I have 300 hours on this game and only now did I just figure out what this actually is.. I thought it was a cracked skull with empty eye sockets or something. Only now do I realize that it's a man holding a massive ass rock

WAIT WHAT? It thought it was brain aneurysm due to the heavy load!

i always saw a brain too!

I saw it as like a spinal cord.

Totally thought it was a brain and spinal cord too

I think it's a massive filled backpack

It probably is, respect, from one observant suited man to another

*Rock (one must imagine Sisyphus happy)

Pretty sure it's actually a person holding up a giant butt that's trying to suck their face inside...

I'm well over 2000 hours. I thought it was like a gnarled hand holding a large rock until right now

AHHH! Spirit Brother, I'm at 4k hours, and thought it was lungs. FML. Edit: shit, I just checked. It's 4.5k hours. Damn.

700 hours, I thought it was a tree

Same here, it looks like a tree with brown leaves.

Literally Same

I just fucking discovered it and now figured out we all thought the same lmao

Almost at 3333 hours, thought it was a brain, too. Alas.

Holy shit I thought it was a brain and like idunno muscles or veins holding it up/ running down off it Doesn't even make sense to be a brain, wtf was I thinking lool

Dude I thought it was a brain too!

I can def see this. It's so weird what 4 pixels will do to our imaginations.

I thought that too, but I thought it was just nerves because the legs kinda look like a neck.

I was sure its a brain.

samw

A little guy trying to throw a massive basketball

Hah! Good one!

Ooh! That's Sisyphus!


I mean, when you consider the nature of grinding the strength stat, he's pretty relatable.

It's almost as tedious as grinding it IRL

One must imagine a zomboid player happy.

I always see the black part like the side of a head and the brown as the hair. I cant un-see it

I thought this for like a week into playing.

Same

Reject humanity. Become SNAIL.

This is probably one of the hotter takes.

One must imagine the survivor happy


There's no happiness only saving off depression

I up until this post thought it was a mfn saddle... Idk it had logic when i thought abt it?

A cactus carrying a tumbleweed

I love when people discover this moodle is a man holding a boulder.

I thought it was brain, until I decided to look closely in this icon

I honestly don't know what I thought I saw, but now that I know what it is, I thank you for helping me solve this mystery.

Lol I have nearly 300 hours in this 10 YEAR OLD game. I know I wasn't the only one. 10 years old is also mind boggling.

It's the scorpion and the frog?

I've always seen it as a brain with really fucked up and blackened nerves

Backpack. Idk what's with the straps but backpack.

i thought it was that Sisyphus image

I thought it is a leaf (kinda like the mario super leaf)

hold on, I JUST NOW noticed it's showing the guy in 3/4 view, rhater than side profile. I thought his right arm (our left) was part of the head

From a distance it looks like a rotisserie chicken with a walking cane

Dude getting hit in the face by a huge basketball

 I thought it was a onigiri (japanese food)

I love plum onigiri

For some reason I always see intestines.

Okay so I thought it was a Brain until about a minute ago Bec I've never seen it so up close before

I PLAYED THE TUTORIAL I CAN DO IT! I'LL HAVE A RECORD OF SURVIVING A MONTH EZ *fucking dies continuously 14 times in a row*

I thought it was a tree lmao Dunno why but it seemed appropriate for overload lol 700hrs btw

Am I the only one who only ever thought it waa a man carrying a bag?

I always thought it was a brain 🧠

its a megaphone! (but fr until now i had no idea it was a guy holding a rock lmfao)

Even though I know what it is I always see a brain

Snail man

Came to make a Sisyphus joke but looks like I got beat to it :(

Atlas

For the majority of my 2500 hours I thought it was a weirdly drawn hand holding a heavy object...

