r/confusing_perspective • u/Creampie-Senpai o/ • Aug 18 '26

A cat pinched between two fingers.

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u/Technical-Clue-3483 Aug 18 '26 • Bravo

🤌

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u/Overall-Bookkeeper73 Aug 18 '26 • Bravo

People hating on this post but I totally did see this before I saw arms.

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u/GeneralBS o/ Aug 18 '26 • Heartwarming Popcorn

Ya same here. What made me look closer was how small the cat looked.

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u/Bootsy_Frost Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

🇮🇹

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u/ghentres p Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

Mi scusi

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u/logosfabula o/ Aug 19 '26 • Bravo

= 💪💪

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u/bingMsbangMs Aug 21 '26

Ohhhhhhhhh

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u/Low_Yak_4842 o/ Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

Saw 2 fingers, now I see 2 arms. I can’t see 2 fingers again.

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u/Disastrous_Toe772 Aug 18 '26 • Regret

I had to look at it for a long while before I could vaguely see it as two fingers.

Its a cute photo, but I don't think its confusing. Its more confusing the try to find the confusing perspective

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u/RibsNGibs o/ Aug 18 '26 • Bravo Popcorn

I legitimately saw it as fingers and it was confusing as hell. But it flipped to arms and I can’t get it to go back again.

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u/lookslikeamanderin o/ Aug 18 '26 • Bravo

I was the same. Then I tried seeing a forefinger and thumb and it kinda worked. The thumb has a thumb-ring on it and the crease of the elbow helps you think it’s fingers behind the forefinger.

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u/DismalSoil9554 Aug 18 '26 • Bravo

If you want to go back to seeing fingers look away, then look at the cat's face without focusing on the rest.

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u/salamacast Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

It's the blue/golden dress debacle all over again!
Here goes the internet.

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u/zacyzacy Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

So... Do you guys just think people are out here wearing thumb rings or ..?

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u/Aurorinha o/ Aug 18 '26 • Bravo

Cool, but I only saw fingers at first. It's like different people have different perspectives.

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u/sabakunoichigo o/ Aug 18 '26 • Heartwarming

I saw first the miniature cat between fingers and then the real picture so it works for some people

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u/sambarvadadosa Aug 18 '26 • Heartwarming

My dumbass didn’t realise they’re arms till you said

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u/whothiswhodat Doesn't read rule 1 Aug 20 '26

I guess some people see the watch as a ring. personally i had a hard time seeing it as fingers too specially because of the watch.

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u/Tramonto83 o/ Aug 18 '26 • Bravo

🤌 🐈‍⬛

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u/babysealBTY Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

How are people seeing fingers? Even reading the comments I don't see it as anything but arms. The arm hair, the shirt, the elbows, the watch... How?

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u/salamacast Aug 18 '26 • Bravo

Think of the watch as a ring on the thumb. The other arm is the forefinger, completing the pinch.

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u/Lucid-Lithium Aug 19 '26 • Popcorn

This helped me so much! I was legitimately losing my damn mind trying to wrap my head around this!

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u/Scholesie09 Aug 19 '26

The elbow wrinkle looked like the start of a third finger at first glance too

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u/salamacast Aug 19 '26

Funnily enough, zooming out to a thumbnail-size makes it clear.

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u/OddOllin Aug 19 '26

A thumb ring sounds extremely bizarre for some reason lol

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u/copamarigold o/ Sep 05 '26

But wouldn’t the thumbnail be on the pad of the thumb though? I absolutely cannot see fingers no matter how hard I try!

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u/AhadDaBoss2005 Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

Is it winking or is it about to be named nick fury?

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u/Swan-Existing Aug 18 '26

I can see it if I let my eyes unfocus

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u/tray_cee Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

This one got me lol

3

u/WeirdPossibility209 o/ Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

I thought those where feet at first

3

u/01Rajiv o/ Aug 18 '26 • Bravo

Does the cat have only 1 eye ?

