OMG! WTF? ROTFL: When clip art goes bad


Seems a Norwegian television station went on a web search for some clip art to illustrate their story about an eye clinic for for older folk, and they came up with an eye chart.

Now they can be forgiven for not knowing what it said, since the Norwegian acronyms for the equivalent IM-speak are presumably different.

From The Local in Stockholm, Sweden, which also features a video clip at the link:

The visual blunder accompanied a segment about eye treatment for senior citizens on Dagsrevyen, national broadcaster NRK’s evening news programme.

Rather than featuring a random sequence of letters, a test chart displayed behind the newsreaders began by loudly proclaiming OMG, Oh My God, newspaper VG reports

This was followed by a litany of profane abbreviations, like WTF and STFU, and it wasn’t long before the eye-catching error had users of social media rolling on the floor laughing (ROTFL).

Newsroom editor Solveig Tvedt conceded that she and her team hadn’t properly examined the chart before going to air.

“We retrieved the picture from one of our image agencies and took it without taking a closer look. If we’d seen what it said we wouldn’t have used it,” she told VG.

Read the rest.

H/T to Fark.

One response to “OMG! WTF? ROTFL: When clip art goes bad

  1. This is hilarious. This clip art is funny, but just out of place…if you’re interested, my blog is devoted to bad clip art. 🙂

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