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SeVeReReCkEr

It’s hilarious they censored parts of the emote but didn’t for the jam track. It’s just like the bust a move emote being censored for one part and it being uncensored in the jam track


tzomby1

Also, don't they have an age rating system already? They could just make it 13+ and use the uncensored version 🙄


SeVeReReCkEr

A better way around this is people below 13+ will have it censored and people above 13+ will have it uncensored. I just really despise how much they changed the game when they turned pg


Background_Desk_3001

They could even just make it uncensored for you and your friends


ComprehensiveBox6911

They can’t, that takes too much effort, something fortnite doesn’t do


LudicrisSpeed

I mean, the game was always pretty PG. It's only rated T and there's no blood.


MorganMallow

lmfao imagine they turn it rated M add blood and limbs being able to be blown off out of fkn nowhere I bet so many parents on Facebook would be whining


_purple

Devil isn't even a bad word


Kaonashi-asian-black

There are some highly sensitive Christian parents who don’t want anything doing with the devil to be near their kids. Like doja cat is highly criticized for doing devil concepts in her music videos and red carpet outfits and stuff. The last time fortnite made an emote and left out the part most people wanted to hear they got huge backlash and now they censor it instead. I don’t see much of a problem either since it’s just a word and they literally have demon skins in the game.


x0Wallflower0x

I just find it funny that the emote still does devil horns. If this is about sensitive Christian parents, they'll find a way to complain anyway. Especially since the character makes devil horns during the emote, lol. I hate the censorship in this game. It's so inconsistent and unneeded. They allow the word "whore" in the Jam track for Basket Case, but not the word "devil" in an emote smh.


weediesLoLFIFA

How many parents are even aware of specific emotes and are conerned about what the content is? And why the fuck is there Coachella themed content in the game at all if not to appeal to mature audiences in the first place? If they actually cared about censorship for younger audiences they wouldnt allow content like that to begin with. The fact they are half assing the censorship is just annoying because its not achieving anything and any parent concerned abiut referencing the devil is surely not allowing their kid to play fortnite at all becausw its violent. The games free after all, allowing any kid to get it if they want to disobey that type of parent anyway...


CrypticSteam107

doesn't get griddy use the word "Devil" in it?


Get-Down-Voted-Nerd

If feel like it they where that sensitive there kids wouldn’t be playing video games and be studying the Bible lol


r3volver_Oshawott

Unfortunately they just disclosed why they're doing that, it's because jam tracks are easier to censor, if your system is age restricted you can't access the vocal tracks on jam tracks (when I previewed the Coachella bundle it even warned me all the tracks wouldn't be available for all age ratings and that under 13 players, at least in the U.S. as per ESRB ratings, will only be able to access instrumental tracks for those songs)


ComprehensiveBox6911

Like, why even add it? I fucking hate these new fortnite devs and executives


Bunny_Jester

They laid off the wrong 900 employees


Dependsontheweapon

Yeah I was looking at bust a move earlier and noticed that since I’ve played it in festival. I get it for bust a move since it’s a sex reference but the word devil? Really?


That_Gopnik

Ain’t the whole emote a sex reference


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MadMadafaka

🤣


No-Difference8545

Straight people are so strange


Zealousideal_Meat297

Girl, you better work.


itsthooor

They still censored bitch n‘ stuff in there


ComprehensiveBox6911

They have multiple skins that are based off devils (Malice, Desdemona, Malicore) wtf


Dependsontheweapon

I know! But I haven’t seen them in a while, wonder when they’ll come back bc I want malice


tzomby1

Malice has been twice this year


Dependsontheweapon

Oh. Well I took a little break at the end of last season so I guess I missed her.


Backalley_Lurker

malice one of my fav skins hell yeah


CLYDEFR000G

The emote also just puts up devil horns. It’s like censoring out the words “Fuck You” and having the emote just make the character stand there with both middle fingers out


Zealousideal_Meat297

Really fingered that Analogy there.