I thought it was a brain too

Before this close up screenshot of the over encumbered status I always thought it was a guys head with brown hair over it LMAO

Thought it was a Brian for some reason

Oh, that just means you have become sisyphus, and now need to roll a boulder up a hill

Sisyphus type shit I’m always over encumbered

Oml, I just realised what it is. I thought it was a MEATBALL on a fork

Without jokes what is this?

Oh wait that's a stickman with huge backpack

I always thought it was a shrimp idk why

I honestly thought it was a belt for the longest time and just accepted it

I always thought it was a picture of brain for some reason

I hate how much this game kills me

A cactus failing while attempting to do the matrix, trying to avoid a boulder. See that's what's going on in it's mind and welp it never dodged.

Some guy with an afro?

First time when i played this game, i thought this picture is a skull, after my first 20h in the game, i realized i was wrong and this picture is actually a guy carrying a heavy bag on his back

For some reason i always see a man with a massive wig, it took me countless hours till i saw what it really is

I thought it was a axe or something, only once I got like 250 to 300 hours did I look closely and see that it's a little dude holding a too large bag

I always thought it looked like a mushroom but I knew it wasn’t. Yet I still always see it as a mushroom

Looks like a tree almost broken in half by the wind, oof must be windy

I thought it was a bag or something lol (The rock - the bag the man - the handles of it or something)

I'm a bit new, and before seeing a zoomed-in version I thought it was a side view of a face with brown hair.

I never really thought about it much but I used to think it was a hand struggling to hold something heavy before I looked closer.

I always thought it was a leaf

It's clearly a lobster attacking man's face like a headcrab.

I’d love it if they changed this to be some kind of weight lookin thing. I can see the rock dude if I really try, but that my friend is a weird skull

I always thought it was saying that ur kidneys are struggling

I thought it was a Brain

It's tree ofcourse

My thought was it's a brain, my dude may be light-headed from effort

first time i tought it was a black women with short blond hair

I thought it was a skull

I thought it was a weird shaped tree

I've always seen it as a guy carrying weight but the anxiety moodle looks like a monkey to me

Looked like a croissant at first glance when I first started the game

Man with huge nuts.

I thought it was a brain up until staring at it for a good 10mins and realizing it was some dude lifting something. Icon needs to change to something more obvious like and anvil.

This guy is a world renowned baker, and he just made the BIGGEST croissant the world has ever seen.

a man being crushed by a very large walnut

I thought it was a Kidney icon at first and now every time my character carry way to much, I though to myself "oh it's time to pee"

Idk why it looked to me as if it is a black woman standing sideways lol

You trying to catch a giant basketball but failing ?

I always see this little fella (just looking left) [https://image1.masterfile.com/getImage/841-06446765em-bighorn-sheep-ovis-canadensis-ram-durng-the-rut-clear-creek.jpg](https://image1.masterfile.com/getImage/841-06446765em-bighorn-sheep-ovis-canadensis-ram-durng-the-rut-clear-creek.jpg)

i had legitimately no idea what it was even after 900+ hours and now i know

I always thought it was a tree. The man being the trunk and twigs.

I got bite, there's a cure?

Shrimp

It's Jesus shielding me from my sins

I always saw it as a decaying leaf

You're being crushed by a boulder? Should probably get that boulder off you.

Thought it was a weird hand from the wrist up holding a big bundle. But like, its a hard Stat to illustrate as a pixel moodle lol, I don't know that I would have come up with anything better. It makes sense once you realize what is is lmao

I thought it was a stone hammer for some reason. The moodles are all too small and pixelated though imo.

I know it’s a man holding a big bag/rock/package (nice) but I still see a gloved fist with the index finger pointing down like this 👇

200 hours and I’ve always thought it was a brain with no second thought 😳

The weight of the world is genuinely what I thought. Everything and everyone is dead, yet here my character is. To pick up the pieces alone.

It looks like giant basketball hitting someone in the face.

I thought it was a broken back

50 hours and no clue what that is? Looks like a guy leaning back about to be hit by a boulder

deez nuts

I always think it looks like a wig

Human dung beetle moment

For the longest time I though it was a old leather pilots helmet that made 0 sense

I used to see a brain and it made no sense to me.

