THE VIDEO SHELF · profanity filtering
I made a talking banana
A maker builds a talking banana that reads YouTube and Twitch comments aloud on stream, then fights viewers who abuse it with profanity. He ends up building a pronunciation-based filter to catch bad words.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN shares it as a funny, technical story about phonetic profanity filtering, relevant to Soundex and content moderation threads.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Useless Duck Company
- Topic
- profanity filtering
- Format
- comedy
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2023
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From the original HN conversations
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You might enjoy this video. It’s part humor and part technical discussion on how his talking “Banana” bot was brigades by users on Twitch in an effort to make him say racist words and phrases. After he got a strike on Twitch, he patched the …
hbosch on Hacker News · 2018-06
In How Peppa Pig became a video nightmare for childrenIf you are interested in phonetic algorithms, sorting, recognizing and filtering, you will enjoy Talking Banana Twitch ban story by Useless Duck Company : [VIDEO]
rasz on Hacker News · 2018-05
In SoundexYou say that there's no "non-hacky" way, but... [VIDEO] He made a filter that did analysis of the pronunciation of the messages that were being sent. His breakdown of it starts at around 13:30
tonfreed on Hacker News · 2021-10
In The naughty username checking system used by Twitch
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