• TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world
    262·
    2 months ago

    I feel like it’d just give you pictures of happy couples doing SFW couple things or old dudes at pride. Even with safe search off, it’s not like the phrase is explicitly pornographic. In my experience, you need to be very direct to get NSFW stuff in general from Google.

    Maybe I’m just deep into the queer community, but this meme feels like it was made by a person who sees homosexuality as inherently taboo or lewd. Kinda stale tbh

    • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
      17·
      2 months ago

      Yeah I checked, very wholesome old men in rainbows or posing as couples. A few shirtless.

      Pornhub gives different results so im guessing this is for straight guys searching Gary Oldman there.

      • Psythik@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        What search engine did you use? Cause if you search Bing, and go to the image or video results with SafeSearch off, you get exactly what the meme expects.

        But to be fair, everyone knows that Bing is for porn.

    • barsquid@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      You just get back that little meme of the gay uncles who have the same shirt pattern and it’s a pleasant moment to reread.

  • popemichael@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    Back during the late 90s era of internet, I got into a MASSIVE amount of troyble over a finger slip in a high school computer lab.

    We were all assigned an African country to write an essay about. We had to only use internet cited sources.

    I was assigned a country with the Namba people. Somehow I fat-fingered an “L” in there in the worst places. (Between the ‘b’ and the ‘a’ - don’t google it)

    It triggered my school’s search filter. Altavista got involved. It was a nightmare.

    The police got in contact with my parents, thinking I was being groomed and in danger of kidnapping.

    It sucked.

    • Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      21·
      2 months ago

      For those that want to know what it is, but dont want to risk searching:

      ____

      North American Man/Boy Love Association

      Fucked up organization, but not really all that scary to search

    • Reyali@lemm.ee
      13·
      2 months ago

      My parents ran a business named my last name and owned the respective reyalilastname.com domain. In the late 90s, my dad had a page on his site with widgets of the top 6 or so search engines. It was a great place to easily jump between Yahoo, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, etc.

      I was in the computer lab with my 6th-grade class kicking off some research project and recommended this page to my teacher who suggested it to all the students. That’s when I learned some classmates didn’t know how to spell my last name, and that removing 1 letter from my last name went to a porn site.

      My name is nowhere near anything profane. It would be like McKenzie > McKenie or Saunders > Sanders. Literally nothing that would make you think ‘porn.’

      The teachers didn’t notice, but several classmates asked me wtf my parents did. I was an awkward, nerdy kid who hadn’t accepted yet that I would never be popular and I believed providing a really good tool like that would help me achieve the popularity I craved (yeah, helping people do better on their class assignments was what I thought would make me cool—no wonder I wasn’t popular!). I remember feeling that hope just draining from my body as the misspelled page started popping up all over the computer lab.

    • konalt@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 months ago

      I thought I knew where this was going when you said “African country” and “finger slip”.

    • xav
      1·
      2 months ago

      TL;DR: NAMBLA, it sucked.