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[–] [email protected] 108 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Why do people censor fuck or other profanity on the internet? I don't get it, and until now, I've been too afraid to ask.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Murica. Dunno if any other country does censor such trivialities too. And to the deeper why: religious hipocrisy i guess.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Afaik tiktok also heavily censors topics that are considered bad publicity or whatever. In fact, considering that this self-censor trend (edit: this type of self censor trend that utilizes cutting out vowels instead of using euphemisms or not using the words at all) is much much younger than YouTube or Instagram (at least I noticed it only a few months, maybe one or two years ago) I'd say the American companies weren't even the driving force behind it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Youtube has forced it onto their creators for a while. Censor swears or risk upsetting the almighty algorithm and getting demonetized, because apparently american companies don't like being associated with swearing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, but the YouTube culture used to not use swearwords/unwanted words as a result of this. I have recently seen a few videos, where they said prn and sx, including cutting the vowels from the audio. This change in how to deal with the restrictions imposed by the platform is what I don't understand.

Edit: I have edited my comment above to be more precise.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Better yet: Why do such a pathetic job doing it?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy is bizarrely fond of useless censorship, and I think it's because .ml has a bunch of filters. Which is hilarious. Yes folks, we expect to reach a stateless society with no firm hierarchy, and all boundaries decided by the people. The admin has decided you may not say fuck.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I think its because most of the content is reposted from other places where censoring is the norm.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I don’t fucking k***.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's like drinking with brown paper bag censoring. Everybody knows what's going on and it's pointless. So f*ck it. ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Exactly! But when did it become the cool thing to do?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

It has never been the cool thing to do

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Because not everyone is comfortable with swears

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago

Fuck the fucking fuckers. Swearing as much a part of human communication as cadence is.

Puritans can fuck themselves with a pineapple. It's as ridiculous as finding full stops offensive and insisting the rest of the world bow to them by using double commas or something.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago

Except no one sees the censored thing and doesn't think the word itself. If anything the censor is bringing extra attention to it. It's dumb. If the person posting is scared of the word, they should leave it out. If they're worried other people might fear it then either they should leave it out or not bother censoring because they see it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

clutches pearl necklace

Ew. Anyone got a Kleenex?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I understand that and I prefer to not swear most of the time as well. But these "I'll leave out the vowels" edits don't change the number of swearwords in the sentence.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"If you censor a vowel, the number of swearwords in the sentence remains the same."
- Batman

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Fuck em, if they're that thinskinned they're never gonna be happy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah and this puritanical bullshit sends us all tumbling down a slippery slope until it's offensive to teach children anatomy words like penis and vagina. Hmm, and one wonders why practicing christian families have a higher instance of unreported CSA 🤔

[–] [email protected] 101 points 5 months ago (5 children)

You CAN in fact more or less do this for real: photographing a mirror from a straight on perspective without the camera visible.

https://youtu.be/ZlaeWRMYwGg?feature=shared

Basically, you need a special tilt-shift lens that distorts perspective to where it looks ‘straight on’ while the camera is actually off to the side or down below. If you do it correctly, the viewer won’t even notice anything’s missing.

These lenses are primarily used for architecture photography to prevent ‘leaning buildings’. They can also create really cool miniature effects. It’s quite a useful bit of gear, but also rather expensive because it’s such a niche lens.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

If someone is like me and goes: "Want!": That Lens in the video costs a cool ~1000 Bucks.

Which doesn't mean I don't want it anymore... Just that it's on the list for when I swim in money for some reason :D

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The one in the video is a Canon TS-E 90 - that's a 1000 bucks USED. And that's not really what you want if you're going to be doing landscape stuff. You want the TS-E 24 for a much wider field of view. Those are even more expensive.

You CAN however buy cheaper, new lenses. Brands like Laowa and Samyang produce tilt-shifts that cost less than half of what a Canon costs if you really want a new example.

That said though... anything in photography is expensive anyway, and these are niche lenses. They do some things that other lenses really can't, like this magic trick. And while you can replicate some of its effect digitally - like the miniature effect - the best way to do things like that is always in camera. If you take a good shot to start with, you'll alsways have a better end result.

I'm personally looking to buy a TS-E 24 one of these days, assuming I find a gently used - and gently priced - example.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I've actually always wondered about this, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

cool miniature effects

My favorite example is the intro to Dollhouse. Now I need to rewatch that show.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/ZlaeWRMYwGg?feature=shared

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Also, you can use a telephoto lens, like from that little bush you can see in the center if you zoom in (not that anybody sensible would bother)

[–] [email protected] 75 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The reflection doesn't match what's in front of the mirror, so they probably just edited in a different picture

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're probably correct, this reflection definitely looks odd. But something to consider is that the mirror is likely leaning back, and depending on your angle to it it may not show you whats directly in front of it but show things further out in way that could explain the weirdness.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Look at the path. It goes directly to the base of the mirror from the 'other' side, but you can't see it at all on 'this' side. You're not telling me that's not edited. Even if there's some optical illusion shit going on and the mirror is actually leaning back much more than it appears, this would still imply that the path goes directly towards some random wall and then just ends, or at least makes a very sharp turn, at most 0.5 meter in front of it? Why would it do that?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

Also look at the mismatch between the lovely country looking cottage and the rusty corrugated fence. I'm betting it was edited because whatever was in the reflection didn't look very nice and would've made the mirror look awful.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Or it's an undisclosed AI generated image, that seems more likely to me than any other source

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

At first, I thought it was a painting. Everything is warped and blurred just a little bit. Almost impressionist like.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How the f##k was this photographed

Vampire

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

With accompanying vampire camera

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Inverse vampire sidewalk

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

with a touch of Grok.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Party pooper train coming through - chooo chooo

Notice the path in the mirror does not match up with the ground - no path below the mirror

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

from the other side

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

lol I knew the thread before clicking.

I hate that they ruined my favorite website.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

It says in the image, it's a fae portal not a mirror.

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