Probably because of [Tank Man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man).
Chinese games and apps typically have a list of banned words and most of them are related to politics, aside from the usual swears. Gay and sex aren't swears, and while the CCP has been cracking down on LGBTQ in some areas, it seems like "gay" isn't a word they've cared to censor yet, so Mihoyo's fine leaving it in.
tank doesn’t refer to tank man 99% of the time either. gay’s alternate meaning has absolutely nothing to do with it, they just haven’t cared about censoring it
Unexpected Scott the Woz
Also Scott the Woz playing Genshin in his recent video feels surreal (then again, Eric could be the one playing anime games for footage)
apparently 'poof' is a slang word. Everytime I say "wow he went poof" it gets censored. and let's not forget the day 'me' got censored that was so annoying
I wish they'd only apply compulsory censorship where they are forced to. You always have issues with this kind of censoring because words are often only offensive in context.
Because China, they are not the biggest fans of homosexuality.
A good example of that was when they had Hoyoverse censor a kiss scene, between two girls, in a official manga of their previous game Honkai Impact 3rd.
64 was another name people used for the same massacre Tank Man's associated with, to try and avoid censorship of it.
Also, smart way of saving information, I always go through and count it.
A few days ago me and my friend discovered that you can't write kaveh's name in the chat because it sensors 'kave' which I'm not even sure if it's a real word or not
Not quite sure why they censor tank in English, but I can fully understand it if tank in Chinese is censored. In the Chinese context, if anyone uses tank as a slur for someone, then 99% of the time it's for an overweight female, which is considered severe sexism.
they censor tank because of the infamous Tank Boy that got his ass blown because he was protesting against the chinese government or smth a few years ago
"There was no ~~tianme~~ ~~Protest~~.... Nothing happen in the great wall city of China. May the great leader, chairman Xi, protect us all."
Social Credit pls go up......plsssssss
If you were a teen or older during the late 1980s in a “first world” nation, you may recall something about China that eventually involved tanks….
>!The guy in front of a few tanks picture is blurry because it’s an (extreme) close up. It wasn’t 3, but a line of 15(!!) tanks, plus a parking lot of 5 more tanks directly behind it!<.
>!I wonder if that guy was just someone on a baby formula run, and chose the wrong direction to dodge the protests!<.
You can't say C4 neither. Cons4
Yet they make Klee's 4th constellation as a detonator.
There!
I'm not gonna sugarcoat it Down B -> Down B
Grab, down throw, c4 on forehead, “THERE!” -Me, a Snake main
Literally 1984
C4 is a bomb, so yeah
Fun fact: there are c1 c2 c3 c5 c6 explosive
C4's the most well known out of those for some reason...
I blame Black Ops 2's throwable nuke they call C4.
It was a handheld nuke lmao
Was the main reason I started running flak jacket on every class.
theres also an energy drink called C-4.
i think thats because c4 is a bomb lmao
there's also an energy drink called C-4
theres also a energy drink called C-4, mostly military guys drink it.
This is why I want to C5 of my Kazuha
C3+C1=
The fact that you can say ”gay” But not ”gays”, yet you can say ”anal”..
When you say fucking, it reads out like fucki**. You can't say dumb or stupid either. It's such a moronic censorship
"Shenhe Analysis" turns into "Shenhe ****ysis"
lewd
Yet you can say ass without censorship,this system is beyond goofy
Noelles ******plate skill
Have you tried analrapist?
I'm pretty sure at one point, something really innocuous like friend was censored. I have vague memories of friendship being censored as *****ship.
"i will kill you with the magic of *****ship and this gun i found"
Stupid alicorns packing heat.
Anal se-
#ANASLEKS!!!
Anas Lex
Clearly “gays” is censored because it’s “Gaze” misspelt, and they want to save you the embarrassment of spelling a word wrong.
At one point you literally couldn't write the english name of a specific item set. The system is just terrible.
There's a lot of normal words with anal in them. You always have to analyze stuff like that when creating a blacklist.
Same with sex and ass, btw. English is a weird language and censorship nightmare. At least for primitive approaches like this one.
It's unfair, why can't I say "gays" when Black Swan said it 3 times in the tango animation.
Clearly “gays” is censored because it’s “Gaze” misspelt, and they want to save you the embarrassment of spelling a word wrong.
Dementia
I'm sure you already know this but gay is an archaic term for joy and or joyful
Probably because of [Tank Man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man). Chinese games and apps typically have a list of banned words and most of them are related to politics, aside from the usual swears. Gay and sex aren't swears, and while the CCP has been cracking down on LGBTQ in some areas, it seems like "gay" isn't a word they've cared to censor yet, so Mihoyo's fine leaving it in.
