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In 2019, I'll… is a predictive text phrasal template that requires participants type "In 2019, I'll" and let their phone's auto-complete feature finish the remainder of the sentence.

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On December 27th, 2019, Twitter [1] user @kovovevo tweeted, "type 'In 2019, I'll' and let your phone's keyboard finish your new years resolution for you." The tweet received more than 150 retweets, 1,300 likes and 2,000 comments in less than two months (shown below).


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Throughout the day, others shared what their predictive text finished the statement with. For example, Twitter user @Nebulanix_ tweeted,[2] "I'll be able to play with my tits." Within two months, the tweet received more than 15 retweets and 475 likes (shown below, left). Others shared as well (examples below, center and right).

On February 11th, 2019, Wired[3] magazine published an article about predictive text memes and this one in particular.

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