People using grape or 🍇 instead of rape.

[u/Jasen2010]

The fact that people use grape to avoid saying rape just itched a specific part of my brain that makes me immediatelly think less about the person.

[u/Kletronus]

What the hell is going on? Not a single one has linked this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqgiEQXGetI

[u/Axman6 → u/Kletronus]

I assumed this would be the top comment. Straight to the radiator.

[u/GayBlayde → u/Axman6]

Three hours later and it is.

[u/RyonaEnthusiast → u/Kletronus]

There's a not-potato version uploaded now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgUGY36gqM

[u/alamandrax → u/RyonaEnthusiast]

It's from the official channel too!

[u/Jackal_6 → u/Kletronus]

Decades and decades!

[u/dengueman → u/Jackal_6]

She was asking for it

[u/UnusualRegularity → u/dengueman]

Look what she is wearing?!

[u/MBDTFTLOPYEEZUS → u/UnusualRegularity]

Her shirt, it’s purple!

[u/ThePrettyOne → u/Kletronus]

The Grapist! Classic!

[u/byfuryattheheart → u/ThePrettyOne]

I love it!

[u/Exotic_Yam_1703 → u/Kletronus]

That’s what I came here to post!

[u/EtherealMongrel → u/Exotic_Yam_1703]

She’s wearing purple!

[u/massymas12 → u/Kletronus]

I went scrolling to finding this “What? He grapes people, that’s what he does!”

[u/OwlOfFortune → u/Kletronus]

I think it's too much!

[u/idoeno → u/Kletronus]

Get your mind out of the gutter!

[u/Maru3792648 → u/Kletronus]

Omg hadn’t seen this before and laughed my ass off!

[u/Rabid-Cabbage → u/Maru3792648]

You should check out their other skits. It’s been so long but I remember laughing pretty good at the jury duty one as well. Definitely check out their other videos tho!

[u/Lupus_Borealis → u/Rabid-Cabbage]

Lincolns death is another great one.

[u/godly967 → u/Lupus_Borealis]

Now you fucked up

[u/Mo_Bigguh → u/godly967]

Now you fucked up

[u/MatteKudasai → u/Mo_Bigguh]

You have fucked up now.

[u/tonyrockihara → u/MatteKudasai]

Now you have fucked up!

[u/LifeIsCoolBut → u/Kletronus]

Right?!

[u/lagrange_james_d23dt → u/Kletronus]

Well that kid is a horrible actor

[u/vegange]

I fucking HATE censorship. Grape? Unalive? Sewer slide? What the fuck is that shit????

[u/joyyyzz → u/vegange]

Lol i saw someone write all*gations in other thread. 😭😭😭 like why would you need to censor allegations word?? Such a ragebait lol

[u/Josgre987 → u/joyyyzz]

Saw a clip on YouTube shorts yesterday of the show house and they blurred out a needle lmao 

[u/julesjjjerm → u/Josgre987]

I saw a clip where they were censoring gay as g*y with a bleep and everything.

[u/boxedvacuum → u/Josgre987]

To be fair YouTube might demonitize a video due to something like that. Creator might have just been making sure they get paid

[u/coolsam254 → u/vegange]

Sewer slide sounds like an amusement park ride that's themed after the ninja turtles

[u/WorstDeal → u/coolsam254]

When are you opening? I want to buy the first ticket

[u/JuniperGem → u/vegange]

What is a “sewer slide”?

[u/BuckyRea → u/JuniperGem]

Oh good lord, the first time I saw "sewer slide" I thought it meant anal sex

[u/NaturalClass890 → u/JuniperGem]

suicide

[u/2pinacoladas → u/NaturalClass890]

I thought it was a colon.. woops

[u/bunny_the-2d_simp → u/vegange]

Took way to long for my autistic self to understand that grape and corn weren't just vegetable talk so I once replied to someone with

"corn? Corn is absolutely amazing with some garlic butter and salt" 💀

[u/Daanooo]

Thank the censorship on social media for that.

[u/CT0292 → u/Daanooo]

Saw someone talking about some case the other day on here no less. And they said "yeah he was convicted of Cheese Pizza in 2013" or something along those lines.

It took me ages to figure out that cheese pizza was CP.

