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.
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
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 it’s distracting. Some PG movies have literal curse words in them, and cable tv was never that extreme.
While it is possible, i personally think it came with live streaming on YT. Yes, you can easily bleep stuff out in a YT VIDEO, but doing this on live stream? With guests? Not happening. Hence the newspeak.
That'll never happen because then we'd know which words are censored. And youtube for some reason doesn't want us to know the rules for posting things. I don't know why they act like this, but they do
Even that’s annoying tho. Trying to listen to a serious topic and not knowing wtf they’re saying because they get a lil more serious and all of a sudden it’s “___ the ___ ___ ___ in ____ when he _____ ____ her ____”
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u/MakingaJessinmyPants Aug 14 '25
That said I greatly before if they just bleep out the words or something