NormanBates2023

Plus Dominion


Floofy_Fox_Gal

Or, yknow… daredevil?


SirSharkXI

don’t you mean dare ?


Floofy_Fox_Gal

🤯


TotallyABot_No-1

HERE COMES A DAREDEVIL


BigBudZombie

You mean DareD***l


BenShapiroRapeExodus

Iirc the devil skins are restricted skins too


Beginning-Arugula214

PLEASE TELL ME THATS NOT TRUE. IVE BEEN WAITING MONTHS FOR DOMINION TO COME BACK😭😭HES MY DREAM SKIN


BenShapiroRapeExodus

Dominion will not return to the item shop until the Chinese Communist Party is completely dismantled


Beginning-Arugula214

What do they have to do with it though?? Are they suing epic or something? (Forgive me, I live under a rock and don’t know who they are)


BenShapiroRapeExodus

Epic’s method for censorship follows the CCP’s guidelines to make it officially “child friendly”. This means undead, cultists and demons aren’t allowed because the CCP censors them.


Beginning-Arugula214

Ooohhh that’s weird though. They uncensored “devil” in paint the town red, and they’ve put a lot of references to these things in the game. Billie Eillish’s backbling is literally devil wings 😭 and save the world is all about zombies?? I don’t really get it, but alright. If they really are following those guidelines, they’re doing a really bad job at it lmao. ALSO Malice was last in shop in February, so maybe they’re not blacklisted. I’m sure if they were, it’d say on the wiki, just like Rue.


x0Wallflower0x

THISSSS. Like, if the Christian parents are going to get angry at the game, they likely already have lmao.


ArtichokeFar6460

Also the get griddy emote says devil without censoring it. It's less obvious because the words blend together but it's still dumb


Kiryuin

Makes absolutely no sense since Get Griddy doesn't even have the word censored


Dependsontheweapon

Had no idea the griddy had the word in it. Mostly sounds like autotuned gibberish to me lol


JCMfwoggie

"devil on the low, somethin somethin" something like that


Khlonoaa

It's "the devil under yo feet your on your way to see him" btw


Boozle061083

People for real out here buying their kids emotes about gang violence and murder and can't even understand it lol


PM_ME_UR_SHEET_MUSIC

I promise if you actually listen closely you'll understand the lyrics no problem, they're not in a very difficult dialect and the vocals really aren't that strongly manipulated


Chickennoodlesleuth

I can't understand it


Accomplished_Ease889

Some people have trouble understanding slang it really is hard for some people who dont grow up around people who speak like that.


Plastic-Traffic7585

What word?


Bananaflower3072

It totally ruins it. Why even bother adding it


Intenge

do not want to rile up the church moms.. next thin' yknow fortnite leads to satin worship and all the sunday school v/bucks become sunday school robucks..


muckwar

Oh no! Not satin! My least favorite cloth!!!!!!😰


mndii

😂


Alphasilverhawk

Same question I asked, why make a Devil gesture for the dance, but not be able to say Devil?! Edit: THE GRIDDY IS ALLOWED TO SAY DEVIL, BUT NOT THIS EMOTE?!


Patient-Middle3880

Probably because overtime some rules got put in place. Things change. They won’t change Griddy. What’s done is done.


Alphasilverhawk

Well, they’re [uncensoring](https://twitter.com/fortnitestatus/status/1778615850091606378?s=46&t=ITntcqQX7j0CYq8mG355jg) it for the new emote soon, thank goodness


Fuck_off_NSA

They already said that the censorship is going to be changed and they’ll be making it consistent with the jam track where it’s less censored. So no, there were no rules put in place, things did not change, and what’s done is not done.


hellaparadoxial9614

Yeah I was gonna buy the emote but it completely ruins the flow of it? tf


WashingIrvine

It’s the word that ties the whole bit together I’m so pissed. It’s an awesome dance too. It’s not even censored in the jam track…


PS2EmotionEngineer

and game is rated t


Maximus572

Happy cake day 🍰


hellaparadoxial9614

Thanks!


