Gosh Dang It / Web Original

• In the review for Noitu Love, Hadriex just can't say things like "that Darn army of robots" or "that darn creator" aloud with a straight face.
• From Channel Awesome:
  • That Dude in the Suede doesn't use then because he is never angry enough (and possibly because of his religious upbringing).
  • Linkara of Atop the Fourth Wall. Downplayed in that he does curse, he just doesn't use the "more colorful four letter words" to prove that he doesn't need them to be funny. He has, however, played around with it a bit by occasionally dropping an F-bomb here and there, though they usually are delivered in the form of Curse Cut Short. His only complete F-bomb comes in The Movie, where he responds to the Big Bad's Motive Rant with "Yeah? Fuck you too!"
• The Angry Video Game Nerd:
  • An aversion in the Lester the Unlikely review, but only at the cave stage in the game.
  • In his crossover with Captain S, the Nerd was forced to tone down the language due to The New Adventures of Captain S being a G-rated show. Needless to say, it's weird as hell hearing the normally foul-mouthed Nerd saying things like "What a buttload of crud."
  • He does get to swear normally at the end of the episode, though it's bleeped out.
  • He makes up for his lack of profanity in his next review, within the first sentence.
• Ashens does this as he stops himself swearing in his "Sonic Man" (a Robocop rip-off) toy review. This was due to YouTube becoming much harsher with their monetization-appropriate content rules, although Ashens adds that he doesn't need to swear to make his videos funny. Subverted. Ashens defies thus trope immediately afterwards by describing the toy as a "Mother-fucking piss-faced lump of wanky twat shit."
• "Scarface School Play" demonstrates this trope to a hilarious extreme.
• Several Let's Play members, particularly those not associated with Something Awful, do this. Examples include the Linkara-esque DeceasedCrab, the Badbutt Manchild Sir Ron Lion Heart, and Auto-Tune NBA2K fan Chris Smoove.
  • raocow swore a lot more in some of his earlier videos, and still at times lets a swear past when stressed (usually in French), but even when that happens, they're generally not that strong. Any other time, however...
  Raocow: Oh, pumpernickel.
  • Kikoskia often says "Fiddlesticks" and the like. Out of hundreds of videos, he's sworn twice.
• Lampshaded/directly quoted in Volume 8 of My Opinions On Every Pokemon Ever.
• LPer Super Skarmory avoids cursing in his walkthroughs. As long as they're not Castlevania.
  Super Skarmory: Holy... pickles.
• Stuff You Like's Sursum Ursa, seeing as the show normally carries a PG rating.
  Sursum Ursa: He's completely batfrakked!
• SlimKirby tends to avoid strong swear words. He drops a Precision F-Strike from time to time, but it's a rare occurrence.
• A Very Potter Musical parodies this trope. In the canon of the first musical (set in the "second year" for Hogwarts students), every character swears, our hero even dropping the F-bomb once. However, in the sequel (or really the "prequel," seeing as it's set in the FIRST year of the students at Hogwarts), when Professor Lupin swears, the children cover their ears and gasp until he replaces it with something less obscene.
• Olan Rogers never uses a more vulgar word than "crap", and his videos are much funnier for it.
• This CollegeHumor sketch makes fun of excessive TV re-editing.
• The language on Eat Your Kimchi is kept pretty clean most of the time.
• Egoraptor from Game Grumps has a habit of combining this with genuine swearing.
  Egoraptor: What the fucking gosh dang!?
• PeanutButterGamer doesn't use swearing in his videos, he has said he doesn't swear because he doesn't feel he needs to.
• Bonesaw of Worm speaks like this, and chides other characters for swearing, which is actually a plot point when she's impersonating Tattletale to an amnesiac Taylor.
• Maggie Holt in Pact is unable to swear, having traded the ability away to a goblin. She gets caught out by this several times during the Toronto arc, which is a sign that all is not as it seems. When she later loses her name and regains the ability to swear, she uses it fairly often.
• Roahm Mythril has only gotten to "Bastard". Later videos never use the word, and even when the game swears, he will not.
• Parodied in Third Rate Gamer. In the Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers "review", he starts awkwardly shoehorning in G-rated curse words alongside the typical fare, in response to how the The Irate Gamer suddenly started to inconsistently tone down the cursing in his videos.
• This is a mandate whenever Pooh's Adventures tackles a mature movie or TV show. They would censor the "inappropriate content" when it involves language. The other stuff is left alone.
• Darkmindedsith tries to do this for his videos. He claims that he wants to be kid-friendly on his channel.
• In this submission to Not Always Right, an irritated customer switches to saying "poo-poo caca" when he notices that there's a young child standing nearby.
