{"id":50052,"date":"2026-11-09T00:34:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T23:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/i-asked-reddit-to-name-their-robot-vacuums-i-wasnt-ready-for-meryl-sweep\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T00:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T23:34:55","slug":"i-asked-reddit-to-name-their-robot-vacuums-i-wasnt-ready-for-meryl-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/i-asked-reddit-to-name-their-robot-vacuums-i-wasnt-ready-for-meryl-sweep\/","title":{"rendered":"I asked Reddit to name their robot vacuums. I wasn\u2019t ready for Meryl Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn&#8217;t affect our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/about\/affiliate-link-policy\" target=\"_blank\">editorial independence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Associate Editor, PCWorld \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p> \t\t\t  \t\t \t \t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\tMeryl Sweep is such a good freaking name\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t     <\/p>\n<p>On a whim one evening, I decided to post a question in the <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=111346X1569483&#038;xs=1&#038;url=https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskReddit\/&#038;xcust=2-0-3275908-1-0-0-0-0&#038;sref=https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3275908\/i-asked-reddit-to-name-their-robot-vacuums-i-wasnt-ready-for-meryl-sweep.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-subtag=\"2-0-3275908-1-0-0-0-0\" data-domain-name=\"reddit\" target=\"_blank\">\/AskReddit subreddit<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>What is your robot vacuum\u2019s name and why did you name it that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Simple. Pretty open-ended.<\/p>\n<p>Within minutes, I had more than 50 comments. I\u2019m a pretty introverted person, so that level of, uhhh, engagement felt a little scary. Once the initial anxiety settled, I discovered that people have strong feelings about their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/home-robotics\">robot vacuums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3275908\/i-asked-reddit-to-name-their-robot-vacuums-i-wasnt-ready-for-meryl-sweep.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn&#8217;t affect our editorial independence . Associate Editor, PCWorld Meryl Sweep is such a good freaking name On a whim one evening, I decided to post a question in the \/AskReddit subreddit.\u00a0 What is your robot vacuum\u2019s name and why<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36,3628,1393,1614],"class_list":["post-50052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-mixtv","tag-robot-vacuums-and-cleaning","tag-robotics","tag-smart-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}