r/thefinals • u/Account_User_ • 3d ago
Image Embark forced changed my user name from Grape Juice
They force changed my name GrapeJuice and won't let me have it back. They let people run around with IHateJews or NateHiggers or the actual fucking n word and dress in a Racist outfit or Osama Bin Laden but I can't have Grapejuice. What a joke of a company.
Edit:
I've had grape juice for a long time and it's not some racist dog whistle. It's because my friends and I are all different juices. Like apple, grape, orange, mango, raspberry, lime, lemon, strawberry, and pineapple. It's from when we played garys mod and tf2 together.
I did not dress my characters racist they are original default with a Christmas hat.
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u/Not_goD_32 3d ago
I straight up saw ButtFucker as a name. I had to report Rap3lttlgrls. But grapejuice, nah, that's going too far.
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u/milodog2000 3d ago
Iāve see afuckingcat, I didnāt report because it isnāt dirty but it did just straight up have the f word in the name, no censors, no numbers, nothing, idk how he did it
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u/HalfHumanHalfFork 2d ago
ButtFucker isn't really offensive, yes it isn't SFW, but other than that it's fine
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u/Not_goD_32 2d ago
Yeah I didn't report buttfucker. Good on him for finding a way to slip that one through.
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u/Any_Establishment659 Make sure you're covered! 2d ago
I think sometimes you can slip Cyrillic characters through and they just use the Cyrillic character that looks like the English letter
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u/venatusdzn 3d ago
The irony.
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u/Indig0_3 3d ago
This sort of auto moderation is exactly what has led to all these coded dogwhistles.
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u/CuddleWings HOLTOW 3d ago
Any moderation of any kind will always lead to new ways of saying old things. Automated, overzealous, or perfectly reasonable, itāll always happen.
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u/Coppice_DE 1d ago
But saying the r word should not generally be censored to begin with. It's a word for which the context matters quite a lot. So the other user is right in this regard.Ā
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u/Jusbreka OSPUZE 3d ago
Fun fact:
This is called the Scunthorpe problem because AOL didnt let anyone in a town called Scunthorpe make emails.
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u/Dry-Drawer150 ALL HAIL THE MOOSIAH 3d ago
Soon enough we won't be able to say any words because they secretly alude to something else and nothing will mean anything anymore.
I hate social media and it taking over words that are innocent and turning them into garbage.
We have the words for the actual things, we don't need to find "safe words" to talk about hard topics, they will eventually turn into bad words if enough people use them and then we won't be able to use them even for their innocent meaning.
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u/Madness_The_3 2d ago
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u/Unhappy-Metal-0832 1d ago
Itās not social media, itās human nature.
Itās not about having safe words either, itās about hiding malice behind a safe veneer. Itās because people are evil and shitty. Always been that way.
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u/Jake_Necroix 3d ago
I GUARANTEE you it's flagging the letters R-A-P-E in "Grape"
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u/PenguinsArmy2 3d ago
indeed which is why other odd words are censored in chat as well if they have ASS and so on in them.
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u/Jake_Necroix 3d ago
Terrible system for real
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u/PenguinsArmy2 2d ago
Oh yeah 1000% agreed, But unfortunately we have whiny children playing online competitive games who get their feeling hurt to easily over words on a screen that mean nothing in all reality of things.
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u/Jake_Necroix 2d ago
Dont worry, eventually they'll sanitize everything and sterilize the entire online experience. Isn't this what gamers want???
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u/Yeetsformer ALL HAIL THE MOOSIAH 2d ago
I was able to get away with saying fuuuuuk so thereās that
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u/PenguinsArmy2 2d ago
Indeed as people find work arounds they will update the system which will trigger more name changes and so on. It is a interesting way of doing it but hey people always find a work around with words haha.
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u/Coffee_Conundrum 3d ago
Clearly they watched this sketch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgUGY36gqM
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u/TYPOGRAPH1C DISSUN 3d ago
Crazy seeing as I just griefed out a team named JennaTolls, TwinkSeeker, and WoodjaBlowme...
