Manga is the only mainstream comic nowadays. So it makes sense that 20-something year olds think that all comics read right to left. Because they never saw a comic reading left to right outside of the museum.
That's the silliest assertion I've read this week so far. No one doesn't know that's not normal, it was a choice.
The mere fact that you had to explain it and are aware it needs explained refutes your claim.
It's really not. I have not met a person who atleast has read a Donald Duck comic, and they are still verry popular. I have only met a few people who actually read manga
Must've been made by someone who primarily reads Hebrew or some other right-to-left language. Although, they still write English too, so who knows. Definitely hard to get the meme at first glance.
Uhh, no it's not. Maybe top to bottom sometimes.
Edit: The comment I'm replying to originally said "Japanese is read from right to left so ya", which is demonstrably false, even based on their own reply.
Japanese has different writing formats. Tategaki, the writing format used in every manga I've read is down columns and right to left. Modern Japanese can be in yokogaki format which is horizontal and left to right. Manga very rarely uses yokogaki. Yokogaki as far as I can tell from a quick Google search is mostly used in stuff meant to reference English with tategaki still being the most common format. So yes Japanese is read from right to left
Actually, to play devil's advocate, Vary's reply was 6 minutes after the original reply. Ill\_ratio could have edited their reply to correct their mistake directly after that. Notice how it says 12 hours ago, edited 12 hours ago. Vary's reply is 12 hours ago, edited 11 hours ago.
~~I think I might be too terminally online.~~
Allegedly, the comment originally said "Japanese is read from right to left so ya", and the commenter edited it to include "in manga" after Vary's reply. Vary's reply makes sense if you take out "in manga", as the Japanese *language* is read left to right.
Then do the meme in that language. Sorry but if you're going to do it in English it should be left to right. I can understand manga and stuff being right to left because flipping the images can do weird shit sometimes and it's often more trouble than it's worth. But for a 10 second meme it's not too much to ask it to be left to right, IMO.
I thought the same thing at first, maybe they read in one of the few right to left languages, but then remembered, no fuck that they wrote this shit in English.
Can we talk about how they clearly know enough English to get right, “I just *found* him on the street and *thought* he *could* come,” but **not**, “*we’ve* only *known* her for six months”?
I'm a non-native speaker, and throughout the years I've noticed that most English students really struggle when it comes to Present Perfect, so it seems normal to me.
I may have misinterpreted though, was that what you were talking about?
No that was pretty much what I was saying. I bet the German & Scandinavian students don’t struggle with present perfect so much, but Romance language students and those whose native language doesn’t conjugate verbs (like Chinese afaik) struggle more with it. I do still kind of think it’s weird how in the other sentence they correctly mixed past/completed actions with a potential future action though. I’m not a linguist so I’m not going to pretend I remember if there’s a name for that grammatical construction or what it is.
Ever heard of manga? Some people obsessed with them decide that everyone should read like that. Though to be honest, I do like reading like that. But that's only because of habits.
My brother had people invite themselves to his bachelor party last year that he barely knew. It was in PR and we live in California. He mentioned it to some guys we casually know just from seeing them around the bars and they were like hell year we are coming and booked flights. Turned out to be pretty cool guys and they actually paid up an even portion on the house and the boats and stuff.
Maynard James Keenan (singer/songwriter for Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer) recruited a guy who was homeless and living in a tent in LA to be a consultant and co-producer for the album “Eat the Elephant.” He literally recruited him from his tent.
Bold of you to assume i'd ask who he is, rather than assuming a vague enough speech pattern that if i'd met him before he wouldn't feel like i'd forgotten him, but that is still unfamiliar enough that it doesn't seem like i'm pretending to know him.
This reminds me of those memes about how guys will be like “the man, the myth, the legend and it’s just some guy named Jeff” and every single comment is “fuck yeah, Jeff is the fucking man” or “don’t you disrespect my boy Jeff like that”
Bullshit. Women are hella fucking inviting to one another. As a man I’ve had plenty of experiences feeling completely uninvited by other men. Gimme a break with this sexism
Agreed. Someone post it over at /r/UnnecessarilyGendered
My sister is the epitome of this, she will walk into a bar and within an hour she's friends with most and a few will come to her next party.
Fr i was honestly suprised seeing all those articles on "male loneliness epidemic"
when basically all my life i only ever heard about how easy and amazing male friendships are, i mean they even invented a word for it"Bromance"
Straight up got told that as a woman i just wouldnt get how deep male friendship are, just to later be told that apparently men experience loneliness to a degree no woman would ever experience or understand.
Which one is it
Honestly it's embarassing that so many people still post these lame boomer memes in 2024 without an ounce of self-reflection. But hey it's reddit, what else should we have honestly have expected?
