#deliberately saying how silly the youtube censorship is that they gotta try to trick auto-transcribers to be seen | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

splodey-goat · 8 months ago

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TBH if you're gonna censor your youtube video just use the standard bleep. You think it's less jarring or more whimsical or whatever but a slide whistle or a clip of a different word or whatever just makes me think i misheard something or there was background noise, the universality of the bleep is for a reason. Cutting the sound for the word or part of the word sounds like an audio stutter and using soundalike words is the aural equivalent of dyslexia and having to bounce between the censor methods video-to-video means they never stop sounding less obtrusive.

Also like I know you're doing it for the algorithm but like, it feels a little too cheeky either stand by your shit or just sound censored.

#obviously there's exceptions but I can only think of examples that fall in one of two categories #Caelan Conrad does a thing where they say the words real quiet and breathy with pause for emphasis which makes it clear it's like #deliberately saying how silly the youtube censorship is that they gotta try to trick auto-transcribers to be seen #Or comedies like #weird pull but Perfect Hair Forever sticks out in my mind censoring the word fuck with a soundclip of a character shouting 'EFF!!'#Which creates a new standard for the duration of the show and leaves no ambiguity that it IS a censor.

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