It is really like

Lolita??? Bro you wanna type lolita? I bet you wanna type lolita, let me help you with that.

Now I'm pressed, I can't think of any other words that start with lol, so my question is, this must be happening to everyone?

This is not a self-own, I have done NOTHING to encourage my phone to act this way

  • AlicePraxis [any]
    hexbear
    7
    5 months ago

    it is one of the most famous novels ever written

    gboard doesn't seem to suggest it though, I got "lil" and "lolol". even if I type "nabokov wrote lol" it doesn't come up

  • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
    hexbear
    6
    5 months ago

    If you're on android and using gboard you can tap and hold the suggested word, and drag them into a trashcan that appears if you don't want them to come up ever

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
    hexbear
    5
    5 months ago

    Lola is a Spanish feminine name that means "sorrow, precious and seductive, wealth, and beautiful."

    There's also lollipop and lollygagging (and in searching I learned that's actually a euphemism~)

    • idkmybffjoeysteel [he/him]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      3
      5 months ago

      Genuinely forgot that lollipop was a word and only remembered loly, which is not that much of an improvement.

  • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    3
    edit-2
    5 months ago

    Are you on Android?

    This happens to me occasionally, and I had just chalked it up to random weirdness, but I saw someone else here mention it happening to them, too. I started paying attention to the timing and duration, and it seems to coincide with a Gboard update on my phone. 🤷 Why that would make it suddenly insist that every word that starts with L is trying to be "lmfao" or that I want to type the N word for the first time ever, idfk.

    Now I just stop trying to use the keyboard once it starts happening and give it about 10-15, and it's fine once I come back to it. I know that's kind of a shitty workaround, and I'd love another if you find it!