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* The ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'' comic for June 25, 1994 has John reacting to Michael's girlfriend Rhetta all dolled up with a "BOINGG!" above his head. The rerun of this strip published on June 24, 2023 removes this, likely to avoid the Main/UnfortunateImplications of a middle-aged man being aroused by a teenage girl.
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* The ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'' comic for June 25, 1994 has John reacting to Michael's girlfriend Rhetta all dolled up with a "BOINGG!" above his head. The rerun of this strip published on June 24, 2023 removes this, likely to avoid the Main/UnfortunateImplications unfortunate implications of a middle-aged man being aroused by a teenage girl.
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* Nintendo's tendency to remove blood from its games was referenced in ''WebAnimation/MeleesEnd'' episode 5:
-->'''Mario:''' What do you want, Ganondorf?\\
'''Ganondorf:''' I have come for your ''blood''.\\
'''Marth:''' Oh, not my blood!\\
'''Fox:''' You don't even know what blood is.\\
'''Mario:''' Guys, this is a ''Nintendo game''. Don't worry.\\
'''Ganondorf:''' I've coughed up plenty of blood in my day. Nintendo can't save you now!\\
'''Fox:''' [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Your blood is green.]]
* Although ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' is, by and large, ''much'' more adult than the [[Anime/DragonBallZ original series]] by featuring profane dialogue and loads of BlackComedy, it does edit out one thing that was in the original: genitalia. This is likely because Website/{{Youtube}} has very strict rules regarding nudity. That said, their abridged version of ''Anime/BrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan'' does not remove them.
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* Nintendo's tendency to remove blood from its games was referenced in ''WebAnimation/MeleesEnd'' episode 5:
-->'''Mario:''' What do you want, Ganondorf?\\
'''Ganondorf:''' I have come for your ''blood''.\\
'''Marth:''' Oh, not my blood!\\
'''Fox:''' You don't even know what blood is.\\
'''Mario:''' Guys, this is a ''Nintendo game''. Don't worry.\\
'''Ganondorf:''' I've coughed up plenty of blood in my day. Nintendo can't save you now!\\
'''Fox:''' [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Your blood is green.]]
* Although ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' is, by and large, ''much'' more adult than the [[Anime/DragonBallZ original series]] by featuring profane dialogue and loads of BlackComedy, it does edit out one thing that was in the original: genitalia. This is likely because Website/{{Youtube}} has very strict rules regarding nudity. That said, their abridged version of ''Anime/BrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan'' does not remove them.
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* ''Podcast/{{Psycomedia}}'' uses Freud as a substitute profanity, to highlight that AllPsychologyIsFreudian is not true.
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* ''Podcast/{{Psycomedia}}'' uses Freud as a substitute profanity, to highlight that AllPsychologyIsFreudian is not true.
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* Parodied in ''WebAnimation/{{Arfenhouse}} Teh Movie Too'', where one character says "ow" while the subtitle shows "FUCK!!!" struck out before it.
* The last episode of ''WebAnimation/LetsGoTamagotchi'' has a scene cut out in the English dub where an elderly Tamagotchi stumbles through the streets while drunk.
* The last episode of ''WebAnimation/LetsGoTamagotchi'' has a scene cut out in the English dub where an elderly Tamagotchi stumbles through the streets while drunk.
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* [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1279#comic This]] ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' strip has the {{Moral Guardian}}s censoring the racy romance novels in the local library by affixing Jesus stickers over offensive words. The result is, of course, pretty hilarious.
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* Encyclopedia Dramatica is oh too overly fond of doing this in the case of many of their articles, and even some of the members of the EDF forum members do this.
** Chris Marek aka Magnum - his username is a Poor Man's Bastardisation of the classic car brand, the ice cream treat, and the gun of the same name as well as the show ''Series/MagnumPI''
* Google's doodle on December 20, 2012 in honour of the 200th anniversary of the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales. The woodsman pulls Red and Granny out of the wolf and sends it to jail.
* Website/{{Vine}}r WebVideo/ThomasSanders isn't squeaky clean, but he does clean up the harsher language in several of his Vines, either self-censoring the word or substituting something lighter, sometimes for comedic effect.
-->Well, I'm off to lunch, yes I'm in luck // I'm gonna stuff my face and not give a...darn. Eugh...
