LOL!!! I have one question now... did we all been fooled by the challenge results too? First is last and last is first...??? You're really too clever for us (at least for me)! Congrats for the picture.
So the obviously real, which is in reality fake finishes 4th from the bottom while the obviously fake, which are in reality fake (and thus fooled abosolutely no one) hog all the tops spots. Ahhh DPC... love it or ... something. Kudos for understanding the nature and fun of the challenge.
I once saw a Penn and Teller interview where Teller showed how he made something vanish and reappear in the same place as an exercise of his own compulsive insanity. From the outside world it looked like nothing had happened, but he knew he had just done some very fancy magic.
The grain, blur and some darker parts represent how lost humans are in this world. The sandals FOOL us that we have some kind of protection from all the bad that is happening around us, but really they don't cover our feet fully so yup we are fooled and vulnerable. Just hoping that the socks will do the job. But they don't, and we end up with a tension pneumothorax or abdominal aneurysm, or just with a broken heart. All that because sandals (a protective symbol in this case) didn't do a good job. So we realize that maybe "tennis" shoes would have been a better choice, but whoever is above us tries to make laws (like socks&sandals law) that are supposed to make us believe that everything is under control, but trust me... it is not. Paranoia keeps growing...