Fun with Autocensors: Difference between revisions

 

Like more conventional censorship, this can lead to the [[Scunthorpe Problem]], if the autocensor is designed to look for the prohibited string within longer strings.

 

* At least one [[LEGO]] fan board replaces all swear words with "Megablocks".<ref>''Mega Bloks'' are a [[Brand X|similar, competing product]].</ref>

* Worth1000.com automatically changes "hell" to "[[Place Worse Than Death|New Jersey]]".

* The [[Starflyer 59]] fan messageboard at sf59fans.com copies Jason Martin's set of [[Unusual Euphemism]]s: "shit" becomes "shin", "fuck" becomes "eff", "damn" becomes "D", and so on.

* The forums of [[Grand Chase]] typically replace more offensive profanity with the phrase "Fire Bolt!" which is one of the character's abilities in the game.

** Also on said forums, typing "[[Image Boards|4Chan]]" will give you a [CENSORED] tag, [[Take That|typing "In Soviet Russia" will give you "I am not funny"]], and "Oblivion sucks" will turn into "The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion is the best game in the universe".

* One ''[[The Sims]]'' fan forum replaces most swear words with "kleenex". It caused [[Scunthorpe Problem|a few problems]] early on, such as a "kleenex sword" in a post about medieval weapons, so the admins removed a lot of words with non-naughty meanings from the list. Forum regulars so rarely swear, though, that some people have posted for years without knowing there ''was'' a filter. (Those who ''do'' know about the filter will often [[Unusual Euphemism|type "kleenex" themselves]] on the rare occasions they feel like swearing.)

** Among other words censored are fork (which the mods eventually changed their minds about) and hot tub (changed to "swamp"). In guilds, apostrophes are often, but not always, censored. The icing on the cake? TVT, a nickname for the board mods (stands for The Viacom Team, expressing displeasure at the fact that the site was bought out by Viacom), is now changed to "my socks".

*** The [[Crowning Moment of Funny|funniest]] and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|best]] example was when TNT decided to do a grand [[Take That]] at ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'', wordfiltering Twilight into [[My Little Pony]], Stephenie Meyer into [[The Simpsons (animation)|Krusty the Clown]], Bella Swann into Clara Chatham, Edward Cullen into Roxton Colchester III, Jacob Black into Jordie, vampire into Xweetok, werewolf into Werelupe, and at least one of the actors from the movie into [[Totally Radical|Nick Neopia]].

* ''Truth And Beauty Bombs'', formerly the ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'' forum, had a number of humorous filters. "ladies and gentlemen" became "cats and kittens", "blowjob" became "lingering kiss on a CRAZY part of the body" and "cock" became "rooster OR reproductive organ (context permitting)". And, as a pun on the word 'filter', "saltwater" became "desalinated, potable water".

** The "suitably humorous alternative" to 'lol' -- "This cheese is burning me!"—then became part of the forum's vocabulary. Posters will write "The cheese really burned me today" for a particularly funny strip, or "My cheese is lukewarm."

** Another set of filters included the word "filters", replaced with "cheesegraters". And replaced any instance of "also" with "ALSO YOU GUYS:". If you decide to ''actually type'' "ALSO YOU GUYS:", you end up with [[Department of Redundancy Department|"ALSO YOU GUYS: YOU GUYS:"]].

** Even odder, although perhaps due to prior overuse, the expression "Meh" now expands to "I take umbrage at your previous assertion but cannot be arsed to respond appropriately."

* Certain Imageboards do this on purpose and censor words that aren't actually offensive while not censoring the offensive words. This leads to things like turning "7" into "over 9000", "femanon" into "cumdumpster" and "peanut butter" into "niggers". For a while "source" was wordfiltered to "sauce".

** The LURKMORE wiki has [http://www.lurkmore.com/wiki/4chan_Wordfilters more information] on the 4chan word filters.

** [[Fark|Fark.com]] filters "first post" to "boobies", which has become something of a [[Memetic Mutation]].

<nowiki>***</nowiki> Word_of_God was kicked from #christian by SageRider (Please dont Swear)

&lt;Abstruse&gt; I know I'm never going to be able to come back in this channel again after this, but damn was it worth it to see that...}}

 

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