Following their recent banishment from Reddit's largest PC gaming community, X has unveiled what company executives are calling "an innovative approach to gaming discourse authentication." The platform's new Gamer Mode, rolling out next week, will require users to include at least one racial, ethnic, or gender-based slur in every gaming-related post—a move CEO Elon Musk defended as "ensuring maximum authenticity in gaming conversations."
The feature, developed by X's "Trust & Safety Through Toxicity" team, employs advanced machine learning to detect and enforce proper slur usage. Posts lacking sufficient offensive content will be automatically flagged with a "Casual Behavior Warning" and relegated to X's newly created "Family Friendly Gulag" subfeed.
"Traditional content moderation is basically communism," Musk posted on X while streaming Diablo 4 from what appeared to be someone else's account. "Real gamers understand that victory means nothing without verbally devastating your opponents' entire ancestral lineage."
The platform has already attracted several prominent partners, including a major energy drink manufacturer and three separate companies selling gamer-focused beard oil. Their sponsored posts will automatically generate approved slurs through X's proprietary "Heated Gaming Moment" API.
Early beta testers report mixed results. "I tried posting about Stardew Valley's new fishing mechanics, but my post got rejected for being 'insufficiently authentic to the gaming experience,'" reported one user, whose account was subsequently locked for "suspicious wholesome behavior."
X's head of gaming partnerships, speaking on condition of anonymity due to being shadowbanned by their own platform, clarified: "This isn't about hate—it's about heritage. Gaming culture was built on the bedrock of saying absolutely horrible things to strangers online, and we're just preserving that tradition."
The update comes with a premium tier called "X Games Pro+" that automatically generates increasingly creative combinations of slurs for users too busy actually playing games to craft their own.
