I Was Rereading My Previous Post About The TikTok Censorship Culture/thing, And It Made Me Wonder What

I was rereading my previous post about the TikTok censorship culture/thing, and it made me wonder what part of it isn't actually censorship, but in reality the algorithm doing it's thing.

I mean, it's already known how flaky and unreliable the TikTok censoring is at times, and also known that the algorithm on TikTok can get really specific, too.

So if that's the case, who's to say that the censoring "trend" isn't just people engaging more with the censored content, which then pushes more censored content to those people?

Who's to say that it isn't because they use those censored words in comments/videos, which is then picked up on by the app, and then has the algorithm show more content using that language to them?

Watch time could also be a factor since TikTok also picks up on that. So if a word like "rape" makes a person uncomfortable and scroll as a result, then that could also affect it in one way or another.

I don't know lmao maybe I'm just reaching, or this is a really obvious thing I'm realizing only now.

Love yall proshippers for just existing. Gave me a space to explore my taboo fantasies without feeling guilty or just outright suppressing them, which has made me a lot happier and healthier.

This one goes out to all the proshipper homies. Love yall and this community (platonically) so much.

So, let me get this right:

Being attracted to fictional serial murderers is okay,

Being attracted to fictional terrorists is okay,

Being attracted to fictional monsters is okay,

But being attracted to fictional children is wrong?

Hm, noted.

Update on this: I'd commented on a TikTok just yesterday where the creator was talking about how censoring on TikTok is stupid, and how it waters down the situations that are actually going on.

The comment I left on the TikTok featured words such as kill, rape, and porn without any censoring, and I have yet to receive any warnings about it.

Maybe it has something to do with the app picking up on the words used in certain contexts ( fx. threats, ) but you can certainly say them in some cases either way.

I was rereading my previous post about the TikTok censorship culture/thing, and it made me wonder what part of it isn't actually censorship, but in reality the algorithm doing it's thing.

I mean, it's already known how flaky and unreliable the TikTok censoring is at times, and also known that the algorithm on TikTok can get really specific, too.

So if that's the case, who's to say that the censoring "trend" isn't just people engaging more with the censored content, which then pushes more censored content to those people?

Who's to say that it isn't because they use those censored words in comments/videos, which is then picked up on by the app, and then has the algorithm show more content using that language to them?

Watch time could also be a factor since TikTok also picks up on that. So if a word like "rape" makes a person uncomfortable and scroll as a result, then that could also affect it in one way or another.

I don't know lmao maybe I'm just reaching, or this is a really obvious thing I'm realizing only now.

Honestly? I don't think they want to be taken seriously, or at least don't care about it. Antis strategy seems to mainly be harassment, shame, and vigilante attacks from what I can tell. Sure, sometimes they ( mass ) report stuff, but none of their actions seem to show them professionally dealing with the presumable predators ( fx. they mass report which can clog systems, they harass the predators which can have them attempt to delete evidence/run, etc. )

Even if law enforcement and platforms are unreliable, and systems to get actual predators dealt with is shit at times, their actions still do more harm than good by fx. messing shit up for law enforcement that are actually doing stuff by making things more messy/chaotic, having people harm themselves due to their harassment no matter if they're innocent or not, etc.

I doubt they actually care about getting predators behind bars with how they act anyway. Their actions more so says they want to harm people they find disgusting, all the while hiding behind the "protecting the kids" argument, rather than do actual good for the world.

Either way, what I'm trying to say is that antis usually seem to prefer to harass and/or "own" people they believe to be predators, rather than want/care about seriously dealing with them in the best/least messy way(s) possible.

Just saw a person in a TikTok comment section with all the "proship" emoji combos. People were saying to check the person's search history and hard drive, but in the same comment section replies the person said they only use all the combos to mock proshippers.

Idk I just find it kinda comical that antis didn't even stop to think "hey, maybe this person using 6+ proship emoji combos in their username is trolling" which ended up with the emoji combo person being harrassed by, like, 10+ people if not more.

I just want to say thanks for your blog! It's not usual to find stuff like this!

It's no problem, really! I mean, I literally just like to yap for most of my post, sometimes partake in the selfship stuff by either reblogging posts or making my own imagines, and also like to keep the balance between discourse talk and positivity/acceptance.

Like, personally if I partake in too much discourse, then my mental health start to decline, even if I only stay on the proship side of things. That's kind of why I tend to reblog/post positivity, too, every now and then.

Though I do wonder what you mean with "not usual to find stuff like this," since from what I've seen there's a good handful of blogs like mine. Idk maybe I'm wrong lmao.

My best guess is that you're referring to the proship/pro-kink/pro-para positivity and/or the fact my blog is selfship and proship at the same time, since those are decently rare I think? Idk feel free to elaborate/correct me or not, anon.