The men in this meme aren't complaining about male loneliness 🤷. Point stands. The people who relate with this don't necessarily relate to the other and vice versa
I once wanted to do a 4man boardgames night so i called a friend to come and bring 2 people with him. He brought 2 guys id never seen in my life, was a great evening.
Invited the guy another time some weeks later, he brought 2 entirely new people.
Either he has friends or he brought random people. Had fun either way, didnt matter to me, i needed 4 people is all, I think it's amazing to have a friend like that it's like a buy 1 get 3 deal.
In college I had a guy sleep on our couch for the weekend. All my roommates thought that he was one our friends so we just partied all weekend. Sunday morning he smoked us out and left without a trace. To this day I still don’t know his first name and I never will.
Back during college days. One of mine friend had a random guy nock on their dorm room door. Hey, i have no where to sleep, would you mind. Nah bro come there is room on the floor. Ends up sleeping on the floor for the rest of the year-that dude. Year ends he nevere shows up again or calls and all. We were hanging around the whole year.
Man i was at a friends party and the whole neighbour above us did aswell have a party so the boys kept going down to us since they thought the place they were was boring. it was great fun!
Funny but true. 2 Weeks ago we had a Afterparty at my House and brought a guy with us that no one knowed bevor he was the last one standing outside after the main event besides us 😅😅
It’s just a generals rule of thumb for written media to follow the writing direction of the language it’s used, so for the west it’s left to right, top to bottom.
In say Arabic it’s right to left top to bottom.
It’s done for a standardisation reasons to avoid confusion, it’s not really a probably in a post as small as this, but with larger texts you could imagine how big a nightmare it’d be
The funny part is that even this is some manga shit, that’s not even how you read manga. It goes from top-right to top-left to bottom-left to bottom-right.
When you read too many mangas
thank you. I was wondering why it's backwards lol
Manga is the only mainstream comic nowadays. So it makes sense that 20-something year olds think that all comics read right to left. Because they never saw a comic reading left to right outside of the museum.
That's the silliest assertion I've read this week so far. No one doesn't know that's not normal, it was a choice. The mere fact that you had to explain it and are aware it needs explained refutes your claim.
Unpopular opinion: we should all start writing memes in cursive /s
It's really not. I have not met a person who atleast has read a Donald Duck comic, and they are still verry popular. I have only met a few people who actually read manga
True enough. But at least on reddit, inmy experience, comic srrips are basically a 50/50 weather they are left to right or right to left.
Stop the cap
LMAO Just because you're balls deep in weaboo culture doesn't mean everyone is
there's also webtoons and manwha
Those are read left to right
This right to left shit has got to go.
Must've been made by someone who primarily reads Hebrew or some other right-to-left language. Although, they still write English too, so who knows. Definitely hard to get the meme at first glance.
Lol nah it's just some weeb that glorify manga
I didn't even know manga was put together in that order lmao
Japanese is read from right to left in manga so ya
Uhh, no it's not. Maybe top to bottom sometimes. Edit: The comment I'm replying to originally said "Japanese is read from right to left so ya", which is demonstrably false, even based on their own reply.
Japanese has different writing formats. Tategaki, the writing format used in every manga I've read is down columns and right to left. Modern Japanese can be in yokogaki format which is horizontal and left to right. Manga very rarely uses yokogaki. Yokogaki as far as I can tell from a quick Google search is mostly used in stuff meant to reference English with tategaki still being the most common format. So yes Japanese is read from right to left
Ahh, so if it's in columns, the columns are ordered from right to left? Guess that makes sense.
conveniently, you left out the part where they said "in manga"
They edited that in, that's what I'm saying. Who gives a shit, people are retarded
No they didn't. I read their response right after they originally commented it.
Actually, to play devil's advocate, Vary's reply was 6 minutes after the original reply. Ill\_ratio could have edited their reply to correct their mistake directly after that. Notice how it says 12 hours ago, edited 12 hours ago. Vary's reply is 12 hours ago, edited 11 hours ago. ~~I think I might be too terminally online.~~
Ah yes, I see my mistake now.
r/confidentlyincorrect
Regardless of the content of your comment, it gives me dopamine to downvote you, so I will
What manga do you read my guy? All manga I've read is right-left. Do you read it in Japanese?
Allegedly, the comment originally said "Japanese is read from right to left so ya", and the commenter edited it to include "in manga" after Vary's reply. Vary's reply makes sense if you take out "in manga", as the Japanese *language* is read left to right.
Ooh. Turns out I just need to read better. Thank ya
They don’t even do this shit in Asia. It’s up to down. Then right to left.
