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For images where the text reads correctly left to right, but visual cues (like colouration, vertical proximity, or horizontal separation) lead you to try to read it top to bottom.

This is similar to, but distinct from, the more widely known “DontDeadOpenInside” format. In that case, the text reads correctly top to bottom, but visual cues (like colouration, horizontal proximity, or vertical separation) lead you to try to read it left to right.

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NO | SMOKING
SAFETY | FIRST

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[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 70 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So whoever designed this started left to right, decided up to down was better part way through, then switched back to left to right... All without ever proofreading their work apparently

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 36 points 6 days ago (2 children)

'Cause if I was a man, I'd be the man

For anyone struggling

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That middle part is even worse than all the other hilarious rubble that's being posted here.

If you followed the order left to right and read it line by line it'd read: "Cause if I was a then man I'd be the man." The first "man" is not directly following the "a".

[–] sxan@midwest.social 26 points 5 days ago

Yeah. This is a great one. It doesn't scan no matter how you start.

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[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 6 days ago

Even left to right isn't legible: Cause if i was a then man id be the man.

They want you to go "a man" and then back to left to right.

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Dat som deep shit: if a man be man

[–] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 7 points 6 days ago

A man, a plan, a canal. Panama!

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Miserable pile of secrets.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

cus if I was a man then I'd be the man

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

No problems with this whatsoever. Totally a logical reading order.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago
[–] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If a man be man, cause I was then. AMEN 🙏

....what's a Then Man?

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

If I was the man then man I'd be the man, man.

man oh man

You don't even have to read this one wrong for it to be wrong.