I watch a lot of the Hasan Abi industrial complex to keep up on the news. There’s more and more of these channels skip clipping over words like “killed”, “bomb”, “war”, and even “gun”. One of the clips I saw earlier kept the word “missile” too… That’s just a bomb with propellant!! I don’t get why they keep doing this, it’s really annoying. It just feels like yuppy bullshit, I have yet to encounter someone who gets triggered by these words, online or irl.

Thanks for reading my rant, goodnight.

  • Justice@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    They do it to avoid being censored aka the channel doesn’t get money for ads.

    However, people absolutely go overboard with it. You can say missile. You can say died. That isn’t about getting demonetized, that is about playing the “algo game” or whatever and trying to sneak past it to get more views to get more ad revenue. It comes at the expense (high, imo) of making a nearly unwatchable mess of “Are you [silent] serious chatter? Did your [silent] mom [silent] you on your [silent] [silent]?! Shut the [silent] up! Of course [silent] [silent] him! We know they used the [silent] to [silent] him! [silent]ing idiot! [huge silence]”

    It’s too fucking much self censorship. I don’t know what the solution is either because everyone who posts content has decided it’s just ok to upload the censored slop and, to my knowledge, not much proof exists for what words (beyond the obvious) or topics even cause demonetization and especially lack of evidence for what causes “shadow banning” aka YouTube not showing the channel to many fresh eyes.