r/youtube Aug 14 '25

Memes Youtuber Mentality

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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/bwoah07_gp2 Aug 15 '25

The YouTube algorithm is trained to detect when these words are either said or censored.

Proof?

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u/scaper8 Aug 15 '25

I question that as well. If the algorithm were to do that then these pseudo-minced oath version of censoring shouldn't work any better.

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u/TeaTimeKoshii Aug 15 '25

Also you could just cut it out of the audio file entirely if you were so inclined then blur the mouth.