This is why you hear political podcasts talk about “the Austrian painter” or “midcentury Germans” and not the common names by which those things are known. Gotta keep that sweet YouTube monetisation.
This is an interesting emergent trend though because it's designed to evade automated content moderation. The whole point of "PDF file" is that it's perfectly innocuous without an understanding of the surrounding context. With real-time audio transcription increasingly common, even livestreamers have to do this to avoid getting hit with automated bans or deprioritization.
There is a long history of euphemisms taking over - one day we may say "unalived" as a perfectly normal replacement for "killed", just as we don't call bears "arkto" or "ursa" any more, we just euphemistically call them "brown things", i.e. "bero" in protogermanic hence "bear" in English.
This is why you hear political podcasts talk about “the Austrian painter” or “midcentury Germans” and not the common names by which those things are known. Gotta keep that sweet YouTube monetisation.
I've never heard anyone on youtube or on a podcast use terms that referred to the Nazis without directly calling them Nazis, and it hasn't had an effect on their monetization. I wonder what kind of media you're consuming that put you in contact with people who would use euphemisms for this sort of thing?
Exactly which platforms will penalise namedropping Hitler varies and it varies by circumstances, but this is a real thing as far as I can tell, on tiktok and also on YouTube videos algorithmically flagged as "intended for children" (regardless of whether they are or not).
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This is why you hear political podcasts talk about “the Austrian painter” or “midcentury Germans” and not the common names by which those things are known. Gotta keep that sweet YouTube monetisation.
It's strange that societies discover every 100 years or so how profanities come to existence.
This is an interesting emergent trend though because it's designed to evade automated content moderation. The whole point of "PDF file" is that it's perfectly innocuous without an understanding of the surrounding context. With real-time audio transcription increasingly common, even livestreamers have to do this to avoid getting hit with automated bans or deprioritization.
What is PDF file a euphemism for? That was the only one in the original post I couldn’t figure out.
Porn?
a nonce
Ohhhhhh.
There is a long history of euphemisms taking over - one day we may say "unalived" as a perfectly normal replacement for "killed", just as we don't call bears "arkto" or "ursa" any more, we just euphemistically call them "brown things", i.e. "bero" in protogermanic hence "bear" in English.
I've never heard anyone on youtube or on a podcast use terms that referred to the Nazis without directly calling them Nazis, and it hasn't had an effect on their monetization. I wonder what kind of media you're consuming that put you in contact with people who would use euphemisms for this sort of thing?
I've seen youtube videos with the nazi swastika humorously censored with a $ monetisation sign. Are all those people doing this unnecessarily?
Exactly which platforms will penalise namedropping Hitler varies and it varies by circumstances, but this is a real thing as far as I can tell, on tiktok and also on YouTube videos algorithmically flagged as "intended for children" (regardless of whether they are or not).
There's a huge button where you can set a video as being child-friendly or not. I don't understand :P