History Main / BleepDammit

** In September 2020, [=YouTube=] began censoring most profanities in its automatic captions by replacing them with "[ __ ]", or in some cases, skipping them entirely (e.g. "What the fuck are you doing?" might be transcribed as, "what the are you doing"). [=YouTube=] officially stated that this was done in case the captions incorrectly transcribe a non-profane word as a profanity. While the censoring can be disabled, it can only be done by the ''creator'' of the video and ''not'' the viewer, and it has to be done individually on ''every'' video by unticking a box buried deep in the video's settings. As one can expect, almost nobody bothers to do this. Many hard-of-hearing users and creators have criticized this decision as ableist, as the censoring does not alter the video's audio. The captions' "naughty word list" is also questionable. Words that ''are'' censored include: "fuck", "shit", "bullshit", "bitch", "asshole", "whore", "slut", "midget", "retard(ed)", "spastic", and perhaps most egregious, "moron" and "cripple(d)". Words that are ''not'' censored include: "shitty", "horseshit", "shit's" (if it's detected as the contraction), "goddamn", "damn", "ass", "piss(ed)", "hell", "Gypsy", "pussy", and "dick" (understandable since it's also a male name). Despite "moron" being censored, any synonyms such as "idiot" and even "dumbass" are not.

* The Wrestling/UltimateWarrior's short-lived comic book, ''{{Comicbook/Warrior}}'', has him yelling [[http://www.i-mockery.com/comics/longbox14/pics/awaken.jpg F-F-U-U-C--]] at one point. (How the Warrior is capable of pronouncing the C and not the K can be probably attributed to his [[MartyStu near-divine skills]].)

* ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'' makes liberal use of this, despite that its creator is pretty much his own boss on the project. [[WordOfGod He says]] that it [[CensoredForComedy wound up being]] [[RuleOfFunny funnier that way.]]

* Howard Chaykin's ''Squadron Supreme'' series that followed up on J. Michael Straczynski's ''ComicBook/SupremePower'' continuity censors the word "shit" by rendering it as "$#!+".

* When the anime of ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' uses censor bleeps, they frequently bleep out only a single syllable of the word that's being said. It's clearly being done for the sake of comedy at times, such as when they bleep out the "P" in [[UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable PSP]], only to visibly ''show'' somebody playing a PSP with the logo completely in view on the back of it.

** In September 2020, [=YouTube=] began censoring most profanities in its automatic captions by replacing them with "[ __ ]", or in some cases, skipping them entirely (e.g. "What the fuck are you doing?" might be transcribed as, "what the are you doing"). [=YouTube=] officially stated that this was done in case the captions incorrectly transcribe a non-profane word as a profanity. While the censoring can be disabled, it can only be done by the ''creator'' of the video and ''not'' the viewer, and it has to be done individually on ''every'' video by unticking a box buried deep in the video's settings. As one can expect, almost nobody bothers to do this. Many hard-of-hearing users and creators have criticized this decision as ableist, as the censoring does not alter the video's audio. The captions' "naughty word list" is also questionable. Words that ''are'' censored include: "fuck", "shit", "bullshit", "bitch", "asshole", "whore", "slut", "midget", "retard(ed)", "spastic", and perhaps most egregious, "moron" and "cripple(d)". Words that are ''not'' censored include: "shitty", "horseshit", "shit's" (if it's detected as the contraction), "goddamn", "damn", "ass", "piss(ed)", "hell", "Gypsy", "pussy", and "dick" (understandable since it's also a male name). Despite "moron" being censored, any synonyms such as "idiot" are not.

** In September 2020, [=YouTube=] began censoring most profanities in its automatic captions by replacing them with "[ __ ]", or in some cases, skipping them entirely (e.g. "What the fuck are you doing?" might be transcribed as, "what the are you doing"). [=YouTube=] officially stated that this was done in case the captions incorrectly transcribe a non-profane word as a profanity. While the censoring can be disabled, it can only be done by the ''creator'' of the video and ''not'' the viewer, and it has to be done individually on ''every'' video by unticking a box buried deep in the video's settings. As one can expect, almost nobody bothers to do this. Many hard-of-hearing users and creators have criticized this decision as ableist, as the censoring does not alter the video's audio. The captions' "naughty word list" is also questionable. Words that ''are'' censored include: "fuck", "shit", "bullshit", "bitch", "asshole", "whore", "slut", "midget", "retard(ed)", "spastic", and perhaps most egregious, "moron" and "cripple(d)". Words that are ''not'' censored include: "shitty", "horseshit", "shit's" (if it's detected as the contraction), "goddamn", "damn", "ass", "hell", "Gypsy", "pussy", and "dick" (understandable since it's also a male name). Despite "moron" being censored, any synonyms such as "idiot" are not.

