What fruit is this?

[Isaac Fox]

The bastard child of an apple and a pear.

[Ad Bot]

[Blocko 3D]

what the hell

what the forget is this and why is it like that

[Cybertails1998]

it's an APPEAR

get it
it's because it either APPEARS as an APPle or a pEAR

[Maxwell23461]

it doesn't seem to appear that way though!!!!!!

[BlockoCrafter]

Unlike what many people probably saw, I saw a pear before I saw an apple.

[Cybersix]

Opera shows a pear, but Photoshop shows an apple

[Grassy]

it's an APPEAR

get it
it's because it either APPEARS as an APPle or a pEAR

Papple.

[mr. pedophile]

Does this qualify as a pearadox?
Or an applenomy?

[DontCare4Free]

Basically, good browsers that follow the standards show a pear (Chrome, Firefox), bad browsers/image editors (IE, Safari, apparently Photoshop) show an apple. source

[dorkdotdan]

Basically, good browsers that follow the standards show a pear (Chrome, Firefox), bad browsers/image editors (IE, Safari, apparently Photoshop) show an apple. source

I actually took the time to open this in IE and it is still shown as a pear.

[BlockoCrafter]

I'm using Safari and it looks like a pear.

[ravencroft]

I see a pear with a dim apple in the background.

[Electrk]

How does it work

[Demian]

A very clear pear on Firefox 20. I only get a faint apple when I scale the page.

[DontCare4Free]

I actually took the time to open this in IE and it is still shown as a pear.

I'm using Safari and it looks like a pear.

They might have fixed it since. Can't verify though, since neither runs on Linux.

How does it work

source

Essentially, the pear image's gamma is scaled down ridiculously. A certain metadata value in the image is then set, to make the browser scale it back. However, some browsers don't support this, still showing the apple image instead.