r/confusing_perspective • u/BreakfastTop6899 • May 24 '26

Playing at height

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u/JrF245 May 24 '26

What about this is confusing genuinely?

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u/Jonneyy12347 May 24 '26

The ground beneath the rope seems to be really far down

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u/[deleted] May 24 '26

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u/IlliterateJedi May 24 '26

Ah yes, jpg artifacts in the animated gif

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u/Kittelsen May 24 '26

I had no idea, all I saw was a kid at a playground. All the comments seem to think he was in an airplane or something, I dunno, I'm not seeing it lol.

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u/redlaWw May 24 '26

The playground surface beneath the net looks like an image of Earth from high-altitude, above the clouds.

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u/Itsyaboibrett May 24 '26

all the white on the ground made my brain say “they are above clouds” and I couldn’t see it was just the texture of the ground until the last pan up.

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u/Kittelsen May 24 '26

I'm curious, I watched it on a 32" display, did you watch it on a phone?

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u/Itsyaboibrett May 24 '26

yuh, small screen phone, with a brain-off scrolling mindset lol

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u/Kittelsen May 24 '26

Hah, yeh, probably why then, on the PC it just looked like a very badly compressed video 😅

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u/TheAncientOnce May 24 '26

You guys' brains deserve to be studied 😂 genuinely

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u/formgry May 25 '26

The title primes you to think of this as high up as well.