Even the game Wordle is going woke! The terms “Harry” and “Stove” are apparently offensive now, so the New York Times will eliminate “offensive” words from the game. Yes, Harry and Stove triggered the New York Times to remove “insensitive words”.
“Something fishy is going on with today’s #Wordle284,” one player wrote on Twitter. “My husband and I solved completely different words & both were correct? I thought the whole point of the game was that the answer was universal.”
When contacted for clarification, the Times told Mashable that they replaced the word “Harry” with the word “Stove” because “HARRY is an example of an obscure word.”
Asked by The New York Post what words they consider “inappropriate,” a rep for the Times responded, “There is no specific list to share. This is something that is happening over time. For an example of an obscure word, we removed AGORA in February.”