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Content creators are also self-censoring to avoid automatic moderation (YouTube demonetization and TikTok shadowbanning). Things like "sex" and "death" are euphemized or not said (see things like "unalive" instead of "dead", "heckmet" instead of "helmet".


What's wrong with "helmet"?


it has "hell" in it.


But it... does not. It only has one L.


the thing people try to avoid is crappy speech recognition software, with a dose of cargo-culting because of course the platforms don't tell people what exactly they don't like, so people try to find patterns in what gets demonetized.


Best guess: the AI interprets it as "war," "penis" and "clitoris" and pushes it into a moderation/flag queue.


It's a euphemism for penis.




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