45 Funny Text Pranks We Want to Try Immediately

Make Your Friends Lose Their Minds With These Hilarious Text Pranks

It’s always fun to mess with people a little bit. After all, what’s the point in walking around with a phone in your pocket if you don’t use it to cause a little chaos? It could be a cheesy joke, a pretend glitch, or the classic prank of switching the autocorrect in someone’s phone so their messages turn into nonsense. Take a page out of these pranksters’ books and try one of these funny text pranks.

Shifting the Shortcuts

This target is clearly trapped in an endless cycle of pecan pies (mm, that sounds delicious).

Shifting the Shortcuts

We guess that the upside of this prank for the target is that they’re going to get a bunch of tasty pecan pies from the store. On the other hand, they probably feel like they’re losing their mind.

The Grammar Gangster

Messing with the shortcuts on someone’s phone is a classic smartphone prank. This prank works particularly well on people that aren’t very technical. Otherwise, your target will realize what’s going on and simply switch their shortcut back.

The Grammar Gangster

However, if you pick on someone that doesn’t know the ins and outs of an iPhone, this works great. This text message prank is aimed at grammar sticklers, and plots to undo their correct language use. We would not respond well to this.

A Niche Newsletter

We’ve seen the un-cancellable cat facts, but what about Daily Llama Images? Honestly, we aren’t sure that we’d cancel either of these fake services. Maybe it would be a prank back to force your prankster to keep plying you with adorable images of llamas, or bits of trivia about kitties. Bring it on!

A Niche Newsletter

This llama prank includes a fake daily charge, which adds slightly higher stakes to the whole endeavor. It also hilariously asks its “loyal customers” to rate them from one to five.

Moth and Dad

This is a mixture of a text prank and a dad joke, and really, what could be better than that? We begin with a teenager living at home, texting their dad to get rid of a moth outside the bathroom door. They message their parent a few times, getting increasingly scared of the fluttering beast that’s torturing them.

Moth and Dad

Eventually, their dad responds, but in the guise of their worst nightmare — the moth. The moth warns that they will be next.

An Awful Autocorrect

Are text message pranks, in and of themselves, juvenile? Yes, they probably are. Are pranks, in and of themselves, childish? Yes, they probably are. And is this text message prank — where someone autocorrects the word “cool” to the word “farts” — immature? Well, yes it is. But, that doesn’t make it any less funny.

An Awful Autocorrect

The word “farts” is simply very funny, both because of how it sounds and because of what it refers to. Forcing someone to type “farts” is even funnier. Hey, we don’t make the rules.

The Old Classics

The “updog joke” has been around for decades at this point. It involves using the word “updog” and then when someone asks what that is — “What’s updog?” — you respond with a, “Not much, you?” The person could say “Does this smell like updog to you?” Or, “Have you added me on Updog?” Regardless, they want you to ask, “What’s updog?” Get it?

The Old Classics

In the second season of The Office, Jim uses this joke on Michael. Of course, the blundering boss absolutely loves it, and runs off to find his own target.

What’s This All A-Bot?

OK, so here’s a classic bot prank, where you text someone pretending to be an automated message. These work pretty well, especially because it’s easy to replicate the type of messages sent out by big corporations. In this example, someone is posing as ice-cream brand Baskin Robbins, but on closer inspection, it’s a pretty dodgy deal.

What’s This All A-Bot?

Really, who wants hourly text messages from anyone, never mind an ice-cream proprietor? Of course, with these pranks, responding “STOP” rarely has the desired effect.

Rick Rolling All Day Long

For anyone that has miraculously managed to escape the internet phenomena of rick-rolling, you’re about to find out what it’s all about. Basically, for over ten years now, chuckleheads on the internet have been springing the 1987 Rick Astley hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” on unsuspecting internet browsers.

Rick Rolling All Day Long

For example, you may click a link for something interesting and instead be faced with the jolly ’80s tones of Mr. Rick Astley. In this text message version, the phrase comes up every time someone types, “Hi.”

Slime Man, I’m Home

Did you know that you can create a signature for text messages on the iPhone? And did you know that you can make it something quite ridiculous and mess with someone in a hilarious way? As we can see in this example, somebody has switched their mom’s text signature to “slime man.”

Slime Man, I’m Home

We have to confess that this makes us laugh every time. It’s just an absurd thing to choose. Would there be a scenario where the words “slime man” wouldn’t be funny?

Going All Adele

There are several categories of text message prank. There’s the autocorrect and shortcut pranks, there are the glitch and bot pranks, and then there are the song lyric pranks. Basically, for this type of prank, all you have to do is insistently and sincerely send someone the lyrics from a famous song.

Going All Adele

This example uses “Hello” by Adele, which works well because its opening line seems fairly normal. Of course, it only escalates from there — “Hello from the other sideeeeeee.”