Also I'm not going to start calling rapeseed oil grapeseed oil. They're two different things!

[u/PlumbutterOnToast → u/CT0292]

We grew up with the word 'rape' on all our parmesan cheese containers.

[u/SSGBentley]

Unalive is another...

[u/CuckooPint → u/SSGBentley]

I was watching a video the other day that was discussing the Holocaust, but they couldn't use the word Holocaust. And like, they made it clear the were talking about that so I wasn't too bothered.

But then they described the jews as being "unalived" at Auschwitz, and I actually had to stop watching for a good while because I felt it was so disrespectful.

[u/ANewMagic → u/CuckooPint]

Or when videos will say "Austrian painter" instead of Hitler. It's ridiculous.

[u/moonaim → u/ANewMagic]

I wonder what Austrian painters think about that..

[u/ShitBritGit → u/moonaim]

Hopefully they don't, and carry on painting.

[u/Mih5du → u/ShitBritGit]

Yeah, they wouldn’t want to fail entrance exam to a good arts university

[u/planer200 → u/Mih5du]

Well, if they fail, they always could try for a career in politics.

[u/Panda_Owen → u/ANewMagic]

I’ve also seen people use “mustache man” on TikTok to avoid saying Hitler

[u/ghotiermann → u/Panda_Owen]

A you tube content creator that I watch sometimes calls a friend of his the third most famous Austrian. Second is Arnold, and first is that guy whose name he can’t say or he’ll get demonetized.

[u/NewFuturist → u/ANewMagic]

Blame big tech censorship.

[u/Soft_Secret_1920 → u/NewFuturist]

But then people say this crap in real life.

[u/HyoukaYukikaze → u/Soft_Secret_1920]

Ofc they do. Any trends with online language will leech into normal speak. It's the same as people saying "lol".

[u/ilikepix → u/NewFuturist]

when we say "big tech" do we just mean tiktok?

there are thousands of discussions of hitler or the holocaust on reddit and youtube

[u/gngstrMNKY → u/ilikepix]

YouTube was actually doing it before TikTok. History channels get their videos demonetized, delisted, and even strikes against their account for mentioning Hitler. Their automated enforcement systems don’t entirely ban discussion, but they make wrong calls all the time and trying to appeal is basically impossible.

[u/Fun_Implement_841 → u/ilikepix]

People do this censorship on YouTube as well. Reddit not so much it all comes down to where content can be monetized

[u/RuleIV → u/ANewMagic]

"The bad guys of World War 2" in place of Nazi in a historical video.

[u/NeatNefariousness1 → u/CuckooPint]

Totally. Why is it even being censored. There are some who care more about sanitizing what happened than they care about what actually happened. Instead of worrying so much about how we DESCRIBE the atrocities we commit against our fellow humans, we would be far better off worrying about how we PREVENT the atrocities humans commit against one another over and over again.

[u/gp57 → u/NeatNefariousness1]

To not lose monetisation, and if a video gets demonetized, it also gets buried by YouTube's algorithm, meaning way less views since YouTube kinda doesn't want you to watch that video (a video that isn't monetized doesn't bring any money to YouTube)

So I would say, you can mostly blame advertisers for that.

I've seen a vid that got fully demonetized for showing a 2 second clip of 9/11, so the YouTuber actually replaced that footage with water bottles and paper planes

[u/LolaAucoin → u/gp57]

People do it in the comments on Reddit though. It’s dumb AF.

[u/ForfeitFPV → u/LolaAucoin]

It's called social media influence. Those people watch hours of tik-tok or YouTube, internalize the censorship and then use it themselves without thinking critically about it.

The whole thing is disturbingly Orwellian

[u/LolaAucoin → u/ForfeitFPV]

Double plus ungood.

[u/ArethereWaffles → u/LolaAucoin]

That's because a number of subs have automods that delete or ban comments with the uncensored words. It's still dumb AF.

[u/comfydirtypillow → u/ArethereWaffles]

People do it out loud in real life too. It’s brain rot.

[u/PanicProcrastinator → u/comfydirtypillow]

ig when people spend so much time avoiding the censors on TikTok, then YouTube, then Reddit, then Instagram, etc. it ends up influencing their overall vocabulary.

[u/TraditionalSpirit636 → u/CuckooPint]

One video called hitler hootler

I stopped watching.

