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We're all 5 year old snowflakes now?
« on: June 16, 2025, 03:18:47 AM »
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  • Perhaps it's due to Youtube and Tiktok censorship, etc. but for SOME reason, everyone has to censor innocent speech, images, etc. We're talking about things that aren't sinful to look at.

    In fact, they'll happily talk about the plots of movies that involve things like sex, adultery, etc. And keep in mind these platforms allow blasphemy against the holy name of God.

    But if you want to say "died", "murder", "ѕυιcιdє" or show a person with a bloody bullet hole -- TRIGGER WARNING I can't show you that! I better blur it out (like they used to do with nudity).

    Exactly like you might do if your 4 year old entered the room, while you're watching a disturbing news story.

    But what young children are watching, for example, "movie summary" videos on Youtube? If a child is on unrestricted youtube and is exploring hundreds of movies -- NOT children's movies or cartoons -- created by Hollywood, he's going to encounter PLENTY of things, both visual and spoken, that "a child shouldn't know about or see".

    Since when is the general public assumed to have the mental fortitude of a 4 year old? Adults can't handle a bloody dead body *that isn't real, because it's only a movie*? Being able to handle death IRL might be difficult, but come on! At what age do we GROW UP and learn "it's only a movie" and we stop being traumatized by it? I am certainly less sensitive to many things in movies compared to when I was 8 or 10.

    Phrases like "self deleting" and "unalived" have entered common speech at this point.

    It just seems ridiculously patronizing and prudish, to be so squeamish about violence or MERE WORDS. Especially when we're talking about the general public, not the population of a school or something.

    If hearing the word "ѕυιcιdє" causes you to commit ѕυιcιdє, maybe you weren't going to make it anyhow.
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    Re: We're all 5 year old snowflakes now?
    « Reply #1 on: June 16, 2025, 08:29:54 AM »
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  • It’s just conditioning so that people will accept non-govt sites censoring things.  First covid was censored, now “violence” and “hate.”  Next will be [speaking against gov].  


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    Re: We're all 5 year old snowflakes now?
    « Reply #2 on: June 16, 2025, 08:45:59 AM »
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  • We’ve been snowflakes for quite some time. I’m surprised you’ve only recently noticed. I had to deal with this nonsense at work starting around 2007. 

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    Re: We're all 5 year old snowflakes now?
    « Reply #3 on: June 16, 2025, 10:32:12 AM »
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  • We’ve been snowflakes for quite some time. I’m surprised you’ve only recently noticed. I had to deal with this nonsense at work starting around 2007.

    Maybe some people IRL have been crazy for some time, but I'm talking about online, youtube videos, etc. where it affects everyone, even those living in more conservative areas.

    I definitely didn't hear about "unaliving oneself" or "self deleting" until a few years ago.

    I'm especially noticing the censoring of blood and violence -- also since 2022 with the Russo-Ukraine war. Most war analysts are quite comfortable with a new normal: they can't show videos due to "violence" (explosions, people being killed by drones, etc.) Not to mention all the "wink wink" words the host has to speak around or say without voice, such as rape, h0Ɩ0cαųst, jews, αssαssιnαtҽ, ѕυιcιdє, etc.

    Again -- words which we would silently mouth (rather than speak) if a 4 year old were in the room. Except the entire audience is almost without exception over 18.

    I guess there are too many snowflakes who are "literally shaking rn" and "can't even".
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    Re: We're all 5 year old snowflakes now?
    « Reply #4 on: June 16, 2025, 10:40:11 AM »
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  • Yeah, I started to see this on X where certain words have *'s to camouflage them?  I never understood why it was done.  Does it have something to do with the algorithm?


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    Re: We're all 5 year old snowflakes now?
    « Reply #5 on: June 16, 2025, 10:41:19 AM »
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  • Remember the good ‘ole days when the Vietnam War was brought to us every night in living, gory, color?  WNBC TV  We kids saw it, too. They even advertised smoking cigarettes back then. 

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    Re: We're all 5 year old snowflakes now?
    « Reply #6 on: June 16, 2025, 01:53:20 PM »
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  • I guess there are too many snowflakes who are "literally shaking rn" and "can't even".

