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Some late night TV show (Jimmy Kimmel maybe?) used to have a recurring bit where they'd find an innocuous photo and then blur out parts of it in a way that suggested that the original was naughty.

I can't remember more so I couldn't find a link to any examples, but I can't wait for somebody to set up a Twitter account documenting Google's unintentionally funny false positive blurs.



The is reminiscent of "Mormon Bubbling" [1]. Click the image gallery link on that page for a whole lot of examples, some of which are quite convincing.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mormon-porn-bubble-porn


I believe Kimmel's bit is "This Week in Unnecessary Censorship" where they bleeped and blurred various TV show segments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJVjuJHqR7U [censored nsfw, obviously]


Yeah, that was it. Thank you!


I've always considered this video the canonical example of intentionally misleading censorship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA


Sounds like a “the man show” bit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Show




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