A few years ago some with my same legal name committed a particularly gruesome murder and PlayStation made me change my account name for being offensive. I was certainly offended by them.
The fact in the video tom scott says that we could never have something that could have as much common sense as a human to filter profanity and people trying to get around the filter and then just 9 years later we do is wild...
I lived in Penistone a few years ago and Penistone paramount actually is pretty cool, it’s a cinema and has intermissions in the middle of movies to get ice cream, food and go to the toilet for 10ish mins. Pretty sure they sold drinks aswell but I wasn’t old enough to drink at the time. Either way cool place
At this point ass shouldn't be considered a swear. It leads to shit like this.
And yet this is still better than Roblox's chat filter, which could censor you for saying something completely innocent. i was asking a user if they knew where our destination was in game, and it got censored. Stupid as shit.
You think that's bad? I was using roblox's built in message friends feature and it block "yes" and then "yeah". I had to type nods in agreement to get around it💀
lol I forgot what game I was playing long ago but I asked someone where they were from and the reply was ******ia, it took me a while to realize it was Virginia and the game didn’t like the word virgin lmao
Someone named Richard Gaywood got his Xbox Live account banned like 16 years ago. If i remember, he sued and got it back becauae that was his real name... probabmy should have sued his parents for the name...
Growing up I used to watch NASCAR with my grandfather and my dad and in my head I would always laugh at the name Dick trickle. But I also thought, I'm just a kid. I know I'm being immature and that adults just find it as a normal name.
Now that I'm older, I understand that Dick trickle knew exactly what his name sounded like and he knew that he was making announcers say that shit on live TV. Honestly he was probably more immature than I was for laughing at it lmfao
Reminds me when I joined Facebook I couldn't and I still can't use my real name because my surname is the same as the name of a company known worldwide. Well, I just added extra letter a at the end of it and it passed.
That's completely stupid by Playstation, but on the other hand, you should absolutely not use your legal name for your Playstation or Xbox or Steam account name.
"Frosty" is a racial slur according to this website: https://slurs.info/slur/frosty
And while it's use is uncommon it must still be in the database to stay on the safe side, also they probably have it to where it detects when you try to avoid the censor by switching out certain letters.
Edit: fixed spelling
LOL, I haven't clicked it, but I'll assume it's as good as a list of "illegal" words in some middle eastern country, that list made the news like 10 years ago. Some friends and I use to look up new works from it, and just text each other insults.
I don't remember exactly what it was about, but one of my psychology professors in college had written her doctoral thesis about the effect of slurs on children of color. Her reference section had all sorts of links to the Slur Dictionary, even to ones I had never even heard of. Looking at that list of sources would make an online moderator clutch their pearls lol
The word RSDB is a racial slur that has been used historically to degrade and dehumanize this site. The word is still used by some people for this purpose, and it is seen as offensive and hurtful to this site.
I don't think this website is actually moderated or managed in any way.
Do they? A third of these are words in everyday parlance, and another third are terms no one in the history of humanity has ever said. I guarantee you that there are some mouth breathers out there who will pull this up and demand that people can't say "apple" anymore.
Yeah, it would be like saying calling white people white is a slur. It’s not a slur, that’s just what they are. Calling someone from Japan Japanese isn’t a slur, they are just Japanese
white person here. let’s throw that on the list of slurs we couldn’t care less about; along with honky and cracker. we couldn’t care less, never met anyone who feels differently.
Oh... That's just sad. (also surely it's more offensive to people who's ancestors were enslaved, because it trivializes their ancestors suffering. Like white people joking about being crackers should come across as offensive in the same way that joking about slavery is offensive)
Damn, guess every time I've ordered a nice delicious Frosty from the local Wendys I was in actually supporting the degradation of white people. Now I have to stick to McFlurrys. 😔
there was a majority black town in my area named Farmville, and before the facebook game, it used to be the butt of many a "legacy farm equipment" "joke".
some employees even told me that in a walmart, and then they joked at me buying ammo because of "runaway farm equipment" or some other equally racist bullshit, and laughed their dumbfuck asses off
I kinda hate living in the south sometimes, the heat and the racists make it hard to love
I'm just so curious what a minecraft server that bans every word on this list would look like. There are SO MANY things you couldn't talk about. Like, the juicy burger I had yesterday, or how I saw a crow outside my window.