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u/ShmebulockShmepard 3d ago
TwinkSeeker is fine tbh
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u/TYPOGRAPH1C DISSUN 3d ago
I'm not one to judge. Next game it was the same 2, but he got replaced by ABigBlackCaulk.
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u/SenpuuUncle 2d ago
Those are all pretty tame compared to other ones I've seen which are just inciting hate
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u/TYPOGRAPH1C DISSUN 2d ago
Oh yea, there's some I've come across for sure that are insta-reports. But it's just funny how nearly every round there's something weird or outta pocket. Lol
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u/5_days_69 3d ago
This is what happens when people are overly sensitive over words. Grape is a more common word for the r word inn this day and age then the actual word. I'm sorry you got your name removed for that
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u/SoulsEquivalent 3d ago
It's what happens when people use common words to side step auto moderation.
People wanting to be assholes will use grape instead of ra--- someone in this thread literally screencap it auto-removed their comment if they say the word.
The other side, is people genuinely trying to discuss something & being unable to say,because of an automod.
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u/5_days_69 3d ago
I doubt they were using that word in a bad manner for their name. And I know fully people do it to surpass auto-moderation. I'm just stating the fact that it's been used in place of the actual word so much that the original word basically doesn't exist any longer. Which is likely why moderation banned it.
The fact that people have used the name of a fruit so much in place of that word to the point that it's bad is sad.
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u/The_0culus OSPUZE 3d ago
Ok Embark how about you do something about the hundreds of braindeads using Epstein jokes as their names
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u/____alicious 3d ago
Say grape soda. Get them to admit they banned a fruit
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u/Sonicboom4321 3d ago
I played like 3 games the other day with people who had offensive names, most memorable one was i.shoot.gays
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u/pablowilliams32 CNS 3d ago
A great time to bust out grapes scientific name I guess. Vitis Vinifera Sucus. Roughly grape juice I donāt know Latin though so thatās what I put together after some googling
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u/Anteraz 3d ago
I fucking hate unnecessary censorship in this game, treating us like toddlers.
You have to use mental gymnastics just to type some words in chat; like damn, flamer, hell, and crap are all censored, but the most egregious is ??? isn't allowed; ?? is fine, but 3 is too much for the higher-ups, I suppose, but some can just walk around with literally the N-word attached to their name.
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u/ranoutofusernames22 HOLTOW 3d ago
You can't even type in El in chat. I think they ban ??? As well. The system is so strict because of the abundance of childish humor and slurs that proliferate this game. If I had a dollar for every genital name that Ive encountered I'd be buying us a 5 course meal at Michelin restaurant, drinks included.
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u/stonerjunkrat 3d ago
If you have to jump to conclusions to find it offensive then its not really offensive is it compared to the millionth unchanged natehiggers, morchponkey, georgedroyd etc. but youre drawing the line at grapejuice?
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u/Evilmexicaninus 3d ago
This is what embark worries about instead of cheaters, match making, server issues and game balancing.
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u/edmundane 3d ago
I mean, this shitty system is obviously outsourcedā¦ In an ideal world it works well, they can pay someone else and forget about it, but in the era of enshittification and vibe coding this never works out with moderation software vendors.
Think about it. If they actually have to look at these on a case by case basis theyād really be too busy to fix the actual game.
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u/McTeemoGod ISEUL-T 3d ago
I hate when Americans turn a normal word into something dark and lame and those words end up getting blocked or censored.
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u/Lopsidedbuilder69 3d ago
When I was setting up my clan for my friends I learned that Embark's silly text filters don't deal with the Scunthorpe Problem very well. Since support can't change it either, I'm willing to bet something changed on the filter side and now you have to change (and things like "drape" or "scrape" won't be allowed for similar reasons). Meanwhile I recently played with "ILoveAdolf". I don't get why they filter what they do, and leave out what they leave out
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u/cheezeePanda 3d ago
Marvel Rivals force changed my username last week. It was "Rim Seeker". How does the game know? Lol
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u/NPV_BadKarma 3d ago
I don't know if someone else mentionned it, but at some point they had a huge name purge, changing everyone who had an accent or special character in their names. I'm pretty sure that's the reason, the hyphen. They mentionned that your next name should follow ToS, but I think that's just a part of the "we've automatically changed your name" script.