• Despite the team at Rooster Teeth being able to swear like sailors, there are a number of times where they have averted it.
  • Geoff Ramsay will not swear around his daughter and the times where he's on camera with her or doing a Let's Play, he refrains from doing so.
  • During their Extra Life '15 livestream, they got Lindsay Jones to read an excerpt from Fifty Shades of Grey as Ruby Rose from RWBY. However, she doesn't like the idea of having her character cuss, thus invokes this trope by having Christian telling Anastasia "I don't make love. I truck. I truck hard."
  • David from Camp Camp plays this very straight.
    David: What the gosh-darn-heck happened here!?
• Fighting Leaf does not swear at all in his reviews. He tries to be as kid-friendly as possible because of the types of movies he reviews.
• Josh Scorcher is not very fond of swearing. When he DOES swear, it's usually censored.
• Zig-zagged on The Bowling Otter Show. Both hosts are pretty good at keeping their own language within a clean range, even if the games they play have significantly harsher profanity. But on occasion they'll let a Precision F-Strike slip, usually when startled during a horror game.
• Timothy Mcgladden, who would rather go by the name PK (short for the nonsensical name PksparxxDathotneSS) will always exclaim "YOU SON OF A BISCUIT!" or just "SON OF A BISCUIT!!" rather than cuss. He will also say "You rooney-dooney!" from time to time. Enforced Trope in that PK generally wants to keep things family-friendly (and was commented on positively for that in at least one of his videos for showing class), and if he accidentally curses, he will go back and edit it out (at least one time doing so rather humorously with the coin get sound effect from Super Mario Bros.) However, his livestreams are not subject to this rule, as people he plays with can let curses fly because he has no control over what they say, and PK himself has been known to let his own tongue slip, especially when somebody really pissed him off by saying something so rude PK directly addressed them by explicitly saying "shut the fuck up".
• Cryssi of Diva Dirt got in a fantastic one in one editorial (and note that the website doesn't have a policy against swearing):
  "What the H-E-double hockeysticks?"
• This is the reason behind the "Let [That Guy] Say Fuck" meme. When a fandom finds out that a character frequently never swears or uses minced oaths, they usually make jokes about the giving that character the chance to launch a Precision F-Strike.
• rSlash had to start censoring himself with euphemisms in an attempt to keep his videos from being demonetized. It's easy enough with standard swear words, as most of them have a family-friendly substitute. However, more explicit content requires him to get creative. The most common is using "hugging passionately" or variants thereof in place of "sex".
• Dream and his collaborators generally try to keep his main videos clean of profanity, though streams have been known to involve some spicier language. Bad in particular likes to use "muffin" as a curse substitute. Once when killing George in a Manhunt, Dream very clearly almost drops an f-bomb, but manages to morph it into "flipping".
  • Meanwhile, over on Dream SMP, while Dream, Technoblade, and especially Bad tend to not swear often, Tommy and Quackity very much do that a lot, which has led to several comedic moments such as Tommy and the rest of Pogtopia trying to scare away Bad by swearing at him.
  • Bad also recently started to use "fudge" as another substitute for swearing on the QSMP, as a result of the server having a much more mature atmosphere with several cuss-happy server-mates regularly swearing alongside with the addition of Spanish-, Portuguese-, and French-speaking content creators on of the server.
• The 8-Bit Drummer explicitly avoids cursing on his Twitch streams. This is parodied in a bumper where he explains "alternative swearing", in which any word can sound like a swear with the right inflection.
  Jerod: Oh EGGS!
  • However, he used to use the word "shite", believing it to be a euphemism when it was actually a different swear entirely. He dropped this word when his chat pointed it out.
• YouTuber NerdECrafter has lots of cuss-word substitutions, the favorites being "holy carp" and "holy shrimp."
• Action Button: As with his other works, the host, Tim Rogers, avoids swearing on principle, even when he is directly quoting the game he is reviewing. This leads to some rather hilarious moments such as when he calls a Final Fantasy VII enemy a "Heck House". Tim even censored Cyberpunk 2077's profane dialog with the Imp death sound from Doom.
• Implied in FoxTale2614's "GET ACRONIXED" music video. The song uses "LMBO" in place of "LMAO", which seems like a typo, but it likely means "laughing my butt off" instead of the usual "ass".
• In SMPLive, Travis doesn't swear much, if at all, instead opting for words that many would see as more childish. Somewhat downplayed, as Travis isn't above being vulgar in other ways, especially in regards to sexual humor.
• Highcraft:
  • Travis doesn't swear, unlike the others.
  • All of the captions are censored, replacing swear words with other words that sound similar.

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