I realized how much I hate this style of video. Just endless yapping over a question only a handful of people would ask. Gee, get straight to the point bro.
@@RealEpikCartfrenYT I just realized how much I hate this style of commenting. Just yapping over a video that can be ignored. Gee, get straight to the point bro.
i like how if you skip forward 10 seconds you are IMMEDIATELY lost and IMMEDIATELY kicked from his train of thought, lost in the sea of concept and tangent, never to understand how it links back to 4
I enjoyed the video, but as a Korean learner I just want to offer a little correction. 니 does not mean "you", and 미안합니다 means "sorry", not "thank you"! Specifically, 미안 means "sorry", and the 하다 ending turns it into a verb, which is conjugated to 합니다 (the formal/polite form). Anyway, I love your style of humor, please keep it up! 😄
I appreciate the correction! When I typed "니" into translate it said it meant "you" in english. I'm guessing the meaning changes depending on the context or its surrounding characters? Thank you for the kudos! 😁
No problem! And yeah, translation apps can give weird results sometimes. I guess maybe it happened because 니 can also be used as a contraction for 너의, which means "your". That'd be its own word though, not a syllable of a larger word like 합니다.
@@h2knad If you're a native speaker I'll defer to you, thanks! Looking it up, someone on HiNative says that it's a dialect form of 너, is that what you're referring to? As a learner we obviously don't hear these forms in classes so I wasn't aware.
Wait, may I please clarify, as a member of the African society I have no restrictions saying or typing this In kpop I often hear them saying niga and I don't know what they actually mean, is it 'I' or 'you' or what? Cause I really want to know😭😭😭
1 comes with or without a serif. 3 comes with a flat or round top 4 has the variants discussed here 7 comes with or without a middle slash, a leading serif and varying levels of slanted vertical stroke 9 comes with curly tail (like a rotated 6) or a straight tail. 0 comes as just a circle, with a slash, backslash, dot or notch.
In elementary school I cheated the number 4 practice writing. I noticed, when I just draw one straight line and than add the legs at the top and bottom, I can complete the homework much faster. Unfortunately the teacher noticed and called me out, as well as notifying my parents, that I have to write the number 4 properly. Although the teacher was impressed that I noticed the pattern and tried to streamline it.
In my high school job, my boss chewed me out because she thought my 4s were 9s: I was using the half-finished star version, and the store’s books weren’t adding up for her. I’ve always avoided connecting the upper vertical lines on my handwritten 4s since then.
4K is definitely a thing in China, but more commonly it's called UHD. Streaming site resolutions rarely just have a number (eg "720p"), it often has a name (eg "HD 720p") or just the name (eg "HD").
Bank Gothic, Eurostile, Peignot and Helvetica are examples of modern sans serif fonts that have closed 4 glyphs. For some modern fonts such as OCR-A (which is a hybrid serif/sans-serif font) the 4 is open. What is also notable about OCR-A is that there are serifs on the 6 and 9 glyphs.
Thank you. Now I know unnecessary knowledge about the number four, and I am so excited to tell this to people so they will wonder how the heck I know this stuff.
I used to write the fully connected 4 (like the one in this font) when I was in kindergarten, but I got marked wrong for most of the questions on a test because my teacher thought they were all 9s. my parents had to tell me to write 4 the other way and I cried
I switched from one type to another for practical reasons. When I was in school, I used the one with a slanted top that connects to the downstroke because I could write it in one motion. After I got a job at a hardware store, I switched to the form that has 90° angles. I had to write part numbers on tape on lots of fully threaded pipe nipples, and writing a slanted mark across threads was difficult and ugly. It was much easier to write one or two strokes that went straight across the threads and one or two that followed the threads. I haven't worked there in almost 20 years, but I never switched back to the continuous, slanted 4m.
Remembered learning about the curved 4 when I was like 8. Did a math test where I used it. The teacher counted every single one of my answers where I used 4 wrong. Only right angled 4 was allowed :(
4:44 In Vietnamese the superstition of the number 4 doesn't exist on a lexical level. Unlike Korean and Japanese, Vietnamese rarely uses the Sinitic numbers. The usual word for "four" is "bốn". The sino-vietnamese version, tư, is only used in specific cases, as well as to say fourth (thứ tư).