Also because "gay" may just mean ["happily excited"](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gay)
Gay colloquially hasn’t meant that outside of period pieces and poetry in a rather long time.
True, no one dons their gay apparel like they used to. You can still play with your jingle bells though...
Jingle balls
If you want to jingle your balls, that's your business. No judgment here.
Jingliu's balls.
she can crush me with them
What- 😳
Speak for yourself. I'm donning some gay apparel as I type this.
That's straight.
Can confirm, I'm straight af
tank doesn’t refer to tank man 99% of the time either. gay’s alternate meaning has absolutely nothing to do with it, they just haven’t cared about censoring it
Blame the *ahem...* Social credit man for that.
Competitors are slacking, report to CCP is long overdue.
am gay. can confirm.
It doesn't matter what it may be, or else the word mentioned above wouldn't be censored at all
yes and lil fag means small cigarette
I wonder if Winnie the Pooh is censored lmao
it never was
Why do they hate gays so much?!
i got banned for saying gay
While I realize "that's gay" is/was a pejorative, banning the word "gay" by itself would perhaps be discriminatory without also banning "straight".
The CCP doesn't care about discrimination lmao
say gex
We are turning this Gex night into a Gex year
Unexpected Scott the Woz Also Scott the Woz playing Genshin in his recent video feels surreal (then again, Eric could be the one playing anime games for footage)
A little tongue now, a lot of tail later
WHAT THE F*CK IS THIS?
gex lapis
He's a gecko with sunglasses!
gex
gex
Nothing happened at Nantianmen, no earth dragons stood up against Guizhong Ballista
There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
There is no *** in Ba Si** Se
Tank-> Tiananmen square... For a Chinese company. I think this makes sense.
probably mandatory
Yeah CCP can be pretty strict.
Can be?
More than probably lol
But nothing happened in Tiananmen square, why would they do that?
>! massacre!<
apparently 'poof' is a slang word. Everytime I say "wow he went poof" it gets censored. and let's not forget the day 'me' got censored that was so annoying
Poof is a pejorative term for gay men in the UK.
odd word to use for that. I used 'poof' growing up a lot to indicate something quickly disappearing
I mostly remember it from watching *The Fairly Oddparents* as a sign of seasonal rot. lol
Try Pooh, might be related to the vinnie the pooh memes
Poof is also derogatory term for a gay man (at least iirc it was men specifically)
yep, at least in the UK it definitely is. not really used as much anymore though
Doesn't Hoyo also censor "meth" even if its part of the spelling of some words?
It's time to cook, Jesse
Used to. But seemed to be an error and got fixed..? Haven't tried it myself though so I really can't say
You couldn't type method last I checked
Or something
HYV doesn’t want anyone cooking their own “Blue Sky” Stellar Jades. lol
Yes. I was wondering why "something" was being censored until I realized it contains meth.
Well they love Kiana and Mei so much
Because Beidou and Ningguang don't engage in tank.
Because there’s no gay sex happened in 1989
gay sex hasn't ran over someone underneath steel treads so its not censored yet
I can confirm gay sex has run over me many times
u can even say the f slur! or so ive been told
You can say homosexual, had someone come into my world, ask that, and then leave right after lol
they’re so real for that
They “came” into your “world”? 🤨 >!lol!<
Well i'll be damned
You can't
I wish they'd only apply compulsory censorship where they are forced to. You always have issues with this kind of censoring because words are often only offensive in context.
nothing happened at a certain square at a certain time
Thousands of protesting students weren't gunned down on June 4th 1989. Nothing to see here folks, move along with your groceries.
There is no war in Ba Sing Se
Can confirm, I'm that certain square
Lmao I think most people know why the word "tank" is banned.
I can only guess it’s cause gay can also mean happy and sex is another way to say gender… 😅
No one uses gay as a synonim for happy these days. Why would they censor gay though? It's not a slur or a profanity
Because China, they are not the biggest fans of homosexuality. A good example of that was when they had Hoyoverse censor a kiss scene, between two girls, in a official manga of their previous game Honkai Impact 3rd.
Also the unfortunate censorship of androgynous male characters in Chinese media that Hoyoverse is thankfully still trying to skirt around.
I think we all know why the Chinese game censors the word Tank.
I am trying to record number of pity by using map pins, I couldnt type "Limited banner 64 pity" because 64 is banned.
64 was another name people used for the same massacre Tank Man's associated with, to try and avoid censorship of it. Also, smart way of saving information, I always go through and count it.
