The swear word hidden within Splatoon

[@ThomasGameDocs]

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[@lorelaimorace-kk1xz]

this will be awesome

[@Silverheart575]

I'd love to participate, but I don't think my input would be of use considering I've played about 2 sonic the hedgehog games.

[@TramiNguyen-oi3kp]

Can you upload video of Kirby voice actors please?

[@OdysseyK930]

XD

[@adamburgess311]

I started and I don’t know sonic cd and shadows

[@Dafisha]

honestly it's more suprising hearing you say it than it being in splatoon

[@Vyz3r]

It's also common knowledge among hardcore Splatoon fans that a character even swears in the game.

[@everettgeography2961]

Exactly

[@mariotheundying]

@@Vyz3r "What the f***?" -frye Oh and theres that one popular octo expansion song kinda sus Edit: you prob were talking about pearl, just realized

[@MONSTAboyGaming]

EXACTLY

[@DavidGaming69]

when did he say it

[@ardnin]

It's kinda insane how big this discovery got, it's so funny to imagine what the designer at Nintendo would think about this if they saw this online lol I also like how this is now our legacy as Splatoon Lore and script nerds

[@ThomasGameDocs]

Ah hey Ardnin thanks for checking out the video!! Your and Rassicas' work on deciphering Splatoon's various scripts is really incredible!

[@ika32]

i love ur channel lol

[@MorganNye]

@@ThomasGameDocswas that video of yours of Mario’s voice coming from a stuttering comedian a true story that happened with Charles Martinet? Was Charles hiding that secret for real?

[@SemiHypercube]

I wonder how the dev that snuck that in felt when this got uncovered to the public

[@EagleScoutGamer]

i wonder too...

[@canalso5806]

imagine if this was a coincedence

[@BusinessSkrub]

Probably a lot better than the editors and higher ups that it got past haha

[@Roseberry606]

Pride and fear, simultaneously

[@VMan776]

@@canalso5806Given the concept art version clearly mentions it translating to "you suck", I doubt this change was coincidental.

[@rassicas]

The feeling of finding the word "fuck" in a beloved nintendo game is a high I'll be chasing for the rest of my life Thanks for reaching out to me for this video! May the knowledge of Jelfonzo's Tuesday shirt spread ever further.

[@cotton-zz7ri]

You'll probably never see this but when i recently watched your splatoon iceberg vid it made love the game sm more as a newbie

[@n.e.r.d.2213]

Who asked

[@n.e.r.d.2213]

@aronvoltairenever asked

[@jdvred9210]

Funny thing: The discovery happened mere hours before Splatoon 3’s release date was revealed

[@geographygal2178]

I knew ‘booyah’ was more than it seemed

[@bouncybubble]

Booyah you

[@TAYBR00K]

Go booyah yourself

[@Psyducks-headache]

Pearl screaming booyah at tartar makes more sense

[@Maritime_Memories]

Bys

[@francoisbruggeman4531]

Booyah bomb ???

[@SJrad]

Meanwhile pearl has an old screemo music track where some part was bleeped out, implying she canonically swore.

[@squidsurge71]

Pearl literally has a song in Octo Expansion called “F******* dudes be f******* sleeping”

[@ShaOryDow]

You know what this video needs, a live reaction from Frye who has a voice sample that is pretty much her going "What ze fuck?!"

[@cloudy_xDD]

🤣🤣

[@oh_my_gauze]

And Frye’s VA also knows English. lol

[@MakiTako]

EXACTLY what I was thinking

[@lilpetz500]

It weirdly fits her character to impulsively drop an F bomb on a live recording. Like Idk we should let her say it

[@Anigaming-dz5gh]

I think it is, cuz there is a voice filter that makes you sound like an inkling. Maybe it actually was "what zeh f*ck" But they slapped on the filter and maxed out the filter

[@mochasumi]

mochasumi in the chat at 8:21 is me! Watching this unfold in real time was insane. Honestly kind of surprised they didn’t rush an update to remove it or something, as that feels like something nintendo would do. Great video that breaks it down nicely for those who aren’t as deep into the lore!

[@YtWuff]

Nice!

