Buttermelon



On LDSG, the term Buttermelon is used as a replacement for banana. It was started by LDSG Ghost on October 20th, 2016. Soon after, a feature was added to Icarus where, anytime someone mentioned "banana", it would reply with, "*buttermelon".

Initially, Icarus' responses were spammed and abused, so it was toned down to only happen by chance.

Origin
Ghost said he came up with it after his son handed him a banana, and he thought his son had said "buttermelon".

"It came out while I was playing with my kids actually lololol. My son handed me a fake banana and I thought he said buttermelon. And I was like this is genius lol" - LDSG Ghost

There is a video of the event. (see 4:10 in video)

Afterwards, there were concerns from some of the members.

"In all seriousness, we are having a ball with the buttermelon thing, but @LDSG Ghost children think a (b word that shall not be named) is a now a buttermelon. How will they be treated now?  They could really suffer mentally due the harsh aspects of society regarding something like this.  Think about it." - Skinnerbass#3373

Though there was much more support than concern.

"personally I think the word buttermelon is better that banana because 1. It sounds better 2. I can never remember how many Ns are in banana" - TheBlueNinjaz#3072

Icarus
Icarus, LDSG's main bot, was programmed to reply to any mention of "banana", with " *buttermelon*. However, this quickly became misused in chat, with a massive amount of spam being generated. To combat this, it was changed to only respond with the correction a small percentage of the time.

If you use the command, "!buttermelon", you'll be gifted with a random fun fact about them from Icarus.