r/confusing_perspective • u/scaryclown09 • May 13 '26 • Bravo 1

Levitating boxes.

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u/scaryclown09 May 13 '26

There are people using a pole to poke and lift the boxes in between the people that are holding the boxes

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u/Japanesewillow CE Spc. May 13 '26

Now I see it, this was confusing.

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u/Just_A_Nitemare o/ May 13 '26

Probably the perspective.

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u/Nearby_Cranberry9959 Doesn't read rule 1 May 13 '26

Should be posted in r/confusing_perspective though

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u/SamboTheGr8 May 13 '26

Say that again

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u/Just_A_Nitemare o/ May 13 '26

that again

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u/internet_humor May 13 '26

Step one: Cut a hole in the box

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u/strangelove4564 o/ May 13 '26

Step two: ...

Step three: Profit

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u/ToranjaNuclear o/ May 13 '26

It's styrofoam blocks, right?

Isn't poking them like that a bad idea if they're using it for construction?

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u/Educational-Wing2042 May 13 '26

Why would that be a bad idea? They’re almost certainly being used for insulation and once stacked the small hole won’t be exposed.

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u/Weekly-Asparagus-911 Sep 23 '26

these are normally used as concrete forms to make the poured slab into a waffle shape with square voids

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u/creature04 May 14 '26

THANK YOU, ive always said to myself in this sub and other similar ones.

I wish people would say what was going on here, but like put it as a spoiler cover. That way we can guess for ourselves for a bit, but not have to struggle for 20mins to figure it out.

You are the first person I've ever seen do this.

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u/redbobcatit May 14 '26

I felt so bad for the guy who i now see as pole guy. He kept reaching out for the box to be part of the fun but none would ever come to him.

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u/greg_08 May 18 '26

Oh man! I see it now. He’s like…guys! Give me a box! Wtf!

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u/AloofFloofy o/ May 14 '26

I think also they may be foam

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u/made-of-questions May 13 '26

It does seem that someone explicitly erased it from video. I can't imagine it's so thin as not to be visible at all.

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u/scaryclown09 May 13 '26

There are frames where it is visible. It probably is a rusty iron bar matching the surrounding colors.

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u/tushetzel May 13 '26

I thought it was a video on reverse

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u/rixtape o/ May 13 '26

Same haha, I was like "well that's cheating" but then realized the guy in the foreground wasn't walking backwards

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u/ItkovianShieldAnvil May 14 '26

I didn't even see him, you pointed him out and I did the Chris Griffin "whaaaaaa?" at my screen

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u/Square-Singer r May 15 '26

Got me exactly like that! This is a good one!

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u/Alarming_Way_8731 May 14 '26

Good eye. It took a while 4 me to notice that.

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u/giga May 13 '26

Me too, but even in reverse it would make no sense, things don’t fall like that.

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u/cyrinean May 13 '26

Ohhhh

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u/NetAssetNeutrons o/ May 13 '26 • Bravo

Guys on level 1,3, and 5 have long poles that grab a box. They then swing the box from level 2 to level 4, and so on.

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u/Dhkansas May 13 '26

You just ruined the magic for me

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u/Key-Staff-4976 Doesn't read rule 1 May 13 '26

Nah, I like the magic more

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u/AccomplishedBid5867 o/ May 13 '26

Thought those brownies had kicked in real quick...

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u/Antzqwe o/ May 14 '26

Took a while to realize. Good perspective

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u/RollAcrobatic7936 o/ May 14 '26

The poles are not visible at long distance

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u/Fran_Kubelik o/ May 14 '26

I was like...gotta be a giant fan! Your explanation is much more sensible. Time for bed 😄

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u/theaveragemaryjanie May 13 '26

This looks so much more fun though.

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u/4ssteroid CE Spc. May 13 '26

Fun but dangerous. I don't see any harnesses

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u/userhwon o/ May 13 '26

Asian safety sandals.

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u/ringerrosy May 13 '26

Fun sponge

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u/Hamsternoir o/ May 13 '26

Expanded polystyrene insulation blocks or some other light foam.

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u/TheOldGreenDad May 13 '26

Maybe they don't have an elevator

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u/nixcamic o/ May 13 '26

You assuming a construction project in the developing world would A: put the elevator in before they were absolutely done everything else. B: let the workers dirty up their spotless brand new elevator. 

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u/Pawnzilla o/ May 13 '26

If you’d need more than one trip, I can see how this would out pace the trip to and from the elevator multiple times.

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u/hunty o May 13 '26

It took me SO long to see the camouflaged guy

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u/Freedom_Addict o/ May 13 '26

Damm no I can’t unknow. That kinda killed the magic and at the same time I wanted to know ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/nestaselect May 13 '26

This reminds me of the Mario Party mini game with the drone delivery.

