People share hilarious examples of copy-and-paste jobs that went horribly wrong
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Don’t forget to read the proof! People Share Hilarious Examples Of Copy-Paste Jobs Gone Terribly Wrong
Copying and pasting can save you time, but if you don’t check, it can also lead to complete failures, with amusing results.
These images found by people in the US, Canada and Australia and collected by trivia website bored panda show why you should always read the messages you send, especially if you copied them from somewhere else.
One person sent an old pickup line copy-pasted to a new match on Tinder, but forgot to change the names.
Meanwhile, a scammer trying to recruit people for a multi-level marketing effort sent a message saying “insert name here” to a potential catch.
The Ottawa Public Health agency was red-faced after posting a tweet congratulating a sports team without first updating it with the correct information.
One person sent an old pickup line copy-pasted to a new match on Tinder, but forgot to change the names.
A multi-level marketing recruiter in the US was unfazed after the person they contacted pointed out that they forgot to change the pasted message to make it more personal.
In the US, a person was distraught after an organization emailed them about an event but forgot to update their details.
In Saratoga Springs, upstate New York, the local Walmart posted an awkward message saying it appreciated its Walmart associates without editing their names in the first place.
Readers were amused after a magazine copied an online article in its print edition and failed to remove a mention about clicking a link.
A US student was shocked to find that the person who wrote his textbook copied directly from a National Geographic article and forgot to mention the magazine’s merchandise.
A person in the US who was selling makeup through Facebook Messenger forgot to pull out the guidelines that came with the template message he was supposed to send.
A person dabbling in network marketing also forgot to remove a part of the guide that his recruiter had left at the bottom of a typographical message.
A US college professor was left ‘screaming’ after accidentally sending a link to an adult website to his entire class.
The irony! A network marketing recruiter tried to make his message more personal, but left “feature” in parentheses in the message.
A children’s learning platform in Australia forgot to edit an inappropriate reference to heroin in its definition of the word ‘thunder’