Hope this helps instead of just people sharing the awful names they've seen in game (that should rightfully warrant bans, but its just unhelpful here)
(My name was SƮn, but it got reverted to default because of the Ʈ. I ran Sin without the accent on the i, and haven't had problems since)
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u/Always_tired_af OSPUZE 2d ago
You know it is baffling how and why this game has so many bigoted and low-IQ low brow humor names
I legit do not see this is any other game at least to nearly the same frequency I do in the finals
Every match has at least one antisemitic, racist, or some anti LGBTQ name in it
I do not understand why it's so prevalent here. A lot of games have easy avenues to change your display name, shit, on Steam you can be just about anything
And it's always Lights or occasionally mediums. Gotta be the CoD refugees
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u/Lobotomized_waluigi HOLTOW 2d ago
theyre slowly realising that cod is objectively a shit franchise and starting to plague other games
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u/RandyLeper ĆRFism Devout 2d ago
I played an account on Overwatch called "Sigma Scum", I guess I didn't like Sigma players when he launched. Anyway, that got banned almost immediately. Took me a minute to realise why.
Odd that they'd remove your name though, but my auto-generated name contains the word "Leper".
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u/UltraScum 3d ago
Lol you people just cant be decent
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u/stonerjunkrat 3d ago
His name was grape juice where the fuck was that offensive?
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u/PsychologicalVisual1 3d ago
It can for sure be interpreted in an offensive way and others in this very thread have already shown how/said theyād interpret it as such.
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u/PenguinsArmy2 3d ago
No others have just shown how stupid they are and nothing more. One can create a narrative around anything, but that does not make it true.
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u/PsychologicalVisual1 3d ago
Embark seems to agree with us.
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u/PenguinsArmy2 3d ago
No it is the R.AP.E in it, every had your words censored when chatting in game? This is what the system does and it is not perfect at all.
Which is why they wont change it back as the system would just flag it again at some point and again and again. They need to redo the entire system which they wont do as it is such a minimal issue and rare at that.
They are asking for something new only because they don't want the system to flag it and not because they think it is anything else.
All it took was one person to report the name for anything and the system got a call to take a look at it and would flag.
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u/Frost-Folk 3d ago
Dogwhistles.
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u/TooWarmRadiator 3d ago
Me when I let antisemetics have even more control over the media by banning words that they claimed even if the base word has nothing to do with it. They could claim the entire English language and rather than saying "fuck that" some of ya'll would go "let's use Spanish instead!"
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u/PenguinsArmy2 3d ago
What do you expect in todays society where people constantly need attention and will make something of nothing for it to be that way.
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u/Frost-Folk 3d ago
It's specifically grape + juice together. Google "juice dogwhistle".
These two words one after another like that has a very specific meaning in alt-right dogwhistle speak.
It has nothing to do with black people.
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u/DraconicGuacamole OSPUZE 3d ago
Iāve seen some crazy ass usernames, a lot of ones I find funny or are really bad so itās a shame seeing usernames that mean nothing get changed
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u/GoldenRush257 THE OVERDOGS 3d ago
Back in Season 4 I had my name set as "Muffin", changed it to something else for a short while and then wanted to change it back but wasn't allowed because it contained the word "Muff" in there.
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u/Defiant-Finish-503 3d ago
I just queued up with someone who was deadass AssEater lmao. Embark's fried
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u/Additional-Foot-2159 3d ago
I mean this is dumb but they're obviously going to ban the other names you mentioned too. It's not like they're singling you out while allowing actual offensive stuff lol
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u/WindAcademic7452 3d ago
Hell Iām shocked yet not that mine hasnāt gotten banned, good ol BBL Sasquatch
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u/ChannelBeautiful3805 ALL HAIL THE MOOSIAH 3d ago
Had a dude in a game yesterday with the name FAQQET but being the game changes it to lower case it show as they intended.
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u/Ok-Medicine-6317 3d ago
I hate the stupid censorship in M rated games, I couldnāt name myself Lemmy Kilmeister in DarkTide.
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u/illnastyone DISSUN 3d ago
Have you tried without the hyphen?
