Fun with Autocensors: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) m (spelling fix) |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 32: | Line 32: | ||
** 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." |
** 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". |
* 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". |
||
** "Wapanese", a slur for [[Occidental Otaku]], was once wordfiltered into "[[Perry Bible Fellowship|weeaboo]]". This substitution became so popular it ''completely supplanted the original term.'' |
** "Wapanese", a slur for [[Occidental Otaku]], was once wordfiltered into "[[The Perry Bible Fellowship|weeaboo]]". This substitution became so popular it ''completely supplanted the original term.'' |
||
** The LURKMORE wiki has [http://www.lurkmore.com/wiki/4chan_Wordfilters more information] on the 4chan word filters. |
** 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]]. |
** [[Fark|Fark.com]] filters "first post" to "boobies", which has become something of a [[Memetic Mutation]]. |
||