It’s fucking dumb

The whole reason Gordon Ramsay became TV famous is because some Americans saw his UK Kitchen Nightmares show, where he swears like a normal adult scotsman, and were like “OMG HE’S THE SWEARING CHEF HE SWEARS SO MUCH THIS IS RAUNCHY COOKING TV”.

That being said. Americans invented the word motherfucker.

Because the Dutch let the puritans escape, now we all have to deal with their pearl clutching.

Semi-related, but it’s so disrespectful for true-crime YouTubers to be going “PDF File” and “Unalive”. Why are you trying to sugarcoat this? It’s a crime?

Im assuming this is in reference to yt

But the thing is that americans actually swear a lot in normal conversation, and we hate YT’s draconian laws around it just as much as anybody else

I feel like this post was written by someone who saw how Americans can get about the word ‘cunt’ and assumed that that’s how they are about every swear.

There are things American culture has legit hangups over, like sex and nudity. But I don’t know anyone who has a serious hangup about swearing.

I’ve encountered plenty of people who *pretend* to care about swearing, but really what they care about is controlling people with less social capital than them.

That’s what advertisers are. They’ll pull advertising in YouTube videos because somebody swore in first 7 seconds, but if there was a Quentin Tarantino movie where a guy whose only line was him saying 17 racial slurs in his 38 total seconds of screen time, advertisers would crawl through broken glass to make sure he was holding a Pepsi while he did it. 

It also seems generational even in America. I’m not aware of anyone who cares who isn’t at least a decade older than me.

There’s this idea, I guess, that too much swearing is “bad for advertisers”. I don’t know if most of the audience really gives a shit.

I think the nature of swearing in America is heavily connected to its taboo nature, as if they weren’t taboo then they wouldn’t really be swears anymore. The censorship is a whole other problem, but on a definition level I feel like swearing IS as taboo in other countries, but the definition for swearing is a little different.

Edit: ok to clarify my argument I don’t mean that swear words in American culture don’t exist in other cultures, I just mean that swears that WE consider to have a certain level of severity might not carry the same severity in a different culture. That doesn’t change the word itself, but obviously the word will be treated differently in both cultures, and one culture treating it as taboo while the other doesn’t isn’t actually an indictment of either culture. Sure, Irish people use much more colorful language than in the US, but that’s a direct result of those words not meaning the same thing/having the same impact in both cultures. Words like “damn” and “crap” would still probably technically count as swears, but they’re very clearly not very taboo to say. Words exist on a spectrum of offensiveness, and that spectrum is wildly different for each language within each culture.

Oh great, another post that has a completely unnuanced, generalized take about the US. Because we don’t have enough of those yet I guess?

people are just as weird about swear words in russia if that makes you feel any better

… Ignoring that a HUGE amount of current euphemisms and such to get around swearing comes from *TikTok*

>I don’t know a single country where swearing is as taboo as in America

I get the feeling (as I’m from one of those wonderful countries with limitlesss capacity for inventing new swears and Insults) but I’m afraid England is much worse, they almost shat the bed in the 80s when people started swearing on the radio.

Uh, a little extreme with the end but hey I’m all for getting to call people fucking morons.

Because most of them are, myself included.

Americans don’t care at all about swearing. It’s the algorithm.

Victorian children were smoking and drinking cocaine mercury cough syrup. They would be fine with Pepsi.

god forbid an australian says cunt…

You have clearly never seen early 2010s Polish youtube, when most youtubers censored swear words with a loud eagle screech.

Polish does have a swear scaling system though.

– Kurwa – Definitely a hard swear word.

– Kuźwa – Kinda a swear word. Adults would not censor it but kids could get in trouble for saying it.

– Kurde – The kid friendly swear word. Has the same use cases as kurwa but kids are allowed to say it without trouble. Adults also use it for minor hangups.

– Kurczę – Literally “baby chick” that kinda sounds and looks like the above words. But it’s babified to the point of being ironic.

Most youtubers would be in Kurde level, rarely in Kuźwa.

In America, it’s like a swear word or a titty is going to scar young lives irrevocably, but violence (including first-hand experiences of deadly violence in the classroom) is a-ok.