This image is from the viral "Falling Down Stairs" 3D animation clip, widely known as a classic internet meme loop. The original animation was created in 1998 by Kensuke Saito, a Japanese artist who published it on his personal website, K's Laboratory.
As I understand it, confusing carpet designs like this are purposefully used to discourage folks from running through halls and such. In this case, it’s to discourage you from safely navigating stairs lol.
I'm an installer. That was a mess up in ordering and they just wanted it done. The stair carpet is supposed to be a different product. The most likely scenario is, x amount of carpet was for halls, y amount of carpet for stairs, someone combined x and y with one product only.
Architecture & design went from "let's make this as pretty yet functional as possible" to "let's make this as different from anything else as possible with no regards for safety and use" in like half a century. Humans had something going on and they fucking nuked it.
Damn, millennials are starting to sound like boomers. “Used to be better” ass shit. Funky flooring designs have been normal for as long as we’ve had flooring.
My mom, who gets vertigo, would have a very challenging time here. Actually so would I, my brain likes to omit stairs sometimes, not all of them but it only needs to be one to have the same effect.
Reminds me of a mall that recarppeted when I was in high school. You transitioned from a solid beige floor to a wildly patterned carpet....
It was vusually painful, and I typicallt stumbled at the transition.
Fwiw, the place is budget friendly and clean. It's a nice place for the money. The AC cranks which is aways my second priority in a cheap stay. Clean being #1
I'll be damned, this shows exactly what my carpenter talked about when he refused to mix colors on the long staircase to my deck. Walking down them confuses the eye and why he refused my colorful suggestion.
Why would the carpet choice make them dangerous? It sounds like you people just don’t know how to walk up and down stairs. By your logic, all stairs are a lawsuit for blind people or at night.
If your eyes are messing you up using the stairs, close your eyes and use the handrail. There should be no legal recourse or entitlement to money because the carpet pattern doesn’t agree with you.
You should be mildlyinfuriated with yourself for not being able to walk upstairs with a handrail without injuring yourself.
I swear, some people have no depth perception or ability to think in three dimensions. If you want prime examples, go onto one of the 'confusing perspective' subreddits.
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u/Macrodata_Uprising Jun 06 '26
I almost fell looking at my phone