I have a few captioned gifs with words proper gentlemen would most certainly not use. They're not directed at the viewer or anything, they're just used expressively. Specifically these: Spoiler: Naughty Words Yea or nay?
I like how you hid them. Nope not curse words. The c one and the f one are the only ones I would use sparingly. Unless it's the mf one, that's like a term of endearment in my eyes. Wouldn't use around pre teens but after that all goes.
I'd like to think "naughty words" is something off this day and age and no matter how hard you try to prevent it, kids will still learn them early on, I dont ever hear kids use the swear-words I used as a kid, it's all grown up stuff now. Ocassionaly I'm amazed when I hear a kid say "chips" instead of sh1t.
General rule of thumb is - avoid casual use of it, but you're not going to get in trouble for an expressive use of language. Worst case - you might be asked to remove it. Unless it's clear you're doing it to cause trouble, or promote some supposed anti-authority agenda, it's fine. My general rule is just try and keep language as welcoming and engaging as possible to the widest possible audience. I save most of my swearing for socio-economic rants on my Facebook feed with close friends.
Don't come to Australia if that sort of language bothers you. That and worse are part of the vernacular.
Does casual include humour? There were only two videos on youtube of that clip, that was the highest quality. Besides, doesn't the content make up for it?
Aspect ratio, as in it was stretched in a way that made it more "narrow" left to right, and too much "taller" up and down. I think that GIF could have been stretched after captured, by stretching it farther "left and right". Would have reduced quality slightly but fixed "ratio". Because quality of GIF matters, and "vulgarity and censorship" doesn't. GIF makers make great content like response pictures, and censors just "remove content" and never create content.
The program I use is supposed to autodetect youtube videos but it has never worked and I never bothered trying to fix it. So I just manually select the video, which obviously won't be perfect.
My general rule of thumb (and good manners) is don't use it unless the entire thing loses impact without it (and there's no better way to say it). There aren't many times that rule actually passes muster, so in general, even as fond as I am of swearing, it is still mostly a linguistic crutch.
