The internet is an endless wormhole of debates – from the blue and black vs white and gold dress to Yanny or Laurel, online debates really pull us in their realm.
The latest one that has users on Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok going all berserk is whether there are more doors or wheels in the world. Who even comes up with this stuff?
Where did the ‘Doors vs wheels’ debate come from?
It is believed that a man named Ryan Nixon, or @NewYorkNixon on Twitter, started the doors vs wheels debate on the microblogging website on 5th March 2022. He tweeted, “My mates and I are having the STUPIDEST debate…And I am here for it. Do you think there are more doors or wheels in the world?”.
His one tweet is believed to have unleashed this absolutely unnecessary debate, but as he said, we are also here for it!
He added the poll feature to his tweet, and the post has racked up thousands of replies, 223,347 votes on the poll, and more than 18,000 likes.
The final results on the poll show wheels taking the top spot but only by 7 percent.
However, the debate is no longer limited to the poll now and has taken over the entire internet.
Twitter users who took to the comments section of the original tweet are divided into two categories – Team Door and Team Wheels.
Team Door believes that there are more doors than wheels in the world with one user saying, “Doors by far. Most things with wheels have at least a 2:1 door-wheel ratio, and then you have all the other doors in the world.”
Another user wrote, “Doors. Pretty much everything with wheels has doors, except bikes. Anyone who owns something with wheels will live in a building whose doors outnumber their wheels. Eg I own 10 wheels (2 cars, 1 bike) but 28 doors.”
Now, let’s see what Team Wheels has to say:
One user wrote, “Very solidly wheels. All cars have 4 wheels but 2-4 doors. An average home might have 6-10 doors but it also has 3 suitcases with 6-12 wheels. A collection of toy cars might have 400 wheels.”
A second user wrote, “I think shopping carts alone make wheels win. I’ve been crunching numbers…my household has 26 doors, including vehicles, two lawnmowers, a wheelbarrow, blah, blah, blah. A large shopping centre must have like 3000 wheels. It’s not close.”
TikToker Count Daedalus concluded the debate and explained, “Oh for crying out loud, it’s so obvious. It’s wheels, and I’m not sure people realise it. Think about it: cars, buses, trains, and I’m not just talking about passenger trains, freight trains. Not the tiny ones in Britain, the ones in Asia and America that are over 150 carriages long.”
He added: “Airplanes, lorries, skateboards, roller skates, dishwashers, draws, steering wheels, chairs, furniture, hospital beds, washer machines, tumble dryers, bicycles, trollies, and not to mention the hundreds and millions of toy cars out there made by Hot Wheels and Lego.”
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So, are you Team Doors or Team Wheels? Let us know in the comments.
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