Many popular subs are vulgar in terms of seo, like various circlejerks, r/nextfuckinglevel, r/fuckcars, r/fucklawns.
Many subs admiring stuff are “porn” like r/macroporn, r/earthporn.
Also – very happy to be able to freely use all the words that are available, not these kind of abominations like “unalive”, “pron”, “p0rn” and so on.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four stuff
However, you can easily get banned for using “wrong” language about “marginalized” groups of people.
I can’t stand profanity.
I don’t think most sites avoid them. I think it’s a TikTok or YouTube thing but because those sites are so influential on young people, the users start self-censoring because they think those are cultural taboos rather than video creators trying to game the limits set by either the Chinese government or Google’s monetisation algorithm.
Each subreddit has their own rules and their own moderators, and reddit gives them a lot of freedom to do what they like within the limits of the law, many choose to permit profanity given their users and the content they post about. Other social media companies have reputations to protect and profitable young audiences to cater to (whose parents don’t like profanity), and their entire site has to adhere to those guidelines. Additionally, reddit is firmly established as a site for adults, while other social media have large numbers of children using them.
Some other sites have very strict rules about those strong terms and it can lead to videos being demonitized or removed. And some creators cross-post on multiple platforms, so it’s easiest to just make the cleanest version that avoids all those words that can get them in trouble. So, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube shorts all start to look similar.
As I understand it, the worry is video ads being displayed on those formats. The sites/apps themselves don’t want to risk jeopardizing the biggest source of income if a company doesn’t want to be associated with a video about sex work or serial killers.
Presumably, Reddit doesn’t function the same way with subreddits, so they don’t have the same rules about titles.
Simple reddit is run by humans unlike some other social media and news sites
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