That Mysterious "S" Thing We Used to Draw

[Mark Antony]

Woah.

 

[gmsboy1]

I always thought it was just about making a stylized "S" really easy. I used to do this and the 3d cube (two squares that overlap, one a little above the other then connect the corners).

It was "doing it" without having artistic talent.

 

[Ox.]

it's the number 8. 

 

[bhergh]

Nvm

 

[frankmatthews]

l never knew other people did this. I can't even understand what's going on right now. i drew this all the time. I still have the drawings from probably early 90s. I vaugely remember stussy being involved.

 

[jmob32]

And without the internet or social media... We all knew to draw this on our school books and anywhere we could carve it.

Crazy when you think about it like this.

 

[tay1]

I never drew that

 

[franchise3]

And without the internet or social media... We all knew to draw this on our school books and anywhere we could carve it.

This.

 

[ihavemyownopinion]

We called it a "gangster S" when I was in school

 

[just nikes]

Is it really difficult to think about a trend spreading without the internet?

Would love to know where it came from though

 

[supermanblue79]

l never knew other people did this. I can't even understand what's going on right now. i drew this all the time. I still have the drawings from probably early 90s. I vaugely remember stussy being involved.

same here...I thought that it was just me. But when I saw the thread title I already knew what it was. I drew this thing from preschool, all the way through college. Definitely not Stussy, I grew up in the 80s.

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[eazye 804]

I didnt even know of stussy when I was that age, I doubt that it came from them

 

[nfynite]

Man I used to draw this all the time. Me and my friends would draw the super extended ones with like 10 to 15 lines in each row. We thought we were cool cuz everyone else was only using three lines.

 

[Humbled]

I still do that to this day as a senior in college.

 

[water]

I was drawing them the other day in my agenda 

 

[zapatohead408]

i thought it was sur 13

 

[dt43]

I found out about this In 2nd grade when I sat next to a kid named Scott Smith, dude was ill with it.. he had em all over his notebooks and binder

And yea kids used to say it was a gang thing

 

[supervi11ain]

haha o man i totally forgot about this. im gonna draw one next time i have a pen and paper just for the nostalgia

 

[blastercombo]

Forget this. How did everyone know that blowing into the Nintendo cartridge fixes them? And does it really even work?

 

[mivish06]

I think it was just a cool design that had an interesting way of coming together. I remember my classmates and I kinda had this symbol as a beginning to transition into graff and bubble letters and things like that

 

[franchise3]

Forget this. How did everyone know that blowing into the Nintendo cartridge fixes them? And does it really even work?

Blowing into it until you heard a whistle and putting the cartridge in not all the way to kinda clamp it down off the edge

 

[3stheluckynumbe]

Blowing into it until you heard a whistle and putting the cartridge in not all the way to kinda clamp it down off the edge

^^^ This and The "S" are proof that we all are the same.

 

[AgentZero]

Forget this. How did everyone know that blowing into the Nintendo cartridge fixes them? And does it really even work?

Good question, I don't remember if someone told me or if I did it because it seemed right.

I like to think it makes a difference. 

 

 

[hellaones]

I used to think that was a gangster thing lol

gangsta gangsta

 

[blastercombo]

For some reason we all just knew to do it. Think about it. We were what? Maybe 6-9 years old? I mean there was other way. Game messed up, had to try something I guess