Auto-Correct Love Song shows how texting can ruin your love life
Autocorrect has become a notoriously frustrating feature we put up with every day while typing on our phones. We posted back in June about an iOS 5 texting shortcut that makes typing swear words easy to do. Normally, if you try to type the word “hell” into your iPhone while texting, the word will turn out as “he’ll.” Another well known correction is one particular four-letter word that is autocorrected to “shot.”
Indeed, the autocorrect feature can often lead to some hilarious mishaps, but also some rather awkward ones. We’ve all experienced receiving a text and staring at it in shock for a minute or two before realizing what the person was really trying to say. Often times the sender will realize their error immediately after sending and will reply quickly with a “I mean Heineken, not hermaphrodite!” follow-up text.
The good people at CollegeHumor have garnered a representation for spotting what an autocorrect-gone-bad conversation looks like. This video they put together features a guy and a girl flirting, but the guy continually keeps typing rather confusing and inappropriate things as he tries to woo the lady over text messages. He tells her he’s “thinking that you’re so beautiful, you make mucus with you eyes.” Of course, he means “music,” not “mucus.” That’s only the beginning of the 3-minute Auto-Correct Love Song.
We definitely suggest watching the video below, but we do have to warn you that it is for mature audiences.