I've been noticing a trend of people talking around things in their content warnings. "A certain rich asshole" "That wizard game" etc.
Please don't do this. This isn't TikTok you can say fuck shit die kill cunt on here without consequence and nobody is namesearching Elon Musk to argue with you about him.
The purpose of the content warning is so people can filter out the post! But using euphemisms you are evading those filters and preventing the tag muffling feature from working for people who have filters set up.
It's also just confusing. Sometimes I actually don't know what your euphemism refers to and so I actually don't know what I'm going to get when I open your post. I'd rather you write it in as explicit language as possible. "A photo of my cunt" is a better content warning than "A certain pink thing ;)"
Thank you.
Much like Mastodon keeps rediscovering: if you try to self-censor things, you only ensure that people who have a specific thing filtered out will instead see your post, containing content they were trying to avoid.
This is not a place of algorithms and autoban systems. Use the actual words so people who have a problem with the content can avoid it and the rest of us don't get confused by which specific thing among all of the world's many trashfires you mean.