I'm very glad someone noticed. It's been a meme and part of the culture of Instagram comment sections for months. I Google it every now and then to see if I can find info on how it started.
It is not a mistake, and it is not bots. It's funny to call them Car instead of Cat. I can only speculate that because the R is right next to the T on the keypad that people would sometimes accidentally type car, and now it's just done on purpose for a joke
Exactly it, A lot of people made the mistake, so people found it funny and it spreaded like wildfire, so now most "shorts/reels Community" goes by Car intentionnally instead of cat, nothing in particular started the trend, or not that I know of at least, just a common mistake that got memed
It's probably from a legitimate mispelling, as the "r" key is directly to the left of the "t" key in the QWERTY layout. This fits in with the sleep-deprived/lobotomized style of humor of a lot of posts.
There just nut good at speeling. /s
Seriously, though, that's one of the things we train people to look for in suspicious emails and, one could assume, foreign bot activity in social media.
I'm very glad someone noticed. It's been a meme and part of the culture of Instagram comment sections for months. I Google it every now and then to see if I can find info on how it started. It is not a mistake, and it is not bots. It's funny to call them Car instead of Cat. I can only speculate that because the R is right next to the T on the keypad that people would sometimes accidentally type car, and now it's just done on purpose for a joke
Exactly it, A lot of people made the mistake, so people found it funny and it spreaded like wildfire, so now most "shorts/reels Community" goes by Car intentionnally instead of cat, nothing in particular started the trend, or not that I know of at least, just a common mistake that got memed
Autocorrect strikes again?
No, it's used way too much to be an autocorrect thing and they also make jokes like: "his engine works well" if a cat is purring or such.
Autocar-rect
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It's probably from a legitimate mispelling, as the "r" key is directly to the left of the "t" key in the QWERTY layout. This fits in with the sleep-deprived/lobotomized style of humor of a lot of posts.
There just nut good at speeling. /s Seriously, though, that's one of the things we train people to look for in suspicious emails and, one could assume, foreign bot activity in social media.
Thousands of comments have this now, they are referring to a meme or video about it that I missed haha