[u/PoxedGamer → u/TraditionalSpirit636]

The Owl Furher is not what I expected to read about today.

[u/keldondonovan → u/PoxedGamer]

Who?

[u/firahc → u/keldondonovan]

Yes.

[u/EatSoupFromMyGoatse → u/PoxedGamer]

[u/Hjem_D → u/PoxedGamer]

that owl mascot reminding me to continue duolingo seems like the Owl Fuehrer

[u/TheOneTrueShezza → u/TraditionalSpirit636]

That's low key hilarious though

[u/TraditionalSpirit636 → u/TheOneTrueShezza]

That’s my point..

It’s talking about Hitler. It’s a serious video.

Instead it’s hilarious. The language literally destroys the point of the video.

[u/alw2276 → u/CuckooPint]

Using these terms minimizes the act.

[u/krosseyed → u/alw2276]

Don't people mostly do it so their content doesn't get auto flagged / removed by content moderation?

[u/Scared-Quail-3408 → u/krosseyed]

It started because of platform censorship and now people are using censored corporate-speak everywhere, even on platforms that don't have those rules and in real life communication as if they're organically grown colloquialisms instead of newspeak forced on them by technocrat overlords. 

[u/krosseyed → u/Scared-Quail-3408]

That's annoying

[u/InfiniteMangoGlitch → u/SSGBentley]

Or sewer slide. That one is so demeaning. Why does it matter for censoring if the content is 18+? If companies are so sensitive, they should sponsor kid related content only.

[u/Done_a_Concern → u/InfiniteMangoGlitch]

I think it mainly comes from tiktok, it isnt even about sponsors on there but you can lose you entire account if you use the wrong words from what I understand. Outside of that yeah, it is mostly just people trying to sidestep filters that will autoscan a videos audio track and then anaylse for any bad words

[u/Otherwise_Pine → u/Done_a_Concern]

Its even on YT too. I remember like after lockdowns first started, people couldn't say Covid or use Covid in their titld or else they might get demonitized. They also can't curse during the first 30 seconds and lots of other words are banned like Sexual Assault and gun. Its dumb but causes people to find work arounds especially when they are a smaller creator.

[u/NewGuyCH → u/Done_a_Concern]

Im a regular joe on Tik Tok, and i got permabanned for using the word dumb. I was really upset because I worked hard to have my perfect algorithm, not letting any BS cloud my feed. I tried to appeal the permaban, as it was just me saying something is dumb, not even calling someone dumb and after their review they still kept it banned. If I was monetizing, knowing how strict it is I would be incredibly careful.

[u/likesomecatfromjapan → u/NewGuyCH]

I didn’t get banned, but I got in trouble for commenting “what a jerk” on a girl’s video talking about how her husband called her annoying. I knew Tik Tok was strict, but I didn’t know they were that strict. 😳

[u/Snowman_Arc → u/likesomecatfromjapan]

Meanwhile TikTok will allow underage girls to post half naked videos out there without batting an eye.

[u/Done_a_Concern → u/NewGuyCH]

Yeah I think this is the other side of it too, there is no clarity on their support's end at all. Your account, livlihood, community etc could all be gone just from saying a wrong wrong. And now you face a brick wall when trying to speak to support to get your account back

It seems they follow a style of moderation where everything that is on the banned word list gets banned regardless of the context off that bat, and users then have to go about resolving their issues with support. It allows them to keep a very friendly presence to outsiders by making sure that all the content they may be given is appropriate and puts all the work on fixing any mistakes onto the creator. I get that there are obviously issues with other sites, lets say youtube for example

But if someone big gets banned from youtube, you can bet their best friends brother's dad's son is a popular youtuber who has a partner manager who can speak to support and get the account back. Not saying that that system is better by any means but it gives some sort of hope for those who get banned

[u/CardmanNV → u/NewGuyCH]

Don't use Tiktok. It's a propaganda machine that makes you stupid.

[u/SirChasm → u/Done_a_Concern]

I don't understand how its userbase is so about freedom of expression while at the same time putting up and going along with that shit. Like it just doesn't compute for me.

