How do you draw an “X”?
Twitter user @SMASEY tweeted a seemingly innocuous image that inspired a lot of debate online.
"Which way do you draw an X?" she tweeted. "Colored line being the first stroke."
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
Twitter users had strong opinions to this question.
7 is the only way
— messy old asian (@tribranchvo) January 20, 2019
8.
— Eddie (@NinjaJenssen) January 20, 2019
People who draw bottom to top are also the ones that put their toilet paper on the holder the wrong way.
1
— Matsimiliano (@MaxiiiCARP) January 21, 2019
I’m American and I was taught #5
— 🖤Mortemer🖤 (@Mort3mer) January 20, 2019
This is kinda fascinating (8 for me, and everything else is crazy town) https://t.co/KHxTAKErtR
— Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) January 20, 2019
What psychopath does 4 https://t.co/8OnNTrMUlP
— big money jared (@sippycupjared) January 21, 2019
If you don't do 5 I don't trust you https://t.co/t3ftkbAVPQ
— Yuree (@YureeVGC) January 21, 2019
8 is where it's at, I'll accept 7, anything else ya'll need Jesus https://t.co/UyCIbwy1PM
— RSL. (@RussellAmarni7) January 21, 2019
And then there were the joke answers.
This is how you draw an X. pic.twitter.com/m1u61LBS1q
— Neorice University (@Neoriceisgood) January 20, 2019
i do 6 but im also a proven stupid idiot
— Megan Amram (@meganamram) January 20, 2019
I'm a 2 should I got to the hospital
— Emily Andras (@emtothea) January 21, 2019
“General consensus is that Americans do 7 & 8 while UK does 5 & 6. Probably how we were taught. Not sure about other countries,” she tweeted later.
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