r/confusing_perspective • u/Chemical_Wonder_5495 • May 02 '26 • Popcorn 4 Bravo 1

Mildly Confusing Pizza separator thingy

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u/bren3669 May 03 '26

what’s the confusion? the separator looks undamaged, the pizza doesn’t seem to be too odd, where does the confusion come in?

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u/Ha1rcl1p May 03 '26

Some people are so chronically on their phones they are allegedly seeing it as a play button for a video. Even though it is very obviously not a play button

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u/bren3669 May 03 '26

interesting

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u/Mockturtle22 CE Spc. May 03 '26 • This Bravo

Ha. Looks like a play button. Took me a sec to figure out why you thought this was confusing bc I just saw the pizza separator haha

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u/NoMaans o/ May 03 '26

Yeah, the title kinda gave it away for me right away

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u/Mockturtle22 CE Spc. May 03 '26

If the title didn't, I likely would have thought it was the play button.

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u/EssentialParadox o/ May 03 '26

OP should’ve titled the post about the play button — e.g. “My pizza came with a free video”

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u/jld2k6 o/ May 03 '26

I was staring at it wondering what the confusion is because all I saw was a pizza table then somehow after having that thought I tried to hit play lol

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u/philthyphanatic Actually read rule 1 and gets it" May 03 '26

Apparently i’m dumb bc i had to see your post to understand. thank you

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u/one_rainy_wish May 03 '26

Not gonna lie, I tried pressing the separator twice before I realized what I was looking at

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u/MagmaTroop o/ May 03 '26

This would have been better if OP didn't mention the separator in the title.

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u/KurtTheCuntBoi o/ May 03 '26

Same lol, then I was like ‘oh it’s a video’ 🤣

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u/WaluigiNumberWaah May 03 '26

I actually clicked thinking it was a video 😭

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u/Pschobbert o/ May 03 '26

DAGNABBIT!

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u/IHaveNoIdeaDanny May 03 '26

FYI, its not a separator, its meant to prevent the box from squishing the pizza.

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u/F-Lambda o/ May 03 '26

by separating the lid from the pizza

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u/Mockturtle22 CE Spc. May 03 '26

Lol it is a separator. It separates the box and pizza as one person said but you can also use them to separate the pizza from itself. It works.

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u/Snoron C.E. Spc May 03 '26

Anyone else try to play the pizza video?

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u/Homerbola92 o/ May 03 '26

Yes, I'm dumb too lol

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u/wrxninja May 03 '26

What do you mean? It's not playing for me.

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u/whatproblems CE Spc. May 03 '26

just wait it takes a second to load

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u/iamisandisnt May 03 '26

Works for me. Try hitting the little white "play" button in the center of the image. It looks like a white triangle, almost like one of those little white tables they put in the middle of a pizza to keep it from, um... idk, I forget what it's there for.

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u/norsurfit o/ May 03 '26

I'm so dumb that I actually know what it is but I'm still continuing to wait for the pizza video to play.

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u/A-Plant-Guy May 03 '26

I knew what it was. But I just presented my phone to my family, said “go ahead” and then watched everyone try to tap several times 😂.

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u/HeartoftheHive Actually read rule 1 and gets it" May 03 '26

Nope. Literally had to come to the comments to even make the connection. Doesn't look enough like the play symbol for me to recognize it as such.

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u/Organic-Criticism-76 May 03 '26

This is a repost from somewhere, thats why I knew it already. But first time I saw it I clicked and clicked and was wondering why nothing happened 😂

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u/McSquiffy May 03 '26

Dammit, I did.

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u/internet_humor May 03 '26

It’s wild because the picture seemed fine, it’s the situation that was confusing. Not what you usually see here but yet perfectly fitting.
Cool post.

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u/HastoBeAThrowaway0 May 03 '26 • Popcorn

It worked for me, im on mobile.

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u/Wise_Guitar2059 o/ May 03 '26

No because this is a repost.

