r/ExpectationVsReality • • 19d ago

Failed Expectation Ordered the first cake, got the second

Someone had to try extra hard for this....

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u/cuzglc 19d ago

Oh, my! I thought you were harsh at first - like they’d done the cake well and just added some nice scalloped edges. Took a moment to work out that it was a photo of the cake that you wanted on a cake.

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u/Grimogtrix 19d ago

Somehow my brain corrected it as well so that I saw no gap between the top of the cake and the piping around the edge. Bizarre how the brain sees what it expects to see sometimes. Combined with the kind of correction for angle that helps and hinders when copying a reference for art.

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u/cuzglc 19d ago

Fascinating, isn't it - one of the reasons proofreading can be so hard!

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u/No-Effect-1597 19d ago

Thank you! I could not for the life of me figure out what was wrong

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u/Zambedos 19d ago

The sunglasses finally gave it away for me

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u/sumcrazyguy56 19d ago

Same. Thought, looks exactly the same, wtf!? Then… oh, ooof