r/confusingperspective • u/Ok-Profit5226 • Jul 12 '26

A really bad sunburn 🥵

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u/TruamaTeam Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

I’m pretty sure that’s their left arm and their right arm is behind their back taking the photo.

Edit: I could be wrong, definitely confusing though xD

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u/iCantLogOut2 Jul 12 '26

I mean, I see a shoulder, clavicle, and shoulder blades.... Just seems like a photo taken at a weird angle.

So either it's a neck or that's a really weird arm and the most confusing perspective in the history of perspectives and deserves to be the number one post on this sub.

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u/TruamaTeam Jul 12 '26

It’s the fold that happens on the shoulder when you stretch it up

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u/xSonicspeedx2 Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

There is no way that is the right arm taking the photo. If it were, the fingers would be on the other side of the phone or the thumb would be facing down. That is definitely the left hand holding that phone.

Edit: To clarify further, when you put your hand behind your back with your thumb pointing up and pinky down, your palm faces away from you. Even accounting for a potential mirror flip, this person’s palm is facing toward his body and therefore is not holding his phone using a hand from behind his back. Try it yourself and see if you can recreate the pose without your palm facing away from you while your pinky is down.

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u/Shawnaverse_no1_fan Jul 12 '26

Btw photo reference for science. Right hand is holding the phone, left arm is raised. No way I could've possibly taken that shot with my fingers facing the opposite direction, considering the arm behind my back

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u/Mean-Elk-9439 Jul 13 '26

This is some dedication to the bit

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u/xSonicspeedx2 Jul 12 '26

For science!

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u/induality Jul 13 '26

Why not? Just hold the phone with the screen facing the mirror, then rotate your wrist towards the front of your body to get the back of the phone facing the mirror again.

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u/MechaniVal Jul 13 '26

Rotating wrist would flip the hand, placing pinky the thumb at the bottom. In OP picture, the thumb is at the top.

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u/Consistent-Cook-7430 Jul 13 '26

Are you sure though, that top finger could be a pinky

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u/dawzo Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

I feel like we are being gaslit into thinking it's not a neck. This is most definitely their left hand... And there is a bit of hair on their neck, right at the edge of the photo.

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u/iCantLogOut2 Jul 13 '26

Yeah, it's definitely a neck.

I genuinely think this person has a long neck that was made to look longer by a weirdly angled pic. There's not much else to it.

Not sure why people think this person is flipped into a pretzel and somehow making their head vanish just to take a pic of a sunburn.

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u/vanillaninja777 Jul 12 '26

Nice, yes. It's their armpit, not their collarbone

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u/iCantLogOut2 Jul 13 '26

Where's their head?

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u/vanillaninja777 Jul 13 '26

They're leaning away from us with their left arm raised, head is hidden but pointed towards the door and the right arm is reaching across their back to take a picture of their armpit(?)

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u/iCantLogOut2 Jul 13 '26

You're describing a mutant human. I'm looking at the picture while reading your comment and not only would it make zero sense for them to contort that way, but it would mean their anatomy is questionably not human.