"Algospeak is just superstition / not real / blah blah blah" I get that you probably don't respect anyone whose income depends on YouTube enough to speak to them, but if you would, you'd figure out that there are in fact words you can't say on the platform without risking a video not just being demonetized, but even search banned or deleted entirely.
"Transgender" literally used to be one of the context-sensitive banned words on YouTube. I'm the reason that got fixed 5 years ago. My video was the one that got deleted citing a "child safety" policy because I said "transgender" in a video about Super Mario Galaxy and you used to LITERALLY not be allowed to mention trans people in anything that could be assumed to be "kid friendly" (like Mario.)
As tempting as it is to say that there's no excuse on Tik Tok bc you shouldn't be doing Tik Tok for a living, videos there absolutely will be suppressed if the topic you're speaking about isn't entirely positive and social media is supposed to be for conversation. If you can't have conversations about certain topics without your video being hidden from people, that's censorship!
Instagram's captioning tool straight up bleeps out swearing FOR you if you don't do it, too.
The platforms ARE censoring people, each to varying levels of severity, and y'all are fucking up the conversation about this by pretending they don't.
To give you an idea of how oddly easy it is to get a search ban on YouTube, this video briefly had a search ban for no clear reason
actually it's probably because of the word "sex"
I've had people bitching at me in my inbox all day about how "oh, well some people are using it to make videos I don't like" so I'm gonna spell it out for you blithering idiots:
THIS POST WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FACT THAT YOU CANNOT SAY "GENOCIDE" WHEN TALKING ABOUT A GENOCIDE ON MOST SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS.
