ClaimHumans have stripes or invisible stripes.ReportingAdvertisementsOn September 28 2021, the following post made a series of claims about humans having “stripes” that are visible but aren’t actually stripes, and that they also have stripes that do exist but which are not visible. The post’s claim was via a series of screenshots from Tumblr; the gallery of screenshots was shared to Imgur on September 30 2021:You’re a tiger HarryGoogle Trends data indicated a spike in searches for “humans have stripes” beginning on September 30 2021. Related queries included “do humans have stripes under uv,” “can cats see human stripes,” “humans have invisible stripes,” human stripes uv,” and “Blaschko lines.”First and foremost, “humans have stripes that we normally cannot see” was not a new claim. Posts on Reddit dating back more than a decade (and intermittently after that) covered the issue:TIL humans have stripes (we just can’t normally see them) from todayilearnedSeptember and October 2021 posts claiming that “humans have stripes” typically involved screenshots of a November 15 2020 Tumblr post by u/keuhkopussirota. That post was framed in terms of aliens discussing human stripes (and possibly confusing stripes with stretch marks), but later “notes” on the original post made the claim that “cats can…
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'Humans Have Stripes' – Truth or Fiction?
