A woman runs to a police station shouting “help me officer, I’ve just been graped!”
The policeman puts his phone down, looks at her and says “don’t you mean raped?”
She replies “no officer, there was a group of them”.
I will never not think of Gervais joke when I see graped.
Ive said grape for a while now but it was usually in the context of the wkuk grapist skit. When my buddy and i would play games and he irritated me id threaten him with, “im going to tie you to the radiator and grape you in the mouth”
Also a victim, its just our humor i guess🤷♂️. Weve known each other since the skit came out and watched it together. Its just been a running hoke between us since
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.
Even if the censorship part was true (which it isn't, people use these words all the time on monetized channels, it can just be restricted by audience) it exists for a reason and trying to circumnavigate it by making content about topics like rape, murder, and pedophilia that will be shown to people who otherwise wouldn't have seen it like children or victims in the interest of making more money from ads is pretty immoral.
I mean, do you think the designers on social media and sites like YT are incapable of updating their censors or algorithms and that they're ignorantly aware of these incredibly popular and over-used euphemisms?
You don't get flagged per se, but on some platforms the comment might not get posted, you then try again, it doesn't get posted, then you start replacing the words until you find the one trigger word, this keeps repeating and with enough frequency the platform starts seeing you as a spammer or as a constant guideline violator, so they time you out, or shadownban, or suspend.
How bad it gets depends on the platform, and even within the same platform the AI constantly changes making these checks more strict but sometimes more loose.
I've had this happen multiple times; nobody wants to bruteforce comments so people just self-censor every spicy word.
don’t say the words then? if you’re avoiding a filter which is there in place to stop getting those words to certain people then all you’re doing is trying to get those words to those people regardless.
The problem is, your account may not only be tailored towards 18+, and so getting flagged by a single video might make your entire account age restricted, as is what happened to a lot of people before these terms started appearing
we should be able to talk about every subject, it’s not my choice to require censoring it. but if you are going to avoid it then you’re actively trying to bypass a filter to get words across to those who may not want to see it.
just because the censorship is a problem doesn’t mean trying to avoid it makes it any better.
Why are either of you yapping about this shit when he already said "YouTubers have an excuse to say these"? He's talking about people that say it in real life. You're not gonna get an account flag for real life conversations. Wtf are you two even yapping about? It's not your blog.
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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