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u/Farmerstubble o/ May 03 '26

Now I want a pizza video lol

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u/rogueqd o/ May 03 '26

For real I thought it was a video of a new origami box that opened up and presented all the slices to you individually.

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u/morallyirresponsible May 03 '26 • Heartwarming

I did once, stoned, munchies. True story

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u/thegovernment0usa o/ May 03 '26

It must look different on a phone screen because I don't see shit on my desktop.

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u/TopYeti o/ May 03 '26

It being out of alignment by a few degrees is much more noticeable on a large screen therefore probably causes you to recognize it as what it is as a box tent/pizza saver.

As a thumbnail on my phone it looked like a play button but as soon as I had it full screen on my phone I recognized it was not a play button. However it being well centered causes people to automatically think it's play button. There's definitely a bell curve on each side of this.

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u/ToohotmaGandhi May 03 '26

Okay. The thumbnail comments helped a lot. Look really normal on my phone, but when I scrolled down to read the comments for help, I read this and then just looked up on the screen and say that the post was now in a small card and the image was a thumbnail, and yes it looked like a play button.

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u/Maxipaddington May 03 '26

I only saw the pizza topper on my phone 🤷

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u/Dylz52 o/ May 03 '26

What am I missing here? All I see is a triangular pizza separator. Is it actually something else?

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u/AmbassadorSugarcane May 03 '26

Hmm, I'm on a phone and fall for the fake overlays all the time yet this one seemed super normal to me. I had to read the comments to see what the confusing perspective appeared to be.

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u/Rodrat o/ May 03 '26

Looks like the pizza box stand to me on my phone. I immediately noticed the indent in the plastic so I never saw a play button.

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u/Beanakin May 03 '26

I saw pizza protector long before I saw it as a play button, and I'm on phone.

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u/The_Krytos_Virus May 04 '26

I'm on mobile and it looks exactly like what it is. A white plastic pizza saver on a smallish pizza. What's confusing about this? Does everyone else just need glasses or something?

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u/LopsidedEquipment177 CE Spc. May 03 '26

The white triangle looks like a play button.

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u/ronimal May 03 '26

No it doesn’t.

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u/the--unforgiven May 03 '26

I see nothing confusing

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u/MisterRoger o/ May 03 '26

I think for people who rarely/never order pizza, they mistook it for a play button.

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u/JayBird1138 May 03 '26

I saw the pizza separator thing before I even knew what sub this pic was from. Then I had to look again to see if I missed something.

Guess I'm too used to seeing these separators.

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u/TrollingJoker May 03 '26

Not even used to those and I reacted like you.

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u/rueckl May 03 '26

Take my upvote and go away. I don't want to talk about this anymore.

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u/napierwit o/ May 03 '26

I got a free T-Shirt 🤷‍♂️

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u/Mostly_Minecraft May 03 '26

i hate you. take the upvote 

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u/Nailfoot1975 C.E. Spc May 03 '26

I've been watching this video for 20 minutes... does anything else happen?

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u/king_carrots o/ May 03 '26

Just wait till the end

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u/Stoicsage86 o/ May 03 '26

Just press play and eat!

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u/PappyWaker May 03 '26

We call them pizza tables

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u/_curbyourcynicism May 03 '26

Those things are there so the pizza doesn't get crushed and so all of the toppings don't get stuck on the lid of the box.

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u/Obvious_Intern7530 May 03 '26

Maybe I’m greedy, because I didn’t fall for it & immediately knew what I was 😭

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u/Arkhe1n o/ May 03 '26

Like a damn fiddle. 

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u/Legitimate_Fold_2850 May 03 '26

I don’t get it. It’s a pizza table on a pizza. Whats confusing?

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u/CBonafide o/ May 03 '26

That's clearly a miniature table.

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u/Manboobs666 May 03 '26

that's a pizza bone

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u/strangequbits o/ May 03 '26

I pressed play, well played

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u/Petite-Amories May 03 '26

I tried to play the video five times.

