It's still legible though. I think it's leas for the sake of modesty than just maximizing reach in the algorithm of whatever social media it was reposted to. An image-to-text algo would probably not register the marked word(s) to then mark the post as vulgar or 18+, and then show it to fewer people because of that. I see it all the time in posts mentioning Palestine, which started when it became apparent that those kinds of posts were being suppressed.
Along the same lines, sometimes something silly like a hair is edited into the image. I've always assumed this is to prevent it from getting caught by content-recognition algorithms, which would mark it as a repost and either remove or de-rank the content.
Seems the hate is better directed at the algorithms that make this worthwhile than the reposters frustrating those efforts to sanitize everything by putting a non-destructive mark on the content.
The vast majority of the time it would take a couple of seconds to just uncensor the words. There's no need to keep the censorship, anyone here could easily do it.
... modern day stipper/porn star names got nothin' on these, goddamn.
This is, to me, the same level/kind of funny as that Japanese baseball game from the 80s, with the hysterical attempts at coming up with American baseball player names.
Dita von Teese wrote the foreword to R. F. Johnson's "Working Girls" which features pictures of - mostly female, mostly dressed - brothel workers, taken in 1892 by William Goldman.
I like this photo in particular, it seems so weirdly un-1800s-like:
It is kind of fun trying to guess whether some of the names that could be gender neutral today would have been back in the day.
Like I am guessing Buffalo Jo is short for Josephine, and Dutch Jake is definitely a man, but Fatty McDuff and The Carson Banger could go either way depending on their sense of humor.
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PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 293d
What workers?
A "s__ worker"?
Someone help, it is literally impossible to read this post with the giant censor bar.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 37 pts · 293d
modus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 292d
Bro chill out. You can't just go and say dirty words on the internet like that.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 293d
I think it's Sas worker .... someone who gives you sas
or they work for the British SAS (Special Air Service)
snooggums@piefed.world · 24 pts · 293d
SAAS: Sex as a service
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 293d
I'm not a fan of censored memes, but they are becoming common and I'm far too lazy to hunt down uncensored ones or fix the ones I find
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 293d
Steel worker
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 293d
we work hard, we play hard
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 293d
Gotta be Shrek worker. Shrek is heavily censored in some part of the world because the movie is too woke.
s@piefed.world · 4 pts · 293d
SΘX worker is the clear answer based on what we can see of the letters
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus · 3 pts · 293d
although this one look like some just wanted to get through filters which use crappy OCR, at least they left everything readable
fartographer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 293d
There's a post?
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 56 pts · 293d
Stop censoring normal fucking words. OP didn't obviously do it, why do reposters feel the need?
Phegan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 292d
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 0 pts · 292d
The image could be from somewhere else with shitty rules
causepix@lemmy.ml · -4 pts · 293d
It's still legible though. I think it's leas for the sake of modesty than just maximizing reach in the algorithm of whatever social media it was reposted to. An image-to-text algo would probably not register the marked word(s) to then mark the post as vulgar or 18+, and then show it to fewer people because of that. I see it all the time in posts mentioning Palestine, which started when it became apparent that those kinds of posts were being suppressed.
Along the same lines, sometimes something silly like a hair is edited into the image. I've always assumed this is to prevent it from getting caught by content-recognition algorithms, which would mark it as a repost and either remove or de-rank the content.
Seems the hate is better directed at the algorithms that make this worthwhile than the reposters frustrating those efforts to sanitize everything by putting a non-destructive mark on the content.
spechter@feddit.org · 1 pts · 279d
That's the free speach you've got over there? One naughty word having any Christian fundamentalist blush and you get cut off.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 39 pts · 293d
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 34 pts · 293d
It'd be nice to ban any memes that are censored.
Flamekebab@piefed.social · 22 pts · 293d
I would heartily support that. The Fediverse should take a stand against this advertiser-friendly bullshit.
snooggums@piefed.world · 11 pts · 293d
That would cut down on the number of memes available, since the sources are often censored.
I think we should require someone posting a censored meme add additional censorship to make the message appear more potentially offensive.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 11 pts · 293d
Im all for covering the censorship with worse words
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 293d
if you're not going to put in the time to add a nice set of grawlixes, why censor at all?
M137@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 292d
The vast majority of the time it would take a couple of seconds to just uncensor the words. There's no need to keep the censorship, anyone here could easily do it.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 293d
If someone is somehow so inept that they can't uncensor a meme then they have so serious issues.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 293d
I'm with you, but our meme community is already so sparse and limited compared to larger platforms that I'm not sure we'd like the results.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 3 pts · 293d
Nah microblog memes is doing just fine without a few memes.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 293d
I downvote them. If enough people agree to do that then people will probably start making the tiny effort it takes to uncensor the memes.
Boppel@feddit.org · 26 pts · 293d
the gerties 💀
4th gertie is going to be disgusting gertie
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 293d
5th gertie is golden gertie
Yankee_Self_Loader@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 292d
*Gross Gertie
de_lancre@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 293d
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 292d
How could you leave out Cotton Tail?!
TheBlindPew@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 293d
I wonder what clientele Sappho tended to service 🤔, guess we'll never know
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 293d
Friends and roommates only, I guess
OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 293d
...can we talk about Kidneyfoot Jenny, or do you think they were just trying to differentiate between her and Mexican Jennie?
