Jul 21, 2017 · 1 min read
I’ve noticed this on social media, also finding it quite bizarre, yet hadn’t immediately associated it with a gender. There are national tics too: If you follow a Facebook thread between British people, sooner or later someone will end their comment with a kiss “x”. The social dynamics of the kiss are fascinating: as you go further down the thread, subsequent responses may have the same number of kisses but never less. Consequently the thing that stands out when scanning is an xmas tree of xs:
x
xx
xxxxxxx
xxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
