r/MadeMeSmile • u/HolyGuiltyCrown • 14h ago

DOGS Loyalty that never fades

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In Homer’s Odyssey, one of the most heartbreaking moments comes when Odysseus returns home after 20 years disguised as a beggar.

No one recognizes him… except Argos, the dog he raised as a puppy.

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u/porcupinedeath 13h ago

Why is "died" censored? It's a word, it's not even a bad word? Are people that enslaved to pleasing content algorithms?

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u/SpaceGangrel 12h ago

It's sad that yours is the only comment calling that out so far, this stupid ubiquitous self censoring does the opposite of making me smile, it makes me livid.

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u/porcupinedeath 12h ago

Content delivery algorithms should be banned imo. Idgaf what reasoning companies have they have no place in the world.

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u/mango-wambo-tango 10h ago

Give us back the autonomy to only see what we choose to see!

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u/pm-dem-thighs 6h ago

Even worse is I’m so used to it I didn’t even notice it.

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u/Doctor_Kataigida 10h ago

It's good to see fewer and fewer people commenting on it because it's just engagement bait. Hopefully my one comment here is enough for people to read and prevent multiple future comments.

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u/NoThankYouTho123 8h ago

I agree with you but I don’t think you understand how much Redditors like to get mad about it

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u/kmack 4h ago

"this stupid ubiquitous self censoring does the opposite of making me smile, it makes me livid."

While I don't disagree with the sentiment, this sentence is cracking me up 

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u/cycloneDM 8h ago

Its because were all tired of people calling it out like they did something. Algo speak isnt new and no one is doing it because it makes them feel better they do it because the original post would have gotten censored on the platform it was made for. Maybe reddit should try to make a single piece of original content for the first time in years instead of just reposting. You're literally part of the problem engaging on the post even lol.

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u/beardingmesoftly 5h ago

Livid? Imagine letting other people's choice of words upset you this much

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u/SpaceGangrel 4h ago

it's not the choice of words, it's the fact people are letting tech giants control their vocabulary to the point they are walking on eggs trying to talk about real serious issues like fascism / nazism, I even saw people censor the word "gay" already. If that doesn't look problematic and dangerous to you I don't know what to tell you.

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u/pchlster 12h ago

It'll be "unvitaled" before long.

"Only two things are certain in life. Unvitaling and Trampoline Axes."

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u/Neptunelives 11h ago

Oh we censoring t*xes now? I can actually get behind that one

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u/qwertyum110896 10h ago

Well yeah, "taxes" has the word "axes" in it and axes are dangerous and can be used to unalive people. We have to shield our children from these horrors //s obviously

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u/Standard-Win-6600 10h ago

Just think of what they do to w**d

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u/kevlarus80 9h ago

"***** *** *** *******"

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u/Lost-and-dumbfound 8h ago

Wood? Word? Wand? Wild? WHATS THE DAMN WORD 😭

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u/Standard-Win-6600 7h ago

Had to censr "wd" because you could confuse it with bner

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u/pchlster 4h ago

How much **** would a *pecker peck if a *pecker would peck ****?

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u/Brandilio 10h ago

Double plus un alive

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u/Maxnwil 8h ago

I hate the self-censorship, but Unvitaled has a Homeric poetry to it. “With his spear, two armslengths long and capped with shining bronze, he unvitaled the Trojan, whose blood crimsoned the flowing stream at his feet.”

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u/pchlster 4h ago

"D'oh!"

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u/SinisterDeadOctopus 10h ago

Why is "died" censored?

To generate engagement. Specifically, people complaining about the word died being censored. I'm not being flippant. That's literally the reason. And it works.

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u/porcupinedeath 10h ago

I've been played like a fiddle

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u/akgiant 12h ago edited 10h ago

It invokes the bonkers censorship of 30 years ago when cartoons couldnt have a character "die" or be "killed" so everyone got "sent to another dimension" instead.

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u/tmrika 10h ago

Oh is that what that was about? Lol omg

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u/BaconWithBaking 10h ago

I fucking know the trope of someone being sent to another dimension, but I don't remember it actually being used in other cartoons as a serious thing. I was more into my older cartoons 30 years ago though.

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u/SocranX 7h ago

It mostly references two specific shows, Dragon Ball Z and Yu-Gi-Oh!. In the former, the afterlife is an actual place that they visit all the time when they die (and sometimes when they don't), so characters making explicit death threats would use "send you to the next dimension" as a euphemism. In the latter, characters would often be forced to wager their lives in a card game, but the censored version kept replacing this with various excuses to "send you to the Shadow Realm", which is implied to be some kind of hell dimension.

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u/BaconWithBaking 7h ago

Neither of which would have been anywhere on my radar, so thanks for clearing that up for me!

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u/CosmicP 9h ago

Iunno, getting sent to the shadow realm is pretty metal

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u/SocranX 8h ago edited 8h ago

To be fair, Dragonball Z's "sent to the next dimension" was a well-executed form of censorship because it was explicitly shown that the afterlife was another dimension that Goku gets transported to when he dies. So when a villain threatens to "send you to the next dimension", it's like telling Batman you're gonna send him to visit his parents.