The closest glyph might be the Chinese character 丩 - an old and obscure word meaning to graft a vine. You'll find it in Japanese and old Korean as well. And of course the Cyrillic letter Ч, used for the ch-sound - it was also used in the Latin script for the Zhuang language until 1982 to mark the fourth tone.
I bought an apartment here in Canada and in elevator there was no floors containing 4 and also no floor 13... They accounted for all the superstitions it seems... It was weird seeing 12 next to 15
Even when choosing a phone number in China, the phone companies give you a discount if you're willing to accept a personal/cell phone number containing a 4. (I think my Chinese cell number had 4 4's in it, in fact... i thought of it as the 'expat discount')
As I was watching this I tried to think of the four I usually use when writing by hand and realised I apparently haven't had to write the number four in a while.
I like the open top 4 kinda like Ч because it's just easier for me to start from the top and make 2 strokes than to make 1 more complex stroke starting from the bottom or middle.
"4K" is just a marketing term, and it's not even consistent with how we labeled all the (common TV) resolutions that came before it. I would venture a guess that they probably just use consistent terminology for it -- calling it something like 2160p, which is what it actually is, and doesn't require a 4
I used to draw the incomplete-star 4, but then Brain Age for the DS came out, and its handwriting recognition would consistently recognise that shape as a 9, so I retrained myself to use the lego-hand 4, and it stuck, I've done so ever since...
05:05 I like how you used Marina Bay Sands is used as an example. But skipping floors is actually outlawed in the building code in Singapore, so all buildings have a 4th floor
"Lowercase Phi" was the most unexpected. I thought you would say something like 9 but I guess it could be confused with phi in such level of comprehension. Also, in some elevators and places in S. Korea, the four is replaced with capital letter "F" instead of 3a. Also also, not many people nowadays really care about the superstition of 4 anymore as "사" only means death in our form of Hanzi, which most kids don't care much about.
The east Asian superstitions regarding 4 are very similar to Western superstitions around 13. One of my favorites is the Aka Manto, a yokai that haunts the 4th bathroom stall on the 4th floor of a school and will ask you what color of toilet paper you want before either strangling or skinning you depending on what you answer
@@asheep7797 Could it be because you're starting the t from the horizontal line instead of the vertical one? Maybe you go horizontal first, and then, in a single stroke, you draw a loop around and go down vertically, and if you do it too fast you may end up with a rho-like shape
the actual 4 is the on whose shape has 4 internal angles , which means the one in this exact font but without the small line that gets over the rest of the shape , why ? because the scientist who made those numbers (i can't recall his name) made each number to have an amount of angle depending on it , so 0 has 0 angles because its an oval , 1 has 1 , 2 (its original shape didn't have a hook but rather looked like z) has 2 , 3 has 3 (again , its original form had no curves) , 4 has 4 , etcetera
One day in early elementary school (I don't remember specifically when, probably kindergarten), we were learning to draw numbers, and when I got to 4, I noticed that these were different from all the printed/digital 4's I'd seen before, and they were harder to write. So one day, I just said "Screw it" and started writing my 4's like the half finished star, and I'm honestly glad I did that. Now that I'm not 6 and can actually think, it is probably a little faster and more consistent (which is important for me, because my handwriting is indistinguishable from a thick trail of loose hairs). I've honestly never seen anyone else write a for like that, though.
In my opinion the ’half-star’ variant 4 you described, is the superior choice for handwriting, since you can write it in one continuous stroke without lifting your pencil. So it is strange the open lego hand variant ౺ seems to be the more common one when writing for hand. Though actually looking at it now I guess you could write ౺ in one continuous motion as well, you’d only have to do a double stroke at the top. But 4 is still superior because there are no double strokes so you save on pencil lead.
