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N00b22 @lemmy.ml

4mo ago

Oh fuck no

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Every time a swear word is censored on the internet, a cat video gets a million views, or something like that.
- We've gone all the way around so now censoring a swear makes people more upset than actually saying it and I really don't understand why.
  Year 2000
  Say 'fuck'
  People get irrationally mad
  Year 2024
  Say 'fxck'
  People get irrationally mad
  What happened?
  
  The younger generations decided that being offended by swear words is fucking stupid.
  
  In adult-facing parts of the internet, including here, swears are typically used for an extra bit of "oomph" to spice up a sentence or make a point clear. (I know that there's an actual word for this but I can't think of it currently.) It's generally considered neutering that spice if you censor it; case in point is this meme. It just tends to look childish or dumb, especially if the word is just vaguely censored like this meme here again. At least Grawlixes ("$#@&!") have some mystery as to the word being said.
  
  I don't remember people being offended by the word fuck in 2000. Sure on TV it could be considered dicey but on the internet it was pretty fair game
  
  If you want to make a post without swear words, just do it. Using a swear word and then censoring it completely defeats the purpose
  
  Your comment implicates you are in favour of censoring swear words. Coukd uou enlighten us as to why?
- tbf the cats deserve it
- I didn't censor it so I'm not to blame
  
  Oh, I wasn't blaming you one bit. I was just pointing out how odd it is.
  
  Ok you didn't censor it. But did you consider uncensoring it?
- I'm pretty certain it's done just to get comments like yours, the same as deliberately misspelling and rage bait. Everything for more comments, clicks, interaction etc.

that censoring...

Is the krabby patty actually any different than a Wendy's single? It looks the exact same on the menu and is the same price
- The difference is the salsa secreta.
  
  dame el fuente de este arte lujurioso
- It's just the sauce that's different and it's not that good. You're paying more for a worse off burger.
  
  Hard agree. It's like a sweeter burger sauce but in the worst way possible. At least you get stickers.
  
  It's the exact same price
- Is this a real thing? If so is it meat based? Don't ask me why I know this but in SpongeBob lore the Krabby Patty is actually plant based.
  
  Yes, it appears to be meat
- So it's not a jumbo-lump crab burger? :(

You can almost read the word f*** is no one thinking of the americans here? What the fuck?
- Americans?
  This is a TickTock scourge.
  
  Censoring swear words on text posts have been around long before TikTok, they just kicked it into overdrive. I really can't think of a reason why the censored version of memes get spread more than uncensored except to think that there are a dedicated group of people who pick up memes like this and spread the censored version before the uncensored version hits.
  It makes some sort of sense for videos. TikTok and YouTube demonetized and suppress videos with swear words in them. And those platforms can make people money. I don't see why a text post would be censored, I don't know of many ways to make a lot of money off of reposting memes and even the few I could think of don't really care if they're censored.
- This is almost as bad as when we had to carpet bomb another village to a crater last week to prevent the public from finding out that ...
  ^women ^have ^nipples ^too
  
  Wait what?

don't mentally read in Plankton's voice: challenge level: impossible

This is Lemmy, you can say bad words here.

My reaction on seeing this was to wonder about the Wendy's Nasty Patty (tm).

He still doesn't know what's in the secret sauce though.
- Same as literally every "secret sauce"
  It's just thousand island dressing
  
  It literally is just peppery thousand island dressing. Also, the ingredients are on the side of the box the sauce ships in so it's not even secret to the employees lmao

Fucked

I've eaten it. It's basically a slighty jazzed-up Dave's single burger with a sauce I'll call "interesting" instead of having their normal ketchup/mustard/mayo (personally hate mayo on burgers). It's tangy with a little spice/zest (cayenne?) and I didn't think it was great. Interesting novelty, but I won't be having it again.

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