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this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2025
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Why the fuck would you censor "panicked"?
Welcome to corpo controlled internet, where you write within their guidelines, not where you freely communicate like actual people.
I believe that the persone who made the meme is just stupid
I mean even in corpo internet lingo where obscenity is censored... Panicked? Is panicked now negative enough of a word to deserve censorship? It's a crazy web out there
Lowest common denominator strikes again with ludicrously unnecessary censorship. Not even curse words or things like "suicide" anymore, just whatever drifts past their sights.
Its probably to avoid semantic analysis marking it as distressing or negative and deranking it for the target audience.
It probably triggered someone, somewhere, somehow, sometime and someone flagged it as an issue.
Engagement bait for other platforms that are engagement algorithm driven fishing for this exact kind of comment.
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Well that one mark ended up making 13 of the comments in just this comment chain alone. 14 including this one I'm making, on a post with 50 comments on it, over 20% of them. If this were any other massive platform like reddit or Instagram or Facebook, this level of engagement would drive algorithms extremely effectively.
Looks more like a stray markup made while editing.
Oh, I thought it read panfucked. Whatever that means.
It's like yelling "fire" in a crowded theater. Say "panic" on social media and suddenly everyone starts looting.