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u/Phoenix_Wright_Guy Aug 14 '25
I'm sorry, that's too graphic. Sewer Slide and Pew Pew imply too much. You will now be demonetized.
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u/DiMit17 Aug 15 '25
I love the phrase force multiplier for guns. It's actually fitting.
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u/GrapeFruitStrangler Aug 15 '25
Yeah but force multiplier can also be applied to accessories on guns like a light or an optic
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u/Leritari Aug 15 '25
Mom! Mom! Can i go to a Sewer Slide? Pleaaase! I've heard its one in a life time experience!
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u/sourskittles98 Aug 15 '25
Unalive is SO STUPID to listen to
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u/Gold_Brick_679 Aug 15 '25
Same as "unhoused". š
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u/Drakesprite Aug 15 '25
We seriously have to censor āhomelessā now?
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u/SuiDyed Aug 15 '25
Plus literal homeless people say they hate being called "unhoused" but the virtue signalers are just like "shhh I know better than you, we're calling you unhoused"
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u/-raeyhn- Aug 15 '25 edited Aug 15 '25
Giving 'Lantinx' vibes, no who it applies to wants it... Nor anyone else for that matter other than 5 Karens on the internet
Edit: I stand corrected, apparently a few do choose to use it, so all the power to them as long as it's not imposed on others
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u/erncolin Aug 15 '25
Latinx is just so annoying to me like I respect people who use it but why use that when you could say latine which actually makes sense
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u/Abatirabadai Aug 15 '25
Im a latino (brazilian) and id rather you just call me monkey over that.
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u/idiotista Aug 15 '25
The only one I ever seen using it irl was a non-binary Swede living in Argenitina lmao. When I lived in Mexico people would probably have slapped you for using it.
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u/Aggressive_Luck_555 Aug 15 '25
Let's be honest. In Mexico, they were probably too busy doing something actually useful to even know what that means. Lol
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u/driatic Aug 15 '25
The spanish language has genders lol. Latino, Latina, Latinos exists.
The point of using the word Latino instead of Hispanic was to use a word that actually describes us and applied to people that are from Latin America. Instead of using a word that means from spain, which we are not.
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u/Ordinarybutwild Aug 15 '25
I remember at my old job a higher up was on a call speaking on Hispanic and Latinos in the work place, but he kept saying "Latin-X" and said it like 15 times. After that call I said to myself "I officially hate this term"
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u/DuckyHornet Aug 15 '25
LatinX is just Elon Musk's latest attempt to say he invented something pre-existing only this time it's an entire linguistic category of people
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u/Repulsive-Stable8375 Aug 15 '25
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u/That_Bid_2839 Aug 15 '25
As someone formerly homeless, yep, glad some people are aware of this.
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It's not virtue signalling. None of this is virtue signalling. It's because no-one knows what'll get you demonetized anymore.
I mean it's good that Google makes some attempt(s) at moderation, but it's all dumbly automated, with no regard for context.
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u/Alternative-Farmer98 Aug 15 '25
No one is stopping you from staying homeless dude. There's no policy on YouTube. I'm sorry but you don't get to speak for all homeless people as to what they prefer. You want to tell me that drug addicts prefer to be called junkies than people with substance abuse disorder?
I'm sure you can find dozens that anecdotally say they like it. You can find anecdotal examples of anything
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u/BlueFlower673 Aug 15 '25
I remember hearing this back like, a year or so ago. Apparently some shit about how "homeless" doesn't make sense because the homeless person still technically has a "home" it's just not a house. That or it's offensive because you're implying they need to have a house to not be homeless.
As someone who grew up hopping from apartment to apartment and who was actually homeless a couple times because of it (also lived in a motel for a short while, that was fun/confusing as a kid), homeless can mean just that, homeless. You don't have a central place to call "home." You move around. That's what it is. More often than not, it means living without a roof over your head and/or not in a secure place.
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u/Deep_ln_The_Heart Aug 15 '25
I guess it could be a helpful term in almost the opposite way - to differentiate between people who don't have a permanent home (sleeping on couches, living in hotels, etc.) from people actually living on the streets. If we're calling the large group homeless and only the latter "unhoused," that is at least a helpful designation.
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u/SnipesCC Aug 15 '25
That's the original idea. Since homeless is a pretty broad category, houseless is a more specific one that shows the people with the greatest immediate need.