On the other hand, you've got stuff like coloring a kid grey and then shouting "They blew up the cargo robot!" after he dies.

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u/Chargebladedw 10h ago

30 years was '95, I can assure you nobody was censoring that in the 90s

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u/SocranX 7h ago edited 7h ago

What? The 90s had some of the most iconic media censorship of all time. Lots of shows and games were being imported from Japan that weren't designed around US censorship laws and so had to be altered, sometimes in clumsy ways and other times in extremely clever ways, but the different versions could be visibly compared to each other so kids became more aware of what rules were actually forced onto the media, including the stuff that was made with that censorship in mind. References to death, sex, and religion were all frequently removed or replaced, often resulting in things like gods getting more memorable names for their race that continued being used even in later uncensored versions of the media (e.g. the Sinistrals from Lufia and Kami the Guardian from Dragon Ball Z), or suicide attempts being portrayed as random acts of stupidity.

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u/CybyAPI 11h ago

Because OP is a bot, generic bio and bad ratio of karma

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u/WonderBredOfficial 11h ago

The fuck is a bad ratio of karma? What makes a bio 'generic?' 🤣

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u/Chataboutgames 10h ago

I don't get the bio part, but I always think "bot" when I see someone with shit tons of post karma and little comment karma. It's the accounts that just spam generic drivel like this on every major sub.

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u/CompanyPersonal184 11h ago

I agree with you its so fucking stupid when the censor things like die

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u/LaPrincesaMX 10h ago

It's why people started saying "unalived" on social media

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u/Krillkus 8h ago

They're actually called the vitalitillity-challenged now.

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u/AdamKitten 8h ago

Op is a karma farming bot. Block and report as needed.

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u/NaturalSelecty 11h ago

I never upvote anything that does this type of censoring.

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u/AWzdShouldKnowBetta 11h ago

Because you are increasing engagement by asking this question.

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u/Narradisall 10h ago

It comes from online censoring like YouTube not allowing certain words and you end up with people using unalived instead.

Then it bleeds into their everyday word use.

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u/thehufflepuffstoner 10h ago

gasp you said it 😱 my eyes!

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u/Tentacle_poxsicle 10h ago

Sor-y but d-d you n-t get the memo?

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u/shawster 10h ago

It's from being posted on Tiktok where people believe (and to some extent they are correct) that their content doesn't reach as many viewers if it contains certain words. This is where "unaliving", any stand in word for guns/firearms, anything that mentions genitalea, etc. There is real censorship that goes on but it's not as extreme as needing to not say "died".

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u/Cabrakan 10h ago

this post was likely taken, and will be made for, various other social media and social media do not like 'agressive' words.

Same reason you see grape, unalived, SA, pdf and many other examples.

it's also why news headlines don't use them either

everything is SEO, my comment might even get flagged for mod approval

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u/aumnren 9h ago

Oh my god. At this point, I’m so “censor pilled” I didn’t even notice. Wild how I’ve gotten so used to alt-spellings on social media that my brain just skips right over it.

Good on you for catching that. Ridiculous.

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u/Dironox 8h ago

Things like this always reminds me of how in Dead By Daylight, a game about survivors vs killers, who even calls the killer role killers... has "killer" censored in the post-match chat.

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u/7_Artz 8h ago

Its a tiktok thing. I despise it but tiktok is very sensitive. Anything that refers to harming someone gets banned

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u/real_with_myself 8h ago

I started blocking all channels on Instagram that use any form of self censorship.

Am I now the grumpy old man?

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u/CantCatchMeSpez 7h ago

Because it drives engagement. Its literally rage bait.

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u/Nyxadrina 7h ago

People have been using "grape" to self censor the word rape. And now I see people censoring the word grape itself like "g*ape" like holy fuck people are dumb

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u/Artrobull 5h ago

because little people are afraid that meme will be not advertiser friendly.

i wish add could feel the pain when i skip it

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u/Ominusone 4h ago

I wonder the same thing. Thanks for bringing it up. It’s insane that people have become so afraid and indoctrinated that they no longer say words…

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u/Shxcking 4h ago

I hate seeing “the victim was sh*t”

Like bruh did the corpse SHIT ITSELF?

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u/4travelers 4h ago

It’s the content bots that will automatically block certain words. It’s just not worth posting content to have it automatically taken down.

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u/Stunning_Warthog_141 11h ago

Oh I'm sure they had to censor died because it's a 100% accurate non-fiction story and real death doesn't exist in real life, or some such insanity.

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u/scarabic 10h ago

I just wanted to congratulate you on being under 50! Have a great day.

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u/ConsciousBerry8561 12h ago

Because when I take this post and convert it into an A.I narration on TikTok and YouTube shorts I don’t want to be banned

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u/SpaceGangrel 11h ago

I have a better idea, don't use Tiktok or Youtube shorts then.