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* Encyclopedia Dramatica is oh too overly fond of doing this in the case of many of their articles, and even some of the members of the EDF forum members do this.
** Chris Marek aka Magnum - his username is a Poor Man's Bastardisation of the classic car brand, the ice cream treat, and the gun of the same name as well as the show ''Series/MagnumPI''
* Google's doodle on December 20, 2012 in honour of the 200th anniversary of the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales. The woodsman pulls Red and Granny out of the wolf and sends it to jail.
* Website/{{Vine}}r WebVideo/ThomasSanders isn't squeaky clean, but he does clean up the harsher language in several of his Vines, either self-censoring the word or substituting something lighter, sometimes for comedic effect.
-->Well, I'm off to lunch, yes I'm in luck // I'm gonna stuff my face and not give a...darn. Eugh...
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* Also parodied in WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd's review of ''Action 52'', where they show a clip of the "TV Version" of the review:
-->'''AVGN:''' "Whoever came up with this is an [[BleepDammit ass[bleep]]]!... Ass!... Hole?... Ass[bleep]! [[SarcasmMode Television makes a]] ''[[SarcasmMode lot]]'' [[SarcasmMode of sense.]]"
* Lampshaded in WebVideo/PawDugan's ''Top 9 Composers'' video, where Paw is [[TrappedInTVLand Trapped In Game Land]]. In the ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' portion, he comes upon Bowdlerized versions of the Hitler portraits and comments that something's missing. After a quick FadeOut and FadeIn, we see a crudely painted toothbrush mustache applied to the painting as Paw comments "Much better!"
* This gets parodied [[PlayedForLaughs mercilessly]] in the "radio edit" of the LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}} Christmas song "Carrot For a Cock". The song is renamed "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu7tNWh1oMM Carrot For a Nose]]", with the word "cock" being badly replaced by LetsPlay/SimonLane singing "nose" over it, even if the offending word is sung by [[Music/{{Area 11}} Sparkles*]], who has a different voice and is a better singer. None of the rhymes of the song change to match the censorship, no other bad words such as "dong" or "bellend" are removed, and the rest of the lyrics are ''exactly the same'', meaning that Simon was aiming for the snowman's face and missed, hitting his waist, yet he somehow has a nose anyway.
* Max of ''LetsPlay/YoVideogames'' was extremely censor-happy in the ''VideoGame/GalGun: Double Peace'' series. Justified because he didn't want his channel banned from Twitch for illicit content.
* ''WebVideo/StopSkeletonsFromFighting'': In a special video produced before his review of the 2010 ''Splatterhouse'' game, Derek explored the changes made to the original ''Splatterhouse'' -- including the Bowdlerized elements -- in its transition from the arcade to the [=TurboGrafx-16=].
* Parodied by Stevie T's video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqui9mAXgWg "Swearing Songs... After Autocorrect!"]], where Stevie facetiously cleans up songs known for their {{cluster f bomb}}s by texting the lyrics to himself with his cellphone's autocorrect function on. A sample from Anti-Nowhere League's "So What" [[note]]in the style of {{Music/Metallica}}'s [[CoveredUp more well-known version]][[/note]]:
--> Well, I '''faced''' a queen
-->I '''furled''' Bach
-->I've even '''sacked''' an old man's '''cork'''
--> So what?
-->'''AVGN:''' "Whoever came up with this is an [[BleepDammit ass[bleep]]]!... Ass!... Hole?... Ass[bleep]! [[SarcasmMode Television makes a]] ''[[SarcasmMode lot]]'' [[SarcasmMode of sense.]]"
* Lampshaded in WebVideo/PawDugan's ''Top 9 Composers'' video, where Paw is [[TrappedInTVLand Trapped In Game Land]]. In the ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' portion, he comes upon Bowdlerized versions of the Hitler portraits and comments that something's missing. After a quick FadeOut and FadeIn, we see a crudely painted toothbrush mustache applied to the painting as Paw comments "Much better!"