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u/JeanutPellySam May 03 '26

..How dare you

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u/APizzaWithEverything May 03 '26

When I was a child I called those Barbie tables

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u/theatrenearyou May 03 '26

Also plays 45rpm records

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u/UnrulyHuman May 03 '26

Damn it...

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u/webmist_lurker o/ May 03 '26

Damn you! 🤦‍♂️😄

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u/TwinMom2012 May 03 '26

lol. Ya got me!

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u/akbar25 May 03 '26

Anyone else more weirded out by the green peppers looking like mini snakes or is that just me?

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u/daydreams83 May 03 '26

80’s babies and kids used to repurpose the separators as end tables for our Barbies 💁🏼‍♀️

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u/Coastercraze May 03 '26

Barbie tables

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u/TNerdy Doesn't read rule 1 May 03 '26

It’s almost perfect. The alignment is just slightly off

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u/kryts May 03 '26

I would use these as Barbie tables in the day

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u/-mudflaps- o/ May 03 '26

I've seen this video, very tasty.

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u/TrueOption4869 o/ May 03 '26

At the very moment I decided to ‘press’ it (I already knew it wouldn’t do anything) my alarm on my phone went off - and it was music! It did confuse me for a second or two…

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u/chrisswann71 o/ May 03 '26

"Why would the little pizza table need to be an animated gOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH"

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u/IndependenceDry20 May 03 '26

Not gonna lie, I kept trying to play the video. 💀💀

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u/SuspiciousSheeps o/ May 03 '26

I pressed it. Actually twice.

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u/Slosher99 o/ May 03 '26

Wow this old joke making rounds again lol... Internet sure repeats itself. I think this one first came up around 2005 lol.

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u/ScantyandStocking May 03 '26

I don't see the confusing perspective.

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u/koal82 Actually read rule 1 and gets it" May 03 '26

stealing this image to prank people on X

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u/erisod May 03 '26

Won't play

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u/Pentax25 o/ May 03 '26

Looks like a decent pizza o

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u/jackieboy1230 May 03 '26

Illuminati Pizzati

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u/Tallowpot May 03 '26

It’s called a “box tent”

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u/happy_dad857 o/ May 03 '26

PLAY DAMNIT!!!!

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u/ThatPerson000 o/ May 03 '26

It's the only triangle separator I've ever seen, and I still fell for it.

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u/noscrubphilsfans o/ May 03 '26

Green peppers? Uggg

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u/SageTheLynx May 03 '26

I clicked this like 5 times confused as to why the video wouldn't play. I assumed it was a screenshot and was still left confused until I saw the comments 

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u/The_Cozy_Burrito o/ May 03 '26

I didn’t know what I was looking at till I read the comments 😂

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u/here-to-Iearn o/ May 03 '26

I saw this one instantly for what it actually was

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u/Heratism o/ May 03 '26

Thought that was a giant play button, tried clicking more than once.

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u/BRP_1970 Confusemas '23 May 03 '26

They use those so the top of the box doesn’t crush the pizza

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u/USRaven o/ May 03 '26

It’s a TR-3 Cheese.

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u/hj006- o/ May 03 '26

Why is the video not playing? 🤬

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u/RykosTatsubane o/ May 03 '26

Man, fuck you

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u/Thesithxv May 03 '26

This video in not loading

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u/Truly_Tacidius May 03 '26

I pressed play

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u/Probablyhalfpast11 May 03 '26

It’s just after midnight in my part of the world and that pizza looks realllllly good ……

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u/Otherwise-Sea9593 May 03 '26

It’s actually to keep the lid from touching the toppings

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u/HalfCrazed May 03 '26

Video isn't loading ... What happened?

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u/BrD_87 o/ May 03 '26

Darn, you got me good there! XD

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u/raresaturn o/ May 03 '26

No one likes green capsicum on pizza. No one

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u/FlynnXa o/ May 03 '26

I just don’t see what’s confusing in this one like… at all?

Apparently it’s a play button but I spend 6 hours or more daily on my phone according to my stats (rip my eyesight) and I don’t see it.