The Weapons Manufacturer

OK, this is a different category of text prank altogether. This one comes from professional text prankster Matt Andrews, who ended up compiling his pranks in a book called Textastrophe: A Collection of Hilariously Catastrophic Text Pranks. What we’re saying is, this guy knows what he’s doing.

The Weapons Manufacturer

Andrews responds to Craigslist ads with ridiculous responses. In this example, someone was looking for pepper spray, and instead was offered a hairspray flame thrower. Needless to say, they weren’t thrilled.

Where’s the Cream Filling?

Here we have another shortcut prankster, this time making their mom say “Twinkies” every time they want to say “lol.” We can’t help but feel just a little bit sorry for these moms. After all, they’re just going about their business, albeit with slightly less technological knowledge than their children.

Where’s the Cream Filling?

All they want to do is use some modern internet slang, and instead, they get hit with a Twinkie-based joke. Also, it’s adorable that this mom tells her kid to “try it.”

Reality TV Realness

Of course, when messing with someone’s shortcuts, you don’t just have to switch one word for another. You could also insert long passages of text, or strange little bits from weird reality shows that you watch. In this case, someone’s mom is trying to tell them that they’re divorcing their father (over text message, really?), and instead spouts the opening from Pawn Stars.

Reality TV Realness

In this example, perhaps it’s more obvious that this is a prank. It’s one thing to keep saying pecan pie, or Twinkies, but this?

A Prank Too Far?

OK, so now we’re getting into slightly more dangerous territory. So far, we’ve only seen text message pranks that irritate or amuse people, but this one has the potential to really mess with someone’s emotions. Warning! Text message pranks can have actual consequences, so just keep that in mind.

A Prank Too Far?

Here, the prank is to tell someone that you made out with their boyfriend. Is this a prank, or is this just a cruel thing to do? You decide.

Sometimes It’s the Simple Things

To return to a more innocent world, this shortcut prank basically switches the word “no” to the word “Moo.” OK, we’ll admit, this isn’t exactly revolutionary. But, if you’d rather poke fun than cause someone to have an emotional breakdown, this is the direction to go in.

Sometimes It’s the Simple Things

To be fair, “Moo” is so similar to “No” that this could be particularly annoying. Plus, we can’t discount the mundane embarrassment of randomly saying “Moo” to people.

Faking Your Own Death

So, this text message prank is like that episode of Friends where Ross decides to fake his own death to see who would show up at his funeral. Thankfully, this one doesn’t go quite as far, but it does involve make-believe death, and that’s something.

Faking Your Own Death

Here, Dave’s friend sends him a message, and Dave replies pretending to be his own grieving mother. His friend must have had the shock of his life, plus the made-up responsibility of informing everyone else.

Love Me, Feed Me

So, this text message prank is a bit like the song lyrics one, except it relies on people knowing (or not knowing) popular culture. For these types of pranks, you start off as if you’re being serious, but then add more details that reveal that you’re actually joking.

Love Me, Feed Me

In this example, someone starts off by inquiring about a missing cat, before describing Garfield, one of the most famous fictional cats in the world.

The Meanest Prank of All

We think it’s safe to say that this prank is the meanest one on this list. It’s also probably not one that anyone else can replicate, unless they also dated somebody that ended up with amnesia. Is this the plot of a teen drama?

The Meanest Prank of All

The prank itself is messaging someone the words, “I haven’t been fully honest with you.” Obviously, this sends the person into a spiral of paranoid anxiety. We’re going to say that it’s probably best not to go down this route.

Nyoom Nyoom Nyoom Nyoom Nyoom

Now, this person has taken the shortcut prank to a higher level, by replacing all of the words they could think of in someone’s phone. In doing so, they’ve basically removed their target’s ability to speak and be understood, which is pretty amusing.

Nyoom Nyoom Nyoom Nyoom Nyoom

More amusing is that they’ve chosen to replace every word with the nonsense word, “nyoom.” But, is any word on the internet really a nonsense word? Nope. In online circles, “nyoom” is the word used to describe something moving really quickly.

Go Get ‘Em

Here’s a good text message prank, this time taking advantage of someone’s dodgy memory from the night before. In this exchange, someone has switched their number in their buddy’s phone to “Coach Bombay,” and then continued to persuade them that they did actually meet Emilio Estevez.

Go Get ‘Em

Of course, Emilio Estevez played Gordon Bombay in the 1992 movie The Mighty Ducks, and he’s lived in our hearts ever since. Did you know Estevez is reprising his role for a 2020 reboot of the franchise on Disney+? You’re welcome.

The Proper Prank

So, this text message prank actually takes things further than the others on this list. While the autocorrect pranks do mess with the settings on someone’s phone, they don’t force it to actually shut down. That’s what happens when someone sends this piece of code to an iPhone — it literally turns off and then restarts again. How annoying!