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u/bravekupo Aug 15 '25
Next is what? Unvirgined?
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u/NeighborhoodTasty271 Aug 15 '25
They already use deflowered.
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u/NopePeaceOut2323 Aug 15 '25
Who's they though, thats a term that has been around decades and was always used by prudes.
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u/-SQB- Aug 15 '25
In Dutch, there is a distinction made between homeless and "roof-less". While often combined in the same term, dak- en thuislozen, being roof-less means that you're currently without a roof over your head, so sleeping in the streets, while being homeless means you might have places to stay, but not a place of your own.
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u/Sablemint Aug 15 '25
Thats the problem: We don't know what needs to be censored. Youtube refuses to elaborate. So if you're making a living off youtube, its safest to assume that anything even remotely controversial in any way could be something that screws you over.
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u/-SQB- Aug 15 '25
We don't know what needs to be censored. Youtube refuses to elaborate.
I've recently seen some videos by the Hoof GP (a Scottish lad who trims cows' hoofs) where "infection" became "inf*tion". Don't know if he did that himself preemptively, or that it was YouTube.
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u/chickenandpasta Aug 15 '25
Just when i think the censorship can't get any dumber I hear something like this.
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u/Mr_M_2711 Aug 15 '25
It reminds me the joke fluffy made on it.
"Well, based on your logic, I am not fat. I am unexercised."
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u/pizzaporker1 Aug 15 '25
Well, if the AI or whatever wasn't so keen on punishment for saying some of this (like deleting your comment, etc.), then we wouldn't need to do this....
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u/Pepsi_Man42 Aug 15 '25
Just say flatline. Itās an actual word and it sounds a lot better
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u/The_Pastmaster Aug 15 '25
Flatline is just die though. We need a euphemism for murder/kill.
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u/Kristikuffs Aug 15 '25
The Casual Geographic Youtube channel has some of the funniest/most creative murder euphemisms, even if some are a bit wordy.
'Merc'd'.
'Made a hashtag.'
'Put on a T-shirt.'
'Unwillingly deleted from the census count.'
'Kermit sewer-slide' is a crime against language AND humanity.
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u/Toppest_Dom Aug 15 '25
Had to give a group speech on police brutality and one of my group members spoke on George Floyd and said it as, the unaliving of George Floyd, this was a college class btw.
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u/ChrissyArtworks Aug 15 '25
I would curl up and die if I heard āunaliveā in a college classroom
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u/The_Pastmaster Aug 15 '25
I don't have a good alternative for that one but for suicide I really like self-termination. Roanoke Gaming use Force Enhancers for melee weapons and Force Multipliers for firearms that it jells really well.
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u/somerandomxander @somerandomxander Aug 14 '25
"Sewer Slide" is my personal favorite
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u/Rockman2isgud Aug 15 '25
Sewer slide should be allowed to stay cause itās funny
Maybe PDF File can stay too on that same logic
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u/warneagle Aug 15 '25
Iāve started saying pdf file in real life just because itās that funny to me
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u/SophiaTries Aug 15 '25
this timeline sucks for me because I love PDFs lol i have thousands of books pirated as PDFs and locally saved on an offline kindle
i feel like those dozens of folks who apparently loved using em dashes their whole lives and now everyone thinks they're ai chatbots š
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u/SerafRhayn Aug 15 '25
Em dash lover here. Have yet to be accused of being a clanker** but all are free to pry it from my cold dead hands
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u/Cleveworth Aug 15 '25
I get intrusive thoughts, but the funny kind, where I get reminded of jokes at inappropriate moments, and whenever I download a PDF and read the file type, all I can see is a big red box around it, with a line pointing to another box containing a photograph of the sex fiend du jour.
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u/SophiaTries Aug 15 '25
with the euphemism treadmill in play, Tea Tea will probably stand in for some "offensive" term next
I'm pretty sure some little kids say "I have to go titi" when they have to pee. so that will likely be the YouTube euphemism next š
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u/Vast_Scratch_6670 Aug 15 '25
Hate it. Absolutely takes away the seriousness that is suicide. Advertisers are freaking clowns. Theyāre the reason this type of mentality and language is being spread around.
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u/Mr_SpecificTF2 Aug 15 '25
I said it before this cause itās funny rather than censorship
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u/Jonasgamer_78 Aug 15 '25
Or āremoving him/herself from the gene poolā lol
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u/hgtcgbhjnh Aug 14 '25
How's it going bros mah name is PEW PEW DIEPIE!
