Which Way Is He Facing?

About

Which Way Is He Facing? is a viral debate over which direction a person on a playground swing in a video clip is swinging.

Origin

On December 20th, 2019, TikTok ^[1] user @ectupper posted a video of a person on a swing. The captioned the video "Like if think hes facing the camera / Comment if you think hes facing the building." The post received more than 168,000 reactions, 38,000 shares and 13,000 comments (shown below).

Spread

The following day, Twitter user @esnycuddles shared the video on Twitter. The post received more than 17 million, 139,000 likes, 29,000 retweets and 9,400 comments in less than five days (shown below).

On December 22nd, @ectupper reposted^[2] the video on Twitter. The post received more than 1.7 million views, 17,000 likes, 3,100 retweets and 2,500 comments in less than four days.

Following the spread of the video, people posted diagrams proving their point about which way the person is swinging. On Twitter,^[3] @esnycuddles posted a series of pictures that have markings describing their stance on the video (shown below, left). The post received more than 10,000 likes and 1,200 retweets in less than five days.

Throughout the next few days, people continued to post their opinions about the video and evidence for their argument (examples below, center and right).

Twitter^[4] published an Events page on the video.

Search Interest

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