** In September 2020, [=YouTube=] began censoring most profanities in its automatic captions by replacing them with "[ __ ]", or in some cases, skipping them entirely (e.g. "What the fuck are you doing?" might be transcribed as, "what the are you doing"). [=YouTube=] officially stated that this was done in case the captions incorrectly transcribe a non-profane word as a profanity. While the censoring can be disabled, it can only be done by the ''creator'' of the video and ''not'' the viewer, and it has to be done individually on ''every'' video by unticking a box buried deep in the video's settings. As one can expect, almost nobody bothers to do this. Many hard-of-hearing users and creators have criticized this decision as ableist, as the censoring does not alter the video's audio. The captions' "naughty word list" is also questionable. Words that ''are'' censored include: "fuck", "shit", "bullshit", "bitch", "asshole", "whore", "slut", "midget", and perhaps most egregious, "moron" and "cripple(d)". Words that are ''not'' censored include: "shitty", "horseshit", "goddamn", "damn", "ass", "hell", "pussy", and "dick" (understandable since it's also a male name). Despite "moron" being censored, any synonyms such as "idiot" are not.

* Any clips of ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'' posted on Amazon Prime's social media (the platform that hosts the show), including ads, have hardcoded subtitles that censor all profanities, but the audio is left uncensored. The show's own social media does not censor anything in any form.

* One of the videos for Creator/DenisLeary's song "Asshole" has a video version of this. At one point the line is "I use public toilets and I piss on the seat". The audio is untouched, but at the point of 'piss', the video is the word 'BLEEP' on a black background (he wasn't demonstrating).

* "The Greenhouse" by Animals That Swim had a rather strange edit for its single release, the word "marijuana" was cut... yet unambiguous references to "pot" and "hemp weed", as well as a pun on "grass", were all allowed to stand. A PrecisionFStrike was also cut.

* In the Website/GoAnimate video "[[https://archive.org/details/youtube-n2wPpu07H4k Caillou Misbehaves at Amy's Baking Company and...]]", Amy and Samy's cursing is bleeped out due to the audio being taken from an episode of ''Series/KitchenNightmares''. However, everything Caillou says in this video is uncensored.

* While Website/YouTube officials have declared the site to be unsuitable for users ages 13 & under, they do not have restrictions regarding the use of expletives in the videos, but have warned that the stronger the language, the more likely they'll be demonetized & they won't monetize any video that intentionally uses them to discriminate against others. This means that despite these policies, any censored profanity on the site is '''all voluntary'''.

* A series of four Norwegian, humoristic Website/YouTube videos called ''Fauskeråneren''[[note]]Hard to translate. Fauske is a town in Northern Norway. "Råning" is a motor- and car-based subculture where the focus is driving rather than the actual vehicle.[[/note]] uses this as a RunningGag; the main character (a stereotypical råner (see the note) being interviewed) swears quite a bit, and the bleeping sound never manages to cover it.

* The official clean version of "7 Rings" by Ariana Grande censors "bitch(es)" the second time it's sung, but not the first time, likely because
"sad bitch" is often misheard as "savage", which the phrase is rhymed with during the next line.

* Spotify has no set standards on what merits a song being marked "explicit". Because of this, a song not marked "explicit" may still contain uncensored words like "shit" and "bitch", while other songs are explicit for including those words. This is because it is entirely up to the record label what is "explicity", with no say from Spotify itself. They used to have a function to report a song as explicit if it was not marked as such, but it was removed. For example, "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga is marked explicit for a few uses of the word "bitch", while "Boss Bitch" by Doja Cat, which uses the word far more often, is not. "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele is marked explicit for a single use of the word "shit" in the first verse that most of the general public misinterprets as "ship", while "Same Old Love" by Selena Gomez, which has "shit" in every chorus, is not.