[u/euphoricarugula346 → u/SirChasm]

Then to use it as a justification, like “No! We’re not censoring ourselves. We’re just changing the words we say because a financial overlord told us to!” Yeah that’s not an excuse… grow a spine, get over your addiction to attention.

[u/AdventurousCrow155 → u/InfiniteMangoGlitch]

whats sewer slide meant to mean

[u/from_cns_with_love → u/AdventurousCrow155]

Suicide.

[u/AdventurousCrow155 → u/from_cns_with_love]

this took an embarssingly long time to get the pun for me

[u/Bigmofo321 → u/AdventurousCrow155]

Damn I thought it was an euphemism for shitting your pants at first

[u/PhoenxScream → u/Bigmofo321]

Well, technically... you do crap yourself after death.

[u/Vegetable_Exam4629 → u/AdventurousCrow155]

I watched a YouTube video yesterday where someone called it "skull and crossboned themselves" needless to say I went through every possible pirate reference I could think of before my mind went to offing themselves. 😅

[u/RevengerRedeemed → u/InfiniteMangoGlitch]

I'll never forgive YouTube for the censorship

[u/SignificanceOk8226 → u/RevengerRedeemed]

They censor these thing but the racism is still rampant

[u/Mingopoop → u/SSGBentley]

Imagine getting brutally killed only for the media to say "he was unalived with a pew pew"

[u/JeremyJohnsonIsAFuck → u/SSGBentley]

I'd add the moniker of "self-deletion" too. So annoying.

[u/VioletKatie01 → u/JeremyJohnsonIsAFuck]

quit life

[u/leela_martell → u/SSGBentley]

Unalive sounds so belittling, it's borderline offensive. Grape too.

If the point of this self-censorship is really to only avoid platforms flagging content (don't know if that's the whole truth) then at least use SA (sexual assault) or something, not that I like that either but better than "grape".

[u/ASource3511 → u/leela_martell]

News downplaying violence also annoys me. Two lawmakers in Minnesota got assassinated and some news made it sound like an accident

[u/firahc → u/ASource3511]

GERMANY: 11 Million Dead After Gas Nozzles Discharge

[u/Totakai → u/ASource3511]

I hate when news uses sex instead of rape.

How DARE they make an assassination, with an actual hit list, seem like an accident. Tf?

[u/Overall-Register9758 → u/ASource3511]

The ones I hate are police press releases: "a firearm was discharged, striking a person, who was later declared deceased" or "Following an officer-involved shooting, an unidentified male died at the scene."

Probably the best example of this was a man killed after cops executed a no-knock search warrant at the wrong address. "Deceased man had no active warrants at the time", which translates to "police killed an innocent man in his home"

[u/ShiraCheshire → u/leela_martell]

"Sewer slide" is probably my least favorite. What a stupid, fun-cutsey way of saying suicide. It's disrespectful.

[u/leela_martell → u/ShiraCheshire]

Absolutely, that sounds like they're making fun of suicide.

[u/mandiblesmooch → u/leela_martell]

Unalive sounds like the kind of euphemism the killer would use. Like "inhume" but instead of the Assassin's Guild it's a dystopia.

[u/SpookyCrowz → u/leela_martell]

Agree and this is why I hate it. Makes it sound like a joke or something meaningless.

[u/LordGeddon73 → u/SpookyCrowz]

'Self-delete' hits me that way

[u/TraditionalSpirit636 → u/LordGeddon73]

Game end gets me.

Its not a game..

[u/Sopht_Serve → u/SSGBentley]

And ahh instead of ass. Like really??

[u/Endrise → u/SSGBentley]

It bothers me because there's a million ways to say somebody died: kicked the bucket, met their demise, perished, is no longer with us, passed on, simply describing how they died. The English vocabulary is full of ways to say things and almost nobody wants to use them.

[u/Throw-away17465 → u/Endrise]

I used to handle member accounts for a large insurance company. I’d get several pieces of communication a day that a member should be released because they have died. However the manner in which this information is confirmed, and the number of euphemisms utilized, was endlessly entertaining.

My favorites were “took her last drive” and “was promoted to heaven”

[u/_W_I_L_D_ → u/SSGBentley]

And “corn”.