The Proper Prank

Apparently, this was caused by a glitch in a version of iOS, and works on a range of iPhone models.

Get the Party Started

This text message prank uses the autocorrect method, but with a more specific purpose. You see, this enterprising young person changed the word “no” in both of his parents’ phones, to rather party-centric “yes” phrases. This means that when this little dude asked if he can have a party, he knew exactly what his parents were going to say.

Get the Party Started

In order to get past this, all these parents need to do was say “nope” or “nah” or “never,” but instead they just get mad.

I Am Your Father

It was only a matter of time before this text message prank came up. Is there ever a type of joke that doesn’t include some reference to Star Wars? It’s just too iconic a franchise to ever slip out of pop culture references. And this is especially true when it comes to Darth Vader and his famous line, “I am your father.”

I Am Your Father

The prank itself is just changing all of someone’s contacts to Star Wars characters, though we’re impressed with the prankster’s eye for detail.

Un-Cancellable Cat Facts

Sending someone cat facts is a type of bot prank, where you pretend that your target has signed up to a daily texting service. You start off by thanking the person for signing up, and then escalate the service as days go by.

Un-Cancellable Cat Facts

Of course, you give your target opportunities to “cancel” the service, but that never quite seems to work. Weird, right? This prankster is particularly good at imitating a bot. We can imagine their target getting more and more irritated with each text.

Just Plain Ridiculous

Here’s a texting prank that originated with a Craigslist advert. Warning to all Craigslist posters — putting your phone number online may lead to some less than sincere responses. The original poster here is in need of a band and is asking the so-called band what genre of music they play.

Just Plain Ridiculous

The prankster starts out by evading their question, and making their band sound somewhat mysterious. They then come out with a clearly absurd genre, and a stilted joke about “old people.” Lol.

The Ole Pregnancy Prank

We’re back to the high stakes prank zone, where text message pranksters really mess with their friends and families, and risk causing actual emotional distress. Seriously, guys — please think these through before doing them, because some people will just not respond well. Seriously!

The Ole Pregnancy Prank

This prankster has used the time old “I’m pregnant” gag, but via text message instead of in person. This prank works better via text, because you don’t have to keep a straight face while delivering “the news.”

Fleeing the Refrigerator

Here we have another example of a prank that has survived across time and technology. Back in the days of yore, before caller ID alerted us to who was calling, kids would call establishments and ask, “Is your refrigerator running?” The respondent would say “yes,” and the kid would triumphantly say, “Then you better go catch it!” Cue hysterical laughter.

Fleeing the Refrigerator

The text message version allows for more creativity, like suggesting the refrigerator is a vengeful and sentient creature.

Pranks Versus Reality

Now, it’s debatable whether this is actually a prank, wishful thinking, or just outright lying. But for the recipient of this text, there was a moment where they must have been either jealous or pleased for their friend. That’s sort of a prank, right? We feel like forcing fake emotion is in the prank-zone, so we’re counting it.

Pranks Versus Reality

Perhaps this “prankster” is just delusional, or living in their very own fantasy land. Regardless, we’re pleased that they at least have mac and cheese.

Quit it Already

Teehee — admittedly, this prank is right up our street, because we do love a bit of language-based humor. Obviously, it would be extremely annoying to attempt to tell your friend why you’re unhappy, and have them only respond with very literal answers. But also, ha-ha, good one.

Quit it Already

Unlike some of the more mindless text message pranks on this list, this one is almost cerebral — almost. Also, you can’t argue with these accurate responses. Lava just isn’t cool!

Wrong Number, Sorry

This text message prank is as basic as they come, but it’s also pretty funny. In order to pull this one off, all you have to do is respond, “Who’s this?” to whoever texts you. Imagine how infuriating that would be, especially if you know that they have your number.

Wrong Number, Sorry

To escalate the prank further, you simply continue to pretend that you don’t have their number. If this works as planned, the other person will start to doubt themselves.

Help a Friend Out

OK, so we haven’t come across any of these text message pranks yet, but we have to say, we’re a fan. Admittedly, we aren’t the biggest supporters of adding anxiety to someone’s life for a joke. However, we’re more in favor of someone thinking their friend is a murderer than someone thinking that their teenage partner is pregnant. Maybe that’s just us.

Help a Friend Out

This prank involves asking your friend for advice on how to hide a body they “found” in their house. And that’s it.

The Big Let Down

This is a cruel one, but it’s pretty low stakes, so have at it. In order to pull off this nasty little prank, you just text somebody that they were right all along, and ask them how much you owe them. This shady trick will cause the person to think of all the possible things they could be right about.

