Voters in the United Kingdom unwittingly made an NSFW term trend on Twitter on Thursday as the country went to the polls for a general election.
The #generalerection hashtag became a top trending topic nationwide as political candidates, journalists, celebrities and more inadvertently used it instead of the more appropriate #generalelection or #generalelection2019 ones.
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It is unclear who first tweeted the term.
But by 11 a.m. local time it was the top autofill suggestion from Twitter when typing #general into a
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The popularity of the term only increased as others spotted the trend and kept it going with commentary and warnings:
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