* This gets parodied [[PlayedForLaughs mercilessly]] in the "radio edit" of the LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}} Christmas song "Carrot For a Cock". The song is renamed "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu7tNWh1oMM Carrot For a Nose]]", with the word "cock" being badly replaced by LetsPlay/SimonLane singing "nose" over it, even if the offending word is sung by [[Music/{{Area 11}} Sparkles*]], who has a different voice and is a better singer. None of the rhymes of the song change to match the censorship, no other bad words such as "dong" or "bellend" are removed, and the rest of the lyrics are ''exactly the same'', meaning that Simon was aiming for the snowman's face and missed, hitting his waist, yet he somehow has a nose anyway.
* Max of ''LetsPlay/YoVideogames'' was extremely censor-happy in the ''VideoGame/GalGun: Double Peace'' series. Justified because he didn't want his channel banned from Twitch for illicit content.
* ''WebVideo/StopSkeletonsFromFighting'': In a special video produced before his review of the 2010 ''Splatterhouse'' game, Derek explored the changes made to the original ''Splatterhouse'' -- including the Bowdlerized elements -- in its transition from the arcade to the [=TurboGrafx-16=].
* Parodied by Stevie T's video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqui9mAXgWg "Swearing Songs... After Autocorrect!"]], where Stevie facetiously cleans up songs known for their {{cluster f bomb}}s by texting the lyrics to himself with his cellphone's autocorrect function on. A sample from Anti-Nowhere League's "So What" [[note]]in the style of {{Music/Metallica}}'s [[CoveredUp more well-known version]][[/note]]:
--> Well, I '''faced''' a queen
-->I '''furled''' Bach
-->I've even '''sacked''' an old man's '''cork'''
--> So what?
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* Forumer (a free internet forum provider) decided to update their terms of service to become more child and general audiences friendly. They also decided to run a program that changed all sorts of words on ''every single Forumer forum'' to "work safe" alternatives. The change was based around cooking - for example, 'fuck' became 'bake'. But some of them were just bizarre. 'Little' was auto-changed to 'cilantro', 'video' was changed to 'recipe', 'girl' was changed to 'steak'...
* Later editions of Creator/DonBluth's video on how to draw Kimberly from VideoGame/SpaceAce removes the scene where he draws her panties as she's doing a high kick as he talks about it.
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* In ''VideoGame/DevilsCrush'' for the UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16, the pentagrams were geometrically altered for the U.S. version, becoming eight-pointed. In the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis version, ''Dragon's Fury'', anything star-shaped was changed into a simple five-pointed star.
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* In ''VideoGame/DevilsCrush'' for the UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16, Platform/TurboGrafx16, the pentagrams were geometrically altered for the U.S. version, becoming eight-pointed. In the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Platform/SegaGenesis version, ''Dragon's Fury'', anything star-shaped was changed into a simple five-pointed star.
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* The UsefulNotes/SuperNintendo version of ''VideoGame/PinballDreams'' removed the crosses in the "Nightmare" table.
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* The 1937 ''Radio/LuxRadioTheatre'' adaptation of ''Film/AFreeSoul'' resulted in massive revisions to the plot. In the film, Jan throws over her safe, dull boyfriend Dwight and takes up with Ace, a charming mobster. After they have sex without benefit of marriage, Ace becomes violently possessive. Dwight kills Ace after Ace threatens to reveal his affair with Jan and ruin her reputation. Dwight is then acquitted of Ace's murder. ''A Free Soul'' was made in 1931, during UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra, when movie makers could get away with stuff like that. By 1937, when the movie was adapted for radio, UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode was firmly in place, so the plot was completely rewritten. In the Lux version, Ace is a gambler instead of a mobster. He and Jan get married instead of just having an affair. Further, it's ''[[SparedByTheAdaptation Ace]]'' who kills ''[[DeathByAdaptation Dwight]]'' in the radio show, and by a GunStruggle instead of with malice aforethought as in the film. Making the murder a GunStruggle allowed for Ace to be acquitted, since by 1937, guilty parties were no longer allowed to escape punishment in Hollywood productions.