[@gabrielavazquez7527]

That is so cooooooooooooooool

[@pishagerudo]

and they even kept it in splat3 lol such legends

[@JetSetDman]

i love that "jelfonzo fuck you shirt tuesdays" are just a thing the splatoon community has embraced

[@ericpeterson6520]

"JELFONZO WOULD NEVER SAY THAT!!" "that's why it's on a shirt"

[@ARG-ARandomGuy]

Honestly makes sense for the Splatoon world’s punk culture

[@Glory2Snowstar]

Splatoon has perhaps my favorite in-universe fashion sense of any canon. This just serves to cement that. I hope we get this shirt somehow in 3, even if the text’s changed or removed. It just looks nice and its reputation alone precedes it.

[@LycanMOON]

As a splatoon fan,it was a wild time when this discovery was made It's now kind of the communities little fun fact whenever someone joins

[@Vyz3r]

Pearl also swears, so there's that.

[@Sku77k1d]

I remember when it was discovered and freaking out LMAO

[@KLGB76]

This is the T-shirt Nintendo employees wear whenever they update their competitive tournaments guidelines.

[@theyoshigang2009]

The thing this video taught me the most is why there is a profanity toggle on the Inkipedia.

[@lilpetz500]

"There's profanity in Splatoon" Me, who knows way too much about the series: "Jelfonzo's shirt, isn't it?" Considering his niche fashionista personality, I took it as the character ironically wearing those shirts sold in foreign languages to people for aesthetics that have hidden messages. Like when you see Westerners with tattoos in South Asian scripts they don't actually know for fashion, or shirts in Japan with confusing or inappropriate phrases printed in English for fashion. Except Jelfonzo knows what it says and finds it funny. Tldr; Jellyfish in Splatoon are probably very fluent in memes

[@SquidHominid]

It's kinda wild seeing the shirt design I made (as in, the vector trace of the shirt from the game that cowfish13 used for their shirt) show up in a Thomas Game Docs video.

[@TAYBR00K]

I always knew something is up with Inkling Boy when he says "Ngyes"

[@Rebornglitchymario4]

lol😂

[@BeretBay]

Inkling Boy has the pass though, so he's ok

[@Junichsen]

In the Splatoon universe, you can switch between races, so he should be fine

[@saber_the_silly]

I was told it was all gibberish! I wonder what else is hidden around the games

[@redwidow1358]

Well, it isn't particularly hidden, but Pearl has a song called Fuckin Dudes Be Fuckin Sleepin. The title is censored in-game, though lol Also, in the Japanese lyrics of Big Betrayal, when confronting Big Man about his collaboration with the Squid Sisters, Frye says, "You think we're gonna believe that shit?!" There's also a lot of memes and speculation around Nasty Majesty being about pussy and Shark Bytes being at least in part about Marina witnessing people get killed in cold blood, or being made to do it herself by other members of Octarian society.

[@splattwig]

⁠@@redwidow1358there’s quite a bit! A good chunk of it is just. Real life text that makes sense in the context. There’s pretty funny one somewhere in Splatsville that says “SOCIAL DISTANCING!”, and a few signs around Grizzco that just have names of food. IIRC the bathrooms in the airport stage are also labeled

[@nicholaslienandjaja1815]

Next: For Splatoon 4, they should sneak in “bitch” or “bastard”

[@cloudy_xDD]

I did not expect a Splatoon Thomas Game Docs video today, but I’m loving it. Amazing content, I’ve been watching you for a while now!

[@TheFrantastic]

I already knew this story and yet there were details I didn't know, like the guy wearing it in a tournament, this was very in depth and great to let people outside the fandom get to know about it!

[@xLinne]

i saw this a couple years back on rassicas's channel, great to see this being mentioned again

[@chaostoad]

Update! Side Order spoiler here as well, Completing Side Order's campaign for the first time unlocks Inkopolis Square, Jelfonzo remaining with his store. And the shirt remains, just on a different day now. (i dont remember what day it was)

[@lucasdunk2536]

I haven’t been involved in the Splatoon community for awhile, can’t believe I missed this storyline

[@bjarne9700]

Love how you implemented the videos topic into your intro by encoding the channel name in spatoon characters. Idk why but I really appreciate details like this.