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    Re: We're all 5 year old snowflakes now?
    « Reply #7 on: June 16, 2025, 08:15:32 PM »
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  • I noticed this a couple of months ago on a silly channel I was watching about internet stuff, called Virtual Venture. The guy tells stories about social media crazes, popular YouTube channels where crazy things happened, wild stories from the internet. It's just light entertainment for when my mind needs a break.

    But one really weird thing I noticed right away about the channel is that the guy wouldn't use the word "murder" or "kill", and a lot of the stories involve crime. Instead, he would say, "This person ended the other guy's life." When I first heard this, I thought it was totally bizarre. Then I noticed he would say that for everything similar. Instead of "ѕυιcιdє", he would say, "ended his own life". For a mass bombing or some similar act, I think he said, "did the unthinkable". Instead of saying someone got high on drugs, he would say something like, "the person ingested illegal substances".

    The guy seems pretty normal, so I'm pretty sure he doesn't say weird this stuff because he wants to, but I figured he would get put behind 18+ sign-ins by YouTube if he used words that the algorithm could find, like "murder" or "ѕυιcιdє", and he doesn't want to lose that many people in his audience.

    The real question, though, is why would YouTube age-restrict a video just because it contains the word "murder"? I mean, this is completely insane. I've never heard of such a thing, and I'm pretty sure it's something very recent. Is this everywhere on YouTube?

    And are the algorithms really so stupid that they would age-restrict a video that contains the word "murder", and they wouldn't age-restrict one that says "ended his life"?


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    Re: We're all 5 year old snowflakes now?
    « Reply #8 on: June 16, 2025, 08:23:46 PM »
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  • Maybe some people IRL have been crazy for some time, but I'm talking about online, youtube videos, etc. where it affects everyone, even those living in more conservative areas.

    I definitely didn't hear about "unaliving oneself" or "self deleting" until a few years ago.

    I'm especially noticing the censoring of blood and violence -- also since 2022 with the Russo-Ukraine war. Most war analysts are quite comfortable with a new normal: they can't show videos due to "violence" (explosions, people being killed by drones, etc.) Not to mention all the "wink wink" words the host has to speak around or say without voice, such as rape, h0Ɩ0cαųst, jews, αssαssιnαtҽ, ѕυιcιdє, etc.

    Again -- words which we would silently mouth (rather than speak) if a 4 year old were in the room. Except the entire audience is almost without exception over 18.

    I guess there are too many snowflakes who are "literally shaking rn" and "can't even".
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    I'm really curious who's behind this. I normally blame the federal government for weird stuff like this that no rational human being would ever do. I suspect YouTube and other major websites like Facebook, Twitter, and whatever else are now being forced by the federal government to not allow people to talk about murder or similar things. Even death.

    I'm really baffled as to what this is all about. This is definitely a new one on me. :confused:

    UPDATE: I did find a thread on Reddit that addresses this, although the discussion appears to be that only "ѕυιcιdє" is banned. But from what I've seen, other words such as murder, attack, drugs, bomb, pornography, and other things are banned as well, so maybe the situation has gotten much worse now.

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    Re: We're all 5 year old snowflakes now?
    « Reply #9 on: June 16, 2025, 09:15:37 PM »
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  • The real question, though, is why would YouTube age-restrict a video just because it contains the word "murder"? I mean, this is completely insane. I've never heard of such a thing, and I'm pretty sure it's something very recent. Is this everywhere on YouTube?

    And are the algorithms really so stupid that they would age-restrict a video that contains the word "murder", and they wouldn't age-restrict one that says "ended his life"?
    The answer to all your questions is YES.