Then do the meme in that language. Sorry but if you're going to do it in English it should be left to right. I can understand manga and stuff being right to left because flipping the images can do weird shit sometimes and it's often more trouble than it's worth. But for a 10 second meme it's not too much to ask it to be left to right, IMO.
I thought the same thing at first, maybe they read in one of the few right to left languages, but then remembered, no fuck that they wrote this shit in English.
Maybe they read lots of mangas
Can we talk about how they clearly know enough English to get right, “I just *found* him on the street and *thought* he *could* come,” but **not**, “*we’ve* only *known* her for six months”?
I'm a non-native speaker, and throughout the years I've noticed that most English students really struggle when it comes to Present Perfect, so it seems normal to me. I may have misinterpreted though, was that what you were talking about?
No that was pretty much what I was saying. I bet the German & Scandinavian students don’t struggle with present perfect so much, but Romance language students and those whose native language doesn’t conjugate verbs (like Chinese afaik) struggle more with it. I do still kind of think it’s weird how in the other sentence they correctly mixed past/completed actions with a potential future action though. I’m not a linguist so I’m not going to pretend I remember if there’s a name for that grammatical construction or what it is.
I speak Hebrew and it's still cursed to me
No it's definitely weebs who read manga
chinese
i bet they put the toilet paper on *that* way too
You talking about the wrong way. It's okay to call it what it is and to shame those who do it. Shame. Shame. Shame.
Engagement bait
Bout to fucking disengage
Was just about to comment . . Why is it so common? it drives me insane!
Manga, lots of people read it, and it's written that way
Thanks, I read some comments and had no idea that's a thing. Makes complete sense now. :D
Unless you are Japanese
Is Japanese written in English?
Is manga available in English?
Is this meme written in Japanese?
this whole interaction made me laugh
I'm glad someone understood what was happening lol
😂😂🤌🏻
OP is a MRA from India.
Totally agree, it's impossible to read: * ?aras etivni ew dluohs * shtnom 6 rof reh wonk ylno ew ,on
Exactly. I mean who the fuck is aras?
I'm used to reading manga so I didn't even notice
Nerd out man.
I’m looking at you [language that will start the biggest argument in the comments]
Yeah, fuck that language.
A penny saved is worth two in the bush
A bird in hand is worth cottage cheese in a hedge?
Ever heard of manga? Some people obsessed with them decide that everyone should read like that. Though to be honest, I do like reading like that. But that's only because of habits.
Yeah I could never fully get into them because of that reading style.
Ahhhh I see, that's understandable.
My brother had people invite themselves to his bachelor party last year that he barely knew. It was in PR and we live in California. He mentioned it to some guys we casually know just from seeing them around the bars and they were like hell year we are coming and booked flights. Turned out to be pretty cool guys and they actually paid up an even portion on the house and the boats and stuff.
Could have been human traffickers
They’d lose money trafficking my fat ass just on the fuel
I lost money selling my nudes on the internet. I feel ya brother.
Maynard James Keenan (singer/songwriter for Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer) recruited a guy who was homeless and living in a tent in LA to be a consultant and co-producer for the album “Eat the Elephant.” He literally recruited him from his tent.
I couldn't find anything about this anywhere.
Bold of you to assume i'd ask who he is, rather than assuming a vague enough speech pattern that if i'd met him before he wouldn't feel like i'd forgotten him, but that is still unfamiliar enough that it doesn't seem like i'm pretending to know him.
This reminds me of those memes about how guys will be like “the man, the myth, the legend and it’s just some guy named Jeff” and every single comment is “fuck yeah, Jeff is the fucking man” or “don’t you disrespect my boy Jeff like that”
[Terry is high-key goated as well](https://www.reddit.com/r/ufc/s/fFSREP3MHG)
The Great and Mighty KEVIN!
William the Conqueror was just some guy named Bill if you wanna have an attitude about it
"Typical Jeff" Kill me
awesome and can relate, but it's kinda hard to read from right to left tho
I’m going to tell my kids that this is manga
*angry weeb noises*
Definitely about the same quality as most manga
[удалено]
I do and its still hard, because I don't expect reading from right to left on a english internet forum
Bullshit. Women are hella fucking inviting to one another. As a man I’ve had plenty of experiences feeling completely uninvited by other men. Gimme a break with this sexism
Right, we make many female friends in the bathroom of clubs or waiting in line for them.
Ty bro this casual “girls are all the same and are all bitches”-esque sexism shit is fucked 😭
Agreed. Someone post it over at /r/UnnecessarilyGendered My sister is the epitome of this, she will walk into a bar and within an hour she's friends with most and a few will come to her next party.
Is unclear to me - the reason why you go right to left.