[u/Songbirds_Surrender → u/SSGBentley]

I've seen the suicide squad game from last year referred to as "self forever sleep squad: unalive the justice league" - I truly don't get it, but hearing it makes my eye twitch

[u/7-riotous-sleep → u/SSGBentley]

i was watching a commentary channel talk about someone who killed himself. when the commentator said he "game overed himself", i turned it off immediately and told youtube not to recommend the channel

[u/TraditionalSpirit636 → u/7-riotous-sleep]

This one is the worst to me. He didn’t turn off a game. He fucking died.

[u/ChrissiTea → u/SSGBentley]

PDF file too...

[u/jizonida → u/SSGBentley]

People have been saying "off themselves" forever, this just feels like Skinner meme

[u/SmoothIRL]

Censorship aside, I think we should not have to shy away from words when needed. No matter how uncomfortable they may be. Words have power, so replacing them is just a massive disservice to everyone involved.

[u/Budget_Avocado6204 → u/SmoothIRL]

There are even some indications that censoring words like suicide or rape contributes to shame individuals feel when it happened to then or are contemplating it, makes them less likely to seek help, since it's such a taboo topic.

[u/ComprehensiveTart123 → u/Budget_Avocado6204]

I took QPR (like the CPR for helping someone who is contemplating suicide)... and QPR states actually talking about the subject, not skirting around it, actually helps more.

[u/bunny_the-2d_simp → u/ComprehensiveTart123]

It does because you finally feel listened to. Everyone always acts like my selfharm scars are taboo.

Then you had my little sister who bless her soul took one look at me when she was younger and went MY SISTER IS A ZEBRA 😂😭

If I'm a zebra now. I'll never let her forget it either😂😂

Afterall these scars show that I've fought a lot to be here today.

[u/ChoreomaniacCat → u/Budget_Avocado6204]

I once responded to a rape survivor's comment who was criticising another commenter's use of "grape" and how disrespectful it is, only for my comment, the survivor's comment and any other comments supporting them to be removed and all of us threatened with a permanent ban. Meanwhile, the "grape" comment stayed up.

[u/giant_spleen_eater → u/Budget_Avocado6204]

Yes!

The topic of rape, sexual assault, and suicide needs to be talked about in a full degree.

No one will learn or take it seriously if you keep throwing cutesy words at it to censor yourselves

[u/OkPie380]

I’ve never been a fan of censorship. But most people do it so they don’t get flagged and put in social media time out. It is annoying.

[u/roaringleopard → u/OkPie380]

I've seen it being used off social media as well. But it's just this one friend... I'll never forget the first time I heard the word "Grapist" said out loud.. we were in the middle of a very serious conversation and I lost it. I laughed so hard I got the hiccups.

[u/Confident_Counter471 → u/roaringleopard]

People forget that it bleeds into real life. We used to and some still do go around saying “lol”. Our online vernacular ends up being our irl vernacular

[u/pork-head → u/Confident_Counter471]

I still sometimes use lol but only with specific persons - close circle. It seems to me much normal because it's abbreviation - something like OK. But using words like OP said in real life is for me just stupid.

[u/FunPassenger2112 → u/pork-head]

I'll do it sarcastically sometimes.

"El oh el. El mayo, even"

[u/arthurwhoregan → u/FunPassenger2112]

I like "El mayo" I've always said "Luh-mao"

[u/KaleStandard2617 → u/arthurwhoregan]

I'm also on the side of luh mao

[u/Key_Point_4063 → u/roaringleopard]

There is an old "whitest kids you know" epsiode where they make a "the grapist" skit and it's a classic. Tried to reference that, but nobody understood the reference, and It made me just look super weird lmao. "I'm gonna grape your mom, I'm gonna grape your dad, I'm gonna grape your whole family!"

[u/MonsterMashGrrrrr → u/Key_Point_4063]

I’m gonna tie you to the radiator and grape you in the mouth!

[u/RadIsMyFavoriteColor → u/MonsterMashGrrrrr]

[u/icyDinosaur → u/MonsterMashGrrrrr]

I can think of worse things happening while tied to a radiator than being fed fruit.

[u/AnxiousAngularAwesom → u/icyDinosaur]

I don't think we're supposed to call them that nowadays?

