It’s common knowledge that math is the devil’s work. Who else would create such an insidious discipline just to cause strife for those unfortunate souls that walk this Earth?
Now the devil is up to even more of his trickery, this time with the heavy tomes that students are forced to carry around, causing back problems on campuses everywhere: algebra textbooks.
The Internet is busting its brains over the cover of College Prep Algebra, not because of some hellish equations, but because the people on the cover look to be holding the book that they are on the cover of.
Mad trippy.
https://twitter.com/riarklerise/status/733389885038428161
Twitter user @riarklerise tweeted the photo on Thursday, and as of Friday afternoon, it has over 36,000 retweets and 46,000 likes. People’s reactions have been pretty entertaining.
@andrewpfister I don't think they cover the time travelers paradox until Algebra II
— Corey Garnett (@CoreyGarnett) May 20, 2016
@riarklerise pic.twitter.com/VPYRqplQ7E
— 𝒦𝑒𝓎𝓎𝓈 🎹💙🎸 (@_VashtiKeyys_) May 20, 2016
https://twitter.com/seoulmv/status/733443901248307201
Now, before you grab the holy water, there’s a perfectly good explanation for this: Photoshop. Yes, the witchcraft of image editing is probably to blame for this illusion.
The photo actually was taken from a Reddit thread on r/MildlyEntertaining. There, a redditor found the original picture. And now it all makes sense. Nonetheless, the photo is a psychedelic delight.
Maybe the devil isn’t behind this trickery, but he should still apologize for inventing math.