diff --git a/backend/src/constants/profanities.ts b/backend/src/constants/profanities.ts
index 3241be630..2e06e2b18 100644
--- a/backend/src/constants/profanities.ts
+++ b/backend/src/constants/profanities.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
+import _ from "lodash";
+
 // Sorry for the bad words
-const profanities = [
+export const profanities = [
   "miodec",
   "bitly",
   "niqqa",
@@ -431,4 +433,7 @@ const profanities = [
   "ass",
 ];
 
-export default profanities;
+export const regexProfanities = profanities.map((profanity) => {
+  const normalizedProfanity = _.escapeRegExp(profanity.toLowerCase());
+  return `${normalizedProfanity}.*`;
+});
diff --git a/backend/src/utils/validation.ts b/backend/src/utils/validation.ts
index bae616938..543f228b8 100644
--- a/backend/src/utils/validation.ts
+++ b/backend/src/utils/validation.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import _ from "lodash";
-import profanities from "../constants/profanities";
+import { profanities, regexProfanities } from "../constants/profanities";
 import { matchesAPattern, sanitizeString } from "./misc";
 
 export function inRange(value: number, min: number, max: number): boolean {
@@ -38,12 +38,9 @@ export function containsProfanity(text: string): boolean {
       return sanitizeString(str) ?? "";
     });
 
-  const hasProfanity = profanities.some((profanity) => {
-    const normalizedProfanity = _.escapeRegExp(profanity.toLowerCase());
-    const prefixedProfanity = `${normalizedProfanity}.*`;
-
+  const hasProfanity = regexProfanities.some((profanity) => {
     return normalizedText.some((word) => {
-      return matchesAPattern(word, prefixedProfanity);
+      return matchesAPattern(word, profanity);
     });
   });