He Is Going to Tell My Fucking Mom - Comment #6,279,857

blurring out the bong makes some of these pictures more suggestive than they actually are, or is that just me…

Yeah, my first-glance inference was definitely something other than a bong.

That seems to be legit the case

Thank god their omniscient panopticon apparently never clicks any links then, I suppose.

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Has anyone ever floated the idea of KYM using crowd funding or something similar?

Not sure but seems like very select sites/publications have been able to successfully pull that off. All I can say for sure is the internet has become increasingly censored over the last few years due to the ridiculous demands of advertisers and the companies that serve them to sites, so we aren't happy about it either but we have to play the game … sorry you guys, I hate it too.

If only there was a way to tell the advertisers to STFU

I wish but most sites need them to survive, same for us, unfortunately. The real solution would be to get it through their thick skulls that people aren't gonna associate your brand with UGC, but that's unlikely to happen.

If anyone is curious to learn more about this BS, this is a pretty good article that goes into detail on some of the advertiser shit every site like us is dealing with.

Admittedly, I've never participated in anything crowd funding, Patreon or whatnot. It just seems unsecure. Though, I think that if this site were to start taking user donations to stay afloat and on a mission, I'd have to change positions on that. After all this time it kind of feels like my internet home, though I fear there is poisonous mold creeping through the moist drywall.

TikTok has blown censorship standards to h*ck

This mentions sentiment analysis algorithms. Are they actually hand-reviewing sites for things like drawings of bongs though as opposed to just running automated scans of text?

reminds me of the inverse of Irida's debut in Arceus where she was blowing on a flute :3

didnt kym had some merchandise store or something like that?
the other option ican think of is promotote adblocks so if no one see any ads, advertisers get fuck all money, but they still pay the site cause the ppl in charge barely know what 'an internet' is….
i know 99% of internet will die but the only reason we are he is because an asteroid killed the dinosaurs,
just a matter of time for forums and blogs to return after advertisers leave cause everybody adblocks

sentiment analysis is a text thing, not an image thing.
specifically, it tries to determine the mood and general topic of the text.

it's apparently not quite the same system as what determines 'brand safety'
(it sounds like the 'brand safety' one involves a lot more chained if statements? can't find any screenshots of the interface though)

that said, I do remember youtube having an ai to scan thumbnails for metrics related to demonetization. If advertisers use something like that, this article (nor any others) don't seem to mention it.

The brands do seem to be darn sure about people not liking products if the ad is next to something bad, though… There's one report about that here, though it costs $50 so I can only look at places reporting on it, and then there's a harris+doubleverify report that's not anywhere and just says to contact the people who ran the poll.

though they do seem to be aware that they're being overly sensitive about detecting stuff, so that's good news I guess