The Big Let Down

They’ll also start wondering how much money is coming their way, and start to create reasons why they must be owed it.

It Must Be a Glitch

When you mess with somebody’s phone, a good way to distance yourself from it is by suggesting that they have a glitch. Your phone keeps autocorrecting to, “farts?” Weird, must be a glitch. You keep getting facts about cats? Strange, it’s probably a glitch. All of your contacts have been renamed as Star Wars characters? Ah, typical glitch.

It Must Be a Glitch

This prankster is obviously relentlessly texting the word “diapers” to his friend, and then pretending that they have no idea what’s happening.

We Have Eyes on You

To be completely honest, this is our favorite text message prank on the entire list. It just makes us laugh every time we read it. To do this prank, you text one of your friends and ask them where they are, and what they’re up to. Normal enough, right?

We Have Eyes on You

Then, when they reply with the information, you text them back but pretend that you’re texting someone else about them. This will make them think that you’re spying on them, which will make them rather unsettled. HA!

I’ll Be There for You

Here’s another prank that relies on information from a fictional universe. These pranks only really work if the person you’re pranking doesn’t get pop culture references. That way, you can really dig into the ridiculously obvious details of a TV show or movie without your target knowing that you’re talking nonsense.

I’ll Be There for You

This prankster named Ross is taking on the identity of Ross from Friends — paleontology degree and everything. Their friend must have never watched an episode of the sitcom in their life.

The Horrible House-Sitter

So, this is a text message prank that you use when you’re housesitting for somebody. However, if you do this prank, then you will not be asked to housesit again. Although, it is possible that the homeowners would be so pleased that their house is still in one piece, that they’d hire you again in the future.

The Horrible House-Sitter

For this prank, you simply act as though there are a series of terrible emergencies in the home you’re in charge of caring for.

A Total Hoot

There’s a Venn diagram of bad jokes and text message pranks, and this one sits right in the middle. In order for this text prank to work, you need your target to respond with, “What? Who?” And, to be honest, do owls really make a noise that sounds like “What, Who?” We aren’t so sure!

A Total Hoot

We reckon this joke needs to be rewritten a little — or rejigged to sound more like an owl. Maybe something to do with Twix, and shoes? “A Twix, a shoe.” …Maybe not.

A Very Easy Bet

This is another pretty juvenile prank, but one that we can really get behind. What can we say? It made us smile. However, this person seems to be a pretty easy target, as they were duped into losing this so-called bet very quickly.

A Very Easy Bet

As we can see, the prankster messages somebody betting them that they can make them say “red.” With just a little bit of deflection and some reverse psychology, they’ve proved their point in no time.

You’re Absolutely Pun-Believable

This can be considered a text message prank if text message pranks are just sending someone a list of thematically connected puns. We’ll be honest — we love it.

You’re Absolutely Pun-Believable

This prank starts off with somebody texting their pal with a pretty bad joke. When their friend isn’t very enthusiastic, they add a pun that builds on the joke. When that doesn’t work, they do it again. We’d argue that this friend has no sense of humor.

The Lyrics Game

This particular text message prank is a combination of the lyrics prank, and the fictional universe prank. For those of you that don’t recognize it, these are the lyrics to the fabulous and iconic ballad, “Part of Your World,” from the fabulous and iconic Disney movie, The Little Mermaid.

The Lyrics Game

However, when presented line by line in text message format, this song looks like a series of very strange questions. Top tip — if you ever get a series of messages like this, go ahead and google it.

Like a Good Neighbor

State Farm is a large group of insurance companies that operates across the US. So, what better text message prank to pull on one of your friends than to change every contact in their phone to State Farm? Wouldn’t that be annoying? Or, wouldn’t it be hilarious?

Like a Good Neighbor

It would be funnier still if the target of the prank then messaged their contacts in order to get their actual name, and their contacts played along with the original prank.

That’ll Do It

OK, we’re back to the high stakes pranks, where a text message can elicit a seriously passionate response. So, this prank is used when your girlfriend or boyfriend keeps texting you and you want them to stop. Or perhaps you want them to explode, which is basically what happened here.

That’ll Do It

So, if your other half is bothering you with messages, you simply respond with “He’s busy” (or she). Of course, this implies that your partner is with someone else. Hmm.

Just a Touch of Joyce

This person has taken the shortcut prank to extreme levels, by replacing the word “dirty laundry” with large passages from James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. For those that don’t know, Ulysses is an extremely long and dense modernist novel that was first serialized in 1918.

Just a Touch of Joyce

This texting prank made headlines, and The Huffington Post called it “the greatest auto-correct prank we’ve ever seen.” Again, just a little bit of us feels bad for the mom in question — she’s just offering to wash his dirty socks.

