so I didn’t get the pineapple shake either.
Fast food used to come with toys goddamn it! How we’ve fallen as a society 😞
Is this a real thing? If so is it meat based? Don’t ask me why I know this but in SpongeBob lore the Krabby Patty is actually plant based.
You can almost read the word f*** is no one thinking of the americans here? What the fuck?
Censoring swear words on text posts have been around long before TikTok, they just kicked it into overdrive. I really can’t think of a reason why the censored version of memes get spread more than uncensored except to think that there are a dedicated group of people who pick up memes like this and spread the censored version before the uncensored version hits.
It makes some sort of sense for videos. TikTok and YouTube demonetized and suppress videos with swear words in them. And those platforms can make people money. I don’t see why a text post would be censored, I don’t know of many ways to make a lot of money off of reposting memes and even the few I could think of don’t really care if they’re censored.
This is almost as bad as when we had to carpet bomb another village to a crater last week to prevent the public from finding out that …
women have nipples too
This is Lemmy, you can say bad words here.
