Around early 2023, rumours started flying in the comments of different Instagram posts. There seems to be something not quite right with the translate feature. Commenting “Oouga Bouga” triggers the translate button to appear and seems to translate nonsensical variations. Some are racist translations, some are sexual innuendos, some seem to be ramblings of sentient beings.
This is a screen recorded from that time - Your mom on instagram
None of the user comments show the behaviour anymore. But everyone expected this to be quickly patched because this had the potential to be a PR disaster for Instagram. However, it’s December of 2023 and still didn’t seem to be patched.
