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.
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Murica. Dunno if any other country does censor such trivialities too. And to the deeper why: religious hipocrisy i guess.
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.
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.
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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Better yet: Why do such a pathetic job doing it?
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.
I think its because most of the content is reposted from other places where censoring is the norm.
Where else is that remotely normal?
Minecraft chat, which is what most of these three kids in a trenchcoat are coming from
Instagram, tiktok, tumblr (when reposted to it) to some extent.
I don’t fucking k***.
It's like drinking with brown paper bag censoring. Everybody knows what's going on and it's pointless. So f*ck it. ;)
Exactly! But when did it become the cool thing to do?
It has never been the cool thing to do
Because not everyone is comfortable with swears
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.
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.
clutches pearl necklace
Ew. Anyone got a Kleenex?
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.
"If you censor a vowel, the number of swearwords in the sentence remains the same."
- Batman
Fuck em, if they're that thinskinned they're never gonna be happy
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 🤔
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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.
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
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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I've actually always wondered about this, thanks!
cool miniature effects
My favorite example is the intro to Dollhouse. Now I need to rewatch that show.
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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)
The reflection doesn't match what's in front of the mirror, so they probably just edited in a different picture
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.
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?
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.
You could say it would... reflect badly on the mirror.
Ahem.
Or it's an undisclosed AI generated image, that seems more likely to me than any other source
At first, I thought it was a painting. Everything is warped and blurred just a little bit. Almost impressionist like.
How the f##k was this photographed
Vampire
With accompanying vampire camera
And vampire sidewalk
Inverse vampire sidewalk
Vampire with neuralink
with a touch of Grok.
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
from the other side
lol I knew the thread before clicking.
I hate that they ruined my favorite website.
It says in the image, it's a fae portal not a mirror.
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