• the_itsb (she/her)
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      1 year ago

      Obsolex? Xbsolete? Obsolexence?

      It’s kinda hilarious how just adding an X in randomly makes it seem dirty somehow. Is this just an American thing, all English speakers, or is there something inherently naughty about letter X??

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        1 year ago

        I think it’s just from x-rated and xxx content but I don’t even know if they’re real ratings or just porno industry marketing, I suspect marketing.

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          It’s a real rating with an interesting history. I especially appreciate the fact that Robocop had to be edited 10+ times in order to qualify for an R rating from the MPAA, which I learned from the Re-View episode by Red Letter Media. The X rating was then changed to NC-17 in 1990 to decouple it from the use in the pornography industry as a marketing tool as you said. The Wikipedia article on the history is quite good if you’re interested.