top or bottom doesnt matter, whats important is that you PIVOT!

It already looked like bottom on first glance, The shadows and light seem to verify it.

How are y'all arguing this? The banister makes it unquestionably obvious that it's at the top. There's no debate to be had here unless the banister was intentionally installed wrong just for the purpose of this meme, which would be crazy.

The mattress is at the top, y'all.

Bottom, look at the wear of the carpet, lots of people have walked here.

It’s white and gold!

All joking aside, most stairs that I know had some sort of overhang, which we don’t see in this picture, so I’ll venture to say that we are looking down. The mattress is at the bottom of the stairs.

Yes.

Bottom, these stairs have a rounded lip to make them compliant with rise over run requirements in limited space.

Yes

Top. Stairs aren't that tall.

While I'm not 100% certain it's not just confusing perspective, it does appear that the slope rise is shorter than the run, suggesting that this is from the top of the stairs.

Top the railing gives it away

bottom, as we only can see the treads not the risers (that small inset underneath a step).

Bottom. Angle isn’t right to be the top.

I have those stairs with that carpet.

💯% this is looking down to a mattress at the bottom of the stairs.

Conclusive evidence:
Looking Down

Looking Up

(Sorry I was too lazy to get the low perspective)

The biggest factor IMO is something no one mentioned yet: we can only see one face of each step (either the top or the wall). If a photo is taken from the bottom, we would almost always be able to see the tops of the first few steps, which isn't visible here. If a photo is taken from the top, the walls would pretty much never be visible (if they were, you could also see the photographer's feet).

Therefore, this photo is only consistent with a photo taken from the top.

It is possible that this is an extremely long flight of stairs or that the photo was taken from a deliberately deceptive angle, but if that's the case I have to say it was expertly done, because I am CERTAIN that we are looking from the top and the mattress is at the bottom.

Thought something was weird here. The contrast and colour is making it difficult. If you turn up shadows it changes the entire feeling, including where the obvious light source is. I wouldn't expect the dark side of the mattress unless there was a bright light directly above it.

Also the banister/handrail arm wouldn't be horizontal. Most importantly, congrats, you got me invested.

Bottom, we can see dust and debris accumulated on the "run" part of the steps.

Plot twist: Stuck in the middle.

From the wear patten on the carpet I would say bottom, but the handle to the side makes me think top !....

top. you can see part of the handrail on the top left of the picture

Edit: It doesn't matter, the mattress is making an impossible shape/bend... It's definitely AI generated... Even if it was two separate mattresses, it still wouldn't make sense...

Bottom.

1. The risers on the stairs are not visible.

2. The wear on the carpet goes right to the edge. That's consistent with people stepping on it, not kicking it on the way up.

3. If it's at the top, the mattress doesn't appear to have any of its weight resting on a step. It could be so wedged in that it's being held in place, and that it was wedged that way by someone awkwardly pushing at the ends of it in a way that wouldn't seem to give them enough leverage to do that. But the obvious explanation is more likely, that it's at the bottom of the stairs.

I think it is the bottom of the top of the stairs because of the lighting to the bottom left of the mattress. That should be in shadow from the mattress if it was at the bottom of the stairs.