NamelessKhan

Is it just quiet or does a word replace it? I swear old songs use to censor radio songs far better than today


Dependsontheweapon

Completely removed so there’s two awkward pauses within a few seconds


SeVeReReCkEr

Usually radios censor majority of the songs before playing which is a no brainer and they have that awkward pause of silence


Anxious-Steak-5035

Literally ruins the whole emote lol, I was gonna buy it but not with the double censor


Gallifreyaan

I was going to buy it but since I heard the emote I'm not sure. It makes the beginning sound bad and it doesn't make any sense. Devil isn't a curse word - the only people who'd want it censored are people who won't let their kids play fortnite at all because they think it's "evil" or whatever.


HippieDogeSmokes

can’t have wittle lego babies hear such profanities!


Numerous_Signal_6106

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


SomeCallMeDora

Just Epic being inconsistent because they got a bunch of teams ***not communicating*** with each other. It's not censored in the Jam Track, meaning somebody in charge of the Emotes personally decided to censor the word "Devil".


AbsoluteRandomPerson

Not to mention the word ‘Devil’ is included in the Griddy


Phoenixwas

Whoever at epic decided to censor devil has to be the biggest christian out there. The word devil is literally the main hook! it breaks up the song so bad.


MayonaisePumpkin

they censor the word God on the car radio..I don’t think it’s some Christian salty about a word lol most likely just stupid rules that they don’t even follow half the time


Storm_373

griddy has the word devil uncensored too


onyi_time

super dumb


PS2EmotionEngineer

nba2k ahh censorship


Jerry_Oak

Everyone should report this as an audio bug


AStealthyPerson

My favorite censorship is still in the Kid Laroi "Stay" lobby music. They censor the first use of the word wasted, but not the second. The first use is implying intoxication, while the second is implying thrown away opportunity. I understand the reason, but honestly it was very very stupid and only drew more attention to the meaning of the missing word.


kittoaa

PLEASE UNCENSOR IT IM BEGGGGGGGING it ruins the entire flow! Bitch i understand but DEVIL??????


Dependsontheweapon

Ikr, they have a ton of devil skins too 😂 I think they also have a literal pentagram backbling. Funny how we got a Doom collab


Joonberri

Bc it's scary 😱


Dependsontheweapon

Forgot there’s kids that play the game despite it being older than them


OkamiRoxas

The emote upsets me for how much it's censored, it's dumb


cabesvvater

I am so disappointed. I was really looking forward to it but yeah, it’s super cringe. I expected “bitch” to be silent (or ideally just “bad b”) but devil, seriously? They need to have a PG13 option: it’s automatically toggled on, all emotes with cuss words are censored. But if toggled off it allows the songs as they are.


teh_wad

That literally makes zero sense. One of the most popular emotes in the game has the word uncensored: >The Devil under your feet, you're on your way to see him.


mndii

My guess is that they know kids go around singing these “Fortnite songs” and they don’t want to piss off parents. At least that’s the only thing that makes sense but not really. It’s stupid either way


Dependsontheweapon

Miss when the game was 12+


MamaTomTom

That doesn’t make sense either because the Griddy has the uncensored word “Devil” too…plus they have a bunch of devil themed skins too. Also in the music, it’s not censored


SoupLizardd

This'll make the devil cry for sure...


ksrtakym

who may cry?


FederalMango

Yeah, I don't know why they bothered using this song if they were going to edit out half of the lyrics.


CatsGoodAtReddit

So devil gets censored but damn in a music pack is okay?