A Rather Misguided Attempt

Here’s another prank that we aren’t completely convinced is a prank. It seems a little bit more like coercing someone into saying something they don’t mean to. But also, didn’t they notice what they were sending before they sent it? What’s going on here?

A Rather Misguided Attempt

Basically, this “prank” involves asking somebody a series of questions so that they will respond with a sentence that you want to hear. In this case, it’s “Will you go out with me?” in a rather roundabout way.

Doubling Down on Dodgy Jokes

And last but not least, we have another combination of old jokes and a text message prank. This text uses the age-old, “Why did the chicken cross the road?” joke — and the “knock-knock” joke.

Doubling Down on Dodgy Jokes

Did you know that the knock-knock joke appeared as far back as 1606, with Shakespeare himself using the words, “Knock, knock! Who’s there” in Macbeth? And, the first chicken crossed the road in an 1847 edition of The Knickerbocker. Sometimes, the old ones are the best ones, eh?

45 Funny Texts That Show How Easily We Misunderstand Each Other

These Misunderstandings Are Hilarious

The more we grow close to people, the more we grow to misunderstand what the other is trying to convey. This almost sounds ironic, as the contrary is supposed to happen. A person may talk about a particular topic and get an answer that does not even relate to the matter at hand. Here is a list of text conversations that carry the same irony.

Spice Things Down a Notch?

Alice should have hit the brakes as soon as she got the last text. She is probably deleting him from all of her contacts. There is nothing more embarrassing than getting your hopes raised up and then getting called to fix a silly light fixture.

Spice Things Down a Notch?

It is not entirely her fault, though. The guy is probably slow-witted to send out signals using emojis he does not understand, but gosh, he had her excited, didn’t he? How embarrassing!

The Love Triangle

Why wouldn’t Matt be okay about Kelsey dating him, though? If Matt didn’t want Kelsey to be with his friend, he wouldn’t just randomly text the guy for the occasion. Matt really needs to make better friends – ones who understand emojis – and forget about the ones who have second thoughts about him.

The Love Triangle

It looks like Matt was actually being supportive of the ‘fist bump’ gesture until a silly misunderstanding caused things to get heated.

You Got Lucky

Hitting a bus is probably something you do not want to do while you are a student driver. Unless, something triggers intense memories of how your girlfriend left you, or how you became a laughing stock at high school – it wouldn’t be okay even then, but it would be a bit understandable.

You Got Lucky

Mikey is probably a horrible driver to have hit a pedestrian, but good enough to miss an entire bus? What got into him? Proudly asserting that he missed an entire bus?

Lucky Standard

You can find so many ways to compliment your partner. Some of the lucky ones score a wonderful person as a wife, and they know that – they want to express it with compliments. However, calling her a trophy wife will probably make it seem like you’re taking advantage of her.

Lucky Standard

That is something to be creeped out about, isn’t it? Even more so when you imply it with an emoji. Why don’t you just simply say that they deserve a trophy?

The Human Evian

This is a hilarious yet confusing one. That’s because it makes us question what the person was really on. When you read the conversation at first, it seems pretty straightforward and self-explanatory.

The Human Evian

However, the response from Gene’s friend will leave you rolling on the floor laughing. Why on Earth would you write to Gene if he doesn’t even have the phone with him? We bet that whoever found Gene’s phone is face-palming himself.

New Roommate

A Billy goat usually means a male goat. However, the title also refers to William Windsor, who is the Prince William of Edinburgh. Prince Willam is regarded as Billy the Goat for some weird reason, but wouldn’t it sound amazing if Billy the Goat lived with someone?

New Roommate

Gosh, they’d be spoiled with all of his royalness. Andy sure had his slow-witted friend fooled. It’s pretty safe to assume that Prince William is not going to live with some random civilian, but what if he was actually a goat?

Just No

There are people who have such beautiful and rare names that it makes people want to go talk to them about it. However, as the saying goes, all that glitters is not gold.

Just No

For Alice, this might have been such a revolting experience to get the reply “I got it for my birthday.” Should we laugh or scoff? Everyone gets a name on the birthday, or is that not a real thing anymore?

Gold Digger

Ouch, that must have hurt right in the feels, right? People pour out their hearts and soul out to the partner they dearly love, but all they are interested in is having a 24/7 ATM machine.

Gold Digger

She even had his name saved as “Darling,” but does she say this to everyone who is filthy rich? She is probably better off being in a relationship with an ATM booth. At least, she wouldn’t be hurting anyone, but does she even care?

Money Is Love

If a person does not treat his/her partner as an ATM machine, s/he is probably way better than any truckload of gold diggers you’d find here and there.

Money Is Love

Helena is so sweet to convey the need for love and affection from her partner, but all he is thinking about is the whirring sound of the ATM machine while it dispenses the greens. We can’t tell if it was a joke or not, but for Helena’s sake, we sure hope it was.

