TIFU by telling my friends to search “the dinosaur with 500 teeth”
TIFU by telling my friends to search “the dinosaur with 500 teeth” This happened earlier today in our group chat. I randomly remembered hearing about a dinosaur that supposedly had around 500 teeth, and I thought it would be funny to tell my friends to search for it themselves instead of just saying the name. So I sent: “Search the dinosaur that have 500 teeth” One friend said they were too lazy. Another actually searched it. A few seconds later the chat atmosphere transformed from peaceful dinosaur documentary to volcanic extinction event. Apparently the dinosaur’s name has been used online in offensive joke bait before, and my friend thought I was intentionally trying to trick them into seeing something racist. They immediately got mad and started yelling at me in chat. Meanwhile I was sitting there like a confused paleontologist holding a tiny shovel wondering how a herbivore from the Cretaceous period destroyed my evening. I had to apologize and explain that I genuinely only meant the actual dinosaur fact and not the internet joke attached to it. Good news: nobody blocked me. Bad news: I may never mention dinosaurs again without legal representation. TL;DR: Told my friends to search a dinosaur with 500 teeth. Accidentally triggered internet joke bait drama and nearly caused a mass extinction in the group chat.