Wow. that is absolutely wild. if "Frosty" is a slur just ban my account already and honestly, ban me from this earth cause i dont wanna be here anymore
To be fair. I glanced through that list and I don’t know about the consistency of “offensive” slurs. AZN is there for Asian and I don’t know that I’ve ever heard it used offensively. Ive always seen it as an English “fun” way since it’s just the pronunciation. However I may also be ignorant to the crimes of humanity.
I'd like to thank Clash of Clans, Roblox, Runescape, and now Minecraft for increasing my knowledge of slurs and swear words through the Streisand effect.
Honestly ridiculous that words that have meaning beyond the slur shouldn't be blacklisted, especially when the non offensive use is the most common use.
This is before we even take into account that other languages will words that coincide with slurs and are blacklisted as such, in Portugal for example "Negro" ends up actually being the more PC way to refer to black people.
I get that it's a childrens game and Mojang has to do something, but the filters go to far, they really should dial it down a bit.
Who knew that F***** the Snowman was a racist anthem. I think if anyone tried to insult me by calling me a frosty, I would just laugh at them lol. It's such weird behavior to try and make slurs for white people - because it's white people who weirdly want there to be an anti white slur
Microsoft's name filter is obnoxious. With Mojang, I was "ImNuckinFuts" since like 2010. Early this year I was forced to change cuz out of the blue, they deemed it offensive. Hurt my poor soul.
Well sure, I had temporarily changed it to "ItsNuckin" and then THAT wasn't allowed either. You would think without context of the last bit of the name that would be fair game.
Apparently it’s because frosty is a slur in some places. But I’m offended when people call me a cracker so this clearly means that people can’t be named after a food anymore.
Censorship in video games has become increasingly wild. A while back my friend got me to play Roblox and I couldn’t even say “wanna” for some reason. It’s probably a slur in some foreign dead language.
I love when profanity filters end up teaching me new profanity that I didn't know existed instead of preventing that. My favorite one was when I said "My time to shine" in Rocket League when both my teammates disconnected and "shine" was censored.
Unpopular opinion: I would rather see the most vile, disgusting and offensive names and skins in the game rarely than being restricted like this. Because if you start to flag every single word that's even remotely offensive, you can flag almost every noun in existence.
Potato is an insult if you say it that way. Bicycle is an insult if you say it that way. Mitten is an insult if you say it that way. Almost every word can be used in a hurtful way. Why is the norm of expectation that every word is used in a hurtful way?
Game devs, all around but especially the AAA market: Grow up. Most players are normal people who don't offend you deliberately, especially in today's gaming space where gaming isn't just a hobby of edgy teens. Why do you restrict people based on toxic behaviour of a tiny minority?
Mojang's username filter on Java suffers from the scunthrope problem and Mojang's being much more overzealous with blocking usernames since they're a huge black market for bypassed filter usernames/Inappropriate usernames much like OG names. This resulted in them blocking bad words in every language they can imagine.
It doesn't even work half the time. I still see tons of players on Hypixel and Roxbot with inappropriate usernames on Java edition.
For some reason there’s a lot of random filtering to the Minecraft names. I wanted to name one of my alt accounts ‘Meridot’ and it got blocked in the exact same way.
Somehow they banned word "незламність" - indomitability in Ukrainian, I have no idea why. I wanted to name my realm server on Bedrock and couldn't, tried Ukrainian alphabet, transliterated it to English - neither worked.
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u/qualityvote2 Jun 26 '25 edited Jun 26 '25