Ariana Grande kneels on very tiny stool, becomes very big meme

How is that not agony?
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Sam Haysom
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There's a lesson here: If you sit on a very, very tiny stool, the internet is going to take note.

Ariana Grande will tell you.

Here's the cover for her latest album My Everything, on which she can be found kneeling on a minuscule white stool and somehow managing to conceal the no doubt extreme pain her body must be feeling:

Unsurprisingly, it wasn't long before someone attempted to recreate Grande's serene-but-impossible-looking pose.

The first attempt, which has racked up almost 100,000 retweets, was unsuccessful.

Twitter rallied to investigate.

Soon, though, others came forward in Grande's defence. And they had photographic evidence.

It wasn't long before the stool photo was entering full-blown meme territory.

Eventually, someone came forward with some other images, apparently taken during the same photoshoot that produced the now-infamous stool shot.

As you can see, the white stool does appear to be real -- and it's just as impressively tiny as we'd first suspected.

The final cherry on the cake? Grande weighing in herself.

The internet is a beautiful place.

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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