The rude detail in the Sharetea logo you won’t be able to unsee

Comedian Em Rusciano has spotted an awkward detail in the logo for popular Australian bubble tea café Sharetea.

She walked past a Sharetea while out and about in Melbourne on Friday and did a double take when she noticed the sign outside.

That’s because at first glance she thought it said ‘sharted’, a slang term for a wet fart.

She posted a photo of the storefront on Instagram and said she ‘always’ reads the sign as ‘sharted’ and now can’t unsee it.

The optical illusion is a result of the second ‘a’ resembling the letter ‘d’, and the fact there is no gap between the words ‘share’ and ‘tea’. 

She walked past a Sharetea in Melbourne and did a double take when she noticed the sign outside. That’s because at first glance she thought it said ‘sharted’, a slang term for a wet fart

Sharetea, established in 2012, has more than 80 locations nationwide and is one of the most popular bubble tea chains in Australia.

Bubble tea is a sweet tea that originated in Taiwan in the early 1980s and is popular with East Asian immigrants and the wider community.

The sweet milk tea is commonly served cold with chewy tapioca balls, known as ‘pearls’, or other toppings.

The market size of bubble tea was valued at $2.4billion in 2019.

Rusciano said said she ‘always’ reads the sign as ‘sharted’ and now can’t unsee it 

The optical illusion is a result of the second ‘a’ resembling the letter ‘d’, and the fact there is no gap between the words ‘share’ and ‘tea’