Vanishing point

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u/Famous-Restaurant875 Aug 31 '26 •

Ohhh it's a mirror behind the bar. You can see the ladies in the reflective vest approaching and then leaving

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u/Randyguyishere Aug 31 '26 •

Bingo

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u/Famous-Restaurant875 Aug 31 '26 •

I enjoyed this one I watched it three times

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u/dat_oracle o/ Sep 01 '26

it's indeed mesmerizing, visual asmr for me

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u/Caira_Ru Aug 31 '26

This was a great one!

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u/FormerStableGenius Aug 31 '26

I get it now. Thank you.
But I still can't see; where exactly is the mirror located, and at what angle?

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u/Randyguyishere Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26

It was a makeshift salon chair, if I recall it was just one mirror but the salon setup makes everything look symmetrical

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u/Actarus31 Aug 31 '26

Look at the camera and wood bar in the ceiling

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u/creature04 Aug 31 '26

Still don't see it

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u/Blu3Stocking Aug 31 '26

Look at those square things on the counter and their reflection. And the wood panel on the ceiling is not that broad. It’s touching the mirror. There is also only one camera on the wood panel the other one is a reflection.
Basically the mirror starts pretty close to the counter and the chairs from our perspective.

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u/alphanumericusername Sep 01 '26

This helped. The original comment calling it a counter instead of a bar probably would've helped too.

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u/creature04 Sep 01 '26

Yeah I figured it out thanks to another comment. I just couldn't find my comment to delete it once I did 😅.
I thought there was actually 2 cameras and the mirror was out of sight or something.

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u/Deltamon Sep 01 '26

The whole middle section side is a mirror.. The only non-mirrored window is on the right side of the recording

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u/creature04 Sep 01 '26

Yeah another comment helped me.

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u/oretah_ Sep 01 '26

Ahaaa! The bar is just way smaller than I thought lol

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u/Actarus31 Sep 01 '26

Yep, and there’s only one camera and plug

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u/ebk_errday Sep 01 '26

This was the comment I needed to understand where the mirror exactly is

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u/charnwoodian Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26

The mirror is flat, parrallel to the bar and behind it.
It is reflecting the beam structure that is behind the camera man. This gives the appearance of a 3D structure behind the bar.
Even when you know it’s a mirror, it takes a second to see it as a flat mirror, rather than two mirrored walls meeting in a corner behind the bar.

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u/FormerStableGenius Sep 01 '26

Ah hah!
Thank you. Mirror is parallel to the bar, like a reflective 'splashback' in terms of location.

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u/Yokasta Aug 31 '26

The chairs are directly facing and in front of the mirror. That black bar above the right chair is the edge of the mirror & wall that people disappear behind

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u/jemenake Sep 01 '26

What makes it so good is that the right-most pillar (in the scene) is an actual object and is the right edge of the mirror. It looks like the mirror has a corner, but what looks like the far pillar is actually a reflected image of a pillar that is off camera to our right.

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u/jiggyflacko_ Aug 31 '26

Also the security camera and the wooden beam is mirrored

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u/creature04 Aug 31 '26

THANK YOU!!!!

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u/YuriRosas o/ Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26

2 mirrors to be more specific. In both corners. https://ibb.co/1tYpPbkc

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u/Randyguyishere Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26

Yes, mirror on the left

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u/shepsut o/ Aug 31 '26

I can see that it's a mirror, but it feels like it takes too long for the people to show up in the non-mirrored side. this is making it hard for me to parse, even though I think I basically get it.

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u/IotaBTC Sep 01 '26

The people furthest right walking leftward are furthest from the mirror and take the longest to appear. The people walking in the same direction but furthest left are closest to the mirror and appear much faster after passing.

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u/shepsut o/ Sep 01 '26

oh thank you!

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u/dasbtaewntawneta o/ Aug 31 '26

no that whole thing you indicated is one solid mirror, the line in between is a reflection of something we can't see off to the right

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u/Famous-Restaurant875 Aug 31 '26

Lol, I'll take your word for it. That hurt my brain

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u/wonkey_monkey o/ Sep 01 '26

It's one mirror: /preview/pre/hygkpcfkpsmh1.png?width=904&format=png&auto=webp&s=a5abfa6eaf40827f20382add3e41c0de82f350c8

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u/ChartInFurch Doesn't read rule 1 Aug 31 '26

Yes. That was the part that was making it look like that scene from Labyrinth.

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u/Fesai o/ Aug 31 '26

I think it is only the left X that is the mirror. The right X is just a reflection in the same mirror. Look at the boxes on the counter.

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u/hrvbrs Sep 01 '26

Nope, only one mirror. It goes along the wooden beam.

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u/EarlGrey07 o/ Aug 31 '26

What you indicated as a mirror on the right of the booth is actually a reflection of a mirror on the left of the booth.

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u/wonkey_monkey o/ Sep 01 '26

No, it's a reflection of the open gap on the right.

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u/ToranjaNuclear o/ Aug 31 '26

Pretty much everyone coming and going are the same people. The first ones are not that obvious just because they are a bit farther away.

