Bleep censor

A bleep censor is the replacement of a profanity or classified information with a beep sound (usually a 1000 Hz tone) in television and radio. It is mainly used in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Japan. Due to its high frequency and sounding out of place among speech, many people consider it annoying.

Bad Qualities

1. It's so annoying because of its high frequency and sounding out of place among speech.
2. Many people prefer to watch uncensored content over the ones with censor bleeps.
3. There are some videos on YouTube in which there are not targeted at younger viewers but censor bleeped so just because you censor bleep a swear word on a YouTube video, doesn't mean it's 100% family friendly, which just makes these censors completely pointless.
4. The 1000 Hz tone sound effect is overused in many pieces of entertainment media where swearing is censored. (Like YouTube videos, TV shows, etc)
5. Bleep censors can be an insult to people who support free speech.

Good Qualities

1. Sometimes, It can help YouTubers who are facing demonetization. Examples of YouTubers who use censor bleeps in their videos include Linus Tech Tips, HowToBasic, Dawid Does Tech Stuff, etc.
2. Sometimes in numerous Kids shows, some episodes which included profanity has been censored with something more unique to preventing the children to say the bad word, like in the SpongeBob season 2 episode: Sailor Mouth and the Baby Looney Tunes episode: Who Said That?; This bleep censor has been replaced with Dolphin sounds and squeaky sounds, giving them a unique censorship.
   • The Powerpuff Girls used various animal sounds like dogs barking, cats meowing, pigs snorting, etc.
   • The Amazing Digital Circus has hilarious cartoon sound effects as their censors.

Comment

Loading comments...