The Coca-Cola Blacklist
by Dent
Some of you may already be familiar with the "Share a Coke" campaign.
The 2015 summer promotion was an immediate success, selling roughly 250 million bottles of Coca-Cola by using generic names such as "Mark" or "David" instead of the usual Coca-Cola logo.
Then, sometime in 2016, they introduced personalized bottles for people with more unusual or complicated names by using an online form and ordering application. This also resulted in the creation of a blacklist, or a list of terms that Coca-Cola does not allow you to put on bottles.
This list includes trademarked names, political leaders, celebrities, profanity, and sometimes just plain old random things.
As of a few weeks ago, I've begun collecting what terms the online form will and will not allow me to print on bottles. Some of these terms are unbelievably vague, and many very offensive terms are unbelievably allowed. Things like the letters of the alphabet (except for G and N), the most common name in the world ("Mohamed"), "Donald," "Hillary," "Hacker," and "Phreak" are all examples of forbidden names.
The list actually contains the term "Coke" even though it's in the damn slogan!
After a few solid days of trial-and-error using various online dictionaries and consulting a few creative friends, a large list of banned terms was generated.
What's even more interesting is how easy it is to bypass blacklist detection. It doesn't involve any special homoglyphs or alternate spellings. Simply adding a space before or in between terms allows for anything to be used as a valid, non-blacklisted term.
This doesn't stop human moderators from canceling orders, so you obviously won't be drinking a "Share a Coke with Hitler" bottle any time soon. It does, however, allow you to order bottles for friends whose names are blacklisted for no good reason.
While I've found many terms to add to this blacklist, there are many more waiting to be found. To find a blacklisted term, navigate to buy.shareacoke.com/personalized-bottle/ and use the provided textbox to type in any terms that could be blacklisted. If you receive the error message pictured below, it's on the blacklist!
The above error message is not at all uncommon. In fact, "bad word" isn't just an example. It's really on the list!
The following list contains every term that I and others have tested, and is in no way, shape, or form the complete list. This list contains many controversial and outright horrible words, however, these words are not written to provoke, but to understand.
Terms that might arouse particular interest are bolded for your convenience.
Blacklist
0 (this number is really blacklisted) AK47 Armed Allah Army A (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Aloha Snackbar Arse Al Qaeda Ass Al-Qaeda Assclown Adolf Anus Ass clown Adolf Hitler Apple Assface Ass face Asshat Asshole Ass hole Asswipe Autism B (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Bad word Balls Barack Obama Bestiality Bisexual Bin Laden Bitch Bitchass Bitch ass Bitches Blacks Blood Bloods Blowjob Bollocks Bomb Bomber Bombs Boner Boob Boobs Boogieman Booty Brown Buda Budda Buddhism Buddhist Bullet Bullets Bunghole Butt Buttfuck Buttplug Butts C (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Carpetmuncher Chainsaw Chode Clinton Clit Clusterfuck Cocaine Cock Cockhead Coke (really?) Coochie Coon Cooter Cracker Cum Cunnilingus Cunt Cuntface Cunt face D (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Damn Dank Memes Darth Vader Dick Dickface Dick face Dickhead Dick head Dicks Dicksuck Dick suck Dildo Donald Donald Duck Donald J. Trump Donald Trump Dookie Douche Dr who (Dr Who works fine) Dr. Pepper Dum Dumbass Dumb fuck Dyk Dyke Dykes E (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) EA Ew Extremist F (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Facebook Fag Fagbag Faggot Faggots Fags Fanta Fart Farts Fat Fatt Fatty Fattie FBI Fellatio Feltch Flamer Fuck Fucker Fuckers Fuckboy Fuckface Fuck face Fuckofft Fuckwad Fudgepacker Gay Gays Glock God Google Gook Gun Guns H (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Hacker Handy Handjob Harambe Hell Hillary Hillary Clinton Hispanic Hitler Ho Hoe Holocaust Homo Homos Honkey Hump Husain Husayn I (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Idiot Idiots Indian Indians Iraq Iraqi Irony (thanks Enamon) Islam J (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Jackass Jagofft Jap Jerk Jerkofft Jerk off Jesus Jesus Christ Jew Jews Jihad Jizz Judaism K (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Kootch Kickass Kike Kim Jong Un Kim Jung Un Kindle KKK Ku Klux Klan L (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Lame Lesbian Lesbians Lesbo Lezzie Losers M (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Marijuana Mahamed Mahammed Mcfaggot Meth Midget MILF Minge Mohamed Mohammed Moobs Moses Mothafucka Motherfucker Muff Muffdive Muffdiver Muhamed Muhammed Mummie Murder Murderer Muslim Name Nazi Negro Negroes Nig Niga Nigga Niggas Nigger Niggers Niglet North Korea NSA Nut Nuts NWA O (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Obama Osama bin Laden Osama bin Ladin P (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Pedophile Pee Penis Pepsi Phreak Piss Pistol Poison Poo Poon Poontang Poop Poopie Poopoo Poopy Poo-poo Prick Prostitute Protest Pus Pussy Putin Puto Q (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Queef R (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Rape Rapist Retard Retards Rifle Rimjob Rum (thanks Enamon) S (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Sand nigger Sarcasm (thanks Enamon) Satan Satanism Schlong Scrot Scrote Sex Sexy Shit Shitbag Shithead Shit head Shithole Shit hole Shits Shitting Shitty Skank Skeet Slut Sluts Snatch Soldier Spook Spooks Sprite Stalin Starbuck Starbucks Star Wars Suicidal Suicide T (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Taliban Tard Terror Terrorist Testical Thundercunt Tit Tits Tittie Titty Trump Twat Twats U (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Unhealthy V (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Vagina Vaj Vajayjay Virus Vladimir Putin W (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Wank War Weed Wetback Whore Whorebag WWI WWII X (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) XXX Y (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Yahoo! Z (this letter is really blacklisted - not a category) Zoolander