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[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 days ago

Not sure what you are saying. With the order of the meme reversed it doesn't make it obvious which point is supposed the clearer point of view...

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Not sure what you are saying. With the order of the meme reversed it doesn’t make it obvious which point is supposed the clearer point of view…

It isn't reversed compared to how this meme format is usually used: the glasses-on image is on the bottom, and associated with the viewpoint OP is saying is correct/better.

If one hasn't seen (or has forgotten) the film, this is the way that makes sense, since glasses (generally) improve the wearer's vision.

This meme's canonical format is however in fact at odds with the actual scene in the 2002 film:

peter parker glasses meme, but reversed so he is wearing glasses in the top frame instead of the bottom. bottom text "In the movie Spiderman, Peter Parker realizes he can see more clearly without his glasses so the order oftthe images should be flipped", top text is the same but blurry

A related meme form which doesn't have this ambiguity is the much older they live sunglasses - here the position of the two images are used less consistently (though as with peter parker, usually glasses-on is the lower one) but the glasses being on showing the truth actually fits with how it is in the film.

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