Is this cat walking up the stairs or down the stairs?
Though the optical illusion of the week isn’t quite as popular or as polarizing as “The Dress,” thousands of people have weighed in on the directionally ambiguous feline over the past week.
The grainy photograph of a cat traversing a set of stairs will probably divide opinions, depending on whether you think the photographer is looking down at the animal, or up at it, from below.
The consensus on content aggregator 9gag seems to be that the cat is going down. The patterned part is likely the back of the stairs, one user said, because the thin part of step looks like a wood slat that you would step on.
Another user said a cat would have its tail pointed down if it were running up the stairs.
Though the details are difficult to glean from the low-definition image, don’t let that stop the debate. Are you on team “up” or team “down”?
