this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2025
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Stop censoring normal fucking words. OP didn't obviously do it, why do reposters feel the need?
The algorithm. It ruins everything.
The image could be from somewhere else with shitty rules
It's still legible though. I think it's leas for the sake of modesty than just maximizing reach in the algorithm of whatever social media it was reposted to. An image-to-text algo would probably not register the marked word(s) to then mark the post as vulgar or 18+, and then show it to fewer people because of that. I see it all the time in posts mentioning Palestine, which started when it became apparent that those kinds of posts were being suppressed.
Along the same lines, sometimes something silly like a hair is edited into the image. I've always assumed this is to prevent it from getting caught by content-recognition algorithms, which would mark it as a repost and either remove or de-rank the content.
Seems the hate is better directed at the algorithms that make this worthwhile than the reposters frustrating those efforts to sanitize everything by putting a non-destructive mark on the content.
That's that free sprach you've got over there? One naughty word having any Christian fundamentalist blush and you geht cut oft.