@@Archman155 Either that, or a nine drawn with a straight stem looks too much like a four. (The preceding comment is mostly tongue-in-cheek, so please don’t think I’m bashing you)
I never liked the 'half-star' 4 because when I write it fast it looks like a 9 since I have always had straight tail 9s. Plus I almost always prefer to write my letter from left to right and from up to down so starting on the right side and going up feels wrong to me
1 having a variation really helps me when I mess up and write the wrong number when writing in pen. Much easier to disguise it as a 1 with a serif than it is with just a dash. Even if it can't disguise it, it is much more legible as a 1
funnily enough, i write 4 in a completely different way that wasn't shown in the video but i didn't even find it online. it kinda looks like a lightning bolt, starting from top left i go down, then go to right the same disctance and then go down the same distance again. this makes it easier in handwriting as it is one continuous line. it's also pretty common where i live
I’ve noticed this with 1, 2, 7, and 0 as well. Whether the 1 has a hat and/or shoes or is just written like a lowercase L. I’ve always written my 2 with a loop instead of a straight line. Many people add a horizontal line in the middle of their 7 to differentiate from a 1 written with a hat and no shoes. And there are people who put a slash in their 0 (the symbol for null) so it isn’t confused with the letter O.
Honestly I love the triangular-shaped unfinished death star-looking Four. it's so much easier to write and looks rlly cool, like, Obviously a triangular-shaped unfinished death star-looking symbol is funny and epic. I mean no hate to the other types but the triangular-shaped unfinished death star-looking Four wins no diff
I believe that 3 with a flat head comes from Russia, where they do this to avoid ambiguity with the Cyrillic letter З. China learned this style from Soviet Union during its early days.
I wrote with the flat head 3 for a couple years but I rarely was happy with how it looked when I wrote it so I just switched back. I had a similar experience with 2 as I did the looped tail for a while but just got sick of it after a while. The only change I've made from my base writing is writing capital G as a C with a complete right angle instead of just angling it inwards. I just like the presence it brings
Random side tangeant: In kindergarten i was taught how to write four by my parents, which is the standard keyboard 4, with the triangle. I got used to this and i rolled with it until one day we had a substitue. This sub INSISTED that the 4 was written without the 4. I remember arguing with her, "What about the fantastic 4 logo" etc. Etc. She stood her ground and told me that those were all wrong. Being however old at the time, i took that and I write 4s without the triangle to this day.
In high school my drafting teacher taught specific letterforms for use when drafting, and those forms stuck for me. This includes what you call “half star” (though I don’t write it that way) and the “upside-down-six) version of nine (which I do kind of draw like the half star, just with a continuous curve).
fun fact about me: my whole live I've always gotten the numbers 4 and 5 mixed up when I'm writing. I know the difference between the numbers obviously, but I occasionally write 4 when I mean to write 5 or vice versa.
I remember when I switched schools in the middle of 3rd grade, I had to suddenly get used to writting closed 4 instead of open 4. Apparently, the standard changes based on the school?
This is how my brain operates every single day.
Basically a representation of ADHD thoughts
me when i dont take my meds (adhd meds)
@@Drakar76 me when I stop using my main source of stimulus (phone)
😢😂😂😂
You need help
This feels like VSauce, starting with a question, and slowly back-tracking until you forget how you ven get here.
I realized how much I hate this style of video. Just endless yapping over a question only a handful of people would ask. Gee, get straight to the point bro.
@@RealEpikCartfrenYTif you want a simple answer to a simple question there's a website for that called Google
@@RealEpikCartfrenYTomg like so true, like this kind of video just sucks -11/10
@@RealEpikCartfrenYT I just realized how much I hate this style of commenting. Just yapping over a video that can be ignored. Gee, get straight to the point bro.
@@P0w_art
Clearly, you don't ever hold conversations with another human, cause this happens when you have a conversation with another human.
the fact that the final 4 contains another 4 is the cherry on the cake
You have to use that final 4 inside the 4 inside another 4 inside another 4 inside....
4 Inside a Bag of 4 Inside a Bag of 4
I always eat with 8 chopsticks for good luck.
personally i use 7
I use three to share with my ancestors ;)
i use 48
I just use 2 forks
@@ARBUZIK.dudkin I guess that is the same thing, right? 8 tines?
I thought 'g' and 'a' was bad enough... But this... This is something else...
