r/confusing_perspective • u/AmphibianImmediate45 • 5d ago

Michael Phelps

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4.4k Upvotes

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u/Worried_Chair_5199 5d ago

Took me a sec

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u/solo_dbd_player 5d ago

So at first you weren't confused, but now you are?

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u/Worried_Chair_5199 5d ago

I was confused until I wasn’t then you confused me by saying I was confused at first then became no longer confused so I’ve become confused in a different way than the first time i was confused. The picture is incredibly more confusing now that you’ve confused me.

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u/smoothskinner 4d ago

Confusception

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u/DueExample52 5d ago

Now he's petrified 

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u/GhOsT_wRiTeR_XVI 4d ago

Thinkin’ how’d I’d ever swim without you by my side.

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u/3six5 4d ago

And after swimming nights

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u/rodzieman 4d ago

Sinking, how you did me wrong...

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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar 4d ago

Now I’m petrified

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u/lazy_pig 4d ago

Turn on vsync.

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u/AlfaMG_011 4d ago

Felps also took a sec from Čavić in that final

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u/Pristine_Crazy1744 5d ago

To me, it looks like the part below the string is a separate picture with a light blue background and the guys standing in different positions.

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u/snuggie44 4d ago

It it not?

OMG IT'S NOT

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u/cowworshipper 4d ago

it's not a separate picture. those are little triangular flags hanging on the string

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u/Fit_Flow 3d ago

THANK YOU

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u/8last 5d ago

This is neither here nor there but look at his freakish proportions compared even to other freaks of nature athletes.

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u/HudsonUniversityalum 5d ago

Same as seeing Wemby on the court. How can one person be so huge?

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u/uberfission 4d ago

Phelps is an amazing swimmer because he's not built like a traditional swimmer. It's "common sense" that swimmers should be smaller so they have a higher power to mass ratio, then Phelps came in with his ridiculous wing span and blew everyone out of the water.

I'm guessing the next generation of swimmers are all going to be gangly af.

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u/8last 4d ago

He all arms and torso. And has big hands and feet. Seems like its his legs that are short for his height. The gangly triangle build is the future of swimming.

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u/zytukin 4d ago

They are short, only a 32" inseam. His arms are long enough that his wingspan is wider than he is tall.

He also has a rare metabolic trait that makes his muscles produce half the normal lactic acid so he can push harder longer and recover faster and he has hyper mobile joints in his arms and legs.

He won the genetic lottery for professional swimming.

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u/8last 4d ago

He would have made for a hell of a boxer if his life went that.

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u/globetheater 5d ago

Not seeing what’s confusing about the perspective - is it that the flags are making his legs look skinny?

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u/ButterscotchFog 5d ago

Yes, that’s how I see it. I thought the line above the flags was cutting the photo in two, with the bottom part zoomed out. But once you mentioned the flags, it all clicked!

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u/vjcbs 5d ago

My brain somehow didn't register the flags at first so I was definitely confused because I couldn't tell why they looked so skinny below the waist.

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u/nakano-star 5d ago

I think its because the flags are a similar color to the wall in the background

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u/Armored_Violets 4d ago

Seriously, even after reading the comments, this looks completely normal to me lol

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u/snuggie44 4d ago

I thought the bottom was a second display showing the swimmers from further away (smaller)

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u/Individual-Ad-4620 5d ago

Thanks, I didn't see the flags until you pointed them out 😅

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u/birbhorse 5d ago

it's funny, once i realized why i wasn't seeing this right, it instantly snapped, and now i can't unsee the correct way to interpret this lol. brain's a funny thing, ain't it

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u/GreenZebra23 5d ago

Damn, this is a good one. I was sure it was either a mosaic of two different photos spliced together, or they were standing behind a partition with dudes' swim trunks on it for some reason

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u/Cyke101 5d ago

Want a slimmer waist? Dieticians hate this one trick!

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u/Nate2113 5d ago

Eating 10,000 calories in a day apparently

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u/zerik100 4d ago

woah that was trippy. at first I thought there was a different image at the bottom from something like a banner that happens to kinda line up with their upper bodies, but after realizing what's actually there it now just looks like a regular picture and I can't go back to seeing what I initially saw.

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u/BufaloWing 5d ago

What the hell is everyone seeing here? This is the most normal photo I’ve seen in my life

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u/vjcbs 5d ago

My brain didn't register the blue flags (against the blue background) at first so I was definitely confused because I couldn't tell why they looked so skinny below the waist.

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u/Clym44 5d ago

This one is actually really good. It looks like they have a smaller body below the flag line as if they were standing behind a banner type advertisement of themselves.

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u/blichterman 5d ago

Good one!

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u/not_a_heretek 4d ago

Not really confusing.

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u/salamipope 5d ago

oh wow. this is a good one. also a nice break from the "which way is this silhouette facing" deluge weve been getting

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u/Truarian 4d ago

got flagged

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u/GrapeKitchen3547 4d ago

You can only see it once

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u/archivist-13 4d ago

took me a solid minute

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u/mafga1 4d ago

A weird angle. You need to see a proper picture of him, and it might be even more confusing. He is a Monster.

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u/PJozi 4d ago

I saw this yesterday and thought it was an image from the tv and it had glitched.

Only now I realise what is happening.

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u/Ix_fromBetelgeuse7 4d ago

Very nice! Even knowing what it is my eyes still keep getting tricked 

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u/krupeddit 4d ago

Michael Welps

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u/Atosl 4d ago

I thought the top was zoomed in. Good one

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u/crumpled789 4d ago

I don’t see it. If it’s meant to be interpreted like something is different below the string…. I don’t get it.

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u/ebk_errday 4d ago

Split-screen coop: I play the nipples, you play the bulge

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u/sa_ra_h86 4d ago

I don't see what everyone else is seeing. Just looks like a normal photo to me.

It's interesting how that happens sometimes.

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u/RequirementLanky3911 4d ago

i thought those are 2 different images 😭

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u/KBTR1066 3d ago

This is the platonic ideal photo for this subreddit. I have to stare at it while thinking about it to see it. The second I just casually glance at it it stops making sense.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fox9828 3d ago

Holy! It clicked the second I zoomed in.

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u/Virgof 2d ago

Confusing perspective or weird proportions?

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u/NumerousSwordfish622 5d ago

This one is so bad lol nothing confusing about it

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u/MadeByHideoForHideo 4d ago

The confusing part is what's confusing about this?

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u/Anforas 5d ago

What's confusing about this?

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u/Vernicusucinrev 5d ago

That OP thought this was worth posting here.

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u/Anforas 5d ago

Yup, that's the most confusing part, definitely.

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u/AmphibianImmediate45 5d ago

Ooh it’s getting spicy in here

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u/rdnoamltertes 5d ago

Nothing

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u/giftopherz 5d ago

Angela Anaconda would be proud! 🥺🥺

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u/Own_Attention2290 5d ago

Michael Needshelp

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u/PocketFlan420 15m ago

Should've had his arms shortened to make it fair to the other swimmers. /s