[@gameyfirebro9645]

Frye saying "WHAT THE FUCK!?!?" (Lowkey true why does she lose so much. She has like no chance.)

[@koiyune]

she says that so many times lol

[@turbo-sturbo]

"I would like to sleep but I am editing on a deadline" got me rolling 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mattzilla331]

Nice. The swear word episodes you do are some of my favorite. My gf speaks Spanish and when you did the video on the swear words in the Spanish localized games she gasps. She couldn't believe those words got in there by accident.

[@Jennifer_Muhlbauer]

4:19 It says, "I would like to sleep but I am editing on a deadline" 😂

[@elicenyne]

"i would like to sleep but i am working on a deadline" i might be too used to the Alterna font

[@TCCO]

I wonder what PEGI or the ESRB would have to say about this... 🤔

[@metayoshi1712]

"online interactions not rated by the ESRB."

[@Liggliluff]

I guess PEGI might not care about unreadable text. But ESRB is very picky about content that doesn't even get used, so they might care.

[@Liggliluff]

​@@metayoshi1712 That sentence means "things players do, make or say is beyond what ESRB can rate". But local content actually part of the game (even if you need internet to access it) will still be rated. Jelfonso is rated by ESRB. Otherwise all online-only games would be rated E for "doesn't contain any content that isn't online interactions".

[@kpeguyebbers850]

If the ESRB actually cared, it'd be the Hot Coffee incident all over again...

[@nicholaslienandjaja1815]

What about CERO?

[@Timtams72]

There I am gary, there I am ! 8:25 Still remember this day actual comedy lmaoooo, I'll never forget the day Great video!

[@Erupto]

4:19 "I would like to sleep but I am editing on a deadline"

[@megansutton9699]

2:56 Don’t forget about Frye’s “WYF?”

[@TerraKnight27]

the shirt is in splatoon 3 now

[@BenutzernameUnavailable]

❌ speak english ❌ speak wingdings ✅ speak splatoon language

[@Sp3ctralI]

As Frye would say: WHAT ZE FU-

[@phalnx2614]

Can't believe Nintendo kept it even in Splatoon 3 lol.

[@magiaburst]

Fun-fact: In Splatoon 3, Frye has a chance to say something in gibberish that sounds like "what the fuck?"

[@grapeyv]

Oh this is so easy to understand lol 4:20 “I would like to sleep but I am editing on a deadline”.

[@flopityflips]

i think my favorite example of spoken splatoon words sounding like english is pearl saying "hello" at the switzerland live concert at the start of color pulse. like it's not even from the games but it's such a cute little detail that she says hello at the only concert that was in English.

[@elfboy-productionzz6815]

6:15 Imagine reading a sign with this script and trying to figure out if it says “Dry” or “Day” 💀 (I mean, so many of the letters share the same symbol with another letter)

[@zderpydiamond4800]

I like the idea that it was intentionally placed there knowing that people would eventually decode it, and It's Nintendo explicitly saying "f*ck you" directly to those people overanalyzing their games!

[@mdmackint]

I have a baaaaad feeling someone got quietly fired over this

[@digitalunity]

Oh that one you wrote is surprisingly readable. "i would like to sleep but i am editing in a deadline" very nice

[@Jinbustu]

Did you know in Splatoon 2 there was a song of pearl absolutely singing totally fire tunes that don’t burn my ears to hell while swearing with it being obviously censored…

[@creepermyeeper]

2:56 also, when saying “this way,” inkling boy sounds like he’s saying it.

[@MegaManNeo]

Given it's a Nintendo game, this is super hilarious.

[@MetaGamingDojo]

truee, they were known to have only made kid friendly games in the past. Now they have splatoon as a new IP along with having the bayonetta franchise exclusive to nintendo systems since the Wii U was made.

[@davebob4973]

jelfonzo does seem like he'd wear an offensive t shirt without knowning the meaning

[@RabidLeroy]

This moment really unfolded last Easter. I was about to road trip back home from the coast, and decided to check what’s the buzz on Twitter (back when Twitter meant something). And this was when I saw the birth of the Tuesday Jelonzo’s t-shirt. Need I say, you had to be there to see it unfold! The Easter gift that keeps on giving!

