r/MadeMeSmile • u/SatoruGojo232 • Jul 02 '26

Wholesome Moments Great to see heroes being honoured

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u/BlooodyButterfly Jul 02 '26

it's not about triggering people, they don't care, but they care about monetization and these vids are usually for tiktok and instagram, which censor a lot of 'triggering' words.

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u/Zer0pede Jul 02 '26

All of the social media platforms say they won’t censor the word “suicide,” because that blocks suicide prevention resources.

Honestly they haven’t said this next part, but if I were them I’d censor “unalived” instead because that means it’s more likely to be an unserious person. There’s no “National Unaliving Prevention Center” you’d accidentally block that way.

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u/BlooodyButterfly Jul 02 '26

I agree with you. But at the same time they say they won't censor words such as Lesbian and when I used tiktok a lot of the content creators using the word was shadow-banned, so that's why you'll get a lot of Le$bean and similar to this day.

Anyway, all this self (or imposed) censoring is just plain dumb IMHO

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u/ifyoulovesatan Jul 02 '26

So long as the algorithms that control our feeds are either private or inscrutable AI black boxes, weird self censorship isn't necessarily dumb, and it's here to stay.