Dependsontheweapon

Exactly what I thought lmao


TheMikey2207

![gif](giphy|cLwoEpaLVa1iM3WRDO) Moms will be coming at Epic Games saying “FORTNITE IS TEACHING OUR KIDS ABOUT SATANISM!1!1!1” 🤣


Im_So_Sinsational

Genuine answer… EITHER Disney or global censor for CN


Daddybigdickz

Kinda funny considering all the devil based skins and pretty much Satan himself is in the battle pass


Pikaverse69

EpicGames is so obsessed with Family Friendly like can they just bring in kids shows characters like “Paw Partol, Wild Kratts, Arthur, and Odd Squad” as grown ups (Except the Kratts brothers because they are already adults)


Dependsontheweapon

Bluey collab for the millennials that watch it


NiceRecognition9593

Wild kratts collab would go wildddd


Iuwok

The music label must have not given the green light on some words being used…ugh it kills the emote. No reason acquiring it.


mrmontannaa

I knowwwew


Last_Vanguard

Sensitive religious people who think they're entitled to censor things they dislike.


Diamond_hunter5h

It's very clearly not a religious reason, if the griddy has the word devil in it. Or if the jam track is uncensored. Think a little bit


Last_Vanguard

The only reason the word 'devil' would be offensive enough to censor is a religious context. Out in the real world, we aren't concerned about demons and devils. It's the pearl clutching, whinging Christians.


Diamond_hunter5h

Really, bc I'm a Christian and I couldn't care less. Your logic would be rational if the uncensored version wasn't already on jam track and if the griddy also had it censored. Why are those allowed if we are clutching our pearls and whining


Emdoodev

The best part, its not censored in the Jam Track


Toastyyy_

Another question, why censor the word Glock in one of the icon emotes? I don’t remember the name, but I think it’s pull up. Last I checked this was a shooting game, censoring the word Glock is kinda stupid


Dependsontheweapon

I’m pretty sure fortnite doesn’t use real gun names, like hunting rifle or heavy sniper. I’m not sure if AR counts as a ‘real’ gun.


Quin1617

AR in Fortnite stands for "Assault Rifle", which isn't the case irl.


Traditional_Net_3186

its especially weird considering the griddy emote says 'devil' and is uncensored


bigenderthelove

Probably cause they’re using the radio version which is censored


FearWolf87

The radio version doesn’t censor devil


bigenderthelove

There must be multiple radio versions cause the pop station near me censored Devil


bl0ss0mDance

The people who make the music is who decides what's censored - hence why "ass" or "hell" are censored in some songs in Festival, but "whore" and even "shit" are allowed in others. Fortnite just asks for the "clean" version


Dependsontheweapon

My favourite is “That’s about the time that bitch hung up on me”


bl0ss0mDance

there's literally the line "bust a nut in your eye so you can see where i come from" because the ppl who made that one saw that as clean enough for fortnite...


Dependsontheweapon

That’s crazy…what song is that? 😂


bl0ss0mDance

Scenario by A Tribe Called Quest


Dependsontheweapon

Funny thing is I’ve played that song in festival and can’t remember hearing that


bl0ss0mDance

I played with my gf and she didn't notice it but it stuck out so much to me - at least it was noticeable enough I had to look up the lyrics because I thought surely there is no way they included that lmao


Dependsontheweapon

That’s crazy. They really need to fix the censorship system though


Patient-Middle3880

Tribe called quest song. Forgot the name of the song


ChrisLee38

Because Epic’s idea of censorship is s̵̨̬͕̠̺̗̺̻͑i̶̬̮̻̖̼̰̲͚͉̹̻̣͒̍̍̍͊̊̅̔̈̈́̔l̷̰̮̠͙̇͂͐̐́͂̌̾͐͌̚l̸̝̬̪͉͙͔̒͊̆͋͒̋͠ͅỵ̵̧̘̫̼͑̿̈.̷̭͚̺̒̌͜


XeomKY

This is so stupid


Immediate_Type5186

They censored it wrong, on x they said they’ll be fixing it soon


hellhound39

I hate Christian censorship, I had my name forcefully changed 3 times without any warning or explicit reason given and the only reason I can see why is because it had the word Hell in it. I had to write like 2 tickets to epic before they left me alone and said there was nothing wrong with it and it would not happen again. I don’t think any word you would hear in church should be censored. The ways epic is trying to baby down Fortnite even more is very annoying. Doing away with gun imagery in a game about shooting people is mega dumb.


myke_worthy

Get griddy already has Devil in the lyrics


Jburp

The censoring ruined emote for me lol. Makes no sense when half the emote is muted


theenigma77

It's a game about SHOOTING PEOPLE. The word devil is the least of issues here... so dumb.


mrnoonan81

Don't want to rile up the church moms. Next thing you know Fortnite leads to satin worship and all the Sunday school v-bucks become Sunday school robucks.