* A growing trend among content creators on social media is having burned-in subtitles or captions on their videos. In many cases, the captions will censor profanities while the audio will be uncensored. Some creators have stated that content filtering algorithms will reduce the exposure of the video if it detects profanity or other non-profane "trigger words" (such as "die", "kill", or "abuse") in text, but said algorithms apparently do not detect anything spoken verbally in the audio, despite most social media platforms now having the option to create captions automatically from transcribing the video's audio. As a result, many creators won't filter their language verbally, but will censor or substitute bad words in their captions; one of the most infamous substitutes is "unalive" for the word "kill".

** In September 2020, [=YouTube=] began censoring most profanities in its automatic captions by replacing them with "[ __ ]", or in some cases, skipping them entirely (e.g. "What the fuck are you doing?" might be transcribed as, "what the are you doing"). [=YouTube=] officially stated that this was done in case the captions incorrectly transcribe a non-profane word as a profanity. While the censoring can be disabled, it can only be done by the ''creator'' of the video and ''not'' the viewer, and it has to be done individually on ''every'' video by unticking a box buried deep in the video's settings. As one can expect, almost nobody bothers to do this. Many hard-of-hearing users and creators have criticized this decision, with some branding it as ableism, as the censoring does not alter the video's audio. The captions' "naughty word list" is also questionable: "bitch" and "asshole" are censored while "damn", "goddamn", and "ass" are not. "Bullshit" and "shit" by itself are censored, but "shitty" and "horseshit" are not. Egregiously, the words "moron" and "cripple(d)" are also censored in the automatic captions, although similar words such as "idiot" are not.

** The episode "Le Petit Tourette" left nearly all the vulgarities spewed by Cartman throughout the entire episode uncensored...except for "fuck", which was only used once.

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', where not only are swears bleeped, but so are certain non-swear words linking to them, such as the "you" in "fuck you" often being bleeped as well (unless the character who's saying it is offscreen). Subverted in that obvious middle fingers are digitized.

* The lyric video for "Cake By the Ocean" by Music/{{DNCE}} censors "fucking" in the chorus as "f*cking" on-csreen, but the audio remains uncensored.

** "Damn" is not censored in The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil", Jason Derulo's "Get Ugly", or in more recent games' reissue of Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera's "Moves Like Jagger" from ''Just Dance 4'' (the word acting as a censor itself, replacing the word "shit" in the line "I don't give a shit"), but is in all other songs in the series.

** The clean version on Spotify and used for the music video replaces the title phrase with 'wet and gushy'. This prompted social media confusion and even [[https://www.vulture.com/2020/08/wap-music-video-explicit-version-clean-difference.html articles]] about how 'wet and gushy' was just as, if not dirtier.

* When CKNO-FM (NOW! Radio, Edmonton) aired "Crazy Bitch" by Buckcherry on January 24, 2018, the two uses of "fuck" in the bridge were accidentally left uncensored while all other instances of the word were censored. More info [[https://www.cbsc.ca/cbsc-decisions/page/ckno-fm-re-crash-mars/ here]].

** This has lead to jarring instances where you could find channels on the platform that either censors any expletive except for "hell" and "damn" respectively (i.e. WebAnimation/CartoonHooligans, [[Creator/PrimeVideo Amazon]]), all profanity not allowed on FCC-regulated TV networks (i.e. Webvideo/ScreenJunkies, Website/{{Cracked}}), channels that censor profanity in the titles of their videos, but not in the videos themselves (i.e. kmlkmljkl, [[WebComic/CyanideAndHappiness Explosm]]), or channels that go scott-free in the freedom of speech they're allowed to have on the platform (i.e. Anthony Griffy, Website/ChannelAwesome). There are also channels that have trouble deciding whether or not to have censored profanity in their videos and risk demonetization as a a result, such as Website/CollegeHumor, Funny Or Die, & Lenarr Young.
** [=YouTube=]'s automatic captions censor "shit" and "bullshit", but not "shitty" or "horseshit".

* In Creator/TheFineBrothers' ''WebVideo/{{React}}'' series, "fuck" is always bleeped out, but "shit" and most other profanities are not, regardless of the video's intended audience.

* Many Website/YouTube users who make "public prank" videos have a habit of censoring profanities in subtitles of victims' reactions, but not bleeping them out from the video's audio.