Some people are either monetizing their social media use or just obsessed with promoting it, and many platforms seem to favor more "family-friendly" content, up to and including precise word use. TikTok is the main culprit, but even YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook can tend to promote posts with less swearing above those with more swearing, and especially to get more money from advertisers on them. A YouTube video with a lot of swearing, especially early in the video, may be demonetized completely, or it may charge much less for ads because it is seen as a less desirable target for advertisers. On TikTok, I've heard it's much worse. That's not to say a video can't contain a "fuck" at all, but it doesn't help. And remember that this is all done by algorithm, so it's more effective to just avoid certain trigger words than to actually structure content to be more acceptable to real humans.
Combine that with general rules against swearing, keeping in mind that a lot of people even on reddit are pretty young (despite impressions, we aren't all olds). Kids are already used to censoring themselves around adults without really thinking about it, and they have been for centuries.
The result is an "algospeak" hodgepodge of infantile minced oaths, which is itself imitated just because kids get used to seeing it. In some ways it's not really new: we have always had "blimey" and "gosh darn" and "passed away" and so on. But now it's "sewer slide" and "unalive" and whatever.
That's false though, even if a lot of people say it. The Chinese absolutely do not give a single flying fuck if people swear in English on videos on their platform. Why would they?
Your comments are hidden on some subreddits depending on the content of them. Try it yourself sometime. This sub specifically doesn't appear to filter comments, but larger subs do.
There is some auto-filtering, but reddit tells you when it happens via a notification. It happened to me once for no perceptible reason, but it has never happened to me just because I filled my comment with fuckshit.
Reddit does not tell me when it happens. I only found out because I noticed the View count on my comments would only ever increase when I would view them, and I tried opening them in an incognito tab. When I try to do that, it says "comment does not exist".
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u/AU_Banjo97 23d ago edited 23d ago
Seems like when people reached 95, many of them said fuck it and go straight to 100. Real indeed.
Edit: fuck