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Apparently you can't monetize a YouTube video that says the word "kill", even in the context of educational videos about wildlife ecology. So you get serious e
by derefr 3y ago
Apparently you can't monetize a YouTube video that says the word "kill", even in the context of educational videos about wildlife ecology.
So you get serious educational content creators saying that a bird "un-alives" a fish.
- userbinator 3y agoIf only Orwell was still alive today.
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- jrmg 3y agoThis sounds like an urban legend.
- tourmalinetaco 3y agoI know true crime youtubers tend to avoid the word like a plague, so take that for what you will.
- bitwize 3y agoI've seen it myself. Casual Geographic does this a lot: https://m.youtube.com/@mndiaye_97 https://m.youtube.com/@mndiaye_97 The thing is, the phrase has an origin in a parody of censorship. In one episode of Ultimate Spider-Man, Spider-Man teams up with Deadpool. Deadpool, being fourth-wall-savvy and well aware that he is in an animated kids' show, talks rather frankly about his plans to "un-alive" the criminal they are pursuing. To which Spider-Man responds "Un-alive... you mean KILL him?!" Mr. Pool was applying standards and practices to his own speech that were common on 80s and 90s animated programs, in which characters obviously wielding rifles would assiduously avoid talking about killing or death. And now people are using his neologism to avoid being punished on a video platform ostensibly for adults primarily.