History Main / FunWithAutocensors

* The Talk About Comics forums will replace 'aroma' with 'Iron Maiden'; maybe because their music [[IncrediblyLamePun stinks]].

* The UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Users Forums replace "Piss" with "Jarate" and "Fanboy" with "Hammer Legion Member". Most other swear words are replaced with a line of pink hearts...leading some members to use "pinkhearts" or "pinkheartsing" as a swear instead.

* Christian website, American Family Associate, has a filter on their news page, One News Now, where the word "gay" is automatically replaced with "homosexual". [[http://revealingerrors.com/tyson_homosexual This caused some problems when they began reporting news on Olympic hopeful, Tyson Gay.]]

-->''But, seriously, why does the Yossarian-22 keep redacting my name? What the hell is wrong with "Dr. Adam F. Black-Moon"?''

* At one point, ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' Forums used to replace the word "ass" with "spotted owl" and "asshole" with "spotted owl habitat". They had other odd replacements for various swear words, but the "spotted owl" became so popular that people still typed it in when they went to just using [CENSORED] for everything. They even have a spotted owl emoticon.
** Also on said forums, typing "Website/FourChan" will give you a [CENSORED] tag, [[TakeThat typing "In Soviet Russia" will give you "I am not funny"]], and "Oblivion sucks" will turn into "The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion is the best game in the universe".

* Certain Website/Imageboards do this on purpose and change various non-offensive words into offensive ones. "Source" was also wordfiltered to "sauce" for a time.
** "Wapanese", a slur for OccidentalOtaku, was once wordfiltered into "[[ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship weeaboo]]". This substitution became so popular it ''completely supplanted the original term.''

* The [[http://sackinima.com/forums forums]] of the ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'' fansite Sackinima filter swear words to "ALMONDS".

* The anti-''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' message board Twilight Sucks has replacements for each individual swear word, such as [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Mudkip]] for "nigger" and "[[TakeThat Bella]]" for cunt.

* Certain Website/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".

*** The former phone number of Neopets HQ got changed to [[Film/{{Ghostbusters}} "Ghostbusters!"]], because who ya gonna call?

* ''Franchise/{{Neopets}}'':

Like more conventional censorship, this can lead to the ScunthorpeProblem, if the autocensor is designed to look for the prohibited string within longer strings. Compare GoshDangItToHeck

*** The former phone number of Neopets HQ got changed to [[Film/Ghostbusters "Ghostbusters!"]], because who ya gonna call?

* Though not a forum, in the original ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'', any swearword was replaced with '[[RunningGag cabbage]].'

* The UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Users Forums replace "Piss" with "Jarate" and "Fanboy" with "Hammer Legion Member". Most other swear words are replaced with a line of pink hearts...leading some members to use "pinkhearts" or "pinkheartsing" as a swear instead

** [[{{Fark}} Fark.com]] filters "first post" to "boobies", which has become something of a MemeticMutation. Especially since it resulted in things like "Benjamin Franklin was the boobiesmaster General of the U.S." instead of "first Postmaster General."

* On the official ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' forum, profanities aren't filtered but certain bits of net-speak are, because Tom Siddell hates them. "LOL" becomes "LAUGHING ON LINE"; "OMG" becomes "gosh golly" (formerly, it was "OH MY GIRAFFES"). And "/co/" (as in the comics subforum of the Website/ImageBoard Website/FourChan) becomes "the Butt Zone".

** Also on said forums, typing "[[ImageBoards 4Chan]]" will give you a [CENSORED] tag, [[TakeThat typing "In Soviet Russia" will give you "I am not funny"]], and "Oblivion sucks" will turn into "The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion is the best game in the universe".

* On the official ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' forum, profanities aren't filtered but certain bits of net-speak are, because Tom Siddell hates them. "LOL" becomes "LAUGHING ON LINE"; "OMG" becomes "gosh golly" (formerly, it was "OH MY GIRAFFES"). And "/co/" (as in the comics subforum of the ImageBoard 4chan) becomes "the Butt Zone".

* 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".

* The ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'' forums will censor "money" to "cheddar", inexplicably. "Damn" also becomes "daisies". "[[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Corrin]]" [[http://www.awkwardzombie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1153030#p1153030 becomes]] "corn".

* The ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'' forums will censor "money" to "cheddar", inexplicably. "Damn" also becomes "daisies". "[[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Corrin]]" becomes "corn".

* The ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'' forums will censor "money" to "cheddar", inexplicably. "Damn" also becomes "daisies".

Like more conventional censorship, this can lead to the ScunthorpeProblem, if the autocensor is designed to look for the prohibited string within longer strings. Compare GoshDangItToHeck.

** "Wapanese", a slur for OccidentalOtaku, was once wordfiltered into "[[PerryBibleFellowship weeaboo]]". This substitution became so popular it ''completely supplanted the original term.''

* Some of the characters in ''WebOriginal/ScaryNewsOutOfTokyo3'' 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.