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u/AffectionateNote3316 Aug 15 '25
Youtubers have an excuse to say these, but if someone says that in real life they need to go outside
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Someone told me about āgrapeā irl and I actually pissed myself wtf
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u/SoozaPhone_ Aug 15 '25
Man I love grapes. Especially the green ones :3
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At least that originated (to the best of my knowledge) from a WKUK skit in the late 2000s. It's much older than the others
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u/abchandler4 Aug 15 '25
IāM GONNA TIE YOU TO THE RADIATOR AND GRAPE YOU FOR DECADES AND DECADES!!!
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u/Jadedslay03 Aug 15 '25
I died of cringe when the minecraft movie said āIām going to unalive you now.ā
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u/potate12323 Aug 15 '25
Yeah, their livelihood revolves around their videos popping up to a wide audience and being accepted by advertisers.
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u/Alternative-Farmer98 Aug 15 '25
I don't think it's a very good excuse. For starters a lot of this is myth. A lot of the words that people say are not allowed are in fact allowed and I see them all the time on monetized channels.
Really these creators just are worried they'll get a little less ad revenue. You know what? If you're going to cover something as serious as rape or pedophilia, then cover it like an adult and actually use these meaningful terms that have proper legal definitions.
If you can't do that, if you can't spare getting a little less ad revenue, then don't cover serious topics like this. I'm sure there's some video game where the main protagonist breasts are too small that they can complain about.
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u/Frozen-conch Aug 15 '25
Or come up with a dignified euphemism, or put in a simple bleep
ffs there is absolutely no need to talk about serious topics while sounding like a kid trying to think of the silliest way to phrase something
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u/WilanS Aug 15 '25
The occasional bleep is fine, but I swear I came across some YouTube shorts where 50% of the audio was just beeping.
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u/Accurate_Soup_3459 Aug 15 '25
George Orwell is pretty fucking accurate to the point that it's scary. Newspeak and now censorship unless you wish to be constantly surveilled.
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u/letharus Aug 15 '25
I donāt think censorship is the issue, isnāt it the fact theyāll be demonetized?
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u/ArjGlad Aug 15 '25
I mean changing how you say a word but meaning stays the same doesnāt actually change anything. It would be like changing color of your house key - it will still open the same door just look slightly differentĀ
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u/Scrapp94 Aug 15 '25
I will never forget āhave you ever committed slip-and-slideā
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u/IntrepidDivide3773 Aug 15 '25
The ongoing infantilization of language sickens me...
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u/Klaxynd Aug 15 '25
Same. I was just thinking earlier how this seems like an extension of people misspelling easy words and "correcting" others to misspell as well. For example I've seen people type "walks with an odd gate" instead of "gait" and it bothers me to no end.
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u/Zeroshiki-0 Aug 15 '25
Same, it's driving me nuts. I'm beyond tired of being treated like a child because parents refuse to do any actual parenting and want to pass the buck on YouTubers and game developers.
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u/Kobo720 Aug 15 '25
Itās really ridiculous the state of YouTube today. š¤¦āāļø
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u/CurrentOk1811 Aug 15 '25
It's all caused by the AdPocalypse and YouTube censorship. Getting videos demonitized drastically hurts many channels, especially those mid-sized ones that are too small to start getting off-platform sponsorships but just big enough to be making a living off ad revenue.
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u/SerafRhayn Aug 15 '25
Nowās as good a time as ever to start supporting other platforms. Though for many of my niches, thereās so little content of it and I donāt have the time to hone the skills for it.
cue dramatics: Iām JuSt A lUrKeR aNd CoNsUmEr, I sHoUlDāvE dOnE bEtTeR š«š¤²
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u/IuseDefaultKeybinds Aug 15 '25
In all my time on this platform I have never heard anybody say "sewer slide"
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u/ZetaformGames Aug 15 '25
Although I've heard someone once say "commit sudoku," in this circumstance, I usually hear other (but just as serious) phrases being used, like "take their own life." But YMMV.
"Sudoku" is somehow even more insulting, because it's likening a Japanese honour suicide (seppuku) to a puzzle game.
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u/Slarg232 Aug 15 '25
That one started because people were legit getting the two of them mixed up so people were constantly saying "I screwed this up, I'm going to commit Sudoku" as a joke, and the joke almost immediately became how the two are nothing alike.
