Memes; the cultural symbols and social ideas that spread virally, are undoubtedly the best thing on the internet these days. Primarily with the intent to either make people laugh or to make fun of others or sometimes to confuse the netizens, the creators always find a way to captivate the social media. Remember Yanny/ Lauren debate in 2018 that took the internet by storm? Well the recent one, is of similar context that once again perplexes the netizens. Draw an X! Now, recall how did you go about it. The left stroke first, downward, then the right or the right stroke first, upward. Well, it turns out that there are multiple ways.
The question of how people instinctively draw an X has gone viral, and the opinions vary in a way we have not seen since the whole Yanny/ Laurel debate 2018. Twitter user @SMASEY shared a photo of eight different ways to draw an X, each showing a different colour of the first stroke and arrows representing its directions. People are wondering how they have never noticed the way they and others draw the English letter. And the responses are hilarious! Do You Know That There are Two Forms of the Lowercase Letter ‘g’? Twitterati is Confused.
Here's the Tweet:
Also this is so interesting to me - which way do you draw an X? Colored line being the first stroke pic.twitter.com/a0WTl8WT7P
— sixers smasey (@SMASEY) January 20, 2019
A significant number of netizens agreed to the number 7 as the correct way.
Anything but 7 is wrong https://t.co/Yb8zfIsBMM
— syd🇳🇱 (@syd_blease) January 22, 2019
I'm a 7. I tried all the others. They just feel wrong! https://t.co/WoMOJLJlHo
— Jason Judge (@JediNitrate) January 22, 2019
While, Others Had Their Opinions
The correct answer is 8 https://t.co/BDBZOPKCHb
— JyriO (@Jyri__O) January 21, 2019
If you know anything about calligraphy, it's obviously number 5. https://t.co/D1CjshgQCi
— Rayane Alvim (@rayanealvim) January 22, 2019
Confused Netizens Debate
5!
There are other ways? https://t.co/2P1ibE2tLZ
— Hannah Wilks (@newballsplease) January 20, 2019
me realising there are other ways to draw an 'x' 🤯
— Shego (@LadyBellatrix) January 20, 2019
To end, the confusions, the person who posted the photo came up with a conclusion.
General consensus is that Americans do 7 & 8 while UK does 5 & 6. Probably how we were taught. Not sure about other countries
— sixers smasey (@SMASEY) January 20, 2019
If the trend in Twitter responses is to be believed, the way you write the letter “X” might actually have a lot to do with where you first learned to write or how we were taught. But it is indeed another great way to engage the netizens in a rather creative manner. How do you write X?
(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Jan 23, 2019 01:21 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).