Why is 455 an offensive word

The chat filter is a little... peculiar. There are a lot of things that get blocked for no reason. "kiki" gets blocked (apparently her delivery service is too mature) and I've seen someone say that something like "64k" was blocked as well.

could look like "ass"? That's about it.

Only a total 309 would use "455"

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I'm from the USA and don't understand why Riot considers that offensive.

456 => okay

455 => offensive

454 => okay

Me => ?

Because Riot is comprised of PhDs who have no actual life experience and think they can alter the behavior of human beings by censoring something as ridiculous as 455.

Leetspeech or 1337

4 = A 5 = S ( although it's more common to write $ here)

https://forums.forzamotorsport.net/turn10_postsm580758_-Mod-edit---Pile--is-an-Offensive-Word.aspx

Only thing I could find, I hope it helps

YOU DON'T TYPE 455, CHECK YOUR NUMBER PRIVILEGE YOU SEXIST PIG. WE DON'T USE THE "4" WORD AROUND HERE, THAT'S OFFENSIVE AND INFLAMMATORY.

The system for censoring words is designed to see some numbers as letters so people cant avoid the system by writing sh1t, for example. I assume this means you can 'type' some swears fully in numbers.

Context matters

I wonder if it's code. I'm going to try to convert it and see what it comes out to in another base code.

It's not anything in any code up to 2^20.

I'd assume their system accounts for basic letter substitutions considering how often people use them to bypass filtering. For example,

1 = L 3 = E 4 = A 5 = S 0 = O

In this case, it might be matching "455" as "ASS" and censoring it accordingly.

Someone mentioned this once, it's some kind of slang in (I think Ecuador) for some racial slur

Maybe it means something in a different language? Like it is internet slang in a different country for something other than ass that is super offensive?

EDIT: by different language I mean like non english languages as this forum typically in english