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Blood, heat and TikTok's filters: how MIRA censors your captions

Fiction is full of words a platform filter does not like. MIRA ships with a list of them and disguises each one automatically, so your hook still reads.

Thrillers have bodies. Romance has heat. Fantasy has wars. The words that sell those books are often the same ones TikTok's filters react to, and working out how to write around them by hand is slow. Rosse listed it as one of the three jobs MIRA took off her plate.

What MIRA does

  • 235words in the built-in list
  • 100extra words of your own

MIRA keeps a built-in list of 235 words and phrases, from blood and kill to drunk and good girl. When one appears in your post, MIRA swaps some of its letters for look-alike characters:

  • A → @, E → €, I → !, O → 0, U → #, S → $, T → 7
  • plus accented letters such as ç, ñ and ÿ

On the slide, blood becomes Bl00d. Readers still read the word. The filter sees something else.

You stay in control

  • Flagged words are disguised in the preview and in what you post. Uncheck one to show it as written.
  • Add up to 100 words of your own (2 to 40 characters each) in Settings: a character's name that trips the filter, a slang term from your series.
  • On the slide, your own words get the same readable swap. Only a word with no letters to swap, like an acronym, turns into asterisks there.
  • In the caption, your own words are hidden with asterisks.
  • Your list also applies to the posts your Buckets send.

A quick check before you post

Read your hook out loud as a reader would. If a key word is disguised, make sure the line still makes sense at a glance; if it does not, rewrite the hook around a different word rather than switching censoring off.

Spend more time writing.
Less time figuring out what to post

MIRA turns your book into TikTok posts and keeps them going out while you write.

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