I think some of them are fake…
But some of them I can totally see.
Whether they are real or not, there is a hilarity that comes from some of the combinations that makes me literally laugh out loud, and I love that. It may be one out of ten that makes me laugh, but they are like jokes in that regard. Few make me laugh, actually, but I love them.
Plus, my apple auto correct has done things like this. That is how we found this, my wife and I were upset at some of our own autocorrect errors.
My old phone (two phones back, it was a Razr if that tells you anything) would autocorrect all sorts of things to “gourami”. Like, the fish. I mean, I did at one point have two gouramis and I assume I texted about them at some time, and the phone liked the word a lot. So I’d get “I’m going out with gourami Saturday” when in fact I was dating George.
ETA - My fiance and I picked next year’s Halloween costumes via autocorrect fail - I thought we should be Frankenstein’s monster and his bride, but it came out “mobster”, which is just going to be the cutest pair of costumes. Bride wig, flapper dress, violin case!
Some of them seem kind of forced which takes away from the humor (there’s no way I’ll believe an actual autocorrect turned any reasonable misspelling of “popcorn” into “gay porn”) but in general it’s funny in the say way that a slip of the tongue can be funny when people actually speak face to face.
I don’t care if they’re fake, I laugh uproariously.
I find most of them plausible because I’ve seen and sent really funny autocorrect errors myself. If you add a word to the dictionary yourself, it’s prioritised over other words typed with the same keys, so you are more likely to accidentally use those words’; swearwords often have to be added by the user, so they end up being prioritised.
The cameltoe one is unlikely (it probably wouldn’t be in the dictionary already, and if she doesn’t know the word she can’t have added it) but it’s still an amusing image, so still made me laugh.
A lot of these seem fake to me too, but you never know. . .
I recently got a new phone, it’s an Android-based phone with the Swype keyboard. I set my work email account up shortly after I got it and I’ve been using that to keep on top of my emails when I’m not in my office. The very first time I used it to actually respond to an email I had a very close call with autocorrect! I was typing the word “other”, which is a pretty common word, right? I got O-T-H in and the *first *suggested word was “orgy”. “Other” was actually the second suggestion, which means if I hadn’t chosen manually my email would have gone out with “orgy” in it.
Now, I’m no prude, but “orgy” just doesn’t come up in my emails or text messages on a regular basis, you know? And since it was a pretty new phone at the time, I can guarantee I hadn’t added it to the custom dictionary. It’s very strange that the autocorrect would suggest such an uncommonly used (and also generally NSFW) word in place of a very common one. Nevertheless, it’s 100% reproducible on my phone.
The other day I experienced my very first autocorrect error. A friend is borrowing our minivan this weekend and she texted me “does your monogamy have a power plug”? Much hilarity ensued…
Yes, this. Autocorrect is different in several ways from a simple spellchecker.
Based on what I’ve experienced from my RL and facebook friends who text/post from phones with autocorrect programs, most of the ‘autocorrect LOLs’ I’ve seen seem plausible. Though I’m sure some are fabricated.
And they make me laugh. It’s even better when they happen in real life. I have one facebook friend who a]posts obsessively from her iPhone and b]has a dirty mouth, an obsession with gay porn, and a twisted sense of humor… her autocorrect LOLs are the best. Especially when they somehow involve her Tea-partying Marine little brother.
I’ve gotten a few autocorrect laughs that I know are real. when you have millions of people using their phones, sending hundreds of texts per day, I don’t have a problem believing that these might be real.
I know of a guy that got ahold of his boss’s Blackberry and made it autocorrect “lol” to “Let’s go to the quarry and throw shit down there.” So he’d get texts like “Can you come here? I want to show you this Let’s go to the quarry and throw shit down there.” and eventually, my favorite:
“Let’s go to the quarry and throw shit down there. Something’s wrong with my phone Let’s go to the quarry and throw shit down there.Let’s go to the quarry and throw shit down there.”
A friend and I once got into an “O rly” fight via text message (don’t ask) and now my phone tries to correct all kinds of typos into “O rly”.
I’m sure some of those autocorrects are fake, but many aren’t. And sometimes part of the humor is in realizing that someone has typed something so many times that it’s now in their autocorrect.
Many are contrived, but the “toys for tots” one did make me Let’s go to the quarry and throw shit down there. - just the way it kept going wronger and wronger.
I have to wonder whether the doubters have ever used phones with auto-correct. I think anyone who has ever used an iphone for more than a day has witnessed the autocorrect make an absolutely absurd and horrible suggested correction.
Mine were rarely hilarious but it was only the humor that was missing, not the absurdity. And that’s the humor of autocorrect humor. We’ve all seen phones make corrections that are horribly wrong and not even close to what you were trying to type, they’re just not normally quite as funny as the Web site.
Also, I never tried to program or add any kind of corrections to my ‘dictionary’ and my iphone managed all on its own to work with my foul language.
My proudest iPhone moment was when I accidentally misspelled fuck and iPhone corrected it for me.
It’s not that I believe that phones can’t make funny autocorrect errors. And maybe it’s true that for certain people who like 12-year-old potty words (like “ballsack”) and include them in their texts a lot, then autocorrect might do that. I guess knowing what I do about human nature, it’s quite entirely possible for me to believe that a large segment of the population actually deliberately introduces these kinds of things into their online dictionaries just so this sort of “error” is more likely to happen.
I dunno, it just seems really contrived to me. Putting “ballsack” into your dictionary and then carefully constructing messages that will make it appear seems as fake to me as if it just occurred spontaneously.
Maybe it’s just me–I don’t like juvenile humor, and I like contrived juvenile humor even less. But autocorrects that do look legit do make me laugh, so I’m not a totally humorless twit. 
That is so surreal as to be a work of genius. I genuinely let’s go to the quarry and throw some shit down thered.
To all the doubters, I think you’re giving the average texter too much credit for humor and originality. I’m sure that some are fake, but many are so funny, I just can’t imagine some youtube-commenter coming up with anything like that.
Anyway, I’ve posted here before that I think DYAC is the funniest site on the web – true or not, these things make me Let’s go to the quarry and throw shit down there.
The way you have phrased this makes me think you still don’t really understand how the autocorrect function works. It’s not like Microsoft Word where you can open up the autocorrect dictionary and add words to it, or even click “Add word to dictionary.” Rather, if you type “ballsack” in a message and the phone tries to autocorrect it to something else, and you cancel the autocorrect, the phone remembers this, and from then on, not only will it not autocorrect “ballsack,” but it might suggest “ballsack” for other misspellings if it looks close. You only have to use a word once for this to happen.
Okay, fair enough. But I still wouldn’t put it past some of these folks to deliberately type words like that and cancel the autocorrect so it enters the dictionary, then try to construct messages where it pops up. “See? Look at this crazy autocorrect! I typed ‘basement’ and it put ‘ballsack’! Hurrhurrhurr!”
Eh, no big deal either way. I think the whole thing is kind of stupid most of the time, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think other people shouldn’t think it’s funny. And I did learn some things reading this thread, so I guess I understand better how it could happen at least semi-naturally. So for me, the thread was a success. 
Well, we have this mesh bag hanging in the garage, where the kids are supposed to put their soccer balls and basketballs. For some reason every time I text the boys to put away their sports equipment, they’re always laughing at me! :mad:
I actually had an attorney friend text me she was running late b/c she was stuck in cunt all day.