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It was scientifically proven that the squiggly lines make the seat seem cleaner than it actually is.*
*Or not.
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The only pattern that can seemlessly integrate vomit, yoghurt, chocolate and bubblegum into itself and look completely unchanged afterwards.
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Yup. Just imagine what the seats would look like if they were white. Probably also a graffiti pattern, but an extremely unpleasant one...
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Wasn't this just to make grafittis on the seats invisible enough to deter
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Exactly. That was never an aesthetic choice.
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Graffiti free is an aesthetic choice.
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"We need a design that obscures ketchup, vomit, and shit stains"
"Absolutely on it, sir"
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Is there an actual reason behind it?
I heared it is that way so you dont see the dirt on the chairs
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I also heard a claim that such patterns can (marginally) discourage graffiti of the seats. And if branding is a thing you care about, they can reflect some parts of that. London S-Stock trains' seats point to the lines where they run, and there have been Danish trains that straight up feature the old DSB logo in the seat pattern.
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Exactly this
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I've never seen Hiimdaisy art besides the P4 comic that never got finished, wow.
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Say what?
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This artist is named Gigi D.G. apparently, but their webcomic is called Hiimdaisy, and they did a silly Persona 4 webcomic years ago that people like me still quote to this day. It got a comic dub on Youtube by a channel named Sapphire. I can immediately tell by the artstyle that it's them.
They have a TV Tropes page.
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