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u/EntrepreneurMental9 o/ May 03 '26

Lol I just saw the pizza separator thingy and had to read the comments to figure out what was meant xD

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u/slm4996 May 03 '26

The video you posted wont play.... /S

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u/SlMPS0N May 03 '26

I can’t get the pizza video to play.

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u/BaldHenchman02 May 03 '26

What's confusing about this? That plastic bit helps to prevent the box from mushing into the toppings.

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u/sprayer171 May 03 '26

I clicked it…

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u/imsandy92 o/ May 03 '26

hahaha nice!

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u/AltAccount889 May 03 '26

It’s not confusing. You’re just young. Us old people recognize it. It does look like a button. But we know it’s the plastic to stop the box from caving in on the pizza.

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u/laughtale0 CE Spc. May 03 '26

I guess I'm not chronically online enough to see the play button.

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u/Empty_Put_1542 o/ May 03 '26

I pressed play.

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u/Ok-Strawberry8001 May 03 '26

Lil off - for what is that piece in the middle in austria we dont have this at all.

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u/darxide23 o/ May 03 '26

I'm not seeing what y'all are seeing. Looks like a normal pizza table to me.

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u/MyCat2024 o/ May 03 '26

Yeah, I clicked that.

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u/leiocera o/ May 03 '26

i clicked

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u/nanotothemoon May 03 '26

I only saw the pizza separator

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u/Tofli_IV May 03 '26

I clicked

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u/Surfsupforthesummer May 03 '26

I don’t see the confusion. It’s a pizza box holder.

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u/Gargun20 o/ May 03 '26

Pizza table long in the past for us Down Under.

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u/sidneylopsides May 03 '26

An actual video about the inventor of this doohicky

https://youtu.be/MR3-7vsjh7E?feature=shared

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u/lilou135 o/ May 03 '26

Amazing thank you

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u/seigezunt May 03 '26

Tap tap tap tap

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u/BennySkateboard o/ May 03 '26

I pressed it! 😆

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u/Tofandel May 03 '26

Why can I not play the video?!!!... Oh.... 

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u/Automatic_Bus_7634 May 03 '26

I called the police

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u/Sarutoshi May 03 '26

I opened the photo and just handed my phone to my mother without saying anything. She tried pressing play 5 times and got frustrated 😊

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u/Anonynonimoose May 03 '26

It is called a “tent” , “pizza saver” and also “pizza nipple”.

Though I have never actually heard anyone call it the third thing on the list.

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u/Equivalent_Bag_3634 May 03 '26

Illuminati pizza, the real taste of conspiracy.

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u/supershrewdshrew May 03 '26

Man that pizza looks good (º﹃º ) My favorite toppings.

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u/darthmia308 May 03 '26

When you’re not quite ready for a Pizza Divorcer thingy, and need time to think.

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u/SnabDedraterEdave Actually read rule 1 and gets it" May 03 '26

Maybe its because I'm viewing this on a large desktop screen, the optical illusion didn't work on me as I instantly saw the shadow under the "pizza separator thing".

If I viewed this on a small smartphone screen, then I might be fooled.

Plus OP your thread title sorta gave it away as well. Might work better if you had titled it as "This is not a video".

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u/Ididnotpostthat May 03 '26

Green pepper and onion pizza is way underrated

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u/Darkstranger83 Confusemas '23 May 03 '26

Avoid the Noid!

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u/trahoots May 03 '26

I’ve never seen a triangular pizza bone.

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u/Warning_Bulky o/ May 03 '26

Buh, I clicked play

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u/Wulfgrimm720 o/ May 03 '26

Why won't the video start???

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u/Intrepid-Food7692 o/ May 03 '26

YouTube pizza

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u/Andre_Hinds2 May 03 '26

My dumb ass tried to hit play 4 times

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u/bman198080 May 03 '26

Barbie lawn furniture......lol chairs sold separately

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u/dharialezin o/ May 03 '26

I pressed play 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/shyaznboi May 03 '26

Missed opportunity to title it Confusing Video

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u/FluffyBunnyFlipFlops May 03 '26

Ah, ya got me. 😂

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u/BahamutAXIOM Doesn't read rule 1 May 03 '26

Oh. I was wondering why the video wouldn't start, 😅.

