lol. Perhaps. Hard to say- the intentional misspelling or mispronunciation of words and phrases like “lactose intolerant” or perversions like “bone apple teeth” became their own running joke that’s been dome over and over on video sites and meme sites and social media etc.
the predictive text could be showing us that a large number of people trying to look up “lactose intolerance” misspell it- but it could also be the result of searches and such for the joke itself.
One thing we can look at is that the person began typing “lack toast.” If they had typed “lac” or something like that and got the same results- that could still be because of the jokes but becomes less convincing. The fact “lack toast” is not a common pairing of words, and where those words are most often seen together would be as possibly a mistake but also a popular joke- makes it seem more likely that Google assumed they were looking for the joke a person using that tag or name based off the joke etc.
I just completed some Google search tests and “lac” returns only valid and sensible results- with “lactose intolerant” as the second hit for me.
When I search “lack” it is similar. When searching “lack toast” I get results like those pictured- which we already discussed being the likely outcome due to the specificity of pairing those words which aren’t commonly used together in any other context.
When viewing the first results page there were results for “lactose intolerant” but also results for things like Reddits dedicated to that type of joke, urban dictionary entries, blogs and such using the phrase for humor etc…
So I would still say it is inconclusive what exactly this would say about our society- perhaps what we think it says is subjective, like a Rorschach test of sorts- but I suppose most things tell us more than they may seem if we know how to read them or use them with other data points to provide us context. What is the question lol.
the predictive text could be showing us that a large number of people trying to look up “lactose intolerance” misspell it- but it could also be the result of searches and such for the joke itself.
One thing we can look at is that the person began typing “lack toast.” If they had typed “lac” or something like that and got the same results- that could still be because of the jokes but becomes less convincing. The fact “lack toast” is not a common pairing of words, and where those words are most often seen together would be as possibly a mistake but also a popular joke- makes it seem more likely that Google assumed they were looking for the joke a person using that tag or name based off the joke etc.
When I search “lack” it is similar. When searching “lack toast” I get results like those pictured- which we already discussed being the likely outcome due to the specificity of pairing those words which aren’t commonly used together in any other context.
When viewing the first results page there were results for “lactose intolerant” but also results for things like Reddits dedicated to that type of joke, urban dictionary entries, blogs and such using the phrase for humor etc…
So I would still say it is inconclusive what exactly this would say about our society- perhaps what we think it says is subjective, like a Rorschach test of sorts- but I suppose most things tell us more than they may seem if we know how to read them or use them with other data points to provide us context. What is the question lol.