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People Fixing Ceilings Before Newton Invented Gravity Meme

This humorous meme uses a forced perspective optical illusion for comedic effect. The top of the image features text joking that people repaired ceilings by floating up to reach them before Isaac Newton 'invented' gravity. The lower portion is a photo taken from an angle in an office, where a bright backlit window hides the surface a man is standing on, creating the realistic illusion that he is floating unsupported in midair while reaching up to adjust a ceiling vent, with desks, computers, and other office workers visible below him.
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How people fixed ceilings before Isaac Newton invented gravity

Overview

This humorous meme uses a forced perspective optical illusion for comedic effect. The top of the image features text joking that people repaired ceilings by floating up to reach them before Isaac Newton 'invented' gravity. The lower portion is a photo taken from an angle in an office, where a bright backlit window hides the surface a man is standing on, creating the realistic illusion that he is floating unsupported in midair while reaching up to adjust a ceiling vent, with desks, computers, and other office workers visible below him.

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This meme was sourced from the X.com (formerly Twitter) account WholesomeMeme via RSS. The joke plays on the common internet tongue-in-cheek trope that frames Isaac Newton as the inventor of gravity, rather than the scientist who discovered and described natural gravitational laws, paired with a widely shared viral forced perspective photograph of a maintenance worker appearing to float while working on a ceiling.

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