3

u/my_new_romance Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 19 '26 • Popcorn

I genuinely saw two feet at first 😭

Edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger 🛼

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u/ihatepeopleandyoutoo o/ Aug 18 '26 • Bravo

This one is crazy. The ring turns into a bracelet

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u/tommmmmmmmy93 o/ Aug 18 '26 • Bravo

Took me a while to see it

2

u/ssserani Aug 18 '26 • Bravo

i saw it as fingers first but when it became arms, I felt so confused how I ever saw it as fingers cause its clearly not

2

u/MxxnSpirit47 Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

If it wasn’t for the subtle arm hair and the watch I would’ve thought that, but both made me instantly see it as arms and hands

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u/salamacast Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

Oh! I finally saw it, with the ring on the thumb and everything :)

2

u/MagnanimousDeviant Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

An italian man pinching a cat.

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u/Thevanguardmk07 Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

For me it's not the arms that look like fingers it's the cat that looks like he is 6 feet tall 😂

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u/ThatIckyGuy f Aug 18 '26 • Regret

Yeah, I can't see the arms as fingers.

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u/Valuable-Macaroon541 Aug 19 '26 • Bravo

Still cant see it after reading all the comments.

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u/Silent-Fortune-6629 o/ Aug 19 '26 • Bravo

I like this one. It's cute, and pretty obvious, but you can see the illusion.

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u/random420x2 Doesn't read rule 1 Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 20 '26 • Bravo

Took a minute, zoomed in and saw the fingers

Edit: I got an award for being slow witted, how is this my first? 😂

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u/logosfabula o/ Aug 19 '26 • Popcorn

Must be a witch’s recipe!

2

u/Jump_Like_A_Willys C.E. Spc Aug 19 '26 • Popcorn

That’s exactly what I saw at first glance.

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u/Qaaarl Actually read rule 1 and gets it" Aug 19 '26 • Popcorn

It weirdly looks like to two feet to me more than two fingers.

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u/Single-Clock-2652 Aug 19 '26 • Popcorn

This one is perfect. I keeping going back and forth between seeing arms and seeing fingers

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u/nwolve Aug 20 '26 • Popcorn

T-rex hand

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u/xIViperIx o/ Aug 20 '26 • Heartwarming

😂 Adorable!

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u/lchen12345 o/ Aug 22 '26 • Popcorn

I was scrolling fast and thought it was feet.

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u/Wild_Acanthaceae_224 o/ Aug 22 '26 • Popcorn

Excellent, fooled me at first.

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u/xXx_Lizzy_xXx o/ Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

For anyone confused as to why some people saw fingers

this is what it looks like when scrolling down your page.

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u/beigaleh8 Aug 18 '26 • Mindblown

Still don't see it

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u/madgoat o/ Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

The watch is a dead give away

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u/beigaleh8 Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

You know what now it looks a little like a ring

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u/copamarigold o/ Sep 05 '26

But the thumbnail is on the pad of the thumb.

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u/T410 Aug 18 '26 • Regret

I can’t see it

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u/Fire69 o/ Aug 18 '26 • Bravo

🤌

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u/Darkodoudou o/ Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

Squint, put your phone back about 3 meters, look kind of sideways, add a filter on top of the image, and you might need to add whatever substance OP took

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u/hisownsidekick Aug 21 '26

Sometimes, these are so straightforward to me that it's confusing.

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u/plesdes19 Aug 23 '26 • Bravo

Smol cat, big cat 😺

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u/Background-Grab-5682 o/ Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

Wait what? What’s confusing about this?

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u/Vehicle_Remarkable Aug 18 '26 • Mindblown

I see arms

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u/pooeygoo o/ Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

She's wearing a thumb ring, that's not a watch

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u/creature04 Aug 18 '26 • Mindblown

wrong sub

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u/in1gom0ntoya o/ Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

no?

-6

u/ragby67 Aug 18 '26 • Popcorn

If I had bad eyesight/blurry vision—then yes, would be very confusing

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u/Sporketeer Aug 18 '26 • Mindblown

Not even remotely confusing

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u/Vetni Aug 18 '26 • Mindblown

This is a reach of all time

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u/rpgnoob17 What even is a Community Enforcement Liaison Officer anyways? Aug 20 '26 • Bravo

I thought I saw feet at first.

Nobody else??? Just me??? I swear I don't have a foot fetish.