Browser Plugin Makes Cyberbullies Talk Like Care Bears

"Harry Styles is not a GLITTERING CUPCAKE, you DELICIOUS PUPPIES."

"What a load of old sparkles, it doesn't even work for kitten glittering." (Screengrab: v-hab.com)
“What a load of old sparkles, it doesn’t even work for kitten glittering.” (Screengrab: v-hab.com)

The Internet is sometimes full of words so dirty they’d make your drunk uncle blush, but a British energy drink company has created a tool that takes curse words and changes them pink lemonade.

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The plugin works with Chrome and Safari, “and was inspired by the torrent of abuse directed to magazine GQ after they ran a series of One Direction covers,” The Daily Mail reports.

It takes bad words like — well, use your imagination — and transforms them into sickly sweet nouns and verbs. Here’s a sample review of the plugin, that’s been scrubbed sparkly clean: “What a load of old SPARKLES, it doesn’t even work for KITTEN GLITTERING, i mean take a look at those dirty fudge packers for instance and what about those SCRUMPTIOUS one is a pack of CUPCAKE”.

Obviously it’s not foolproof, having missed quite the mal mot in the above passage, but the effect is pretty amusing. It’s available at the V-Hab energy drink website, for those who want their Internet experience to be no GLITTERING fun.

Browser Plugin Makes Cyberbullies Talk Like Care Bears