Wait until you hear about 9
Also 1, 3 and 7
And lowercase I
do you mean uppercase I? xd
Hmmmm. I ≠ l
Both are different
5:11 They not only skip 4 and 14, but also 13. Must be an international elevator.
i like how if you skip forward 10 seconds you are IMMEDIATELY lost and IMMEDIATELY kicked from his train of thought, lost in the sea of concept and tangent, never to understand how it links back to 4
I enjoyed the video, but as a Korean learner I just want to offer a little correction. 니 does not mean "you", and 미안합니다 means "sorry", not "thank you"! Specifically, 미안 means "sorry", and the 하다 ending turns it into a verb, which is conjugated to 합니다 (the formal/polite form). Anyway, I love your style of humor, please keep it up! 😄
I appreciate the correction! When I typed "니" into translate it said it meant "you" in english. I'm guessing the meaning changes depending on the context or its surrounding characters? Thank you for the kudos! 😁
No problem! And yeah, translation apps can give weird results sometimes. I guess maybe it happened because 니 can also be used as a contraction for 너의, which means "your". That'd be its own word though, not a syllable of a larger word like 합니다.
니 does mean you
@@h2knad If you're a native speaker I'll defer to you, thanks! Looking it up, someone on HiNative says that it's a dialect form of 너, is that what you're referring to? As a learner we obviously don't hear these forms in classes so I wasn't aware.
Wait, may I please clarify, as a member of the African society I have no restrictions saying or typing this
In kpop I often hear them saying niga and I don't know what they actually mean, is it 'I' or 'you' or what? Cause I really want to know😭😭😭
Underappreciated. Thank you for your filling in for Sam o' nella.
1 comes with or without a serif.
3 comes with a flat or round top
4 has the variants discussed here
7 comes with or without a middle slash, a leading serif and varying levels of slanted vertical stroke
9 comes with curly tail (like a rotated 6) or a straight tail.
0 comes as just a circle, with a slash, backslash, dot or notch.
Where’s the two 2 variants 😭 and I wouldn’t count 3 in here
@@RiptideST what are you asking?
Are you asking for variants of the digit 2? I don't think there's any significant shape variants that I'm aware of.
@@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug 2 can have a looped bottom or flat
2 can have a loop in the bottom left
1 can also have a line under it
1:49 and on the old Lego 40 coins. My friends and I always joked about needing “40” but only having “07”.
There is a Cyrillic character that looks similar to one of the types of fours:
Ч ч
Oh yeah the Cyrillic "Ch". That's probably what happened to CHernoby-
Che
@@Resuvean yeah it is the Cyrillic character for ch
@@V530-15ICR he didnt ask for affirmation, he was stating facts
But on paper, they're clearly different
In elementary school I cheated the number 4 practice writing. I noticed, when I just draw one straight line and than add the legs at the top and bottom, I can complete the homework much faster. Unfortunately the teacher noticed and called me out, as well as notifying my parents, that I have to write the number 4 properly.
Although the teacher was impressed that I noticed the pattern and tried to streamline it.
When you realize the last "4" doesn't even equal 4 💀💀💀
spent 2 hours of my life trying to solve it just to find out its not equal to 4
Wdym?
I wonder people how was born on 4/4/2004 would feel about this video ?😂
Let's take this a step further...
Born at 4:44 pm on 4/4/2004 in room 444 on the 44th floor with 4 people inside.
oh god i just realized im born on april 4th
im gonna die
My brother was born on that day, we’re not Asian though, so my mom thinks it’s really cool that he was born at 4:44pm as well
they would not survive long enough to watch it.
HOW DO YOU KNOW MY EXACT BIRTHDAY?!?!!!
But I wasn't born in 2004, so I guess there's that...
In my high school job, my boss chewed me out because she thought my 4s were 9s: I was using the half-finished star version, and the store’s books weren’t adding up for her. I’ve always avoided connecting the upper vertical lines on my handwritten 4s since then.
I like how the final example on how to write 4 included a 4 in it
Thank you, now i can't stop see different fours everywhere
Real...
4K is definitely a thing in China, but more commonly it's called UHD. Streaming site resolutions rarely just have a number (eg "720p"), it often has a name (eg "HD 720p") or just the name (eg "HD").
Bank Gothic, Eurostile, Peignot and Helvetica are examples of modern sans serif fonts that have closed 4 glyphs. For some modern fonts such as OCR-A (which is a hybrid serif/sans-serif font) the 4 is open. What is also notable about OCR-A is that there are serifs on the 6 and 9 glyphs.
The investigation into Gangnam Style got me
Hot take:
The Lego hand four is my favorite variation.
Also, four is my favorite number.
Thank you. Now I know unnecessary knowledge about the number four, and I am so excited to tell this to people so they will wonder how the heck I know this stuff.
