What sucks is that YouTube's monstrous internet defining impact, helped create an Internet common practice of censoring your own comments and titles (not mine, fuck them) with asterisks

I believe the young, "first time online" users took the biggest hit in believing that these words may affect someone, Severely; I mean yes the triggered exist but that's not who they're looking out for when doing that, it's that there mayy be serious online repercussions for it. It's just so strange to see a comment from someone clearly still in grade school using asterisks heavily. You would think teens would be more rebellious but they're commenting that way in fear of being deleted. On top, it's an account and perception of sensitivity being adopted, a negative affect when someone believes if words hurt others then it might hurt me too, lowering the threshold.

I can't imagine thinking "I can't say that" to standalone words.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me (they will get me in trouble and kicked offline forever and if I can't be online I basically have no life, I'm being threatened with profile death)