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With new Chrome extension, everything is mostly awesome
Because we can all use a little more positivity in our lives (especially on the Internet), there is now a Google Chrome extension that replaces what it deems negative and/or swear words with something more awesome.
London-based creative marketing and search agency Verve Search has built an extension on Google Chrome that filters out offending words so they show up as the word awesome instead, all decked out in fancy rainbow lettering.
Take, for example, this story.
While it isn't negative, the Everything is Awesome extension keys in on one word and replaces it.
And just like that, "evil" becomes "awesome."
Kate Moss's plane incident also sees a positive spin through the extension's rainbow-colored glasses.
And it employs its own turn of phrase on the classic "It's Britney, bitch."
But while it filters certain words, like "hard" in this heading...
... it might not catch others, like "bullshit," in this headline.
Still, it could be a fun way to filter through hate mail, even if it doesn't quite key in on everything. It filters out "fuck" in the below tweet, but not "gay" (used here as a slur), or "idiot."
The extension, which you can add to your browser here, was influenced by The Lego Movieand its theme song, "Everything is Awesome."
James Congdon, Verve Search's Senior Creative Strategist, told Mashable that the UK company's founder, Lisa Myers, is a Lego fan, and was inspired by the film to "inject some positivity into search results."
The extension could be a fun way to add an unexpected rainbow to your day or maybe experiment with shielding yourself from the widespread negativity that plagues the Internet for an hour or so before you get back to fighting online trolls.
If you give it a try, though, you might want to be quick about it — copyright lawyers have been known to crack down on spinoff tech, like this Game of Thrones app, in which users were able to give a Hodor-themed shoutout to their friends. RIP.
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