Although since removed by Apple, a search for “butt” had revealed a My Little Pony doing something we never envisioned My Little Ponies doing, as the third result down.
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With the revamped Messages app in iOS 10, Apple has made it easier than ever to find GIFs to include with your text messages – even if those GIFs aren’t always something you’d want to share with another person.
The searches for “butt” and “huge” have since been disabled altogether, but iOS 10 only launched a day ago. There’s no telling what else iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users will find as they continue to scroll through GIF search.
So if you need to really let folks know what you think, at least you’ll have options-provided what you think isn’t sexy. The Verge also reports that a woman’s 8-year-old daughter saw a disturbing image when searching with the term “huge”.
The mother wasn’t so much complaining as much as she was surprised that it could happen.
If you search for the word “power” in iMessage right now, the first result will be a meme’d image of the Power Rangers giving a salute, with a swastika in the background and the words “Heil Hitler” flashing over them. Bethany didn’t even seem too concerned or prude.
“I grabbed the phone from her immediately”. She typed in the word ‘huge, ‘ which isn’t sexual in any nature.
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“I see the image come up like, holy s**t, whoa whoa whoa, that’s a hardcore porn image”, said Tassie Bethany. Searches for other similar words, including breasts, cock, penis, vagina, arse, ass, sex and porn and are blocked from showing results, but searches for drugs does brings up results. Any algorithm scanning the internet’s bottomless GIF repositories for crotches and boobs probably didn’t notice anything wrong with a My Little Pony acting more like she’s in a Ginuwine video.
