Oh, okay, now I see the penis. I saw a globe wearing a mask. I still mostly see a globe wearing a mask. You have to ignore the globe entirely to see the penis.
I also can see nothing but a penis in the Amazon logo. My husband thinks I’m nuts.
When I first looked at the NYT illustration it looked like a breast. Then I saw was it’s supposed to be-a globe with a mask. THEN I saw the penis, and now all I can see is a penis.
Some masks are cup-shaped. Some are on this page.
Goes off to look.
Follows MEm’s instructions
Oh, OH! Yup, I see it now.
Oh, my!
Some things cannot be unseen…
~VOW
I saw a bald guy riding a bike today, and he had a mask pushed up on his forehead. It looked just like the illustration.
This is why I had such a hard time seeing the mask after my sister told me that’s what she sees – first of all, I was expecting the flat kind and, second, it doesn’t make sense that it’s pointing up like that.
If they had angled it down like you would expect, flattened it out like you would expect, and colored it blue, it would have worked much better IMO. As it is, it’s just a way to whoosh the NY Times editors.
Now that you sickos mention it, I looked up R. O. Blechman and he clearly snuck the word “dicks” into an illustration back in January.
As Tom Lehrer famously sang:
“When correctly viewed,
Everything is lewd.”
You went from seeing dick all to seeing dick.
Also, thanks/damn you for bringing the Amazon logo’s likeness to my attention. Apt since Amazon’s slogan is: “work hard. Have fun. Make history.”
It’s kinda a normal N95 mask. The surgical masks are blue and flat, the N95 masks are white and stick out.
I dunno. You have to pretend not to see the entire southern hemisphere, and everything north of the United States. You have to hide most of the drawing.
Most of our home planet.
I don’t think this counts.
Since I knew beforehand that it was supposed to be a mask, I thought that just looks like a giant boil. It wasn’t until I got farther away from the screen that I noticed it also looked like a penis.
Nah, you just have to ignore the green blobs — the continents. All the ink lines work together, with the global outline functioning as a glory hole (altho, I’ve never actually seen a glory hole, or even a photo of one). As you implicitly suggest, the equatorial section of the continents can be viewed as anatomical discolorations, but I don’t think that enhances the hidden drawing.
Saw the penis right away. Had no idea what it was SUPPOSED to be until I started reading the posts. I guess I see the mask. I think it’s poorly drawn.
To me it’s a boil. Hardly a … cigar-like object.
This appeared on Fark yesterday with a header that indicated the submitter thought it was a … cigar-like object.
This is not really enough of anything to call it “hilarious” or some such.
What you should be seeing is cigar-like object sticking through a circle (the circle is the outline of the globe).
The green blobs (the continents) should be ignored. Just look at the ink lines.
Sorry. 
I’ll ask the mods to change the title.
OK, I’ll spoiler it just not to run afoul of rules, but DON’T CLICK ON THIS IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THE PENIS:
Come on. How the hell do you people not see the penis there?