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I recall lots of unicode obfuscators were popular turning letters to similar looking symbols to bypass filters/censors when the forum/websites didn't filter unicode and filters were simple.

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Or before that, remember 1337? :D

Leetspeak (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet), and similar things obfuscating letters with numbers/ punctuation/ symbols (or subsequently, obfuscated with Unicode or lookalikes).

Now experiencing a renaissance on YouTube et al. to legitimately refer to terms like murder, suicide etc. which will typically get a channel or user demonetized/banned/blocked by internal search engines/etc.

Exactly. So many words are being "censored". As if "k*ll" does not make us think of "kill" or something. I do not see how it helps or solves anything. It is absurd to me.

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