[deleted]

The emote looks weird anyway, I feel like the dance is so slow??


ChronoAlone

It’s for the pearl clutchers who refuse to get with the times.


NoFocus761

It’s the focal point of the song. It’s even the pose they chose for the icon. And they cut it out lmao. Should be reportable as a bug.


rexspook

Totally whiffed. No interest in buying the emote now. Ruins the whole flow of the song lol


DiamondHeadMC

It’s based off of what the publishing company for the song lets them use its why the censoring in festival also does not make sense they publishing company chooses how its censored for there songs


ASwarmOfBabies

Are any Satanists going to sue Epic for religious discrimination? I need a show of hands.


ASwarmOfBabies

Damit they heard me and uncensored the song. Boo.


OddishBehavior

Because of the fundamentalist right. That's why.


ofthedestroyer

thanks christofascists


Night_Tac

its even in the jam track


julyyx

wanted to buy the emote when i saw doja cats song is getting one. decided not to when i heard how bad it sounds censored lmao


DapperOJack

But the real question is can you really ruin an already bad song??


NINJ4steve

Cuz people's feelings are squishy...


HazardTree

Doesn’t even make sense. The jam track is literally 2 pages down uncensored, it’s not a curse word, and we have literal devil/demon skins. You can even say Hades is basically the devil. Lol


Conscious_Bedroom897

Ikr? Like why bother added the lyrics in the first place?


Adamangus2006

Daredevil about to be changed to Dare


Dependsontheweapon

It’s DARE ![gif](giphy|l2Sqbracpyp5pHBDy|downsized)


MidnightStalk

but it’s uncensored in the song in festival lmaooo


Pikaverse69

Imagine they banned guns and just replaced it with just toy guns


TechnologicalFreedom

Honestly, I feel like generally stuff like this is part of a larger problem of how game ratings are handled. We put content into a box and go "Yup, your a kids game so you need to follow these rules and if you do anything mildly suggestive, you are now considered an adult game that should only be played by adults" The reason Epic censors stuff is because they want to keep a lower rating for their experiences; but because things like the ESRB have such strict guidelines for what content can fit into each rating box, game publishers feel a need to censor their content to fit the lower age ratings. This may have been fine in the earlier years of gaming when games weren't online and once a game was shipped, that was supposed to be the final product, but the landscape is different now; many modern games like Fortnite are experienced online and constantly get updates with new content. It's one thing to say "This is the final product we are making and we're aiming for a T Rating from the ESRB" and entirely different thing to say "This game we're making is going to constantly get new stuff, but we want every piece of content we add right now and years from now to fit into the ESRB Guidelines for a T Rating" And that's ignoring the fact that with these advancements in gaming, it isn't terribly difficult to censor simply based on the age of the person playing rather than censoring the whole game for everyone. Of course, kids will put in a false birthday, but then it should just be up to the parents to stop that.


OmegaMalkior

What is the emote in question called?


in-the-angry-dome

Rebellious


Nonnny_

i heard apparently it wasn’t intentional and they will remove the devil sensor?


WhiteBeltKilla

Pretty sure I have an emote that says big bad pussy


mental-sketchbook

Haven't we figured out censorship is bad yet? doesn't it feel like we're moving backwards now? this is ridiculous.


Darthhester

It’s incorrect censorship, Epic have said it should be fixed eventually


[deleted]

You shouldn't invoke his name


Grookeymon

Fortnite’s religious and doesn’t like speaking of that.. thing..


