>>145518
>I started researching internet self-censorship
Have you found anything related to >>143018 san's (he is me) thoughts on modern internet puritanism?

As examples, I don't think the games "Game of the Year: 420 Blaze It" or "Five Nights at Fuckboys" can be made today without someone raging about morality and ethics. More significantly, I don't think there's a chance something like "The Filthy Frank Show" or "Corpse Party" can be released today without an absolute flood of insults or calls to censorship.

There's also the growing trend (not widespread, only seen it in internet cesspools such as TikTok, TwitterX, Reddit and YouTube comments) of replacing words with "safer" alternatives: grape, corn, soup on the side, goon; along with the classic "n-word", "r-word" and of course "ahh". I have no idea if the last one is self-censorship or just some strange turn of phrase I'm unfamiliar with.

In addition to the reasons proposed in thread, I suspect the spread of Rule 8 stuff over 2021-2024 into the mainstream internet is related in some way. I get the strange disconcerting feeling that some time in the near future, there will be a televised ad containing a "wojak" or *oomer variant. I have no idea what the implications of this are.

>>145520
I think "ahh" is just retarded inbred niggers so high on drugs that they can't pronounce "ass", and retarded teens that mimic rappers

Alright, i'll try to reply to both your posts, but i'll have to use my berserker rage, as Chris Claremont might narrate it

>modern internet puritanism
>I suspect this may be caused by either the migration of insane tumblr users to the wider internet after the sitewide ban of pornographic content, or the influx of "new?" users
The first thing i believe is that it's not really moral prudeness. At least not as we conventionally recognize it.
I believe this trend started on Tumblr, as counter-culture to the edgyness that followed the 2000s silly irreverence. 4Chan, for example, used their in-jokes to poke fun or subvert a topic, but still based on traditional views of what's tabboo, while Tumblr harvested the people that were directly opposed. To illustrate: In 4Chan you could have "traps aren't gay lol (why would anybody think that)" while in Tumblr the average user might directly be against homophobia.
The Tumblr mindset grew partly out of the whole anti-SJW movement being butthurt about them all of the time, and the flourished with the Twitter migration

All of that said, i believe this neo-puratism starts from a place of legit concern and avoiding to be offensive (trigger warnings and such), gets propped up by reactance to the edgelords and then grows deep roots due to cancel culture and YT drama. Towards the end of the 2010s drama and cancel content (God, i hate that word) put forward the idea of internet judging firmly on the table. Suddenly internet personalities clashed with each other not necessarily on moral principles, but just generally on dislikeable behavior, and it was clear from the turn on public opinion, clout (Hate that one too) loss and, in the most notable cases, public apologies that came after that this was a tangible instrument of the public opinion. It is no coincidence either, i think, that during these age of "reaction", "drama" and "commentary" youtubers, the word cringe started to take off. There was an ambient of peer judgement. In hindsight IDubbz's Content Cop series might ironically have been the most contributing to this, since at the time it was seen as one of the cool guys doing it.

Notice how things like "not a good look" or "It's unhealthy" is not a direct damnation to the poster they're replying to, but rather, rely on letting the digital bystanders know that they don't approve of what their seeing. To this you could add how people now (Of my generation. I'm not going to pretend to be an 0ldfag) tend to have less barriers between their online activity and real life, but i digress


>Replacing words with "safer" alternatives
This is was i was researching in the first place. The short version is that it started as a way to not trigger people on Tumblr. In McCulloch's book there's an Tumblr post quoted explaining why it wasn't of any use in the first place, since all it did was bypass wordfilters and it's not like it's hard to decipher what f*ck means.
Nowadays, unalive, seggs, PDF File and such are ways of working around censorship algorithms. I have a whole script talking about all of the above and ranting over people bending over, letting their vocabulary be dictated by a program meant to appease advertisers, however, this post has gone long enough

>>145531
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Gura's REAL face revealed!

as a loli artist im more worried about getting doxxed and fired from my job by sharty than i am of annoying queer teens on twitter

I stopped caring about what's happening on the western internet a long time ago, I can suggest you do the same for peace of mind. They are common people bound by morals

>>145574
saem
ive had more fun on the net in recent years sticking to japanese circles and image boards like this. never going back, the modern world is no fun

>>145574
>>145576
I don't mind being insulted or pestered by idiots on the mainstream internet, but I am way more paranoid about stuff like >>145570 says. One thing I've learned on the internet is to never underestimate the power of a horde of dedicated autists/retards with too much free time on their hands. (e.g. capture the hwndu flag, cat torture video manhunt, training camp geolocation, "weaponized autism"). Doubly so if they fervently believe that their actions constitute some form of justice or righteousness (e.g. reddit bomber misidentification, thin rose quartz, needle cookies, InquisitorGhost).

If, for whatever reason imaginable, 100-1000 internet weirdos decide to go on a moral crusade, I am afraid of the extent of what they are able to achieve. Of course, a good majority are probably keyboard warriors who won't do anything beyond text and image spam, but I am particularly worried about the few who wouldn't hesitate to resort to doxxing, swatting, actual home invasion etc. I can't think of a way to mitigate something like that once it happens.

It's a major reason why I don't think it's a good idea to give out personal details online (Isn't that a piece of wisdom from the 90s?), though I wouldn't be surprise if they could somehow track people down using metadata, IP addresses or some other hidden detail dug up after hours of searching.

>>145570
If you don't mind me asking, where do you usually post? and do you have any identifiable information on your account (e.g. banking details for commissions, IRL photos of anything, email addresses)?
That's usually how they can find your dox.

100% dox-proof guide
1. Don't post any personal info online. This includes things like: the state you live in, the exact temperature/weather where you live, any kind of photos even if exif data is scrubbed, details about your past that could be identifiable like "in 6th grade everyone called me the energizer because I shoved a AA battery in my foreskin".
2. Always use a VPN (preferably a free one so there's no money trail) or Tor at all times. If a site blocks all the good free VPNs and Tor (4chan for example) that means it's run by feds or fed collaborators so why would you even want to post there. If you really want to you can find proxies that aren't b& yet to chain with your VPN to post on sites like that.
3. Be as anonymous as possible. Be aware that filename patterns, your interests/fetishes, all sorts of posting habits including how you grammatically structure your sentences, etc. can help greatly to identify you.
4. Never phonepost. Only fags use iOS or android.
5. You can post believable details about yourself that aren't true to throw off any present or especially future doxing attempts but be aware that this is lying so God and Jesus may send you to hell for breaking one of their ten commandments.

>>145589
i have two accounts, one where i post loli art which has no link to any of my other work/my other work doesn't link back to my loli account. i'm worried people would connect them based off of a similar artstyle tho. my public account has links to emails and i follow some irl friend artists who aren't as paranoid as me so worried i would get doxxed by association.

>>145592
Heyuri blocks tor, does not mean this site is run by feds? (;ﾟ∀ﾟ)

>>145592
Wat does 4. have anything to do with piracy???

>>145660
Sorry, I mean privacy

>>145660
he doesn't know

>>145622
>i'm worried people would connect them based off of a similar artstyle
The only time I've heard of something like that happening is with MikeInel/Manyakis. If all else fails, you can use different artstyles for each account.
I have tried doing something like that by tracing, but I am lazy.

>some irl friend artists who aren't as paranoid as me so worried i would get doxxed by association.
I guess that depends on how likely they are to snitch on you, which I hope isn't that high.

I'm still pissed that we lost one the greatest porn animators of our time because of a retarded s*yjak moral crusade, these were the same people who would spam real life photos of dead babies btw