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BitcoinFarmer
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Banning "Brazilian Phonk"

I suggest Scratch to ban Projects about “Brazilian Phonk”. These projects contain “brazilian phonk”, the music genre.
However, this means that the music is stolen from somewhere and reuploaded into Scratch.
Also, the genre is known for highly inappropiate lyrics. This website is about teaching kids how to code, not teaching them portugese curse words.

xylidine wrote:

I speak Portuguese myself, and as you said, most of these “Brazilian phonk” songs have a vulgar translation.

Last edited by BitcoinFarmer (Feb. 4, 2026 22:15:52)

Scratch_Cat_Coder8
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Banning "Brazilian Phonk"

Support
Phonk as a whole genre is typically more of a mature more 13+ genre rather than it is a family friendly genre with very few family friendly songs.
Also, like most songs on scratch are ripped from something one way or another lol don't get why that's a defining factor

Last edited by Scratch_Cat_Coder8 (Feb. 3, 2026 22:32:55)

jmdzti_0-0
Scratcher
1000+ posts

Banning "Brazilian Phonk"

let’s play devil’s advocate:

fair use applies as long as the project has creative content
curse words are normally inaudible in these songs
BitcoinFarmer
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1000+ posts

Banning "Brazilian Phonk"

jmdzti_0-0 wrote:

let’s play devil’s advocate:

fair use applies as long as the project has creative content
curse words are normally inaudible in these songs
I can counter those points though.
Fair use should not mean the way the brazilian phonk is usually served here (not as a background music or something of another project) but usually just the song playing and on the stage an image of it's cover.

Also, the curse words are not really all that inaudible. Even if you don't speak portugese, there are clearly audible curses, and often very audibly
p***ria/quote]

Last edited by BitcoinFarmer (Feb. 4, 2026 21:43:46)

BitcoinFarmer
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Banning "Brazilian Phonk"

bump
jmdzti_0-0
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1000+ posts

Banning "Brazilian Phonk"

also don’t act like this is the only genre/language with such language. i’ve heard worse songs here.

Last edited by jmdzti_0-0 (Feb. 4, 2026 22:14:07)

xylidine
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Banning "Brazilian Phonk"

I speak Portuguese myself, and as you said, most of these “Brazilian phonk” songs have a vulgar translation.
BitcoinFarmer
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1000+ posts

Banning "Brazilian Phonk"

To
jmdzti_0-0

Does that make it more appropriate for children if it is not the only genre with inappropriate lyrics?

Last edited by BitcoinFarmer (Feb. 4, 2026 22:16:33)

jmdzti_0-0
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Banning "Brazilian Phonk"

BitcoinFarmer wrote:

To
jmdzti_0-0

Does that make it more appropriate for children if it is not the only genre with inappropriate lyrics?
no? i just said that this should target specific types of songs instead of genres
mtnif
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1000+ posts

Banning "Brazilian Phonk"

BitcoinFarmer wrote:

jmdzti_0-0 wrote:

let’s play devil’s advocate:

fair use applies as long as the project has creative content
curse words are normally inaudible in these songs
I can counter those points though.
Fair use should not mean the way the brazilian phonk is usually served here (not as a background music or something of another project) but usually just the song playing and on the stage an image of it's cover.

Also, the curse words are not really all that inaudible. Even if you don't speak portugese, there are clearly audible curses, and often very audibly
(removed)/quote]
you forgot to close your quote tag
catgame_png
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100+ posts

Banning "Brazilian Phonk"

there ARE some clean ones, like PASSO BEM SOLTO.
Mryellowdoggy
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1000+ posts

Banning "Brazilian Phonk"

It's already not allowed if it has inappropriate lyrics.
Yellowsheep43
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Banning "Brazilian Phonk"

I'd say its more of a case-by-case scenario. If it contains curse words or breaks the guidelines in some way, report it. Otherwise, it's fine.
catgame_png
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Banning "Brazilian Phonk"

Yellowsheep43 wrote:

I'd say its more of a case-by-case scenario. If it contains curse words or breaks the guidelines in some way, report it. Otherwise, it's fine.

correct
mtaka4
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500+ posts

Banning "Brazilian Phonk"

I speak Brazilian Portugese, and for the songs I heard (so far), it's not bad.
BitcoinFarmer
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Banning "Brazilian Phonk"

Yellowsheep43 wrote:

I'd say its more of a case-by-case scenario. If it contains curse words or breaks the guidelines in some way, report it. Otherwise, it's fine.
For most of these songs it's the case that they're bad. The curse free ones are rarely anything but an exception..

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