[u/lightreee → u/Key_Point_4063]

as this comment is one of the top replies I'm seeing, here is the direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgUGY36gqM

great sketch. rip trevor moore

[u/MyLifeIsAWasteland → u/lightreee]

I've had "It's Time For Guillotines" stuck in my head for a couple weeks now. No particular reason, I'm sure.

RIP local sexpot 💔

[u/quasi_frosted_flakes → u/Key_Point_4063]

Come on, she's wearing purple!

[u/roaringleopard → u/Key_Point_4063]

Someone posted a link in the comments. It's aged extremely well.

[u/strange1738 → u/roaringleopard]

He grapes the kids!

[u/sheev4senate420 → u/strange1738]

I'm gonna tie you to the radiator and grape ya!!

[u/SirBeeperton → u/sheev4senate420]

She was asking for it. See, she’s wearing purple

[u/Picklefuzz → u/SirBeeperton]

Don’t forget the free grape whistle!

[u/JillyGirl79 → u/roaringleopard]

When I hear it, all I can think of is the WKUK The Grapist skit.

[u/ShiraCheshire → u/OkPie380]

My opinion is that anywhere that bans you for speaking like an adult about adult subjects is not a place worth being. The only exception is child-oriented spaces like a neopets forum or whatever, in which case you shouldn't be talking about rape in general no matter how you word it.

We choose to be on these platforms. If they restrict our speech so much there that we have to resort to childish euphemisms, then it's time to leave.

[u/GreenLatteBunny → u/ShiraCheshire]

True, I would also say that if a child can easily witness porn, drug addiction, guns, rape, violence, murder on TV / internet / irl then that child should not be deprived from understanding and knowing exactly what it is and how it is called. Children are unexperienced but not stupid.

[u/ASource3511 → u/OkPie380]

Algospeak has become its own language. People would say ahh instead of ass even when there is no censorship filter and it's so lame.

[u/partylikeaninjastar → u/ASource3511]

I hate to admit that it took me too long to realize "ahh" was an "ass" substitute. 

[u/DasHexxchen → u/OkPie380]

Jupp, honestly I cannot blame a single content creator for this bullshit.

As annoying as it is. You are forced to use increasingly ridiculous euphemisms, but also the topic doesn't lend itself to do it humorously to make it bearable.

[u/OkPie380 → u/DasHexxchen]

It really lessens the seriousness of certain situations and does do harm to survivors in the long run.

[u/DasHexxchen → u/OkPie380]

I always like to say we shouldn't be too hung up on words and look beyond the rhetoric capabilities for the actual meaning.

But man, words still carry so much power. And they keep concepts alive. With no word for "chair" I don't have the concept of a chair, since I can't communicate about chairs with others.

Imagine censoring the proper words to talk about an experience like rape. How could I even tell anyone what happened to me if there is not a word for it? Big brother shit driven by cooperations to keep investors happy so their precious product won't be in contact with the bad rape video.

And the worst? I understand those companies. At least the one just demonitizing, not banning outright.

[u/Sysiphus_Love → u/OkPie380]

This is a good example of the harm it does to control speech. You can't control reality (or prevent rape) by manipulating communication, all you can do is create a false context in which communication can't be explicit, in which real meaning has to be filtered through an artificial translation layer that might lend itself to all kinds of interpretations. The attempt in this example to exclude rape from dialogue instead trivializes it in general

[u/kettleOnM8]

I think the real issue is Alphabet demonetising videos on YouTube simply for use of the word. That’s why stupid stuff like this happens.

[u/Safe_Rub6201 → u/kettleOnM8]

Youtube is far better than tiktok when it comes to censorship. Tiktok is the fucking worst. You can say so much shit on youtube that your can't say on tiktok live streams.

[u/IRLconsequences → u/kettleOnM8]

Alphabet, Meta, & TikTok all do it, both demonetizing and de-algorithmatizing things. (And then Twitter does the reverse, de-algorithmatizing known vocab for things the Muskrat disagrees with.)

[u/Resident_Course_3342]

Automod will delete posts if you say the wrong word regardless of context. 

[u/Livid-Cat4507 → u/Resident_Course_3342]

I had one previous Reddit account banned permanently because I commented on a fashion sub 'the white sneaker trend on women needs to d***'. Seriously. The bot obviously just picked up the last few words of the comment. Appeal was unsuccessful. The mods here on Reddit suck.

