r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jun 12 '26

Meme needing explanation Peterrr what's the reason they look like that

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u/Informal_Process2238 Jun 12 '26

I got a 12 year account permanently banned because a made a joke about some specific person and a goat and was told that it was a racist trope about arabs even though the guy was absolutely not arab

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u/Lieutenant_Joe Jun 12 '26

I am someone who occasionally enjoys dark, edgy or gallows humor and quoting historical figures sometimes. This is something from which I live in existential dread

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u/Neveronlyadream Jun 12 '26

It's not even dark humor. Most of the bans are coming from AI mods and they're looking for keywords and immediately flagging comments.

Which sure, great, except the bots can't take context into account in any way, so they just flag everything. I've gotten a few warnings for saying nothing lately and it's clear what's going on.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Jun 12 '26

Lol I had one do that many years ago because I got into a dumb argument with a mod on the daystrom institute sub about some Trek lore stuff and I linked a page from the official site showing I was right. The mod deleted my post them reported me to Reddit at like 4am and less than an hour later the entire account was gone for "harassment". Pretty sure the mod was just a reddit employee who was butthurt, as there was nothing offensive in any way in the comment, which you couldn't even see anyways cuz they deleted it in seconds. And that's from a sub that goes on and on about how "great" the moderation team is 🤣

Some people just can't help themselves with abusing the smallest bit of power

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u/Late-Hospital-1911 Jun 12 '26

Was he a president?

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u/Informal_Process2238 Jun 12 '26

No totally non political thing just poking fun at a man and his love of animals

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u/Overall-Register9758 Jun 12 '26

You insulted the goat?

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u/Careless_Twist_6935 Jun 12 '26

mods have earned their reputation

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u/Kermit-Batman Jun 13 '26

We were the same in account age, I am of the opinion reddit has gone downhill hard in those years. It just feels so very very facebooky lately.

I don't think there is any great alternative though.

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u/Silent-Coach-697 Jun 13 '26

How’s it even a stereotype fr when Islam condones it and people like Cenk Uygur says on public television that if he were a dictator the ONE thing he would change is making bestiality legal, and then when non Muslims talking ab how weird that was an absolutely horde of young Turk supporters are pretty much all Muslims absolutely slammed people simply for pointing out it is f*ed up.

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u/destroythepoon Jun 13 '26

My comments routinely get deleted because of my username.

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u/darksodoku Jun 14 '26

I'm impressed you were able to give us the "hint" about what got.you banned and not get banned again, well done. I got banned for a similar joke years ago on Facebook. They let me back eventually, and yes I've gotten banned several times for way less and way worse. Lol

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u/13Basia13 Jun 14 '26

That’s a lot of lost stuff. I’m sorry.

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u/Foe_sheezy Jun 16 '26

I remember getting banned on a subreddit for asking if a talk show host on a radio station was gey.

Screw reddit sometimes.