I used to write the fully connected 4 (like the one in this font) when I was in kindergarten, but I got marked wrong for most of the questions on a test because my teacher thought they were all 9s. my parents had to tell me to write 4 the other way and I cried
I switched from one type to another for practical reasons. When I was in school, I used the one with a slanted top that connects to the downstroke because I could write it in one motion. After I got a job at a hardware store, I switched to the form that has 90° angles. I had to write part numbers on tape on lots of fully threaded pipe nipples, and writing a slanted mark across threads was difficult and ugly. It was much easier to write one or two strokes that went straight across the threads and one or two that followed the threads. I haven't worked there in almost 20 years, but I never switched back to the continuous, slanted 4m.
Remembered learning about the curved 4 when I was like 8. Did a math test where I used it. The teacher counted every single one of my answers where I used 4 wrong. Only right angled 4 was allowed :(
One of my earliest memories is from kindergarten, where we called “4” the “teacher four” and the Lego hand four being normal
you didn’t actually… answer the question tho
4:44 In Vietnamese the superstition of the number 4 doesn't exist on a lexical level. Unlike Korean and Japanese, Vietnamese rarely uses the Sinitic numbers. The usual word for "four" is "bốn". The sino-vietnamese version, tư, is only used in specific cases, as well as to say fourth (thứ tư).
Mista has left the chat.
Mista doesn't wanna watch this video
(reason:there are too many 4s)
4 on 7-segmente display looks better than normal 4 on keyboard
2:07 my friend in kindergarten had that watch, it went so damn hard
The closest glyph might be the Chinese character 丩 - an old and obscure word meaning to graft a vine. You'll find it in Japanese and old Korean as well. And of course the Cyrillic letter Ч, used for the ch-sound - it was also used in the Latin script for the Zhuang language until 1982 to mark the fourth tone.
I'd like to add the Cherokee syllable se to the mix: Ꮞ
It’s like discussing how a kanji should be written
but really, I think we can really agree that 4 is the best, cause 4 just looks weird, and 4 is just too goofy
0:44 looks exactly like the bfb four
YESS
I bought an apartment here in Canada and in elevator there was no floors containing 4 and also no floor 13... They accounted for all the superstitions it seems... It was weird seeing 12 next to 15
So no weddings this year? 2024
In North Korea it is the year 113 so they don’t have that problem until next year.
Do they just skip 114?
In Japan it's 2 Reiwa so the fear isn't prevalent
@@corwintipper7317 Gregorian calendar is used In Japan though, regnal years only being used for like official purposes.
"Welcome to bfb"
YES
Even when choosing a phone number in China, the phone companies give you a discount if you're willing to accept a personal/cell phone number containing a 4. (I think my Chinese cell number had 4 4's in it, in fact... i thought of it as the 'expat discount')
Four bfb would be atonished (and angry.)
YESSSSS
As I was watching this I tried to think of the four I usually use when writing by hand and realised I apparently haven't had to write the number four in a while.
Nature's way of showing us the beauty in mathematics.
I like the open top 4 kinda like Ч because it's just easier for me to start from the top and make 2 strokes than to make 1 more complex stroke starting from the bottom or middle.
same I always prefer to write from top to bottom and starting at the bottom just feels wrong.
I’ve always written it ‘4’ but my friend literally draws a triangle and puts a line at the bottom, like a leaf. it kills me
People mostly think tetraphobia is superstitious, but it's only taken seriously in a few specific cases.
IS THAT A J
Mista wants to know your location
"4K" is just a marketing term, and it's not even consistent with how we labeled all the (common TV) resolutions that came before it. I would venture a guess that they probably just use consistent terminology for it -- calling it something like 2160p, which is what it actually is, and doesn't require a 4
I used to draw the incomplete-star 4, but then Brain Age for the DS came out, and its handwriting recognition would consistently recognise that shape as a 9, so I retrained myself to use the lego-hand 4, and it stuck, I've done so ever since...
At least the 4's resemble each other.
05:05 I like how you used Marina Bay Sands is used as an example. But skipping floors is actually outlawed in the building code in Singapore, so all buildings have a 4th floor
Now, I can't even remember how I write my "4"s anymore.
