Meme Details

Here's a detailed description of the image: **Overall Composition:** The image is a meme, combining a world map and a screenshot of actor Billy Dee Williams looking confused. The meme text at the top reads "Flat Earthers." **Map Portion:** * **Map Projection:** The world map is depicted with a modified Mercator projection, a common map style that distorts landmasses near the poles. * **Two Routes:** Two red lines are drawn on the map showing possible routes from New York to Moscow. * The first route (8,910 km) is a much longer route showing a curved path across the Atlantic Ocean. * The second route (7,500 km) is a straight line path across the Arctic. * **Annotation:** The routes are labeled with distances in kilometers. **Image Portion:** * **Billy Dee Williams:** A screenshot of actor Billy Dee Williams looking visibly confused. * **Caption:** The caption at the bottom reads "[visible confusion]". **Meaning:** The meme is poking fun at the perspective of "Flat Earthers," who believe the Earth is flat rather than a globe. The map highlights how the shortest distance between two points would be a straight line, defying the usual curved route depicted on standard globe projections, and implying the "longer route" is an attempt to accommodate a round Earth. The actor’s confusion captures the cognitive dissonance of reconciling these two ideas.