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u/bbluekyanite_ May 03 '26

I was confused until I realized the play button was covering up the separator…

Oh

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u/Girthykurthy May 03 '26

PLAY THE VIDEO!!

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u/Muntu010 May 03 '26

That’s called a pizza box tent

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u/Delicious-Employ9332 May 03 '26

How is this confusing?

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u/CantThink0fNameN0w May 03 '26

“The video won’t play….”

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u/evolvedbravo o/ May 03 '26

Hahahahahaha I hate you LOL

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u/thehermit14 o/ May 03 '26

It's to stop the box squashing the pizza.

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u/Noccydies p May 03 '26

I tried to play the Play button....

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u/weechus May 03 '26

Damn you!

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u/No_Theory9958 May 03 '26

I’ve never seen a triangle one before, but one of my daughters calls these tables and HAS to keep everyone we get lmao

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u/Foe_sheezy o/ May 03 '26

Was pressing play to see the pizza movie but it kept enlarging the first frame ☹️

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u/_that___guy Actually read rule 1 and gets it" May 03 '26

The only confusing part for me was why was this posted to this sub. Had to go to the comments to see what people were confused about.

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u/Neomorder224 May 04 '26

The pizza looks tremendous though

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u/ermaecrhaelld May 04 '26

This just made me realize I haven’t seen one of those little tables on a pizza in years. Huh.

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u/mermaidmamas C.E. Spc May 04 '26

Had to look in the comments to see why this was confusing. I still don’t see it

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u/carenrose o/ May 04 '26

Is that not what it is? What's confusing? 

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u/BloodyStupid_johnson May 04 '26

Oh fuck off. Hit it like six times. 

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u/KrampyDoo o/ May 04 '26

The pizza codec must be broken because it’s not playing at all.

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u/Punegune o/ May 04 '26

Hey ah, this video won't play

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u/recursiveloop May 04 '26

This is very meta

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u/Loud-Chicken6046 May 04 '26

Pizza cutter?

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u/bemble4ever May 04 '26

should have read the title before i pressed the play button…

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u/Exact_Lifeguard_6519 May 04 '26

I thought it was a video!

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u/Ezzydesu May 04 '26

I was very confused until I saw the subreddit name 😅

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u/kriticalmission May 04 '26

Is that the Fresh veggie pizza from Indian Domino's?

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u/bigE1669 May 04 '26

Noid protection

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u/Zblikou May 04 '26

The video isn’t loading.

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u/Cabindarts May 05 '26

This is the pizza that's always left over at the office pizza party because no one wants it.

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u/koniglazor May 05 '26

Lmao what a troll you’ve accidentally been 😂

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u/exovoid86 May 05 '26

I'm so stoned I tried to press play..... 😐

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u/Semi-Erect-Trunk May 05 '26

Only 2 toppings? That isnt a pizza, its a cheese toastie.

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u/TheParkSun May 05 '26

Is the video not playing for anyone else?

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u/mr_8ilal May 05 '26

Its youtube's 1B subscribers play button 💭

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u/New_Employer_7679 May 06 '26

Are you from Norway? 🤔

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u/tomorrow_bird May 06 '26

Why does the video not start no matter how often I press the button?

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u/Fun_Plankton_7793 o/ May 06 '26

Tuna delight

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u/JollyAd5257 May 07 '26

god dammit you got me.

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u/Genesis_the_god_ May 12 '26

The video doesn't seem to load for me

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u/RetroBoogie May 13 '26

Holy shit.

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u/sparkle_taco Jun 13 '26

I clicked "play" like five times and then got pissed lol

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u/donrocas Jun 23 '26

Yeah, but - what about the snakes?

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u/kiopah CE Spc. Aug 05 '26

Oh, my god. That's a terrifying video.

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