What a Waste

Alexander is probably thinking about how spoiled his friend is. His friend got an Apple computer that probably costs a lot of money and says that it is strange and lousy. It’s possible that he may not know how to work a macOS.

What a Waste

Moreover, he refers to it as a “PC.” This’ll probably initiate a chain reaction of heart failure from all the Apple junkies who reside on this planet.

What a Party Animal

These days, there is so much to work to do and so much to think about that people hardly get a break. They often see themselves leaving for office in the morning and coming home at night, with some extra hours on the traffic.

What a Party Animal

Where is the time you spend with your family and with yourself? Some people just want to relax when they can after a strenuous work week, and so we relate to Kate’s friend on a spiritual level.

Don’t Push Your Luck

Someone you date or are in a relationship with may be very nice to you, but it does not necessarily mean that they love you so much that it’ll cause them acute breathing problems.

Don’t Push Your Luck

Is that even a real thing? Kevin’s girlfriend might have had a poker face when she read the last text, but she would be another fool if she thinks that Kevin is head over heels for her.

Sketchy Mechanics

Do experts really speak this way or are they just annoyed from giving away free tips on how to get something fixed? Whatever it may be, Steve sounds like an awful mechanic already. It’s like taking your car to a garage for maintenance work, and the mechanics pretend to do something critical and life-changing with your car.

Sketchy Mechanics

They’ll probably already know that everything is just fine and that you take care of your baby. However, you’ll probably get charged for nothing too. Sounds like Steve, doesn’t it?

Do You Want Kids?

It is not a very good feeling to be duped by a child that you gave birth to. You were born before “it,” right? You should probably be smarter than “it.” Well, kids these days do anything to have their way.

Do You Want Kids?

They’ll get overly pretentious about an emotional breakdown for money or sugary foods they are not supposed to devour. So, be prepared to deal with such hilarious blackmailing schemes!

Are You Sure?

We cannot imagine what was going through the mind of the person who received this message, but it’s more funny to think about how embarrassed the sender must have been when she realized what she had actually typed. Typos happen all the time, and they lead to the most confusing and awkward situations.

Are You Sure?

However, this one was straight up ridiculous. The receiver of the message must have heaved a sigh of relief when the sender confirmed that she meant “purse,” and not “person.”

Foolish Millennial

We are living in a world where “meme culture” rules and your grasp of internet slangs is what makes you “cool.” This is why Gen X tends to struggle to keep up with the trend.

Foolish Millennial

As a child, it’s on you to teach them these texting slangs so they don’t feel left out, no matter how antsy the process may get! Be that as it may, this exchange was ironically coincidental and absolutely hilarious.

739 Kids

We have all been through the experience of texting a wrong number at least once! Whether it naturally happened or we intentionally texted our crush just like that! Well, that’s another story. However, this message thread was really confusing at first.

739 Kids

The most hilarious part was when the stranger mistook a location named 739 babies as 739 actual babies! On top of that, when the texter realized the mistake, our wrong number stranger got pretty offended!

Ex on the Loose

This one has to be the most classic yet brutal response from an ex on the internet. Thanks to technology, all our exe’s contacts are now at the touch of our fingertips. They are literally just one text away.

Ex on the Loose

Sometimes it can be too tempting to reach out and take a jab at them. This is exactly what this girl did. While her comeback is undoubtedly devious, it is absolutely hilarious too.

100.4 Degree Pregnant!

Let’s be real, looking at a thermometer will never be the same again. If you squint your eyes a bit, you can see that this thermometer does look a lot like a pregnancy test. We’ll give this friend the benefit of doubt and assume that he was sleepy.

100.4 Degree Pregnant!

On account of the fact that this guy can’t differentiate between a pregnancy stick and a thermometer, we can also assume he is not ready to be a father yet!

The Brutal Ex

If you have ever been in a relationship, there’s a good chance that you received some unwanted texts from your ex. A lot of the times, these texts seem to be pretty ridiculous, but this one is straight-up brutal.

The Brutal Ex

This boyfriend called out her ex for being fake and labeled her as “plastic.” While it’s not on us to decide if she’s fake or not, this conversation is gold – no doubt about that.

Queen of Overthinking

This picture perfectly represents what it is like to be an extreme overthinker. This is also a solid example of texts that only a mother would send to her child.

Queen of Overthinking

While the level of palpable awkwardness in the picture is enough to make you sweat, it is also hilarious enough to make you laugh out loud. Well, that’s what moms are for, to make you laugh and feel downright uncomfortable.

Tech-Troubled Dad

Dads aren’t exactly the masters of patience and multi-tasking, and when it comes to texting language, they still have a lot to learn. Take this dad, for example. The response he gave her daughter after thousands of texts saying he’s in a meeting, is hilarious enough to make anyone’s day.

