Unless it is floating, it's at the bottom.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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How are y'all arguing this? The banister makes it unquestionably obvious that it's at the top. There's no debate to be had here unless the banister was intentionally installed wrong just for the purpose of this meme, which would be crazy.
The mattress is at the top, y'all.
IKR. This was the obvious answer 24 hours ago but here we are discussing wear patterns and contrast.
And do you suppose the banister would be installed if the mattresses were at the bottom?
If our view was from the top looking down at the bottom then the banister would be rotated 90 degrees towards us.
So if we are looking up the stairs then why is the carpet worn on the front and center of each stair step?
So the people walk on the wall? (Wear of the carpet and lack of visible ledge that stairs should have)
I guess I should address the "wear" on the carpet as well: it doesn't look worn to me, it looks disturbed. Like before this person tried shoving their mattress up the stairs and got it stuck, they carried a heavy dresser or or something up the stairs and dragged it up each stair, sliding it along the carpet. I suspect this is a person moving into a cheap efficiency apartment, since the one my father moved into last when he was still alive looked extremely similar.
My stairs don't have a visible ledge. I don't know why people are acting like that's standard. I think only one of the homes I've lived in has had a stairwell with ledges.
There are no stairs.
top or bottom doesnt matter, whats important is that you PIVOT!
This is gonna be our white and gold/black and blue dress, huh?
Bottom, look at the wear of the carpet, lots of people have walked here.
Not just that, but the steps seem unreasonably tall and get shorter in the distance.
Maybe but we don't know where this is, stair styles could vary in different regions.
Yes.
technically correct etc ;)
It’s white and gold!
All joking aside, most stairs that I know had some sort of overhang, which we don’t see in this picture, so I’ll venture to say that we are looking down. The mattress is at the bottom of the stairs.
It already looked like bottom on first glance, The shadows and light seem to verify it.
Bottom, these stairs have a rounded lip to make them compliant with rise over run requirements in limited space.
While I'm not 100% certain it's not just confusing perspective, it does appear that the slope rise is shorter than the run, suggesting that this is from the top of the stairs.
Nice catch. The carpet wear corroborates this.
Top. Stairs aren't that tall.
Yes
Top the railing gives it away
And if you actually think for a moment you realize nobody carpets vertical parts of the steps
They absolutely do, and you're arguing for the opposite position of the person above you
bottom, as we only can see the treads not the risers (that small inset underneath a step).
And you can see the wear on the treads. plus the handrail mount in the top left would be at a very inconvenient height if we were looking from the bottom up
The handrail argument doesn't make any sense. It would be at the same height regardless of direction.
Also, the handrail mount is sideways if we're looking down; if we're looking up, it makes sense.
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I have those stairs with that carpet.
💯% this is looking down to a mattress at the bottom of the stairs.
Conclusive evidence:
Looking Down
Looking Up
(Sorry I was too lazy to get the low perspective)
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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.
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Thought something was weird here. The contrast and colour is making it difficult. If you turn up shadows it changes the entire feeling, including where the obvious light source is. I wouldn't expect the dark side of the mattress unless there was a bright light directly above it.
Also the banister/handrail arm wouldn't be horizontal. Most importantly, congrats, you got me invested.
No, the light could still be above the mattress on the ceiling at the bottom of the stairwell. This proves nothing.
But, the wear on the carpet indicates to me that those are the treads, so this is taken from the top of the stairs looking down. Also, not mentioned elsewhere, there is usually a nose on the treads and the carpet would follow the nose, which can't be seen from above.
Bottom, we can see dust and debris accumulated on the "run" part of the steps.
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From the wear patten on the carpet I would say bottom, but the handle to the side makes me think top !....
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Plot twist: Stuck in the middle.
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