Now, Weiss finds it tedious to associate with the majority of people – though he “unfortunately” still has some friends who believe in a round Earth. “It literally whips the rug out from underneath you.” “I absolutely freaked out,” Weiss tells CNN in a phone interview. Ever since he tried and failed to find proof of the Earth’s curve four years ago, he’s believed with an evident passion that our planet is both flat and stationary – and it’s turned his world upside down. “Would you wake up in the morning and want everyone to think you’re an idiot?”īut Weiss is a flat Earther. It all supports the idea that this image was created to be a funny meme.“I don’t want to be a flat Earther,” David Weiss says, his voice weary as he reflects on his personal awakening. This is a decent collection of circumstantial evidence. That was 6 days ago and they have not responded. I sent a message to The Flat Earth facebook page asking if it was real, on 12/30/17. This guy tweeted out the joke in May 2016. This shirt was originally sold in February 2017. This same joke was made prior to May 2017 without attribution to an actual Flat Earth source. The original post was not an image, and therefore would not be found by tineye. It is possible that the post was real and the Facebook post was deleted after it became a widely ridiculed meme. It is very possible that Tineye's first record of it is actually a reposting of an earlier unrecorded image. Unfortunately I do not know how thorough their records are. Their image recognition algorithms allow you to reverse search an image and find out when it first appeared in Tineye's records. When I go to The Flat Earth Society's Facebook page, this post does not appear in the first half of 2017. Tineye's first record of this image appeared on May 9, 2017. I find no evidence of this being real, but I cannot prove a negative.
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