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* The 1937 ''Radio/LuxRadioTheatre'' adaptation of ''Film/AFreeSoul'' resulted in massive revisions to the plot. In the film, Jan throws over her safe, dull boyfriend Dwight and takes up with Ace, a charming mobster. After they have sex without benefit of marriage, Ace becomes violently possessive. Dwight kills Ace after Ace threatens to reveal his affair with Jan and ruin her reputation. Dwight is then acquitted of Ace's murder. ''A Free Soul'' was made in 1931, during UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra, MediaNoyes/ThePreCodeEra, when movie makers could get away with stuff like that. By 1937, when the movie was adapted for radio, UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode MediaNotes/TheHaysCode was firmly in place, so the plot was completely rewritten. In the Lux version, Ace is a gambler instead of a mobster. He and Jan get married instead of just having an affair. Further, it's ''[[SparedByTheAdaptation Ace]]'' who kills ''[[DeathByAdaptation Dwight]]'' in the radio show, and by a GunStruggle instead of with malice aforethought as in the film. Making the murder a GunStruggle allowed for Ace to be acquitted, since by 1937, guilty parties were no longer allowed to escape punishment in Hollywood productions.
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The inverse of this trope is AmericanKirbyIsHardcore. Yet another related trope is BleachedUnderpants, where a creator self-censors his work to appeal to a broader audience. There is also a CensoredTitle, for when a work seems to be Bowdlerized, but only the title is for marketing purposes. If the censoring is done InUniverse, that's NarrativeProfanityFilter.
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The inverse of this trope is AmericanKirbyIsHardcore. Yet another related trope is BleachedUnderpants, SelfCensoredRelease, where a creator self-censors his work to appeal to a broader audience. There is also a CensoredTitle, for when a work seems to be Bowdlerized, but only the title is for marketing purposes. If the censoring is done InUniverse, that's NarrativeProfanityFilter.
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* WebVideo/DavidNear: What appears to be the [[https://youtu.be/OA2IAYG663E?t=246 original cut]] of "[[https://youtu.be/0zi3yUSKBv4 Laughing Jack (Story Time)]]" has Jack greet a girl with "Well hey there, sexy..." before he learns said girl is only 11 years old (which [[ChildHater repulses him]]). The official upload cuts out the word "sexy" for [[PaedoHunt understandable reasons]].
* ''WebVideo/FrenchBaguetteIntelligence'': In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h68VwvNkhHE The Million Dollar Puzzle - Reflection on Intention]]'', Fuck Cares announces that he had to change his name to 'Faux Cares' to avoid getting demonetised, but that didn't stop him from naming the Judge '[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Fucking Goddamn Fucker]]'.
* ''WebVideo/FrenchBaguetteIntelligence'': In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h68VwvNkhHE The Million Dollar Puzzle - Reflection on Intention]]'', Fuck Cares announces that he had to change his name to 'Faux Cares' to avoid getting demonetised, but that didn't stop him from naming the Judge '[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Fucking Goddamn Fucker]]'.
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* WebVideo/DavidNear: What appears to be the [[https://youtu.be/OA2IAYG663E?t=246 original cut]] of "[[https://youtu.be/0zi3yUSKBv4 Laughing Jack (Story Time)]]" has Jack greet a girl with "Well with, "Well, hey there, sexy..." before he learns said girl is only 11 years old (which [[ChildHater repulses him]]). The official upload cuts out the word "sexy" for [[PaedoHunt understandable reasons]].
* ''WebVideo/FrenchBaguetteIntelligence'': In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h68VwvNkhHE The Million Dollar Puzzle- – Reflection on Intention]]'', Fuck Cares announces that he had to change his name to 'Faux Cares' to avoid getting demonetised, but that didn't stop him from naming the Judge '[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Fucking Goddamn Fucker]]'.
* ''WebVideo/FrenchBaguetteIntelligence'': In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h68VwvNkhHE The Million Dollar Puzzle
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* ''WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld'': Some of the [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness first 31 episodes]] are re-uploaded eight years after their initial release under the title ''Lovely World Classic'', with the swearing edited out after Stampy's channel went family-friendly.
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* An Adam Ellis comic depicting Sonic having sex (and subsequently a Sonichu baby) with Pikachu, as a joke off a "[[Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020 Sonic]] Tops [[Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu Pikachu]]" headline, was deleted from Instagram due to sexual content. When he [[https://www.instagram.com/p/B8wiz24BsYr/ re-uploaded the comic]], he replaced the NSFW panel with [[GagCensor the screencap of the Instagram report]].