Tech-Troubled Dad

We can’t thank his daughter enough for posting this, and in just a matter of time, this conversation blew up. Even with tons of text fails loitering on the internet, this one will always remain a classic.

Desperate for Care

Although we have managed to make incredible strides in the field of communication, sometimes, it causes disastrous results. This mishap could’ve been easily ignored if it was a face to face conversation. Even though this conversation comes off as “funny,” it’s a little heartbreaking.

Desperate for Care

The girl seems to be desperate for love and care and is in search of a shoulder to cry on. We hope the driver was kind enough to comfort her on his way to drop her off.

We’re Crying Too

Just because someone belongs to the Gen Z generation, that does not make them a text language expert right away, and this conversation is a top-notch example of that.

We’re Crying Too

The only explanation as to why this person didn’t know that the water delivery guy was talking about “address” when he said “add” is that the person had to be living under a rock. In spite of the fact that he is just a “water delivery guy,” he outsmarted the girl in modern texting language, and we are here for it.

New Hand, Who This?

If you want to understand the whole context, then read the names again! Luke and Vader. Who and what does that remind you of? Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader from Star Wars, of course! Now about the wave.

New Hand, Who This?

Is it a wave or the hand Luke lost to Vader? Well, from that context, this text was pretty hilarious. However, in the movie, that was a big heartburn. We hope you are okay, Luke!

Panic! At the Everywhere

The cultural shift from talking over the phone to texting has changed the whole dating culture to a great degree. Just about 20 years ago, no one would dissect a mere “ok” to see if it had an angry tone to it.

Panic! At the Everywhere

Unfortunately, this is something that we all do now, and this is the reason this picture blew up on the internet. The number of people who found this conversation relatable is mind-bogglingly frustrating.

Not so Tech-savvy Dad

This is exactly why some people are saying that parents shouldn’t text. When parents try to keep up with modern technology, the outcomes can be pretty hilarious. Text mishaps are nothing new for them, especially when they’ve just gotten their hands on a new iPhone.

Not so Tech-savvy Dad

This dad just became a little confused with the auto text feature and bombarded his child with texts without even knowing it. The kid ended up tweeting it, and the internet loved it!

Acronym Master

We have all seen funny text fails that are generally the result of autocorrect, but texts like this are laugh-out-loud worthy funny. No one has ridiculed the modern texting language more than our parents, and this mom is no exception.

Acronym Master

She is under the impression that LOL means Lots of Love, and her child didn’t shy away from pointing it out. All jokes aside, how the Gen X generation came up with this brilliant acronym is still a wonder.

Grandma Starts Beatboxing!

We all see our grannies as the softest form of a human being but hold your imagination. This granny can make you and break you! We believe the term “long life milk” has a lot to do with the entire scenario. It was the MVP in this hilarious granny grandkid conversation.

Grandma Starts Beatboxing!

We loved how the kid responded. The kid has humor and guts! Granny, if you are reading this, we will bring you milk with longer expiration, and you’ll include us in the will, right?

Grammar Police Mom

People who are fussy about grammar can easily get on your nerves. They are pro at pointing out your mistakes and making you feel embarrassed.

Grammar Police Mom

All in all, they will annoy the heck out of you, but if it wasn’t for them or your grammar police mom, you’d continue to make this mistake and wouldn’t even bother to correct it. If your mom is a lot like the mom in this conversation, thank her right away and send some grammar fail memes in her way.

It Is What it Is!

You know you are too much into hip hop these days when you find nothing wrong with the second text! In this conversation, someone asked Marco his street name – as in, his address.

It is What it Is!

Now, anyone would typically assume that the person is talking about an actual street. However, our home boy assumed that he was asked his nickname in the streets! That was an honest mistake. Nevertheless, it’d be cool to have a street named Lil marco.

Miss Cranky Pants

Watch out, boyfriends! Nothing – we repeat, nothing – can get your girlfriends blood pumping like delicious takeout food. Does it sound too good to be true? Well, it’s not! This girlfriend in this conversation clearly doesn’t want to have pasta and is straight-up angry at her boyfriend.

Miss Cranky Pants

There’s a great chance you’ll end up getting brownie points instead of getting on her nerves if you get your girl the food she’s been craving.

Take Notes, Kids

Arguing with your mom is never a good option. It never has been. If your mom asks you not to text her, then just don’t text her. Is that so hard to follow?

Take Notes, Kids

Even if it is, just don’t end up doing something that she forbids you to do. All you have to do is listen to her and try your best not to make her mad. Only then will everything go right in this world.

You Had One Job, Flowerpot!

This text thread is so hilarious that we are not only laughing at what happened to George’s friend but the whole scenario. Does it remind you of the meme where two Spidermen are pointing at each other? Or are we the only ones with crack humor?

