Does Not Castle
Does Not Castle is an extremely popular fad that sprung off of a mistranslation. The fad started on January 16, 2015, when an Argentinian user named Koopra posted a thread about World Five of Mario Forever Remake not having a castle level, and attached a picture to illustrate the meaning his post's text lacked. However, due to the use of Google Translate, his post only said, "does not castle" (which would be more accurately translated as "Does not have a castle"). This mistranslation was immediately brought to attention on the MFGG Skype Group, where many members found it to be especially funny. After that, "does not castle" has became a recurring gag, and many had it (or a variation of it) set as their member title.
Controversy
Despite how widespread it had become, a large amount of members felt the joke had ran its course after an astonishingly short amount of time, and had become annoyed with it. On top of this, several users thought it was in poor taste to joke about Koopra not knowing how to write his own English. This led some to look down on users who joked about this, from a moral standpoint.
On February 18, 2015, VinnyVideo decided to add "does not castle" to the swear filter on the forums. Originally he was going to replace it with a random picture of a Scottish castle taken from Google Images. However, unlike the IPB forums, phpBB does not natively support using the filter to replace words with an image. So instead, Vinny changed it to "castlecastlecastlecastillo", then later Mors suggested it be changed to "VINNY IS THE BEST ADMIN EVER", and Vinnyvideo did so. Afterwards it was changed to, "DJ COCO IS THE BEST ADMIN EVER" by DJ Coco, but after some time, it was changed to, "VINNYVIDEO IS THE BEST ADMIN EVER, NOT COCO". The filter was lifted as of February 11, 2016.
The equivalent swear filter on the Mainsite added Does Not Castle to its list of terms to censor on January 3rd, 2016, replacing it with "VINNYVIDEO IS THE BEST FORUM ADMIN EVER".
Variations
There are many variations of this phrase.
- Does not castle
- I do not castle
- Castle not does
- Will castle 4 $$$
- Ventilation vents do not castle
- Castle does not castle
- The sky does not castle
- Does Not Castle 9001 - Krillin is dead again
- Does Not Castle 0.5 - Castle the Making
- Does has scarf
- But what if text is castle?
- This world does not have a castle
- Does Not Castle 404 - Castle Not Found
- Does Not Castle 9001½ - Frieza Warfare
- Microsoft Paint does not castle
- The moon doesn't castle
- Jigglypuff's pen does not castle.
- Does not
- Doesn't castle, does it?
- A World 5 that won't castle
- World 5 DOES castle!
- Not doing castle right now, ty
