4chan Word Filter

4chan Word Filter

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Updated Apr 03, 2018 at 05:50AM EDT by Y F.

Added Jul 29, 2011 at 06:50PM EDT by Timminator95.

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About

The 4chan word filter was, apparently, put in by the 4chan team just for the heck of it. When submitting a post onto /b/, any specific word or phrase (typically a meme-related one that was over-used) may have been changed to something else. The mods made the word filters out of annoyance with over-used memes, for the "lulz", or both. Eventually, a few word filters were added to other boards other than /b/, specifically /v/ and /k/, but were later deactivated. Wordfilters have also themselves developed into memes both on /b/ and elsewhere, some posters have taken to referring to furry as drama, loli as duck, etc. Thus, a good (or at least memorable) wordfilter can survive long after being deactivated.
In March of 2007 all word filters would be made inactive, including the "PENIS" filter, which was widely considered to be the most loved of the wordfilters on /b/. Some of the word filters were brought back again later.

Active Word Filters:

Moot (lowercase M)= sigourney
penis (caps) = PENIS
Mods (lowercase M) = the people's champions
Faggot (lowercase F) = candy-ass
Vagina (caps) = VAGINA
Nigger (lowercase N) = roody-poo

INACTIVE WORD FILTERS:
The full list for the Inactive word filters can be found here

EXAMPLES

ARCHIVED THREADS (NSFW):
First word filter thread
Second word filter thread
Third word filter thread

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Can of Beans
Can of Beans

This really needs to be updated and given examples that have spread out from 4chan. For instance, "weeaboo" started as a wordfilter for "wapanese" (wannabe-Japanese). None of those wordfilters are active anymore, but now we've got ones for "soy", which has become "onions", and for any word that starts with "soy", like "soyboy", the "soy" part is replaced with "based", so "basedboy".

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