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iPhone Autocorrect Ruins Thousands of Attempts to Celebrate America

PICTURES: #Merica, autocorrect, and American decline

#Mercia / farrellgabby Instagram
July 6, 2015

Thanks to iPhone's autocorrect feature, thousands of people attempting to celebrate the United States of America this 4th of July by using the "Merica" hashtag wound up celebrating the old European Kingdom of Mercia instead.

The anti-American mistake can be chalked up as another reason the iPhone is inferior to Google's Android, which attempts to correct "merica" to the more American phrase, "America."

iphone v droid Merica

Of the more than 50,000 Instagram posts ruined by the #Mercia mistake were a bunch this weekend that would have been pretty top notch otherwise, such as these two girls who wanted to share their 4th of July outfits.

 

Or these girls, who "put down the textbooks for once" for #Mercia.

 

The entire Encore Beach Club apparently decided this year it was going to be celebrating #Mercia as well.

Happy 4th of July #Mercia #today love your @encorebeachclub #babes #fancy #lovethem

A photo posted by Kelly @ Encore Beach Club (@kelly_egger) on

 

Southern road trip, y'all. For #Mercia.

Late post. Road trip to FL. #USA #Mercia #southern #fun A photo posted by Lisa Arce (@lisamariearce414) on

 

In this girl's defense, only one of the 25 hashtags she felt the picture deserved was a typo.

 

Mercia even made it to Snapchat.

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Sparklers out for #Mercia.

#USA #Mercia   A photo posted by #spacecadet (@kgibson319) on

 

These Nashville girls are killing the tank game, but on a scale from one to #Mercia, how free are they?

Lake day with the bae, all for #Mercia.

Havasu day 2 with my bae #bestfriend #4thofjuly #havasu #Mercia #lakelife @britt_armendariz   A photo posted by nikki frye (@nikkifrye_mua) on

 

They made the mistake more than once, but looks like they had an awesome time.

Copy: Merica. But: #Mercia.

 

These dogs all look as American as it gets, but their terrible iPhone-owning owners ruined everything for them.

#Mercia   A photo posted by @bschwartz2 on

 

Mav was so happy yesterday... #dogsofinstagram #Mercia A photo posted by Kiki (@kikizeise) on

#dogslife. #summertime #Mercia A photo posted by E vil Larry (@evillarry) on

 

It was also apparently National Bikini Day in #Mercia.

This girl got to cross "riding a jet-ski" off her bucket list. Thanks #Mercia.

 

And finally, these girls. For #Mercia.

#Mercia #titties #yas #sparklers @mollywins pretty sure our picture was supposed to be taken. A video posted by Amanda Strahle (@straylei) on