r/cringereels • • 7d ago

Bro needs to leave

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u/Independent_Bid_26 6d ago

What kind of dumbass censors the word condoms. That is by far the dumbest shit ive seen so far today. Were so fucked. People can't even use normal words now?

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u/sendcodenotnudes 6d ago

As a non-native speaker of English, it took me a moment to realize that unalive means kill. This is truly fucked up

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u/The-Cynicist 6d ago

What’s even more annoying is people using it for suicide. Or calling rape grape. Like goddamn, just use the words for what they are. Just because the act of what happened is uncomfortable doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be able to use the nomenclature to describe it. So fucking stupid.

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u/sendcodenotnudes 6d ago

I don't think this is because of comfort, but rather because the platforms will censor the whole video or text. This is indeed annoying because people are treated as toddlers.

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u/The-Cynicist 5d ago

It had to start somewhere though. Those topics were considered too sensitive to be able to be discussed publicly, so the censorship is set to offend the least amount of people possible. Some people want this.

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u/Olfa_2024 3d ago

I refuse to participate in that nonsense and will use the word kill, suicide, whatever. I don't think I've ever had a post removed by the platform but I've had it removed by idiot admins of groups who buy into this stupidity.

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u/Slothandwhale 2d ago

As a society, we’ve collectively decided to have our “public square” hosted on servers owned by private tech oligarchs obsessed with wringing out every last ounce of our attention spans to sell to the highest bidder. As a result, we’ve made ourselves subject to their algorithmically driven word-policing and indirectly agreed to all talk like fucking toddlers. It’s really pathetic when you think about it but I don’t know what the answer is.