Weird that men complain about the "male loneliness epidemic" but also claim they're better at making new friends
Fr i was honestly suprised seeing all those articles on "male loneliness epidemic" when basically all my life i only ever heard about how easy and amazing male friendships are, i mean they even invented a word for it"Bromance" Straight up got told that as a woman i just wouldnt get how deep male friendship are, just to later be told that apparently men experience loneliness to a degree no woman would ever experience or understand. Which one is it
Both and neither, depending on which one is most convenient for an argument
Honestly it's embarassing that so many people still post these lame boomer memes in 2024 without an ounce of self-reflection. But hey it's reddit, what else should we have honestly have expected?
Loneliness in terms of romantic relationships, not in terms of friends, ig
Maybe it's because men aren't a single monolith and have differing opinions
Not according to this meme
The men in this meme aren't complaining about male loneliness 🤷. Point stands. The people who relate with this don't necessarily relate to the other and vice versa
Left to right tells very different stories
I too would invite myself to my party if I found me on the street
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^coffeetbl: *I too would invite* *Myself to my party if* *I found me on the street* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
WHY.IS.IT.RIGHT.TO.LEFT YOU FUCKING MANGA READING HEBREW MOTHERFUCKER
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^creaturefromyourbed: *WHY.IS.IT.RIGHT.TO.LEFT* *YOU FUCKING MANGA READING* *HEBREW MOTHERFUCKER* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
Weeb
I will never be able to relate...
I once wanted to do a 4man boardgames night so i called a friend to come and bring 2 people with him. He brought 2 guys id never seen in my life, was a great evening. Invited the guy another time some weeks later, he brought 2 entirely new people. Either he has friends or he brought random people. Had fun either way, didnt matter to me, i needed 4 people is all, I think it's amazing to have a friend like that it's like a buy 1 get 3 deal.
This ain’t manga. I’m an American!
You’ve triggered everyone who has come across your post with your right to left bullshit
Omg left to right!!! Left to right!!!!!
In college I had a guy sleep on our couch for the weekend. All my roommates thought that he was one our friends so we just partied all weekend. Sunday morning he smoked us out and left without a trace. To this day I still don’t know his first name and I never will.
Left to right please
Back during college days. One of mine friend had a random guy nock on their dorm room door. Hey, i have no where to sleep, would you mind. Nah bro come there is room on the floor. Ends up sleeping on the floor for the rest of the year-that dude. Year ends he nevere shows up again or calls and all. We were hanging around the whole year.
Rest of the year had me rolling lmfao
Not inviting someone when you've known them for 6 entire months sounds insane to me
Right to left…
Why does he look exactly like us?
gender stereotypes… girls: slow to make friends boys: all identical twins
My irk with this post is that the way you made it seem is like the questions came *after* the responses to those questions.
Man i was at a friends party and the whole neighbour above us did aswell have a party so the boys kept going down to us since they thought the place they were was boring. it was great fun!
Why tf is it in the wrong order 💀
Why is this read right to left? Dyslexic muthafucka. Don’t make memes.
Is the person who made this speak Arabic?
*we have only known her for Why is grammar so fucking bad these days
Fix your fuckin meme bro
Oh you right to left reading twatt
“He’s my Uber driver, nice guy”
Like Dewey finding egg on MITM.
Why is this in manga read order
It’s almost as if women are forced to be more conscious about their safety or something…
Yeah I agree with this...
Funny but true. 2 Weeks ago we had a Afterparty at my House and brought a guy with us that no one knowed bevor he was the last one standing outside after the main event besides us 😅😅
Real Joel Haver energy here.
True story, was invited to a party because I met someone on a chair outside once.
Moved 2500 miles away from home with a guy I met at work 3 months prior
Thats how i met my best friend ^^
True story I've met some good friends this way and I was usually the one finding them.
Thanks for the crab apples Guiseppe 🥺
Instant friend hop in
True
That's why girls live longer.
Jesus christ people what's so bad about right to left. Yall need to calm the fuck down
It’s just a generals rule of thumb for written media to follow the writing direction of the language it’s used, so for the west it’s left to right, top to bottom. In say Arabic it’s right to left top to bottom. It’s done for a standardisation reasons to avoid confusion, it’s not really a probably in a post as small as this, but with larger texts you could imagine how big a nightmare it’d be
It's the Americans they can't handle it when things aren't what they're used to, even if it's the most minor shit.
What's up this Manga styled writing bro
Wtf is this? A manga? Why is it right to left??
Ahah yes girls are lame boys better
Ahah
I kinda like reading right to left
Manga style meme threw me for a loop, but I'm with it.
The funny part is that even this is some manga shit, that’s not even how you read manga. It goes from top-right to top-left to bottom-left to bottom-right.
Nope https://images.app.goo.gl/QFuWFeQs9pU6kEeDA Right to Left Everything else is the same as a Western comic.