Part of the reason it seems like witchcraft is that everything but the first and last statement could be read in literally any order and still make sense. There is a clear hierarchy most people follow, but plenty of people who deviate slightly from it will still think it’s speaking to them.
My eyes made the jump from "First" to "Lastly" out of the intended order--but, First, I figure I've always been weird, and Lastly, my reading pattern may be different when skimming some text as I skip by versus genuinely sitting with it to understand.
My brain must be broken because that didn't work on me. Not only did I read it in regular reading order before I figured out what it was trying to say, but I honestly can't even figure out the order it says it's going in. I just get lost and confused x.x
The embedding in dark mode changed my scan, and I read the "Lastly, you will read this" first, then the "Then you will read this" and only after both did I spot "First, you read this", in the contrasting background.
I see people commenting they read it in a different order and I wonder if it's partially taught and if we saw this image outside of social media/meme context we'd approach it differently.
I wonder how many people noticed the trick that only two of these actually have any statement about the ordering. The middle three can be read in any order and still be accurate.
From what I can tell this exploits how we skip past document headers and footers when reading. No-one wants to read the book/document title, legal info, or page numbers that are at the top and bottom of every page after all.
"then you will read this, first you read this, lastly you will read this, later on you notice this, copyright section 31, after you will read this" guess my brain ain't right
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Then you will read this
After, you will read this
Lastly you will read this
Later on you will notice this
First, you read this
𝒇𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒇𝒕
𝕱☉ℼ╬𝕤 ⋒ℾⅇ ꖿⅈ╬⋐ꖲ⋐ℾ⋒⨎T
𝖋𝔬𝖓𝔱𝖘 𝖆𝔯𝖊 𝖜𝔦𝖙𝔠𝖍𝔠𝖗𝔞𝖋𝔱
I read it top to bottom.
Damn it.
"ok?"
*read it
"fuck"
*read it
"goddammit"
*read it
"motherfucker"
*read it
"of my fucking god!!!"
ADHD is my superpower.