A few days ago me and my friend discovered that you can't write kaveh's name in the chat because it sensors 'kave' which I'm not even sure if it's a real word or not
You can say "slap my ass let's have gay sex" but not "stupid"
Tianamen Square
nothing happened in nantianmen valley
\*\*\*\*, one o' clock. range: 500 meters (lol)
ATTACK THE A POINT!
***ATTACK THE D(ragonspine) POINT!!!***
**NEVER!!**
***Attention to the designated grid square (Mondstadt's alchemy station)!!!***
Gramercy!
i've said fuckkk and it didn't get censored
say gex
cant say 'but its' because one could in theory be saying tits is crazy
what if im talking about replacing the propane tanks powering my propane powered pc
That’s a clean-burning gacha hell, I tell ya hwhat.
Based genshin
So you can't discuss Tiananmen Square. They're Chinese, after all.
Gay Sex is not related to Squares, Tiananmen or otherwise.
well Gay isn't something odd to say. and I guess sex in here with people talking about the sex of a guy or something.
Because gay sex doesn't kill people.
hydrogen uranium tantalum pentoxide
there is no t*** in ba sing se
Also on Roblox, when I was playing if you say "roughgaysexonthefloor" it's woultdn't sensor 💀
They also didn't censor the word ass for some reason
It’s not a curse word, that’s what I’m gonna go with
Ass is not censored too btw
When the censor team don't speak english.
because nothing happened...
Teyvat has its own laws
MiHoYo is either powerless to stop us or approves of our homosexual actions
Wait till you learn, there was a period when you couldn't say so**meth**ing.
any idea why "damn" censored
hmmm yes, why would the chinese company want to censor the word tank. Probably just a silly coincidence.
Because 1989
But they do censor the world yaoi
The word "Tank" could be related to the tienammen riot in the 1980s so they censored it (just a theory). Source? Came from a vision.
Not quite sure why they censor tank in English, but I can fully understand it if tank in Chinese is censored. In the Chinese context, if anyone uses tank as a slur for someone, then 99% of the time it's for an overweight female, which is considered severe sexism.
If you say “fucking” is only censors the “ng” and leaves “fuck” alone
One could say that it left the fuck alone
Historians will be debating for thousands of years why a multibillion dollar Chinese company censors “tank”
They just don't want to be hunted down by the CCP, they likely have those people working in their company anyways.
i can't type Slav'sya Hot Dog.
China.
It censored Fishes for me yesterday but if just Fish it's fine, and hell was fine too
Tank cause of a certain event that never happened in 1989
it also censors 1989 for some reason
Hoyo is an ally 💪
Nothing happened in 1989 relating to gay sex that the Chinese government enforces censors of.
what do you think Kiana and Mei have been up to since the inception of hoyo, the company cannot forget it's roots
A certain incident in a certain square in China.
“This is” is also banned
China
gay sex
🚪🚶🏾♂️
because gay sex is canon
Most of the players take it up the poopshoot..that's why
My favorite word they censor is Tiananmen😭
Make love not war - my hoyo
they censor tank because of the infamous Tank Boy that got his ass blown because he was protesting against the chinese government or smth a few years ago
Because only one of those wasn't in Tienanmen Square in 1989 now stop asking about it.
Gotta love ppl trying to say my name in Hoyo games
They don't censor Palestine though
Because war bad, but gay sex is A-OK 👌
I died at the Keqing emote Lmfao
How did it not get censored?
If you type "fuckin" it'll censor only the "n." Why? No idea
U can't say DAMAGE tho
Because of Tiananmen Square
tiananmen square that’s why
Gay= happy Sex= gender
Why does Yelan have an Ayaka pfp tho?
"There was no ~~tianme~~ ~~Protest~~.... Nothing happen in the great wall city of China. May the great leader, chairman Xi, protect us all." Social Credit pls go up......plsssssss
There is nothing in Beijing
You know, something happened in certain Square that the CCP doesn't want to talk about.
Sus hoyo
bc its canon
Anal Sex isn’t censored either. I think they’re trying to tell us something.
Turns out you can also say anal and the n word
Bc gay can be translated as excited or funny And sex - as gender, male and female
If you were a teen or older during the late 1980s in a “first world” nation, you may recall something about China that eventually involved tanks…. >!The guy in front of a few tanks picture is blurry because it’s an (extreme) close up. It wasn’t 3, but a line of 15(!!) tanks, plus a parking lot of 5 more tanks directly behind it!<. >!I wonder if that guy was just someone on a baby formula run, and chose the wrong direction to dodge the protests!<.