    There’s an extensive list of algorithm triggering no-no words on YT.
    abuse, sɛҳuąƖ, sex, ѕυιcιdє, kill, murder, dead, ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ, anything to do with slavery, Jews, h0Ɩ0cαųst, Islam, certain body parts, rape, Hitler, nαzι, abortion.......
    You must come up with creative euphemisms or disguise the words with symbols. You must not use certain words in combination or in the same comment. 
    I made the mistake of combining the wrong words in a comment and got kicked off for a week. They told me it was hate speech. It was most definitely not hateful if properly read for meaning. The algorithm detected certain words and automatically assumed they were hate speech. There wasn’t ample time for real people to read the comment and register a complaint before it was taken down and a warning issued to my account!  It was literally a few seconds! 
    Even if you do NOT have any filters on your YT, you are censored and so are all the videos. It’s not just words, spoken and written, also visuals. I’ve given up on some docuмentaries because more than half of them were blurred out!  The things blurred were not what one might expect, like the faces of children for privacy, but anything that someone might find “triggering.” A few examples, historic battlefield footage in a docuмentary, a real surgeon’s educational channel, two lions battling for charge of the pride in a nature docuмentary, all blurred out in case someone gets upset. The surgeon gave up on YT. If you want to learn about his procedures, you have to view it on his professional website. No, I don’t think porn should be allowed anywhere, but that often slips through. If people don’t want to see surgery or blood or certain topics, that’s what filters are for! (Remember the TV series in the 1980’s, The Operation”?)  If I had a child or a child had access to my YT, you can bet I’d have filters, however, I'm an adult senior woman. I am not tempted by porn and if I do not want to view something, I delete it. YT “knows” my preferences so getting sent any indecent “Suggested For You” videos is very rare. If something looks off-putting, I just delete the channel. Other platforms are out there that will allow the politically incorrect and show unfiltered war docuмentaries, but they are pricey or have less variety and are more difficult to use.

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    Re: We're all 5 year old snowflakes now?
    « Reply #10 on: June 16, 2025, 10:04:29 PM »
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  • Wow, that's very interesting. When did this begin, I mean, that "murder" is some sort of forbidden word on YouTube? I don't watch YouTube all that much, but I was not aware of this until a couple of months ago.

    And who is behind this absurdity? Is it lawyers? I mean, are they worried they're going to get sued by someone claiming to have been traumatized by a video that uses that word "murder"?

    I'm really baffled. I've never heard of such a thing before in my life.


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    Re: We're all 5 year old snowflakes now?
    « Reply #11 on: June 16, 2025, 10:24:22 PM »
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  • Wow, that's very interesting. When did this begin, I mean, that "murder" is some sort of forbidden word on YouTube? I don't watch YouTube all that much, but I was not aware of this until a couple of months ago.

    And who is behind this absurdity? Is it lawyers? I mean, are they worried they're going to get sued by someone claiming to have been traumatized by a video that uses that word "murder"?

    I'm really baffled. I've never heard of such a thing before in my life.
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    Re: We're all 5 year old snowflakes now?
    « Reply #12 on: June 17, 2025, 06:10:45 AM »
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  • Wow, that's very interesting. When did this begin, I mean, that "murder" is some sort of forbidden word on YouTube? I don't watch YouTube all that much, but I was not aware of this until a couple of months ago.

    And who is behind this absurdity? Is it lawyers? I mean, are they worried they're going to get sued by someone claiming to have been traumatized by a video that uses that word "murder"?

    I'm really baffled. I've never heard of such a thing before in my life.
    I'm not sure what is going on either, but I think it all started with COVID.  I know that YouTube was censoring any rhetoric that it was a conspiracy or that the vaccines were not safe and effective.  

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    Re: We're all 5 year old snowflakes now?
    « Reply #13 on: June 17, 2025, 10:49:54 AM »
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  • I'm not sure what is going on either, but I think it all started with COVID.  I know that YouTube was censoring any rhetoric that it was a conspiracy or that the vaccines were not safe and effective. 
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    Yes, but that is a fundamentally different thing from some typical news story in which some YouTube personality got murdered by one of their "fans". Why would YouTube not want people to use the word "murder" when telling such a story? And especially if they allow the story to be told, but only if the person says "ended his life" instead of "murdered"?

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    Re: We're all 5 year old snowflakes now?
    « Reply #14 on: June 17, 2025, 11:24:07 AM »
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    Yes, but that is a fundamentally different thing from some typical news story in which some YouTube personality got murdered by one of their "fans". Why would YouTube not want people to use the word "murder" when telling such a story? And especially if they allow the story to be told, but only if the person says "ended his life" instead of "murdered"?
    Yes, I see the difference.  I just think the whole idea of censoring started with the COVID debacle.  To some extent, I have given up trying to figure out some of these things.  Chances are, it's irrational anyway.