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Many Internet forums have an automated censor feature, the intended purpose of which is to bleep out profanity. But in the hands of a playful admin (or a Well-Intentioned Extremist determined to keep the forum clean), the results of the auto-censor can get... interesting.

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. Compare Gosh Dang It to Heck!.

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Anime and Manga

Genvid's Sailor Moon forum censors "lol" with "rantipole."

Comics

The Talk About Comics forums will replace 'aroma' with 'Iron Maiden'; maybe because their music stinks. note bring this savage back home!!

Literature

The anti-Twilight message board Twilight Sucks has replacements for each individual swear word, such as "Bella" for cunt.

On Warrior's Wish, words get censored to types of fruit, so you'll occasionally get people saying something like: "What a grapefruit blueberry!"

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Live-Action TV

Rangerboard, the Power Rangers fandom board, once had "meh" filtered out as it was being overused, changing it to "gaygaygay". Which caused the word "sogaygaygayow" to keep popping up in every other sentence.

The Survivor Sucks message board censors seemingly random words, such as "tears", "dudes", "petition", "ipod", "heart" and a bunch of random others. No actual curse words are censored.

Music

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

Professional Wrestling

Professional Wrestling promotion CHIKARA had a wrestler named Chris Hero leave the promotion under bad terms that are kept very hush hush. On their official forums, "Chris Hero" is autocensored to "John Kerry". Fans get around this by referring to "a certain Heroic figure" or by using the name he was given once he signed with a WWE developmental territory, Kassius Ohno. They also censor the word kayfabe, turning it into "grape jelly." Chikara is also using the autocensor feature as part of an angle involving the shady corporation that (in-character) owns it. The words 'Condor', 'Titor', 'Conglomerate' and 'Conrad' are all blanked out by the autocensor.

The forum for pro wrestling fan site Death Valley Driver converts "gay" to "manly beyond my wildest expectations" and, oddly, "product" to "stuffing instead of potatoes". 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."

Toys

At least one LEGO fan board replaces all swear words with "Megablocks". note Mega Bloks are a similar, competing product.

Amongst other words, the Allspark Transformers board changes "fuck" to "hug". This, combined with the site's purple coloration, led to a small purple Micromaster called Road Hugger becoming the site's mascot.

Video Games

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Webcomics

Web Original

Some of the characters in Scary News out of Tokyo-3 are stuck behind filters that automatically go through their submitted posts and redact anything top-secret or remotely related to anything top-secret. Being on either end of this process can be a little infuriating. But, seriously, why does the Yossarian-22 keep redacting my name? What the hell is wrong with "Dr. Adam F. Black Moon "?

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Western Animation

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic imageboard Ponychan likes to ponify people's language (changing "everybody" to "everypony", etc.) as well as make some creative replacements for some of the more unsavory words. "Vagina" becomes "wahaHA!", "sex" becomes "marshmallow", "cunt" becomes "femoral artery" (a play on "female organ", perhaps?)... this amusingly led to new writer Natasha Levinger's sole credit on IMDb being changed to "My Marshmallowiest Mistake". Stereotypical chan-speak gets put through the ringer as well: "lulz" becomes "schadenfreude", "u mad" becomes "u currently experiencing the emotion of anger", "jelly" becomes "marmalade", and "waifu" becomes "phantasmal significant other".

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