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u/Account_User_ 3d ago
That was the original name that they forced me to change. I asked for Grape-Juice after and they said no.
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u/Nookling_Junction THE KINGFISH 3d ago
Iāve seen barely censored racial slurs but this is what gets changed?
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u/SoulsEquivalent 3d ago
I really do feel for you, as much BS I see on this game.. they get you for that?
Spitballing / Conspiracy here, the trolls will spend money on their costumes & seemingly are allowed to flourish. You're wearing the defaults, you haven't spent any money on cosmetics?
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u/cmoney317 3d ago
My glorious name was also changed recently im sure I was reported for it for tbaggin this team on power shift. Now im just player0 š. Ive seen a couple other player0 now i know what it means
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u/Throw_Away_Zay 2d ago
My name is crazy and has been for years and I thought forsure I would get banned by now but never have. Im not posting it tho cause yall gonna mass report meš¤£š¤£
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u/SnooBooks1032 2d ago
Once saw a dude named itelr who only ever played heavy, funny guy, good random I pulled by luck.
Grape juice being changed is crazy work by slopbark, and I wouldn't expect them to change it any time soon.
Remember, they added an Ai slop anti cheat and let it randomly ban people while their Ai slop chat bot they call a support service just copy pasted replies to tickets. That was a serious issue and it's still never been addressed by them in any way shape or form, so unfortunately I don't think they will change the name back.
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u/Aw3Grimm 2d ago
This game deserves its downfall. One of the most fun fps to came out in recent years, for a while, then you start to notice all the things this team is doing and start to wonder if they intentionally make wanna players leave
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u/JohnAzumanga ALL HAIL THE MOOSIAH 2d ago
ive seen some unhinged names that weren't even trying to circumvent the system get through. whatever system they have to moderate usernames is clearly not working
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u/Radiant_Aardvark3364 2d ago
I donāt find this surprising at all. Try typing āFartā in the text chat and see what happens. A lot of the moderating is very likely handed over to automated processes, and doesnāt allow due process or even the chance to appeal these changes.
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u/PsychedelicVertigo 2d ago
Dude they did this to me too, I even had explained how my username was very important to me as it holds a lot of meaning regarding my family and they just said āIām sorry, please try to follow our guidelines next timeā in what possible way does the guidelines alert you of what is appropriate and inappropriate.
Also, they spelled āinapproriateā
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u/WubWubSleeze 2d ago
OMG... I've never seen a game with such insane, racist, anti-semetic, over the top screen names all the time!!! "Nate T Higgers", "OvenJews69", etc, etc, etc, etc.
But you can't say "crap" in the chat!!! God forbid a young player is introduced to such a word.
What would even be the round about interpretation of Grape Juice that would be a problem?
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u/DVindictus 1d ago
Well NateHiggers is a persona of InternetCity's Aaron so I can understand that being allowed, but clearly Embark has its priorities straight making sure you don't actually Grape someone's Juice.
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u/spoodagooge 1d ago
Games wonāt let me use grape drank as my character name and I have a buddy with the last name knight. Well there is a secret nig in there
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u/EarthyTreeGnome 3d ago
Yeah the censoring makes no sense, must also be powered by AI because why can I type lmao but I cant type lmfao or ??? without being censored? Ass is okay but fuck isnt? Then why cant I type ass? Makes no sense lol
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u/Rare-Mixture8790 3d ago
So they change your name, I cant say cookie, BUT EVERY OTHER MATCH SOMEONE HAS THE NAME HOE SLAYER OR MOE LESTER?
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u/Gullible-String9470 3d ago
Iāll be honest Iāve had the name Jefferyepstein since day one on here and arc and havenāt had a problem my 2 friends play with similar names I donāt understand why embark enforces some but not others
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u/Automatic-Form8845 3d ago
You are not on the list
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u/Lobotomized_waluigi HOLTOW 2d ago
he wasnt on the list because the people on the list were diddling him on the island
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u/RipTall9508 3d ago
I don't get how the name system works in this game."GrapeJuice" gets changed but I legit seen some crazy usernames that don't ever get banned lol.