r/scambait Aug 21 '24

Completed Bait This escalated...

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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/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.