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      24 days ago

      It’s rage bait. Instant dislike.

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          24 days ago

          Yes, do you need the word defined? I instantly don’t like it even if I otherwise night have.

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            I know what that is, I want to know where it is here.

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              Censoring shit that doesn’t need to be censored (i.e. swear words, and more recently any word like “kill”, “died”, “murdered”, “raped”, etc.) is likely the cheapest form of ragebait. You automatically trigger a bunch of engagement through responses of “you’re allowed to say X on the internet”. Engagement = More views, so throwing asterisks or blurring random words is proliferating.

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                23 days ago

                Huh, interesting and surprisingly logical. I am way out of touch with the current state of tiktok, Facebook and I don’t know what.

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              I personally don’t have an opinion on this, but the implied tension is “Wild animals are not pets” and the woman befriending a wild animal.

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          24 days ago

          You’re good. Very good.

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              Ragebait is something said or written intentionally wrong to get people to engage by “correcting” it. A good example is a video where someone mispronounces a word most everyone knows. Another, which this is, is censoring something for no reason.

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                    23 days ago

                    I think if you were a bit more clear about this, that would have helped a lot.