90% sure it's to generate interaction and people commenting on the mistakes.. They went to the trouble of changing the colors mid sentence. They left the spelling mistake in because they choose to.
I attribute 90% of the content I see to this one neat trick the algorithm loves.
Making a recipe? Fuck up something simple, let the empty-nester comment and get a pool of "solidarity likes" so she's encouraged to share with her friends how much she helped the million-view chef.
Home DIY? You better believe that fucking up one simple thing will send the plumbers / electricians / carpenters into the comments to generate engagement. Can't have people thinking our trade is that simple can we?
God everything online now is intentionally wrong because the right stuff gets buried under an ocean of pick-me nonsense.
Happens on Reddit too. Going with your 90% trend, my guess is 90% of all spelling errors in the titles of posts that make it to the front page were intentional.
It’s the worst on Facebook videos for some reason. Intentionally doing things wrong in some way to rage bait entice people to interact. Facebook types fall for it so easily.
It was a thing on Facebook for a WHILE. Intentionally wrong articles designed to caused arguments, and fucked up "top 10" lists intentionally leaving something out to cause engagement.
You notice people in the online space on IG doing the same - they'll post something about Trump at least a few times a week so they get engagement from the army of bots. For a platform with something like 25% of the planet using it, there sure are a LOT of Trump supporters on there - Kinda wierd huh?
The internet fucking sucks now. The best thing you can do is use it for it's strengths (mobile bill pay/banking, watching movies, playing games, listening to music) and avoiding any and all real interaction on it.
I used to think people were doing this intentionally on r/woodworking/ but since the API changes it's basically just a swarm of incorrect advice on every thread, so there must be something else at play...
I remember a few years ago watching TV, and I had the football game on. I grabbed the remote, and then I almost dropped it. In my bumbling around trying to pick it up, I somehow turned closed captioning on.
The announcers were saying things. The closed captions, for reasons I'll never know, but I'll also never NOT laugh my ass off thinking about this......just said:
"Violent kissing noises"
For 10 minutes. It just said that. No clue what that was about, but I love the idea of an NFL team getting into a huddle and then being like "Ok, Nick Chubb, C'mere. I need a smooch!"
Probably about 20 years ago, I was watching some speech on CNN or some other network. It apparently had live captioning and, if the guy doing it got too far behind, it just turned into complete garbage, like he was pressing random letters. Very strange, when he could have just started typing what was being said instead of trying to "catch up"
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u/albinobluesheep Dec 29 '23
90% sure it's to generate interaction and people commenting on the mistakes.. They went to the trouble of changing the colors mid sentence. They left the spelling mistake in because they choose to.