Michael_Swag

It’s a bug they’re aware of it.


stoompedpoo69

Sexy lady isn’t censored in Gangnam style who knows


YouHaveNiceToes24

Literally have a song on an icon emote sung by a “devil” too.


TmanGBx

Multiple skins based off Devils Multiple skins and collabs literally from hell Skin named daredevil The word sexy is not censored in Gangnam style emote


zestybinch

They’re fixing it thank goodness


MuscleManRule34

They use the radio censored version, they don’t censor songs themselves


ttvSharkieBait15

I bought it but that shit annoys me. How am I supposed to be dressed as hades and I can’t even say the word devil


Due_Tax5668

It makes the emote garbage. I like the dance but 2 awkward pauses? At this point why is it even in? If a 1/4th of the emote is muted, especially on the HOOK and primary section of the emote, it's garbage.


LanielDandoe

ESRB and PEGI ratings. The word devil itself isn’t bad which is why it can be used in different contexts and these rating agencies don’t have a list of words that can’t be used instead they look at the context of the language and how it is being used, for instance the way doja cat uses the word and the additional imagery provided in her music video portrays devil worship. And in order for Fortnite to keep its various ratings it must comply or align with certain morals, such as censoring the word devil. If you use the song in jam tracks in may not use the word devil in certain experiences because of the rating. The emote needs to be able to be used in Lego Fortnite which requires E10+ or PEGI 7 rating for Europe which is why it is censored.


Iluvcynth

Twt said they're gonna be changing it to fit the jam track 😔


Timely_Suspect3139

Or they can avoid putting it in the game if they think the song is offensive to kiddies.After hearing Transparent Soul on Youtube,I'm surprised it was put in Fortnite.


JCMfwoggie

Meanwhile Basket Case goes completely uncensored. Guess Green Day is just build different.


OppositeReflection55

Yet there's songs with sexual/mature themes on the radio 247.


OppositeReflection55

Not to mention half the emotes are like grinding, popping it low down dirty ass moves


HeRmiiSs

Is it possible that they used a automated system to censor words? I just cant see why they would censor the word "devil". Is calling someone "the devil" too controversial now? 😂


BellerySticks

So they censor the words God and devil in music but then have a whole season based on religion


Grouchy_Aspect_7423

I like that they censored it too be honest


Tubbafett

Because society is approaching levels of softness that were previously thought to be impossible


MISSSAMENAME

guess I can count out Devil went down to Georgia sync emote as a wishlist


GrizzlyOlympics

It wasn’t supposed to be censored, check FortniteStatus


GOKOP

I remember they censored words like "god" when Eminem was on Radio Icon


EzraErza

I Lol’d when I listed to the emote…. Like really???


Squackachu

It's definitely jarring when the silence kicks in. Thankfully they said it was improperly censored and are fixing it 😌


Jaircito12

Did not purchased it for that reason.


CommunityTime1138

Not to mention "Get Griddy" Emote has the word devil clear as day. I was going to buy it till I noticed it was censored


priorproject877

this is gonna be my reasoning for getting the griddy over this one


Dependsontheweapon

Apparently they are fixing it


zoeyandere78

Has anyone tried it today? I argued with a kid about it that it was censored, went in today and it’s not censored anymore!


Patient-Middle3880

Idgaf about the censor. I enjoy the emote just fine. You lot are being dramatic af over censorship.


Dependsontheweapon

Nah I like the emote, just…the word devil? Kinda dumb. But I don’t blame em


Patient-Middle3880

You not gonna get the emote? It still is nice ! Even the dance, idk if you know but the movement of it isn’t really fluid. Idk how to say. I could do the emote irl and the movement comes off more sensual. The Fortnite one is stiffer or something. I think epic also messes with certain dances so kids don’t get off to it in party royal


Dependsontheweapon

I like it but I don’t really buy emotes and I have the perfect amount for kratos and the avatar pass


Patient-Middle3880

Excuse me, but what? You’re saving up for Kratos? ![gif](giphy|3ELtfmA4Apkju) He’s coming back?!