We can all* agree that we want a person we find attractive to place some of their skin in contact with some of our skin. Beyond that, don’t sweat the details!

* I phrased this as inclusively as I possibly could but sorry aromantic asexuals, you might not be included.

I feel dumb that I needed this explained to me. Thanks.

I don’t get it… is there anything to get?

:)! :)! :)! :)!

This would be read aloud as: S M I L E exclamation point! S M I L E exclamation point! …

(it would spell out the word “smile” instead of saying it)

This was perhaps the densest TTS runtime to character count.

Okay, I must confess, I knew about that, as well as the other options in the replies. I never used any of them but I knew they exist. When I asked it was sort of as a rhetorical question. People generally wouldn’t know about these obscure typing options, so I was playing the everyman.

Even if you do know it, if you don’t use it often enough you forget and have to look it up again next time.

Thanks. I couldn’t believe perspective alone could cause its head to look that narrow and elongated. Seems like it’s quite narrow and elongated from the get go.

what the hell is the left picture

I see no reason whatsoever to suspect this

It’s going at an angle, not up. It’s 90° from the handrail itself, which is sloped to match the incline of the stairs.

Yeah. I’ve now found a reason that makes me convinced the mattress is at the bottom. I made a top level comment about it.

The biggest factor IMO is something no one mentioned yet: we can only see one face of each step (either the top or the wall). If a photo is taken from the bottom, we would almost always be able to see the tops of the first few steps, which isn’t visible here. If a photo is taken from the top, the walls would pretty much never be visible (if they were, you could also see the photographer’s feet).

Therefore, this photo is only consistent with a photo taken from the top.

It is possible that this is an extremely long flight of stairs or that the photo was taken from a deliberately deceptive angle, but if that’s the case I have to say it was expertly done, because I am CERTAIN that we are looking from the top and the mattress is at the bottom.

Not convinced. It’s a different set of stairs and a different carpet. I have had stairs with a carpet more similar to the OP that did not have a riser. See elsewhere in these comments for a photo of these stairs, now bare. In the distant past, they were carpeted.

Interesting. My parents’ apartment had carpeted stairs when they bought it (when I was around 3). About a decade later they completely renovated the kitchen and naturally the renovations creeped into other parts of the home. One of the builders showed them that underneath the carpet were beautiful stone steps. They instantly decided to take out the carpet, and the stairs are bare to this day. Here’s a photo I took just now (obviously from the bottom looking up):

The handrail argument doesn’t make any sense. It would be at the same height regardless of direction.

Back when I thought it was two mattresses, I thought it couldn’t be at the top because the right mattress probably wouldn’t be held up like that. But since it’s one mattress, it can relatively easily be held at that angle with most of its weight resting on the step.

And that’s my main reason: it really seems like the mattress is being pushed towards that step, and I believe it’s being pushed by gravity. Doesn’t make as much sense for it to be pushed in that direction by someone.

I’m not married to it though, it’s a really tricky picture.

I think it’s bottom too but I don’t agree with your reasoning, I’ve seen steps without that bit.

Edit: actually now I think top, I’ve been convinced by the daylight argument plus the realization that is a single mattress folded in half (I previously thought it’s two mattresses).

Edit: changed my mind again, made a top level comment

Nice. Perhaps better: you have a million dollar smile, unfortunately we don’t have change from a million

Without know this we don’t have enough context to assess the situation

Fair point. It’s still a red flag (in more ways than one!) but I accept it’s not definitive.

I’m not seeing it in Voyager, but I’m guessing you made a header:

Main header
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Level 2 header
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The number of dashes or equality signs doesn’t have to match, so I think that’s what you did.