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On a mobile device so excuse any formatting errors. This also happened today a few hours ago.

I've a pair of ear buds I used to use a lot, like at least 6-7 hours a day (Not sure if that's normal for every one but it's seems like a lot) listening to music, YouTube, etc. They've been working fine up until now, because of its continual use, you can imagine it would start to die out, and die it did. 
It started off slowly but extremely annoying. You know the little microphone thingy attached to the right ear bud wire on most pairs and how it can pause music and videos? Turns out it can take a life of its own. Whenever I wanted to listen to music, it would pause continually. I didn't care too much until it figured out how to activate Siri. That was annoying and interrupting my music (You should know I hate it when I can't listen to my music in peace) so I decided to "fix" the box by taking some pliers, ripping it open, taking out some metal plate thing and whatever looked like a problem, breaking the whole thing. It actually worked, in the beginning, until the problem came back and to make it worse, the right ear bud went out completely, only coming on at sporadic moments. 

So here's my FU if my first fix wasn't one already. Me thinking I'm some sort of electrical engineer or something decides to cut off the box completely and then reattach the right earbud to the rest of the headphone set. Holy crap did that plan fail miserably! I successfully removed the box and was left with an earbud and a set. I thought to take the two wire ends and wrap them around one another "closing the circuit",but when I tried absolutely nothing happened. I really thought that would work... but I lost the wire in the insulation some how and now I'm sitting here looking for a replacement.

 I also found this AFTER I completely destroyed my earbuds:
<bot>: TIFU by trying to fix my earbuds by cutting them down the middle and not know how to reattach them properly.