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 293d
Clubfoot I'm guessing
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 292d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 293d
Same Jenny, just QT never notices anything above the calf.
S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 293d
Wide-ass Nellie! I like them thick!
mtpender@piefed.social · 11 pts · 293d
Built like a Pixar mum!
Klear@quokk.au · 17 pts · 293d
SEX
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 293d
Holy shit, these are all amazing.
We're only missing Long Dick Johnson.
"The Chinless Wonder."
"Dog-faced Kitty."
"Fatty McDuff."
"Few Clothes Molly."
... modern day stipper/porn star names got nothin' on these, goddamn.
This is, to me, the same level/kind of funny as that Japanese baseball game from the 80s, with the hysterical attempts at coming up with American baseball player names.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 293d
He wouldn't be President for another 70ish years.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 293d
Ah, good 'ole Lyndon "Flop my cock out at the urinal to intimidate other politicians" Johnson.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 293d
why Long Dick Johnson when you could have Dong Lick Johnson
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 293d
It's a New Vegas reference.
He had a really long dick, hence the name.
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 293d
Ah yes, Sappho the nice friend of many women of the town
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 293d
I'm obviously "Grizzly Bear" but I might be "German Muscle Woman" for the right price.
$20 went a lot further back then.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org · 14 pts · 293d
1800s furries?
Furbag@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 293d
Between them and Squirrel-Tooth Alice, I hope something doesn't awaken inside of me.
And by something, I mean a venereal disease, because it's too late for me to not be a furry.
de_lancre@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 293d
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space · 14 pts · 293d
Dita von Teese wrote the foreword to R. F. Johnson's "Working Girls" which features pictures of - mostly female, mostly dressed - brothel workers, taken in 1892 by William Goldman.
I like this photo in particular, it seems so weirdly un-1800s-like:
::: spoiler slightly nsfw
:::
boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 293d
The virgin eh?
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 293d
They got their nickname for being really bad at sex
snooggums@piefed.world · 12 pts · 293d
It is kind of fun trying to guess whether some of the names that could be gender neutral today would have been back in the day.
Like I am guessing Buffalo Jo is short for Josephine, and Dutch Jake is definitely a man, but Fatty McDuff and The Carson Banger could go either way depending on their sense of humor.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 293d
Idk but I'm spending the night with the chinless wonder
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 293d
What the hell is the sexual appeal of a Dog-faced Kitty?
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 292d
They can't all be 10s.
Nellie the Pig, Noseless Lou, German Muscle Woman
Who would you marry, fuck, kill? Go.
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 292d
Marry: German Muscle Woman
Fuck: Noseless Lou
Kill: Nellie the Pig
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 292d
I can respect it.
pizza_the_hutt@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 293d
I needs me some of that Hambone Jane.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 293d
A lot of these would work for Garbage Pail Kids, too
gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 293d
Three-tit Tillie
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 293d
Her great-great-great-great-great granddaughter ended up working on Mars
bvoigtlaender@feddit.org · 6 pts · 293d
You mean Erotikon VI?
csolisr@hub.azkware.net · 7 pts · 293d
Big Bonanza sounds like the name of a restaurant for big eaters, and know what I'm all for it
csolisr@hub.azkware.net · 4 pts · 293d
Also, guess we'll have to give a shout out to Cottontail the NSFW voice actress and VTuber cottontailva.carrd.co/
csolisr@hub.azkware.net · 7 pts · 293d
Also also, how long can an adult performer go with the stage name "The Virgin" before it becomes false advertisement?
Triasha@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 293d
It's like wrestling. You know it's not real but you play along anyway.
atomicorange@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 293d
She only does anal
cornshark@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 292d
Maybe it just means they're a virgo?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 7 pts · 293d
Now I have to fire up WWE to see if "The Virgin" is one of the names you can actually have the announcers say... 🤔
If I can, I'm making a Discord mod wrestler cuz I need more Heels for my custom federation.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 293d
Three-tit Tillie?
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 293d
Velvet Ass Rose is mine, mine alone!
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 292d
Only about 3 or 4 male-ish sounding names on here, so I guess Leo the Lion. But I refuse to wear the lion as anything other than a belt!
edinbruh@feddit.it · 4 pts · 293d
What's the deal with Rotary Rosie?
BobbyGasoline@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 293d
She's a spinner.
edinbruh@feddit.it · 2 pts · 293d
... What?
BobbyGasoline@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 293d
She spins, like a top.
bestagon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 293d
Grizzly bear would be a fun irony for me I think
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 293d
The Dollop did an episode on Squirrel-Tooth Alice.
https://youtu.be/Kz5EG7zvFzg
Dingleberrydipndots@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 293d
This is as real as.... as other stuff that people is made up.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 293d
Tit-bit, Fatty McDuff, lol
wuffah@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 293d
No love for Nellie the Pig?
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 293d
I wanna be known as the big bonanza
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 293d
I'm already on the list. Actual name and fairly accurate description.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 293d
Big nose Kate or Sappho
TisI@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 293d
Tit bit.
Successful_Try543@feddit.org · 2 pts · 293d
Dörty Görtie and I'm guitarist in a glam rock band with the same name.
toeblast96@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 292d
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 293d
Kidney foot?
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 0 pts · 293d
Probably a clubfoot