˙sʇɥƃıןɥƃıɥ ǝɥʇ ǝɹɐ ʍoןǝq ˙ʇxǝʇ uʍop ǝpısdn ƃuısn ǝןdoǝd oʇ pǝʞןɐʇ puɐ (ǝʇʇǝןnoɹ ʇɐɥɔ pǝsɐq-ʇxǝʇ ɐ ɥɔnɯ ʎʇʇǝɹd) ǝןƃǝɯo oʇuo ʇuǝʍ ı os ‘ʇı ɥʇıʍ ʇuǝɯıɹǝdxǝ oʇ pǝpıɔǝp ı ‘ɹǝʍod sıɥʇ ɥʇıʍ uǝɥʇ ˙ʇxǝʇ uʍop ǝpısdn ǝʞɐɯ oʇ ʍoɥ oʇuı pǝʞooן ı ‘q uoɯıs ןɐuoıʇɐɹıdsuı ǝɥʇ oʇ sʞuɐɥʇ

Translation: Thanks to the inspirational Simon B, I looked into how to make upside down text. Then with this power, I decided to experiment with it, so I went onto Omegle (pretty much a text-based chat roulette) and talked to people using upside down text. Below are the highlights.

ǝuo ɹǝqɯnu uoıʇɐsɹǝʌuoɔ

ǝǝɹɥʇ ɹǝqɯnu uoıʇɐsɹǝʌuoɔ

You: ¿ןsɐ ¡ıɥ

Stranger: hey

Stranger: m220

Stranger: m20

You: ɐıןɐɹʇsnɐ ɯ 02 ɯı

Stranger: what ru doing

You: noʎ oʇ ƃuıʇʇɐɥɔ

Stranger: @%#^ ur self

You: ˙ɹıs puıʞ uoıʇɔɐǝɹɹǝʌo ʎɹɐssǝɔǝuun ɥɥɥɥn

Stranger: reply ^@$ hole

You: ˙pıp ı

(Censoring added by me)

ɹnoɟ ɹǝqɯnu uoıʇɐsɹǝʌuoɔ

You: ¿ןsɐ ¡ıɥ

Stranger: hi

Stranger: 15 f europe u?

You: ɐıןɐɹʇsnɐ ɯ 02 ɯı

Stranger: cool

Stranger: why is you text up-down

You: ɐıןɐɹʇsnɐ uı ɯı

You: ¿pןɹoʍ ǝɥʇ ɟo ǝpıs ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ ‘ʍouʞ noʎ

You: ǝɹǝɥ uʍop ǝpısdn sı ƃuıɥʇʎɹǝʌǝ

Stranger: haha

Stranger: ok

Stranger: what u up to?

(Continues from here till I forget to put my text upside down)

ǝʌıɟ ɹǝqɯnu uoıʇɐsɹǝʌuoɔ

Stranger: Heyy

You: ¿ןsɐ ¡ıɥ

Stranger: 15 f aus.. That’s pretty kool

You: ¡sʞuɐɥʇ

You: ɐıןɐɹʇsnɐ ɯ 02 ɯı

Stranger: How’d ya do it

You: http://www.sevenwires.com/play/UpsideDownLetters.html

You: ¡unɟ ɟo sʇoן s,ʇı

Stranger: Kool!

Stranger: And your 20 hardto beloeve

You: sɹɐǝʎ ʎɯ puoʎǝq ǝɹnʇɐɯ ‘ɐɥ ɐɥ

Your conversational partner has disconnected.

xıs ɹǝqɯnu uoıʇɐsɹǝʌuoɔ

You: ¿ןsɐ ¡ıɥ

Stranger: hi

Stranger: i dont understand wut is dat

You: ¿uoıʇɐɔoן/xǝs/ǝƃɐ ‘ʍouʞ noʎ

Stranger: ohk

Stranger: 14/f/pluto

Stranger: hby

You: ɐıןɐɹʇsnɐ ɯ 02 ɯı

Stranger: kool

Stranger: do u have msn

You: ¿¿¿oʇnןd uo usɯ ǝʌɐɥ ʎǝɥʇ

Stranger: yepper, we’re the smartest

Stranger: and we’re always flyin

Stranger: our food is rocks

You: ǝɹǝɥʇ ʇno soɥɔʎsd ǝɯos ǝɹɐ ǝɹǝɥʇ ‘ɐǝpı pooƃ ɐ s,ʇɐɥʇ ‘ʇǝɹɔǝs uoıʇɐɔoן ɹnoʎ ƃuıdǝǝʞ noʎ ǝɹıɯpɐ ı ‘ɐɥ ɐɥ

You: ˙pǝʞɔoɹ pooɟ ʎɯ ɥsıʍ ı ‘ǝɯosǝʍɐ

Stranger: i noe right, i’ll remember u when i take over the world, and tell ma friend so they dont catch u

You: ǝɯ ǝq ןן,ʇɐɥʇ ‘uʍop ǝpısdn ƃuıʞןɐʍ ʎnƃ ǝɥʇ ɹoɟ ʞooן ʇsnɾ ‘pooƃ

uǝʌǝs ɹǝqɯnu uoıʇɐsɹǝʌuoɔ

Okay, well this was actually the most enjoyable conversation of the night but irritatingly when the conversation ended I was still typing and it skipped to the next person without giving me a chance to copy paste it in! It was basically what I’m claiming to be the first upside down “oy oy oy!” response ever made. Here is a re-enactment of that moment:

American girl: aussie aussie aussie!

Loser guy doing upside down chat to everyone: ¡ʎo ʎo ʎo

After further conversation I also discovered that she has an outback hat which looks insanely better than mine. Totally need to get myself a much cooler looking outback hat now:

The American girl with the much cooler outback hat

Overall, I was really surprised. As expected, quite a few people disconnected straight away when I asked for their asl (age, sex/gender, location for those not familiar with the chat world) in upside down text. Surprisingly, I had conversations with at least eight people in upside down text. Some didn’t even mention it. Some eventually got sick of upside down text, asked me to stop and then got bored and left. Others like the American girl above put up with it for quite a while!

¡ɥƃnoɥʇ ʇuǝɯıɹǝdxǝ unɟ ɐ ʎןǝʇıuıɟǝp sɐʍ ʇı