by filter frank August 9, 2021

Visibility Filtering, or VF, is a doublespeak term for shadow banning. It is the act of reducing the amount of views a post gets on social media by the company that owns the platform. Examples are: blocking searches of individual users; limiting the scope of a particular tweet’s discoverability; blocking select users’ posts from ever appearing on the “trending” page; and from being included in hashtag searches.
“Think about visibility filtering as being a way for us to suppress what people see to different levels. It’s a very powerful tool,” one senior Twitter employee told us.
by bitcoingraffiti December 14, 2022

The exhaustion that hits when you can’t tell if anything online is real anymore: faces, food pics, even sunsets. It’s when the endless stream of filters, edits, and AI touch-ups makes your brain tired of decoding what’s authentic.
Bro, I didn’t even swipe on Tinder tonight. Total filter fatigue. Everyone looked like they were generated in a lab.
by GuyWhoWritesDefinitions September 2, 2025