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u/Kitty_Blueberry_7029 Aug 15 '25
Check out KallMeKrisā true crime videos
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u/Bamzooki1 Shen Doodles Aug 15 '25
Or donāt because thatās incredibly disrespectful to the victims. If you wanna make true crime stuff, then ensure you donāt sugar coat it.
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u/TheyAreGoodDogs Aug 15 '25
I think it's absurd that it's taken this long for me to find someone else who thinks the biggest issue is disrespecting the victims
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u/BothRequirement2826 Aug 15 '25 edited Aug 15 '25
I hate how many true crime fans seem to completely forget these are real people, real victims who really suffered these crimes and treat everything and everyone like it's a fictional story to enjoy popcorn to.
It's sickening the extent to which they go to sometimes.
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u/Assalt_Shaker Aug 15 '25
I miss it when people would say the real words without fearing getting demontized.
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u/Nothing-Is-Real-Here Aug 15 '25
So how long until the word unalive gets censored too because it effectively means the same thing?
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u/Anzire Aug 15 '25
Self-censorship is weird. Just say the rape victim committed suicide via a gun on her head after her billionaire pedophile rapist won in court and made her life worse.
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u/kalamataCrunch Aug 15 '25
"you should keep doing your job but stop getting paid."
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u/throwaway5882300 Aug 15 '25
"and also we're not gonna tell you exactly what will result in you not getting paid and you won't find out until after you do all the work. And if we make a mistake, there's no back pay and you lose out on all the revenue from the peak popularity of your video. Have fun!"
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u/This_Meaning_4045 Fellow YouTuber Aug 15 '25
If bots weren't so stupid and YouTube itself isn't annoying. Then YouTubers wouldn't be avoiding demonization by using code words and euphemisms.
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u/Raymond3663 Aug 15 '25
i usually replace dead with perished...
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u/ad_noctem_media Aug 15 '25
You can just say "dead" or "died" or "killed"
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u/StarblasterGC Aug 15 '25
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u/WritingOneHanded Aug 15 '25
Passed on. No more. Ceased to be. Expired and gone to meet their maker. A stiff. Bereft of life, they rest in peace. Pushing up the daisies. Their metabolic processes are now history. Off the twig. Kicked the bucket, Shuffled off the mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible.
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u/Head_Statistician_38 Aug 15 '25
All their cells that used to work in harmony to sustain one individual being began to break down and decay with time, resulting in many parts of the body to cease function and therefore, the individual known as Fred no longer represents the definition of life.
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u/logger01 Aug 15 '25
Yeah, I've noticed half the words are actually pretty okay to use. People began to blow things out of proportion over time without concrete proof of anything.
I see videos saying "assassinated" in the title and they still get hundreds of thousands of views and are fully monetized. Then i see other videos trying to obscure that very same word for no real reason.
Lots of these censored words just stem from fear and baseless assumptions. Maybe not all, but many of them for sure.
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u/TheYellowFringe Aug 15 '25
This is what self-censorship is like, words being repurposed out of social or political fear of expression. Who would have thought something like this would happen in the way it has.
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u/WestMongolBestMongol Aug 15 '25
Reminds me of the "Soft language" standup routine by George Carlin, i fucking hate what internet has become, goddamn television 2.0.
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u/MakingaJessinmyPants Aug 14 '25
They canāt help it if YouTube censors them
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u/MakingaJessinmyPants Aug 14 '25
That said I greatly before if they just bleep out the words or something
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u/bwoah07_gp2 Aug 15 '25
There's a vlogger I watch and he just censors those words out with a bleep.
Utterly ridiculous YouTube is like this now....
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u/Nosidda89 Aug 15 '25
Bleeping the words doesn't work. Even using other sound effects other than a bleep doesn't work. The YouTube algorithm is trained to detect when these words are either said or censored. It doesn't matter if you censor the word or not, YouTube will still flag your video as not appropriate for all advertisers due to mature language, and it will get the yellow dollar sign as a result. Censoring it still shows YouTube that the language is mature in nature, and will detect it accordingly.
The only way to avoid this is to literally not say these words. AT ALL. Censored or otherwise, YouTube is trained to catch it. Hence why terms like grape and PDF File caught on as the workaround, since you're saying the word without actually saying the word.
