It's a thing that has started to appear because of mainstream social media deleting post with "bad vibes". Kill, suicide, and such vocabulary are actively repressed to "ensure happiness"

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That makes sense. Avoiding censorship is reasonable. I was thinking some people did it to avoid triggers, as if seeing 'r*pe' or 'k!ll' isn't the exact same thing as seeing the words spelled out.

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's more of a demonetization thing. I see it all over the YouTube videos of homicide investigation police interviews, which makes no sense.

[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yea YouTube and TikToks automated demonetization is definitely a big part to blame for this stupid trend. It also annoys me as an enjoyer of YouTube murder porn.

It's especially dumb because there is some extremely heinous stuff on YouTube that is still monetized, and when a video is demonetized for a channel they still play ads all over it, too.

[–] Hazrod@jlai.lu 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah that would be a pretty poor trigger warning.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah they don't like when people talk about mental health issues. Go kill yourself in private and stop getting your bad vibes all over my nice, clean website.

[–] Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Oh shit, it's the thought police!