Did you draw this 'S'?

Nope, but you're right. I saw that everywhere in school during the 90's in Canada. Lots of binders, that sorta thing.

I doubt this thread will last long. But sure, ya, I drew that s thing a few time in the 90s.

Yep. US in the 90s. Not as much as others drew it (I swear, I think some kids did nothing BUT draw that damn thing), but I certainly did my fair share.

My doodles of choice were cubes and the Quake symbol.

Yep, Chicago in the 90's regularly.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN!??

I drew that on my neighbors house when I was 9 in suburban Atlanta

Yup...I don't know why, but I did. Vancouver, WA.

I would give mine arms and legs plus a face.

Yes. I even used to link them together and make like super S chains.

Oh and New York in the 90's.

Oh, and there's this version where the ends are slanted:

Hah. Knew what this was before even opening the thread.

Just something a friend showed me. Start with the six vertical lines and then add the middle diagonals, then the top and bottom, and then the ends. I dunno, it was fun. I always did the slanted ends.

Dunno if it was late 90s or 2000s. Canada.

Yep, Canada in the 90's around grades 6 to 8. Late elementary or junior high.

I certainly didn't. But what I can tell from this thread, somewhere, in the 90's, people were putting some weird shit in the water.

Well it looks like the Spartans S so probably:

Unfortunately.

Never drew it myself, but saw it drawn plenty of times in Utah in the 90s.

Yes, and I was only alive in the 90s for 2 years. It has stuck around.

Yep. 90s Canada.

Yep. Ireland early 2000s.

Nope!

I've seen it drawn that way before tho.

yep! would been early 2000s. Arizona.

Late 90s, early 2000s, I think. Western Europe.

And this is getting freaky.

I drew mine on graph paper because it was easy to make everything nice and straight.

I don't think I've ever even seen that S before. Am I one of those people who has slipped into a parallel universe???

I drew it too, early aughts for me. Its a good thing to draw. You draw two sets of three lines, then connect them. Feels good, man.

Same here.

Seen and drawn both the straight and slanted edge versions in my earlier days. It hit the South West of England in the early 2000s. Where did it come from!? Could there be some sinister conspiracy behind its origin...

Never did it myself, but definitely saw it a lot in the early 2000's. West Virginia.

Never did and never heard of this epidemic.

Yes, Sweden.

All the lines conform to edge and diagonal lines in a square notepad so it's hardly a mystery, and I remember drawing it in those specifically.

Can't say that I have - never seen it before either, as far as I remember.

Yep, totally. I figured that's what this thread would be about before even opening it, haha. Chicago in the 90s, and possibly the early 2000s as I transitioned from elementary to middle school. I never knew what it was or why everyone drew it, but seeing people from all over the world in this thread respond with the same experience is just nuts.

I used to graffiti this S around my high school. No idea why...

Me and my sister used to paint this on silage bales to keep away crows. Ireland in the 90s.

Maybe, I can't recall. I seem to remember seeing it on a lot of spiral notebooks owned by kids who were into metal back in the 80's.

Ireland in the 90s. I've no idea where it came from or what it means. It was just one of those things you saw on every bathroom wall and carved into tables in school and it was easy to replicate even for people like me who can't draw.

Various points through middle-school and high-school so mid-late 90s.

I was going to say exactly this. Including the part about Ireland in the -late- 90's.

Yup, Sweden in the 90's.

I learned from my older sister where she learned it in middle school. So propably early 2000's. She always said it was the Spartan's S but idk what spartans she was talking about? I would guess that trend in my area just associated itself with the Michigan State Spartans because we live in Wisconsin is Michigan is right next door.

Illuminati!

Yep, it was everywhere in elementary school/middle school (Utah, USA, 90's)

Yeah I did in the 90's in Colorado, USA. Pretty sure it was just a fad and as it was easy to draw, anyone and everyone could do it. Or it has some gang meaning behind it? Who knows. I did the one with the slanted ends though, not straight across

Same

Yeah. I'm pretty sure I had at least two folders covered in this S. I was a pre-tty cool lil' dude.

Yes, once in the 90's. It was fun.

I'm no gang member.

I never knew that dumb "S" was so widespread. Interesting to think how it could have hit seemingly worldwide like that at a time before the Internet was a big thing.

Yes, Canada in the 90s

I always did the slanted-ends version, and I always did it in New Jersey in the nineteen-hundred and nineties.

Yep, Australia in the 90s. How did this thing propagate so wildly without any idea of its origins?

Not me but when my nephew was in high school he had it all over his notebook (circa 2009-ish?)