[@StarlitWitchy]

4:20 "I would like to sleep but I am editing on a deadline" 😭😭😭😔

[@UncleFisto]

The best part about this is that Jelfonzo speaks in a Shakespearian kind of English

[@PunchDotOrg]

wait I already know this, I think I have a splatoon addiction

[@EnricosUtLP]

4:18 "I would like to sleep but I am editing on a deadline" I think your editors are trying to tell you something

[@Technically_Techy]

Theres more swear words hidden in splatoon like in octo expansion, in on of the audio chat logs pearl gets censored a ton and fry literally says what the fuck which is funny even if it doesn't mean that. Either way its crazy to see something go from a large community meme to now people who barly play this game are gonna know now. This game has a ton or lore and it feels like most people who know of splatoon dont know that and see it as a childish braindead shooter when like its not and has a ton of complexity to the game and lore.

[@seafoodchip]

I was one of the first people to make a physical version of the shirt using squidhominid’s vector, the post I made about it attracted tons of scam bots with fake listings for the shirt, it was wild lol

[@YakuTa-dn3gr]

Jelfonzo: F*CK YOU Player: Wow, he really hates people if he puts it on a shirt.

[@Jelly_shy_guy_man]

Nintendo we found your secret

[@mindopolis6089]

If they saw the tweet Nintendo: *_screams inside_*

[@FlandoleScarlet]

The clothing in Splatoon is mainly based on contemporary Japanese street fashion. And a good proportion of the Japanese fashion scene features clothing with shocking words or incoherent sentences printed in designs that do not match the content (with the priority on looking cute or cool) for those who can read English. The 'F*** YOU' T-shirt featured in this video can be seen as a take on a possible fashion 'accident' in contemporary Japan. (Translated by DeepL)

[@stormoftara]

That's hilarious. Props to whoever snuck that one in

[@whatTFisThis]

anyone else who watches rasaicas read the title and instantly know what it was about lmao?

[@dalemonshateu6948]

4:20 I hope you got that well deserved sleep after the deadline

[@pixxyofice]

without even watching the video yet, is it fuck you tuesday

[@pixxyofice]

IT WAS FUCK YOU TUESDAY LETS GOOOO

[@alfonsedente9679]

Fun Fact: The 3rd bathroom is for team bigman

[@Stick_TheMan]

I love how long it took you to make a video about it. Like a year plus.

[@bloodystatic4156]

I feel like Nintendo should actually make constructed languages rather than just create writing systems and call it a day!

[@Liggliluff]

It's so weird seeing a calendar not starting on Monday, and marking the third day (Wednesday) and calling it Tuesday. Cultural differences.

[@MetalCapR]

4:20 I would like to sleep but I am editing on a deadline?

[@redstonecommander5190]

7:00 this song is really interesting, and actually tells us about the process of how they make the game and interviews with the creators This basically shows various concept artwork and rejected designs such as weapon designs, and character designs before the game launch

[@otaking3582]

Couldn't Rasika have just changed the Switch's internal clock to be on a Tuesday?

[@Hedgehog29746]

7:51 THE SHIRT NO WAY IT DOSEN’T SAY WHAT I THINK IT SAYS RIGHT? NO HECKING WAY

[@sackfu7952]

Honestly, a shirt litterally just saying "Fuck you" on it is the exact sorta thing you would expect to see at hot topic so if Jelfonzo's shop is equivalent to Hot topic, i can completely believe this.

[@eljaminlatour6633]

If i had a nickel every time there's a cuss word in a kid-friendly game franchise, I would have 3 nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened thrice, right?

[@bestestkpopfan]

lets not forget that jelonzo t-shirt also fuck you tuesdays and “fuck you tuesdays” as well 😭😭

[@sweater_ow]

Bro took a 10 second “fun fact” and stretched it into a 13 minute video

[@Barveth]

leave him alone, he's probably starving and needs engagement to keep himself afloat

[@sweater_ow]

@@Barveth she

[@yoshi3187]

I love it when jelfonzo says f you to me WHERE IS HIS IP ADDRESS

[@augustthetoboggan9449]

HAHA! I LOVE SEEING SPLATOON LORE BEING EXPLAINED BY A KZbinR I ENJOY VERY MUCH THAT ISN'T EXCLUSIVELY A SPLATOON CHANNEL!!!!

