If you're like me, you lack the self control to not occasionally click on a Youtube short despite them always being just lowest denominator junk. Or if it's twitter sometimes they'll be TikToks. One thing I noticed is all or almost all of them have text saying what the person said, but also that they will have a blatant error of the text not matching what the person said. Not just a minor spelling error, but a completely different word.
For instance this one https://www.youtube.com/shorts/g4tVsh1auDY
where the guy says "they should be under the jail" and the text says "out of the jail". I noticed they all do this. I first chocked it up to an illiterate and uneducated generation, but then I realized the tactic.
If the Youtube short has 2000 comments, I bet you like 300 of those comments are correcting that word "mistake". So that's 300 free comments to boost engagement.
These are the types of tactics that I don't know how these "content creators" sleep at night. It's so dishonest. Dishonest money can't be satisfying. I'm far on the personality type where doing anything dishonest or snake-oily is like a thing that makes me feel sick. I have plenty of faults, but lack of integrity or dishonesty isn't really one of them. I'm probably more rigid than even the average person in this area, so it's something that especially gets under my skin.
I know some of them censor "no no words" like kill and suicide, because the internet is for literal infants according to our overlords....
Yeah, I hate that crap.
Anyone who says unalive, I stop watching their video. If you care about monetization that badly then you might as well just make toy reviews for children like Irate gamer did with Puppet steve.
Clearly talking about current day events is not your calling if you're self-censoring and saying "unalive" or "deletion" or whatever else.
Look, there's one thing with FCC rules that keep things from getting too profane. Most radio jocks abide by that. But the thing is you don't really notice the censorship because it just keeps the most extreme things in check. If you listen to old Opie and Anthony clips, you can't believe that this was on public radio for anyone to hear with advertisers. Totally different type of guidelines. They had censorship they had to abide by, but it was such a politically incorrect time that you didn't even notice the censorship.
If like on Youtube you can actually notice in real time the kindergarten replacement words that they're abiding by that get stricter each and every month, you know you're in Soviet territory.
You shouldn't be able to spot guidelines.
Like Futurama. The seasons before they moved to Adult Swim and could be more TV-MA were the best and funniest seasons. You never got the sense that the creators were ham-strung on Fox.
That's how limits should work. Enough to limit degeneracy, but not so overbearing that it's noticeable and limits creativity, freedom, expression art and creates an environment of fear.