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* An [[Webcomic/BooksOfAdam Adam Ellis Ellis]] comic depicting Sonic having sex (and subsequently a Sonichu baby) with Pikachu, as a joke off a "[[Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020 Sonic]] Tops [[Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu Pikachu]]" headline, was deleted from Instagram due to sexual content. When he [[https://www.instagram.com/p/B8wiz24BsYr/ re-uploaded the comic]], he replaced the NSFW panel with [[GagCensor the screencap of the Instagram report]].
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-->-- '''[[MeaningfulName Fox Censor]]'', a Creator/{{Fox}} network censor, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
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-->-- '''[[MeaningfulName Fox Censor]]'', Censor]]''', a Creator/{{Fox}} network censor, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
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To Bowdlerise[[labelnote:Pronunciation]]"Bow" (as in "port bow" or "cow" minus c) plus "dler" (as in ''Film/SchindlersList'') plus "ise" (pronounced like eyes). Alternatively, those who know IPA: /ˈbaʊd.lə.ˌɹaɪz/.[[/labelnote]] means to alter existing programs, plays, etc. so they are less rude and/or offensive. Commonly, this takes the form of swapping "curse" words for [[GoshDangItToHeck euphemisms.]] The term is used in a negative sense, by those who think the alterations are often done with a ridiculously high [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope fear of lawsuits]] and/or [[PoliticalCorrectnessIsEvil need for political correctness]]. Sometimes it's understandable -- different countries have different standards, and sometimes all it takes to change a show from something for teens to suitable for kids is the removal of a few swear words, [[GoshDangItToHeck darn it]]. Others are fairly reasonable for broadcast, such as toning down violence since ChildrenAreTenderHearted. Such modifications are also understandable when the work is being adapted into a play that will be performed by kids, not just watched by them.
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To Bowdlerise[[labelnote:Pronunciation]]"Bow" (as in "port bow" or "cow" minus c) plus "dler" (as in ''Film/SchindlersList'') plus "ise" (pronounced like eyes). Alternatively, those who know IPA: /ˈbaʊd.lə.ˌɹaɪz/.[[/labelnote]] means to alter existing programs, plays, etc. so they are less rude and/or offensive. Commonly, this takes the form of swapping "curse" words for [[GoshDangItToHeck euphemisms.]] The term is used in a negative sense, by those who think the alterations are often done with a ridiculously high [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope fear of lawsuits]] and/or [[PoliticalCorrectnessIsEvil need for political correctness]]. Sometimes it's understandable -- [[ValuesDissonance different countries have different standards, and sometimes standards]], so if a distributor wants to keep the same age rating, some of the more sexual or violent content may need to be removed before the MoralGuardians catch wind of it. Or maybe someone noticed that all it takes to change a show from something for teens to suitable for kids is the removal of a few swear words, [[GoshDangItToHeck darn it]]. Others are fairly reasonable for broadcast, such as toning down violence since ChildrenAreTenderHearted. Such modifications are also understandable when the work is being adapted into a play that will be performed by kids, not just watched by them.
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* The [=YouTube=] channel for ''DC Super Hero Girls'' uploaded a music video for [[WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls the 2015 iteration of the franchise]] consisting of the Music/FifthHarmony song "That's My Girl". The franchise being aimed at young girls resulted in two notable changes to the lyrics: Changing "Who's been working so damn hard" to "Who's been working so so hard" so there'd be no profanity and omitting the lyric "Nod if you've been played by every boo/Just tryna show you off/Thought he was the best you ever had/Until he cut you off" to bring more focus to the song's message of female empowerment and not bring up the issue of abusive relationships (which is seldom discussed in media aimed at children).
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* The [=YouTube=] channel for ''DC Super Hero Girls'' uploaded a music video for [[WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls the 2015 iteration of the franchise]] consisting of the Music/FifthHarmony song "That's My Girl". The franchise being aimed at young girls resulted in two notable changes to the lyrics: Changing "Who's been working so damn hard" to "Who's been working so so hard" so there'd be no profanity and omitting the lyric "Nod if you've been played by every boo/Just tryna show you off/Thought he was the best you ever had/Until he cut you off" to bring more focus to the song's message of female empowerment and not bring up the issue of abusive relationships (which is seldom discussed in media aimed at children).
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