The whole 4 thing has angered me for so long (the soulless lego 4 hand is the only one I can comfortably write)
FOUR FROM BFB MENTIONED🗣🔥‼️‼️
😔 this is why I’ll never watch any object show
YES
"Lowercase Phi" was the most unexpected. I thought you would say something like 9 but I guess it could be confused with phi in such level of comprehension.
Also, in some elevators and places in S. Korea, the four is replaced with capital letter "F" instead of 3a. Also also, not many people nowadays really care about the superstition of 4 anymore as "사" only means death in our form of Hanzi, which most kids don't care much about.
2:47 "It just looks soulless"
So, a Soulless 4
Holy shit it's an ExileLord reference
The east Asian superstitions regarding 4 are very similar to Western superstitions around 13. One of my favorites is the Aka Manto, a yokai that haunts the 4th bathroom stall on the 4th floor of a school and will ask you what color of toilet paper you want before either strangling or skinning you depending on what you answer
Sometimes I write 4 so fast it becomes the greek letter phi
Bro me too, when write the lower case s (in cursive) it just ends up looking like a weird bulgde
The letter t sometimes becomes rho for me.
If it was p, it would make more sense for me to do that.
But t?
@@asheep7797 Could it be because you're starting the t from the horizontal line instead of the vertical one? Maybe you go horizontal first, and then, in a single stroke, you draw a loop around and go down vertically, and if you do it too fast you may end up with a rho-like shape
My 4 looks like a lightning bolt
mista ain't gonna be happy with this
Next do a video why are there so many 'z' (the cursive z, the z with a strikethrough like a 7 etc)
Z with a strike through is less interesting than writing pi with a strike through.
@@SigmaRho2922 bro this is going to keep me up at night ....who writes pi striked through💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
I do the z with the bar if I'm writing a z by itself, such as in maths, but in writing I do the cursive z with the loop at the bottom
@@SigmaRho2922Wait there are people who write pi with a strike?????
@@grassytramtracks same....the z and 2 in maths kinda mix up when ur doing algebra
the actual 4 is the on whose shape has 4 internal angles , which means the one in this exact font but without the small line that gets over the rest of the shape , why ? because the scientist who made those numbers (i can't recall his name) made each number to have an amount of angle depending on it , so 0 has 0 angles because its an oval , 1 has 1 , 2 (its original shape didn't have a hook but rather looked like z) has 2 , 3 has 3 (again , its original form had no curves) , 4 has 4 , etcetera
Finally someone understands my pain, don’t even get me started on 7 and 9 either
I noticed that some airlines in Canada skip fin numbers that end in the number 4
There is only one true form for 4. The other forms solely exist because of the tolerance of many deviances. And because of laziness too.
One day in early elementary school (I don't remember specifically when, probably kindergarten), we were learning to draw numbers, and when I got to 4, I noticed that these were different from all the printed/digital 4's I'd seen before, and they were harder to write. So one day, I just said "Screw it" and started writing my 4's like the half finished star, and I'm honestly glad I did that. Now that I'm not 6 and can actually think, it is probably a little faster and more consistent (which is important for me, because my handwriting is indistinguishable from a thick trail of loose hairs). I've honestly never seen anyone else write a for like that, though.
In my opinion the ’half-star’ variant 4 you described, is the superior choice for handwriting, since you can write it in one continuous stroke without lifting your pencil. So it is strange the open lego hand variant ౺ seems to be the more common one when writing for hand.
Though actually looking at it now I guess you could write ౺ in one continuous motion as well, you’d only have to do a double stroke at the top.
But 4 is still superior because there are no double strokes so you save on pencil lead.
halfstar 4 can be written in one stroke, but you have to go right-to- left for part of it, which isn't a problem for lego hand 4
I've always written it like the open Lego hand variant thing but in one stroke when done fast it looks like a 9
@@Archman155 Either that, or a nine drawn with a straight stem looks too much like a four. (The preceding comment is mostly tongue-in-cheek, so please don’t think I’m bashing you)
I never liked the 'half-star' 4 because when I write it fast it looks like a 9 since I have always had straight tail 9s. Plus I almost always prefer to write my letter from left to right and from up to down so starting on the right side and going up feels wrong to me
Don't even get me started on the number 1
1 having a variation really helps me when I mess up and write the wrong number when writing in pen. Much easier to disguise it as a 1 with a serif than it is with just a dash. Even if it can't disguise it, it is much more legible as a 1
theres also blue four that screeches at random scentient objects
Yess
2:48 “Looks soulless, and speaking of Seoul.”
