The Web failed this “bar” test.
Social media is blowing the collective gasket because it tries to resolve a mysterious ‘bar’ conundrum that has gone viral on the web.
A perplexed pub-goer bumped into the mystery during a trivia night in Sydney, Australia earlier this week, and decided to post it on Reddit hoping someone will help him break it.
“From pub trivia, colleague left before getting a solution, any ideas?” reads the caption to the visual puzzle.
The accompanying photo shows a mysterious image that shows two silhouettes of girls’s heads with check marks above them, and three tick-free men’s restroom symbols.
Useless to say, the supposed puzzle has left Reddit brains racking their brains like MIT students trying to resolve a mystery a math problem in “Hunting with Good Will”.
Some Redditors surmised it was a pictorial representation of the phrase “ladies and gentlemen”.
Many commenters thought it was a bet capability notice with a single caption: “Oh, two corporations, three is a crowd.” Nonetheless, critics rejected this theory as it could not explain the gender split between sets of images.
Meanwhile, other commentators guessed that the painting meant “glad wife, glad life”, while others thought it meant that men should at all times “check up” on women.
One nervous Redditor even solved a puzzle alongside ChatGPT’s seemingly all-powerful AI engine, prompting him to answer: “Based in your description, it looks just like the rebus represents the phrase ‘I checked the boys.’
He then presented an in-depth dissertation on how “the weather of the image correspond to this expression”.
“Two similar silhouettes of a bust of a younger woman facing left along with her hair tied up in a bun,” ChatGPT theorized. “It might probably represent the word ‘checked’ as someone checking something.”
It lasted. “There’s a check mark above each silhouette: it is a pun since the word ‘checking’ may mean checking or verifying something. Three similar photos of the boys’s bathroom symbol: it depicts the word “men”, as in the boys’s bathroom.
“Putting all of it together, we’re ‘screening men’,” the system concluded. “I hope it should help!”
Unfortunately, even this advanced AI bot – which might formulate complex computer code and is anticipated to render Google obsolete – was removed from rated.
Indeed, based on the establishment that ran the bar trivia night, the reply was simply, “Ladies first.”