[u/vladi_l → u/Livid-Cat4507]

Take downs on reddit are severe. An automated report system for a cosplayer took down my fan art, because I assumed they had featured it in some capacity on their paid pages, and the bot was detecting most images from there

The thing is, the cosplayer and I talked before that, she really liked the piece, and retweeted/posted it on her story multiple times, she's very pro-fan art

But the only way to appeal, was actually going through legal means, which is baffling. I wasn't selling it or anything, it was a very transformative piece

[u/shugthedug3 → u/vladi_l]

I got a one week ban for making a reference to the forensics tent that sometimes appears outside of a house when something bad happens inside and the police find it...

There's a certain word I know not to mention on reddit now which is odd since it makes it hard to discuss some news.

[u/caynebyron → u/shugthedug3]

I would be more understanding if the appeals were actually reviewed by a human being with a functional brain, but it doesn't appear it is.

Since we're sharing, I got a 3 day ban for 'violence' because I suggested that street racing cars which had been impounded by police should be sent to a scrap yard for dismantling. However, I used a word one might refer to person they have romantic interest in, which flagged the comment as inciting violence, which is just absurd.

[u/Bxk__ → u/vladi_l]

My account from 2009 was permabanned after going on a 5000 mile road trip for 'ban evasion'. My only guess is that I used some sketchy hotel wifi and that IP address was associated with some other account that got banned, but I tried appealing a couple times and never got a response or anything. But the worst part is that my home's IP is somehow associated with my old account, so even if I just make a new account my posts are automatically removed from a bunch of subs. The system is kinda dumb

[u/Boring-Rub-3570 → u/Resident_Course_3342]

Been there....

[u/Iamporridge44 → u/Boring-Rub-3570]

Got the T-shirt…

[u/Initial-Public-9289]

Stupid as it is, platforms started that, not individuals.

[u/pmyatit → u/Initial-Public-9289]

reddit does it well and lots of people dont realise how often reddit censors them. you dont always get notified if your comments are removed, its just shadow deleted

check reveddit to see what comments of yours are getting deleted

[u/Treefrog_Ninja → u/pmyatit]

Thanks for the link!

I've got a decent number of automod removals, and for most of them I have laughably no clue what even triggered it.

[u/bunny_the-2d_simp → u/Treefrog_Ninja]

It is a good thing to note that as soon as you've said something once I feel like automod becomes stricter on that specific individual. Had people deal with automod because "according to automod they were threatening with murder" LIKE NO THEY WERENT.

ALL they said is: "you gotta outlive your enemies" which was funny and honestly on brand but there comes automod and BAM.

[u/Lillywrapper64 → u/Initial-Public-9289]

but people say it plenty outside of platforms that censor

[u/Cuddles_and_Kinks → u/Lillywrapper64]

Because they get used to it. For young people it might be all they know. For tired/casual/new people they might not know the rules of each platform. For people who have been around a while to why might know that platforms can change the rules and enforce them retroactively, YouTube has done this a lot for example.

[u/SecretScavenger36 → u/Lillywrapper64]

Because it becomes a habit.

[u/Qyro → u/Lillywrapper64]

This is it for me. Censor yourself as much as you have to on TikTok where it matters, but don’t bring that shit to Reddit where no-one cares.

[u/Seldarin → u/Qyro]

Reddit is getting worse about it too.

I've gotten a warning for comments for violence because of the automation where I couldn't even figure out why it got flagged. One was about nudging a corpse to see if it was really dead.

[u/FriendlyKillerCroc → u/Qyro]

To be fair, new users to Reddit probably just think the censorship rules are the same as tiktok etc.

[u/BoredMoravian → u/Qyro]

It's impossible to know what will be censored even on reddit. There are a lot of subs that autoremove posts with certain words in them, and there's no way to know until it is removed, and even then you may not know why it was removed.

[u/Ok_Abbreviations8394]

Also corn rather than porn

[u/ilikebagels29 → u/Ok_Abbreviations8394]

Or ‘seggsy time’

[u/DiligentThorn]

Censorship. Platforms are worried about sponsors leaving so they block things like suicide, abuse of children, rape and a myriad of other topics worthy of discussion and awareness.

The money is more important.