Imagine watching in 2044 April 4 4:44
funnily enough, i write 4 in a completely different way that wasn't shown in the video but i didn't even find it online. it kinda looks like a lightning bolt, starting from top left i go down, then go to right the same disctance and then go down the same distance again. this makes it easier in handwriting as it is one continuous line. it's also pretty common where i live
I’ve noticed this with 1, 2, 7, and 0 as well. Whether the 1 has a hat and/or shoes or is just written like a lowercase L. I’ve always written my 2 with a loop instead of a straight line. Many people add a horizontal line in the middle of their 7 to differentiate from a 1 written with a hat and no shoes. And there are people who put a slash in their 0 (the symbol for null) so it isn’t confused with the letter O.
Honestly I love the triangular-shaped unfinished death star-looking Four. it's so much easier to write and looks rlly cool, like, Obviously a triangular-shaped unfinished death star-looking symbol is funny and epic. I mean no hate to the other types but the triangular-shaped unfinished death star-looking Four wins no diff
Came to find out why there’s multiple 4’s, left knowing about East Asian tetraphobic superstitions
I love how there are 4 ways to write 4
this also happens with 3, where some fonts make it look like a cursive z
I think the right question to ask is, why does the cursive z looks like a 3?
I believe that 3 with a flat head comes from Russia, where they do this to avoid ambiguity with the Cyrillic letter З. China learned this style from Soviet Union during its early days.
I wrote with the flat head 3 for a couple years but I rarely was happy with how it looked when I wrote it so I just switched back. I had a similar experience with 2 as I did the looped tail for a while but just got sick of it after a while. The only change I've made from my base writing is writing capital G as a C with a complete right angle instead of just angling it inwards. I just like the presence it brings
The guy is having a mental breakdown over the number 4 while i watch
watching this at 44k views published 4 days ago, feels fitting
I used to draw the "Ч" four when I was 12, then I decided to start using the "computer" one and started drawing "4" instead
Happy New Year! 2023a 🎉
Is this a mother tucking Jojo reference???
Random side tangeant: In kindergarten i was taught how to write four by my parents, which is the standard keyboard 4, with the triangle. I got used to this and i rolled with it until one day we had a substitue. This sub INSISTED that the 4 was written without the 4. I remember arguing with her, "What about the fantastic 4 logo" etc. Etc. She stood her ground and told me that those were all wrong. Being however old at the time, i took that and I write 4s without the triangle to this day.
Tons of 4s
Ah i see we’re living in the year 2023a
this video is the textbook definition of getting sidetracked
In high school my drafting teacher taught specific letterforms for use when drafting, and those forms stuck for me. This includes what you call “half star” (though I don’t write it that way) and the “upside-down-six) version of nine (which I do kind of draw like the half star, just with a continuous curve).
fun fact about me: my whole live I've always gotten the numbers 4 and 5 mixed up when I'm writing. I know the difference between the numbers obviously, but I occasionally write 4 when I mean to write 5 or vice versa.
In medieval europe 4 was written as a literal half of 8 - just a top loop with two dangling bits
8:32 the bottom one contains 4
which makes it recursive
@@thepianokid9378 and funny
I forgot how I write 4 while watching this video 😢
Fellow uni students after looking at my grades:
I remember when I switched schools in the middle of 3rd grade, I had to suddenly get used to writting closed 4 instead of open 4.
Apparently, the standard changes based on the school?
common computer fonts have this type of thing sorted out
except for a which should be α
and Q which should be more like Q̾
so, that's the real reason why Mista avoids the number 4
2:17 fire writing channel peak
4:32 I think most people have tetraphobia. I mean, who _isn't_ afraid of getting screeched at, or laser blasted, or even getting mutilated?
smthing about you breaking down a kindergarten worksheet at 0:30 is funny to me :)
A a kid I never could make closed 4s look different from 9s.
One thing East Asians and programmers agree: You cannot stay in room number 4xx.
So um... Phi was the closest to how my 4's look. And i never had a teacher complain about it funny enough.
actually i round and use one stroke for all letters and numbers to type faster