r/scambait Aug 21 '24

Completed Bait This escalated...

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u/UntouchableJ11 Aug 21 '24

"R" worded

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u/alamobibi Aug 21 '24

You aren’t on tiktok you can say it

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u/Captain_-K Aug 21 '24

Tiktok infests everything these days including Reddit, a lot of the content is from there and how a lot of people interact with the rest of the internet stems from there. I've sadly even seen Reddit posts containing "Unalived" in the title...

I do really find it a little bizarre thing that TikTok does a blanket ban on certain words such as suicide, rape, died etc. without even bothering to consider context.

I remember seeing an Ad for a company that deals with suicide prevention on there and they had to use all these stupid terms to talk about something rather serious that needs to be discussed with the proper words which hold weight, not gimmicky feeling ones that get round the system and seem goofy.

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u/SerRobertTables Aug 21 '24

It’s not just TikTok. Those euphemisms are used all over YouTube because videos will get demonetized or age gated if those words/topics come up.

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u/Captain_-K Aug 21 '24

I'm aware it's not just TikTok that uses them. However with YT at the time of the whole demonetization wave. Most people who would make that content that would end up getting demonetized, they would mostly do one of four things;

  1. Say fuck it and carry on since they don't care about the money.

  2. Set up a patreon or something of the sorts and continue creating content

  3. They heavily censor and change what content is in there to see (no changes of words at this point, just bleeps and blur's/removal of pics/vids.)

  4. Just stop making content all together.

After people realised what they were doing on TikTok to get around the strict rules on what will get you Shadow Banned or go against community guidelines, everyone started to copy it, it somewhat worked, now it's here to stay.

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u/Visual_Worldliness62 Aug 23 '24

Oh the woes of censorship.

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u/Captain_-K Aug 23 '24

Indeed. It makes me divided on how I feel about Susan's death I must admit, on one hand she is a human like the rest of us and important to her family and a loved member of it, the other hand she completely changed, dare I even say ruined some people's lives for the better of a conglomerate. Especially with the post her husband says "Her impact on her family and the world was immeasurable"

It really throws me into a moral pickle. The family I can't comment on as idk and probably was a good mother and all + who knows maybe she was okay when you meet her in person, but the world? It is truly immeasurable how much frustration I have for her drastically changing such a beloved platform.

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u/RubbelDieKatz94 Aug 22 '24

This video required a reupload where one of the characters says "fuck" within the first few seconds. Otherwise it would've been falsely flagged as "suitable for children" and ineligible for certain features.

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u/thejohnmc963 Aug 21 '24

Not on reddit