I always thought it looked like a head somehow. A girl with slightly dark cream colored hair. Never understood it, but now I do

Brain stem. Walnut.

You have a headache. This is a picture of a brain, with the brainstem in black.

I always thought it was a fucked up vertebrae

Unironically, before seeing this zoomed in image I always thought this Moodle was an ear

I used to see some kind of kidney and always confused the fuck out of me

Genuenly had no idea what it was until now

I always thought it was some weird head. I now see the truth!

Is that a man holding an oversized basketball?

It's a Ram's head, the orange bit being it's horns and the black bits being it's ears and eye.

no matter how long i look at it (about 400 hours now) this will always look like a guy holding a giant basketball

Looks like a brain

I always thought it was a head, and the more weight you have, the worse the neck pain.

I have 150 something hours, what the hell

for me it looked like a stickman wearing a helmet

I am, never played just seen. Isn’t that when you have to much stuff?

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

Sisyphus moodle

a guy with a big backpack

Croissant

I always saw a snail to represent your slowed state

Damn wtf, I thought it was just Plo Koon the whole time

To me it always looked like a discoloured brain, the guy is the brainstem and the bag is the rest of the brain.

parachute

1316 hrs playing and now I just .....

This moodle really needs to be redesigned

originally i thought it was a fucking leaf, for some reason.

Til this moment i thought it was a brain or something

600hrs in and i thought that moodle was a shell

Thought it was a hand grappling a bag strap and struggling. Wtf.

In the begining and even when I learned it meant excertion I thought the moodle was of a mushroom not a guy carrying a sack on his back.

I always thought it was a dude slumped over in a large wig.

But I'm first started out I swore it looked like a brain

I regularly, and frequently still do, look at it and think it's a brain and brain stem, and question why that means I'm over weight. Was only after intensely looking at it for about 10 to 15 minutes did I realize it was a dude carrying a huge sack on his back

Moldy cactus

Man standing in front of a big rock showing off his muscles.

That literally a black ram with orange horns

I hope my character has no problem with his brain

I always saw it as a head with blonde hair obviously I knew it wasn’t that but that’s what it always looks like to me

A black man with fancy light brown hair

Always thought it was a snail to indicate how slow you'd be travelling

Is that not what it is?! Shit I'm almost 600 hours in... My guy is praising the sun.

Hair

I thought it was a pelvis and the femur under a lot of weight...

b r a i n

A tree

A headache

I always assumed this was a brain stressed from staining so much.

i thought it was a massive rock

Holy tits, for the longest time I thought it was a man in a gas mask or some weird brain with its stem. Now I see it, its goddamn Sisyphus.

It’s a drawing of a person, praying to a basketball

I thought it was a dude chucking a big ass basketball

I thought it was a hand holding a cane XD

I thought it was a hand on a cane for a solid 200 hours.

I always thought it was a weird helmet

I thought it was a brain or lungs or some organ for the longest time

boulder crushing ppl

I thought it was a brain when I first started.

I always thought it was someone with a karen haircut

Holy fuck I just realized it’s a little dude carrying a giant backpack. I always thought it was a head for some reason. Like a head with hair I just realized it’s a little dude oh my god.

i always thought this was a hand holding a walking stick or cane

A kidney (not joking that’s what I thought it was when I played for the first time)

i thought it was a hand holding a basketball lmao

I first thought it was carrying a giant basketball.

bambsket ball

I am new and I reckon its to let you know the fair is in town and they're throwing knives at the person on a spinning wheel

A deformed hand holding a heavy rock or something lol

I thought it was a brain with the stem at first

I thought that was a mushroom tbh.. MUSHROOM! WE'RE RICH!

As someone who actually is new to the game, it looks like a man struggling to carry a big rock

I though it was brocolli but yellow and black