From what I've heard it's because of algorithms, and possibly avoiding automatic labeling and hiding of content based on the word "suicide". Kids are basically learning that they need to speak a certain way for their words to be seen and it's very disturbing. I can't imagine such an experience back in the day.

>>3
>Do they really think the billion-trillion dollar companies... ...can be tricked with an asterisk or weird alternate words?
I do think what people are doing on these giant sites are generally unknown to the operators until it becomes a major issue. They're famously bare in regards to human moderation, so before an AI can detect it as an issue a human needs to talk to other humans to designate it as one. And these places have far worse things on them.

>it's also a fucking terrible precedent to set for artists/other creative people
Yeah, it's very creatively stifling. I think part of the runaway success of Asian media lately is the comparative freedom they have. You can just focus on a story or a drawing without thinking of how it could be twisted into some sort of battle. It's just "this guy is cool because he can shoot lasers out of his eyes".

>>3
>Do they really think the billion-trillion dollar companies with the largest, fastest-learning algorithms running social media platforms on a global scale can be tricked with an asterisk or weird alternate words?
They haven't been able to stop bots...

I hate sponsors, I hate video-makers seeking sponsors, and most of all I hate stupid internet videos

>>2
you're basically teaching kids that one should avoid topics for the sake of others comfort and for capitalist systems to maintain themselves. it's not even like the word "suicide" is harmful towards others, it's just "dark."

Damn it. Sorry, this mod UI thing is annoying because it carries over the checkboxes of other threads/replies after an action. I.E if I delete 3 spam threads and then after refreshing I select another spam thread to delete, it will have the spam thread and the 2 posts closest to the top of the page already selected in the checkbox. Anyway, reposting the comment that used to be the third replies to this thread:

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>>2
It's so fucking confusing to me because all this roundabout speak and self-censorship can't even amount to much, can it? Do they really think the billion-trillion dollar companies with the largest, fastest-learning algorithms running social media platforms on a global scale can be tricked with an asterisk or weird alternate words? When millions of people are saying ""un-alive yourself"" on their website daily would the algorithm they're apparently so scared of not quickly learn the context and meaning of that? Has it not already?

This general self-repression/self-censorship is probably one of my absolute least favorite trends of the modern internet. It reminds me of an old George Carlin bit about "soft language" from the 2000s. This mortal fear of being offended or punished because of words is going to trivialize things that should be taken seriously until they're completely unrecognizable. Well I say "going to" but I think we're already there, frankly.

Beyond social/political issues it's also a fucking terrible precedent to set for artists/other creative people. You see it everywhere already, people who make ""content"" instead of art and are constantly sucking sponsors' dicks and censoring/re-editing their work in fear of an algorithm marking them as demonetized.

Every day I become more and more thankful that my only real internet vice is tiny imageboards and textboards, and that my life, my art and my income are all firmly rooted IRL. I feel like we're living through a bad ending of Serial Experiments: Lain or something.
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