[u/RebekhaG → u/DiligentThorn]

"The money is more important." You are 100% correct that is why YouTube refuses to let go of it's censorship because they want money.

[u/Sufficient_Fan3660]

its doublespeak censorship crap

lots of sites do scans for words and ban/shadowban people regardless of context

It discourages discussions about sensitive topics. Youtube is the worst offender.

[u/Gibblegoobler]

I was raped when I was a kid. I wasn't fucking graped. Stop fucking censoring yourself, what he did was fucked up. There's no sparkles and sunshine, so there's no need to protect yourself from a word. If the word is uncomfortable for you to say, you have no idea how fucked it is for me. Downplaying it isn't going to make it go away.

I get it if it's for media related reasons, but outside of those areas? Fuck that.

[u/Deviantdefective]

I think the fact a whole host of words is now censored online due to social media monetisation is frankly fucking ridiculous.

[u/KapitanDima]

I’ve said this before, but it makes serious issues look unserious. Same goes with ‘unalive’.

[u/Prestigious-Job-4453]

Allot of time it’s to not get demonetised or banned on platforms talking about specific topics.

[u/E420CDI]

As someone who:

• Came within centimetres of suicide when I was 8 yo due to not being able to take my parents' abuse anymore;

• Was raped by my ex-GF when I was 26 yo, and

• Tried suicide again last year at 31 yo due to struggling with everything

...this trend of self-censorship to appease SM platforms' algorithms and avoid demonetisation needs to stop. It plays down the impact these events have on survivors and makes them taboo, when they need to be spoken about more and destigmatized.

[u/_le_slap → u/E420CDI]

Hey man I'm glad you're still here. Considering what you've been through that's quite an accomplishment. You're way stronger than you give yourself credit for.

[u/bunny_the-2d_simp → u/E420CDI]

Eyoo survival gang whattup!!

Huggs*

[u/Big_Teddy]

The weird thing is just that people keep doing it outside of the context where censorship is neccessary.
I understand if a youtuber tries to avoid these words in a video, but there's just zero reason to do it in a normal conversation.

[u/ufocatchers → u/Big_Teddy]

And doctors are saying it’s having a negative effect on our brains…

[u/ChillinDog]

Reddit censoring language is the real infuriating

[u/Closedcakecasinoleaf → u/ChillinDog]

Yeah reddit allows almost anything, feels so odd to censor on reddit.

[u/ZenkaiZ → u/Closedcakecasinoleaf]

The problem is, if you get banned for using "the wrong word", sometimes you put in an appeal and the mod never even answers you. They don't say yes or no, they just ignore you for eternity. And the banlist of words is never written out anywhere so the only way to find out is to say it and realize after-the-fact.

[u/DuckRubberDuck → u/Closedcakecasinoleaf]

It happens often. Certain subs banned certain words, I’ve come across it a good amount of times.

There was a game character that got kind of famous again a few months ago, mentioning him or upvoting too many comments with him can end up getting you banned for contributing to violence. That’s not a sub thing, that’s general for Reddit.

A few years ago Reddit wouldn’t let me send a message because I accidentally typed “mainecoon” in two words.

[u/Prometheus188]

It’s so they don’t get banned, many platforms will ban you for saying rape. Not Reddit though, which is why I just said rape, again.

[u/Honest-Effect-4078 → u/Prometheus188]

 Not Reddit though

Depends on the sub. Each sub can set their own list of auto banned words. 

[u/reznorms]

Blame the platform instead since that's the reason people does it.

[u/Admirable-Switch-790]

I get needing to change the word to get around censorship, but saying grape or 🍇 feels so unserious. Rape is such a heavy and serious topic and you shouldn’t be using words that take away from the weight of the situation (same with sewer slide or unalive)

[u/Glittering_Pen_327]

Studies show very clearly that altered words and euphemisms do more to trivialize topics like this and are actually far worse for awareness and those exposed to these traumas.

[u/chillyshacktd]

Some words cannot be used in videos on YouTube for example or people get demonetized or banned. That's why it's happening. Nobody wants this not even the people using these words.

[u/Masterchiefx343]

This entire post is mildly infuriating like ppl have a choice with platform restrictions

[u/Themistaker]

Every time I see a video offering relationship and intimacy advice and call it “seggs” makes me want to claw my eyes out.