Why are profanity bleeps so freakin' LOUD?

Factual Questions
1

Is there any specific reason, in this day and age of digital production, why profanity bleeps in TV shows are so much louder than the surrounding dialogue? It’s not as if it needs to physically drown out the profanity; the bleeps are added in post-production where they can just replace the cursing with the bleeps.

I’m asking this after another night of getting no sleep. My wife and I live in a townhouse apartment, and there’s no bedroom door. Just an upstairs and downstairs connected by a staircase. So I’m upstairs trying to go to sleep, and my wife is downstairs binge-watching reruns of police reality shows. I have the window A/C running, and a white noise machine, and a YouTube “sleep music” video running. My wife adjusts the TV volume to where the regular dialogue is a low, barely-audible background murmur that blends in nicely with my relaxing sounds.

And then as I drift off to sleep, there’s a sudden, extremely loud barrage of bleep-bleep-bleepity-bleeping-bleeps jolting me back awake. These bleeps are louder than my wakeup alarm on my cell phone!

(And yes, I realize that high-frequency sound “cuts through” everything else, but these bleeps are genuinely much louder than everything else.)

2

Depends on the show. Some do bleeps, some just cut the audio, some play any number of there sounds over the bad words. Now, why does that one show do it? That’s anyone’s guess. Artistic choice, maybe?

3

It’s so incredibly annoying on On Patrol Live. Sometimes it will literally be minutes of almost nothing but constant LOUD bleeping. And I know they could simply mute the audio because they do that whenever someone says their identifying information.

4

Do they perhaps consider that swearing adds drama, and it is therefore in their best interests to make the censorship noticeable and loud?

5

There is nothing anyone could say on TV that I would find more offensive than those damn bleeps.

I wish they were encoded so you could turn them off and hear the original audio. It could be a feature on television sets, kind of like how closed captioning is.

6

My favorite sound effect for covering up profanity is the dolphin one, heard occasionally on some YT videos.

7

Sometimes it is.

(Video is a creative censoring of a children’s song.)