Is it consensual or not? π€
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2026
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What kind of creatures is he holding?
Looks like maybe hermit crabs or snails. Snails might be likely, I know I've seen mine make piles similar to this when several decide it's time to make another egg sack.
How would you like it, if some giant suddenly picked you up while you're having a shag? Rude.
New Kink Unlocked!
The Power of the Sex, in the palm of my hand
Clean ver
thank you for actually sending an uncensored one instead of just bitching about it! I have edited the post
I didn't know you could modify the whole post! TIL
And no worries, I do see a lot of folk complain and I figure I can just go and hunt for a replacement instead of grumble π
Hate the people that comment about censorship instead of engaging with the post. Top 5 comments(besides yours) are about their inability to read through red lines.
Every single time there's a line in any word of the text, even when it's clearly engagement bait, the top post is about it. Like bro idc let me go to the actual commentary of the post, it's so annoying.
* clutches pearls *
Dirty ver
You just accidentally a whole word
ITS. I WAS
I all these clinging onto! Is this?
It is.
self-censorship on social media is getting ridiculous
What gets me is like why are people upvoting this shit here? Most of these posts the top comment is complaining about the censorship yet these posts get thousands of upvotes.
Typically I won't vote on the post because it doesn't warrant a downvote imo (but the censorship usually annoys me enough that I won't upvote either) and I'll upvote the comments clowning on OP for sharing censored bs on Lemmy.
With enough people like me, and some who do not care about the censorship, I can see how we end up in that situation
I upvote everything I see as a way to mark it. I'm trying to stop.
'cause most people don't care and just read the post
Maybe people who can look past the censorship? Or people who understand that the people doing the censoring will get in trouble on certain types of social media if they donβt?
Bots? On Reddit most of the meme economy was ran by bots anyway, so up or down voting didn't matter.
But here. I know we have bots doing posting of some memes. But are they doing voting as well?
If people are are ambivalent about the censorship, they probably also don't care that people are complaining about it. To me it's a mildly interesting quirk for an image to be self censored like that, but I'm also not going to downvote people who don't like it since I don't have any problem with their opinion.
Literally nobody told them to do it
Fuck ~~you and your~~ censorship.
send an uncensored version and I'll edit it
Good on you, OP.
SEX, THEY WERE HOLDING SEX
Stop sharing this self-censored bullshit! Weβre not catering to fucking advertisers here!
make an uncensored version and I'll edit it
It's probably already censored when people find it, and uncensoring it would probably be a pain to do well.
You can always just look up the tweet. There's already a clean one here in the comments.
I don't have a Twitter account
I don't either. I just searched google...
how? I went to the website and can't access anything at all without an account
No.clue. it came right up when I googled it. I just can't see threads of replies without logging in.
I worry about the internal conflict someone has to censor the word SEX.
It's healthy, something that should be explored (by consenting adults, lookin at you trump) at ones own pace and shouldn't be judged by others.
Cut loose, there's nothing wrong with exploring these feelings - whether it's for you and how much you want is really up to you but you shouldn't shy away from the aspect of yourself or feel the need to hide something the majority of the population does.
Come one, dude. Could at least censor 'ahh' and 'normal'? Kids visit this community.
Yeah exactly, ahh is zoomer censorship overcome slang for
ASS
so we should hide it on the internet
just block OP and move on
Wash your hand.
AAH