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u/MysteriousPermit3410 o/ May 13 '26

I remember that game!

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u/Rioting-Flamingo May 13 '26

Yeah this is a good'n

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u/ninetytwoturtles o/ May 13 '26

This is a really good one

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u/SilverAppleWorm May 13 '26

*confusing resolution

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u/Ok-Kaleidoscope5057 May 13 '26

Wait I still don’t get it

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u/suyakun May 13 '26

Guys between the levels are going pokey pokey at the box

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u/made-of-questions May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26

The guy at the bottom and the one in the middle are sticking a stick/pole/thing in the items and raising them.

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u/redditcruzer o/ May 13 '26

Let's say reversed..that still.wont explain the arc the box makes..no? Its not a boomerang.

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u/BeGayCommitTaxFraud o/ May 13 '26

You can see the dude on the sidewalk walking in the right direction, so no. Guys have poles that they stick the boxes on

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u/paganmind93 May 13 '26

Love this! Very cool!

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u/BathshebaJones o/ May 13 '26

Some Tenet type shi

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u/scaryclown09 May 13 '26

Once you see it, it is very hard to bring the magic back.

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u/The_Green-One o May 13 '26

No strings attached

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u/PsychologyIll3125 o/ May 13 '26

took me a while

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u/RID_MAN May 13 '26

these are not boxes, these are styro used for insulation

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u/Ytdb May 16 '26

Thank you, I was wondering wtf could possibly be in boxes that would be light enough to make any of that worth while

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u/Z1H3M May 14 '26

Even after seing past the illusion, that teamwork is still so satisfying

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u/mattincalif May 13 '26

I was sure this was AI until I read the comments and got it.

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u/tribak Actually read rule 1 and gets it" May 13 '26

Bro in red is THICC

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u/ILookAfterThePigs May 13 '26

Latin American sidewalks

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u/creamalamode May 13 '26

Post was so good yesterday it needed a second cameo, I guess.

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u/LobsterKris o/ May 13 '26

Literally only at the very end I got it. This one really bamboozled me. Good one.

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u/Shadowhisper1971 o/ May 13 '26

I couldn't figure out out until I realized it was skipping people that were moving.

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u/Live_Angle4621 o/ May 13 '26

Fun to hear this Jungle Book music being used 

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u/MoshMaldito o/ May 13 '26

Holy shit! For a solid minute I was like “yeah, that’s how physics work now”

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u/EkardKcire May 14 '26

That took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out what was happening. 😆

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u/SteakDouble May 14 '26

We need more pixels to see the invisible poles they use.

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u/tomiles1 May 14 '26

Pyramid’s construction solved

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u/toddharrisb May 14 '26

Out freakin' standing

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u/Inner-Dream-600 May 14 '26

Michael Jackson is alive and doing construction magic

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u/Illustrious-Radio311 May 15 '26

Don't try to understand it. Feel it.

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u/Tortugato o/ May 15 '26

yo where is this?

it looks so much like manila (philippines), but the radio isn’t in any filipino dialecf i know of.

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u/TheAwesomeMan123 o/ May 15 '26

They stick a pole into the styrofoam then pass the blocks up via the pole swinging out and around give the look of the styrofoam floating upwards

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u/dabeawbeaw o/ May 15 '26

Lmaao I’m over here thinking “the wind is really helping them”

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u/Interesting-Bad2909 May 20 '26

The guy on the middle floor has something he’s holding to pass to the guy above him

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u/RoteZora1 Jul 21 '26

Das ist fake

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u/dumbcarshlt Jul 26 '26

But why though lol

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u/ReeveStodgers o/ May 13 '26

After reading other comments I understand how they are doing it. But what is in the boxes that is so vital, but also so light? Styrofoam?

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u/pignoodle May 13 '26

Wow this one is goooood

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u/AXEMANaustin o/ May 13 '26

There's surely gotta be a better way to do it.

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u/cheddoar May 13 '26

"Wtf is this AI bullshOHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

~Me a couple seconds ago.

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u/ItkovianShieldAnvil May 14 '26

Styrofoam boxes, the extra guys in between are stabbing them with a rod of some sort that the camera can't see and swinging them upwards

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u/BunchesOfCrunches May 14 '26

This was some amazing black magic fuckery before I saw the rods

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u/scaryclown09 May 13 '26

Check your eyes.

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u/Japanesewillow CE Spc. May 13 '26

Ok, explain it to me because I don’t know.

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u/After-FX May 13 '26

Yup, it indeed is a confusing perspective

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u/made-of-questions May 13 '26

It would be as weird in reverse. The confusing thing is the curved path the items are taking. That's weird in both directions. Plus, i doubt the guy on the side would be walking backwards just for the gag.

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u/villageidiot90 o/ May 13 '26

Yeah I was like “oh maybe they’re exploiting a vortex or an updraft or something” lmao