[@xthriteenx]

With hylian text it kinda looks like English, with this I think they just gave each character the letter they wanted too to make a swear word, and try to cancel Nintendo…

[@Nintenblox]

I swear every game franchise has a swear somewhere in it

[@MetaGamingDojo]

*Only the diehard splatoon fans* would be aware about this info, anyone casually playing the game wouldn't have known that *(it must be a secret).* I honestly don't mind this, since *I wouldn't go this far* to translate the text of someone's outfit.🤣

[@shark_girl]

FINALLY ANOTHER SPLATOON VIDEO BY THOMAS THIS NEED TO HAPPEN MORE OFTEN THIS IS ONLY THE FOURTH-

[@secondperspective6554]

4:20 "I would like to sleep but I am editing on a deadline" lol

[@luigitime9592]

funny as it is, i always would look at splatoon billboards or even just the "words" themselves and i would always imagine every single word to be a sexual word, or a swear word, i thought it was funny, never thought it was real tho

[@miakiikazu]

I remember watching this unfold on twitter it was hilarious!! This video was great it fed my splatoon lore loving brain lol

[@SirNerdTheThird5143]

I'm not usually a betting man. But I'll bet on this one. I'm 1:03 in and, if this video is about the hidden swear word on Jelfonso's shirt in Splatoon 2, I'm cutting of my right leg.

[@strawberrychangeling]

Did you survive?

[@SirNerdTheThird5143]

​@@strawberrychangeling Yeah. I wasnt actually gonna do it. But it is about Jelfonsos shirt, so my bet was somewhat right.

[@gio_frank6622]

The genderless bathroom makes sense... I don't think jellyfish have a sex or a gender lol

[@sillyman2]

no but there are more species than the jellyfish. such as... inklings and octolings...

[@Mario497]

@@sillyman2 The inkling and octollings have genders given the character select so probably the one in the middle is for the species that don't like what the original commenter said

[@kayleuwu2238]

@@Mario497 welp splatoon 3 has been pretty ' ' genderless' ', theres no gender select at all bc u can use any hairstyle, u can wear whatever u want, the gear have both equipable women and men style, there's a lot of things showing that splatoon 3 is way way way more inclusive than other games and it isn't forced or done in a wrong way

[@Mario497]

@@kayleuwu2238 There are genders in Splatoon 3, the first option allows you to select genders for 2 of the playable species in the game. Hence the 2 options for the 2 species. The hair style not being non-exclusive doesn't mean there are not genders, it just makes customising your character easier with more options and flexibility.

[@PringlesL0vr]

you say its a misspelling but in Japanese d and t are basically the same sound due to accent so it saying "tansei" and "genterless" are technically correct.

[@Tusskie]

Sometimes when saying this way, it sometimes sounds like they're saying "this way" or in salmon run, when crying out for help they sometimes scream what sounds like "help me!"

[@EchoLocator]

No way inklings are way more smart than us by finally adding NB WC on malls

[@junkdog4138]

i imagine considering how big splatoon's playerbase is, a whole lot more players would look up why jelfonzo's shirt was changed, rather than players who happen to see that tweet

[@JewelCartmanJaty]

Splatoon is worse than Sonic when it comes to profanity.

[@RiceCat63]

4:20 "i would like to sleep but i am working on a deadline"

[@AndriuxDev]

Nintendo: (is family friendly) Also Nintendo: (swears in a family friendly game about squids and octopuses) Everyone: *This is NOT okie-dokie!*

[@calum5975]

"I would like to sleep but i am working on a deadline" is pretty clear at just a glance. Looks like the word, even if the letters themselves dont look like the letters. Hard to explain!

[@autisticdoggo.]

when the inkling boy super jumps in story mode in splatoon 2 he says “squid wee wee”

[@Prismark]

12:16 Lol my meme made it into the video. You legend!