Iv seen posts with people substituting rape with r@pe. Other than bypassing filters I can’t see a reason to censor just 1 letter that doesn’t actually censor the word? I see if you fully censor the word, but even still context completely ruins the censorship.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝A
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    1 year ago

    My understanding is that content creators have figured out which words trigger demonetisation of their videos (and to a lesser extent other content) so they’ve bowdlerised what they say to get around this. Other people presumably picked that up and used it.

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      1 year ago

      Usually if a content creator is trying to get past a filter, they’re doing a lot more than this…

      This kind of one letter change is more for handling the most basic chat filters on the internet.