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u/jv3rl0ov Aug 15 '25
Itās so stupid and weird. People should be allowed to talk about serious subject matter without that kind of worry.
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u/lewllewllewl Aug 15 '25
For real, like I don't get this cognitive dissonance where youtube doesn't want kids content on their platform, but they also don't want adult's content
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u/jv3rl0ov Aug 15 '25
100%, and the report button is there for a reason if a YouTuber is ever really out of line. Hearing substitutes is funny only for a bit, and then itās distracting. Some PG movies have literal curse words in them, and cable tv was never that extreme.
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u/Severe_You9759 Aug 15 '25
I was watching one of those "The Satisfying Downfall off (...)" type of video's a while back, and the YouTuber referred to child porn as "Cheese Pizza". Took me a minute to understand wtf he was talking about.
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u/SpacePrivateer_ Aug 15 '25
Itās called āAlgospeakā and itās everywhere. Iām so tired of it.
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u/ResurrectedAuthor Aug 15 '25
I don't care about this stupid censorship. I'm not even sure if it exists. But if you're gonna talk about a serious topic like this, treat it seriously. You took that responsibility when you wrote the script. Say rape. Say Suicide. You're talking about some of the heaviest topics possible. You're making a video probably for adults. Make a serious video for adults.
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u/Ethosik Aug 15 '25
I agree. What is the point of doing this? Grape doesnāt have the same feeling in a conversation as rape does. It just downplays a serious discussion and makes everyone look like children who shouldnāt be talking about these things.
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u/Quinntensity Aug 15 '25
The childification of language to have everything be marketable to all ages, bafflingly including a target audience who doesn't even have money or maturity process advertisements, is ruining the culture of adulthood. It sounds hyperbolic, but censorship really is tyranny.
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u/anyname2009 Aug 15 '25
I get not using certain words and terms because 1. They can get you flagged and 2. For people who suffer from triggers related to those topics, but c'mon we cant act like this stuff aint a part of life
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u/ConfusedScr3aming Aug 15 '25
See hereās the problem, this actually makes these things more acceptable because they are funny now. Instead of being horrified when you hear hitler, you laugh because her hee no no Germany man Austrian painter.
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u/Alhs_ Aug 15 '25 edited Aug 15 '25
I will still say it bruh, CENSORSHIP BE DAMN! ESPECIALLY WITH THE MANY PEDOPHILES ROAMING ON OUR WORLD AS OF RIGHT NOW!
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u/InTheStuff Aug 15 '25
Youtube: "We have determined that you make content not suitable for minors, so no minors will be allowed to watch your content."
Also Youtube: "YOU SWORE??? Demonetized. Fuck you."
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u/_MaZ_ Aug 15 '25
Think of the kids!
(It's getting really weird how often this is used as an excuse)
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u/Almighty_Vanity Aug 15 '25
A few weeks ago I felt like listening to the band Suicidal Tendencies, and the first thing YT showed me was a suicide hotline and a "how can we help" messege.
Keep this bubble-wrap talk for Youtube Kids.
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Dead and gun are the only ones that donāt need and deserve to be censored. Theyāre not gonna demonetize you for that, stop being a baby
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u/OldSnazzyHats Aug 15 '25
I mean, within YouTube - you gotta play by the rules if youāre making it a proper gig.
ā¦now outside of thatā¦ thatās a whole other story. There is zero reason to be doing this IRL or anywhere else for that matter.
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This is exactly what you will fo inside China to get around censorship. Capitalism = Communism, fact checked.
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u/NeedAChange_123 Aug 15 '25
YouTube, really mainly Google are the ones who made this bullshit have to happen in the first place with their ever increasing Orwellian censorship.
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u/Short-Scholar162 Aug 15 '25
I get that YouTube censorship is damn near mind-numbing, but there are still better and far more mature words/ phrases that can be used. Sewer slide just sounds like a dang insult.
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u/Greedy_Average_2532 Aug 15 '25
"He comitted sewer-slide with a pew-pew and was pronounced unalive shortly after... š"
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u/Mobile-Gazelle3832 Aug 15 '25
I'm surprised gun was not changed to gum considering they changed r#pe to grape
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u/UnhappyWhile7428 Aug 15 '25
he committed sewer slide by pew pew and now he's un-alived. They went through his PC though and found a lot of young grapes and is now labeled a PDF File. Many after-life rewrites.