You Had One Job, Flowerpot!

Also, what’s with the flowerpot? It had one job, and that was to sit! How did the flowerpot mess that up? This will keep us up at night for the next few weeks!

Parent of the Year

Parents teach us most of the basics in life, except for drinking! Why not? Teach us how to get five drinks down and not drunk text an ex. That would be the best lesson a kid can learn.

Parent of the Year

This parent decided to step up for all of us and teach the kid how to drink. The kid got excited just to realize that the word “drive” had gotten autocorrected to “drink”! Sigh, we were this close to victory this time!

Screaming Mommy

Uppercase words are usually referred to as shouting. This mom right here had no clue about that, and we are just glad that most of our parents are like her. Can you imagine what would happen if they knew about it, though? That’s right!

Screaming Mommy

They wouldn’t stop using the caps lock and wouldn’t miss a single chance to scream at us. The good thing is that it would be nice for a change to get yelled at over text.

Time to Snooze Creativity!

Snoozing alarm clocks when you sleep has become the norm. You do it, we do it – everyone does it! Here, creative head mittens did the same thing.

Time to Snooze Creativity!

As much as we are excited about the War & Cheese play, we are excited about your nap and the infamous snoozing game too. Don’t worry, even if the world misunderstands you, we know why one would wake up at any time from 3:00pm to 4:45pm.

You Only Live Once

People often have some of those days when they are too fuddled to think properly. They talk too much when they are intoxicated and blurt out secrets no one is supposed to know. Jillian may be in a little bit of a surprise here.

You Only Live Once

Why should Jen and Dave take off for the weekend while they get married? This will probably raise a lot of eyebrows. What were the three of them up to anyway?

Sports Over Hoops

Here is a funny incident that took place in the chat thread between two people where one was down for the go and the other one was entirely clueless about it! The first text was just a decent plea to score at basketball whereas this dirty mind thought otherwise.

Sports Over Hoops

Who’d you blame? This is the sorcery of urban dictionary, in our opinion. A sports term took a drastic turn to something different.

Autocorrect Gone Wrong

We all can agree on the fact that autocorrect has a dirty sense of humor. If we had a dollar for every time our autocorrects went wrong, we would all be millionaires by now.

Autocorrect Gone Wrong

While we are feeling secondhand embarrassment just looking at this picture, it is definitely not the worst one out there. Luckily, it’s just her mom that she sent the text to, and they both can laugh it off and move on.

Medical Trauma

It takes a real fool to accidentally tell someone that they have cancer while they are off-guard. The nurse will probably never know how the patient might have felt after learning about such horrifying news in plain text. Dr. Smith should probably hire someone who is better at auto-correct functionalities.

Medical Trauma

After all, medical reports are very sensitive, and giving them to an unprofessional could compromise the mental state of your patients and make them even sicker!

The Punctual Freak

Some people just do not understand that time is beyond anyone’s control. A person may pick up his friend from a place, but how long will it take to get there may depend on traffic conditions – or whether they run over someone out of road rage, get charged, and arrive 10 years later.

The Punctual Freak

The point is, though, why would you ask for a course estimate of time when someone is coming to pick you up? Will it help you wait faster?

Say it Upfront

Is that how you say “I love you” to someone? Really? Over silly text emojis? She probably understood Scott. Yes, girls are really smart and know how to play reverse psychology. Given his astronomical effort and how serious he is, she probably laughed her head off and called Scott a Sheep admirer.

Say it Upfront

That is just a whole new level of cringe, and Scott probably regrets being himself. Poor Scott, the guy was probably in love but didn’t know the best way to say it.

You Are Being Watched

The internet is not safe for minors, not is it safe for criminals. No matter what people type or what they browse, the FBI and the PD are alerted about anyone who types fishy keywords that should never be written together, such as “JFK” and “Shoot.”

You Are Being Watched

Oswald may be pretty aware of this. He probably threw his phone away and ran into the woods by now. No one knows when he’ll come out.

Refine Your Emoji Skills

Making mountains out of molehills is not what you should be doing with your life. You are going to go one way or another, so why not just put the horses to bed before you do?

Refine Your Emoji Skills

Tom Hagen is really thinking out of the box here; giving Fontane an unwarranted sensation may not be the best way to put out the flame. Wait, what? Tom really needs to study his emojis better!

Baby Daddy

We completely understand this poor guy’s confusion. Given the wording of the text, we also would’ve assumed he was the father. We bet the writer of the messages wishes this guy was the dad because he was all in!

Baby Daddy

We argue that all pregnancy announcements should begin with the words “it’s yours” or “it’s not yours” in order to avoid these types of misunderstandings. After all, something like this is truly an emotional roller coaster.