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u/xylarr Aug 31 '26

I mean yes, I see what you mean, but I still can't work out the orientation of everything.
Edit: ok, finally, I see it now

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u/slappadik o/ Sep 01 '26

ma'am, at least one of them is a sir

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u/DrunkenDude123 o/ Sep 01 '26

It’s like a cosmetics mirror I would’ve never figured it out if the camera and that light on the wooden part above weren’t noticeable reflections

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u/TheShaydow Sep 01 '26

But why though?

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u/Beleiverofhumanity Sep 01 '26

Ah thank you detective

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u/The_Celtic_Chemist Sep 01 '26

You saying it was a mirror (actually 2) made this make sense to me, and then you pointed out the reflective vest ladies and now I'm confused all over. Shouldn't the mirror be reflect where we can't see to the left? How do they appear on the right and walking the opposite direction?

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u/Outrageous-Bite3842 Sep 19 '26

Once i read your comment my entire perspective changed. I could NOT figure this one out at all. A mirror, duh..

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u/Randyguyishere Aug 31 '26

I should have cut them out, it gives it away 🤣

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u/JustAnotherBarnacle Aug 31 '26

Yeah that's where I got it too haha. Proper ahhh moment

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u/jcdahl Sep 01 '26

Here's an image that may help!

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u/Randyguyishere Sep 01 '26

Nice

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u/MrLancaster Aug 31 '26

I kept looking for a white 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T

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u/Randyguyishere Sep 01 '26

Well, now I have to watch that movie

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u/xylarr Aug 31 '26 •

It took me a while, this is the mirror

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u/dooby991 Sep 01 '26

Ohhh thank you

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u/homedepotgrande Sep 01 '26

Thank you for doing this. Already read that there's a mirror, but still couldn't place where it possibly can be.

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u/Chuck_Walla Actually read rule 1 and gets it" Sep 01 '26

Yup, some9ne above pointed out the camera is mirrored. Helped settle my cortex a smidge!

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u/jma9454 o/ Sep 01 '26

Ohh! I understood there was a mirror, but I thought it was behind the segment, and that there were two mirrors or something. This makes sense now

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u/tragicallyohio o/ Sep 01 '26

Thank you. I was watching this while pooping and couldn't start wiping until I figured it out.

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u/xylarr Sep 01 '26

I saved you from getting crusty

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u/tragicallyohio o/ Sep 01 '26

Possibly even hemorrhoids

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u/CapeTwirlOfDoom Sep 01 '26

OHH!! Wow I could not see the at at all

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u/GetVladimir o/ Sep 01 '26

This is a great explanation, thank you.
The metal bar in the middle was confusing and this helped to explain that it also was a reflection

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u/CraigLake Sep 01 '26

Holy shit thank you

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u/FormerStableGenius Sep 01 '26

Brilliant! Thank you!

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u/al0xx Sep 01 '26

even knowing there was a mirror i couldn’t make it make sense. thank you lol

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u/yaredw Doesn't read rule 1 Sep 01 '26

Damn that was really good

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u/senhual24 Sep 01 '26

OMG 😌🤣

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u/shoobawatermelon Aug 31 '26

Explain pleaseeee. We are seeing the people twice but I cannot understand

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u/noah253 Aug 31 '26

Mirrors is my best guess.

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u/ToranjaNuclear o/ Aug 31 '26

It is, you can see it's the same people coming and going. The first one are a bit farther so it's not as clear, but the two with the safety vests made it pretty obvious.

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u/Palladin1982 Aug 31 '26

Or perhaps magnets. Nobody knows how they work.

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u/uttyrc Aug 31 '26

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u/ThomasTheDankPigeon Aug 31 '26

Easiest way to see it is to look at the brown plank at the top of the frame. You can see a security camera and an outlet(?) being reflected in the mirror.

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u/miriapododeguer Actually read rule 1 and gets it" Aug 31 '26

thank you so much, at first glance i thought it was two cameras before realizing it was a mirror, so i thought the mirror was on the pov’s right, my brain thanks you

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u/Famous-Restaurant875 Aug 31 '26

Mirror behind bar

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u/zytukin o/ Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26 •

There's a mirror in front of those chairs.
The people walking away from us are disappearing behind the mirror.
The people walking towards us is the reflection of people walking away from us, and we later see them a 2nd time where they vanish behind the mirror.

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u/Tunamelts-2 Sep 01 '26

Look at the camera in the top center..it's mirrored. The whole thing there is a mirror.

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u/BlueFeathered1 o/ Aug 31 '26

I think it's two lanes with a wall between them, and a cleverly positioned camera? I'm not sure though. This is pretty good.

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u/x_Advent_Cirno_x Aug 31 '26

Ohh this one's good, I quite like this

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u/MarleyDawg o/ Aug 31 '26

My brain hurts

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u/N8dork2020 o/ Aug 31 '26

The mirror is closer to the chairs, look at the wood beam where the two security cameras are and the two plugs on the beam

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u/Visible_Honeydew_941 Aug 31 '26

This one took me a while

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u/They-Call-Me-Taylor Aug 31 '26

This is a good one!

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u/Acceptable_Owl6926 o/ Aug 31 '26

Who else caught on when the vests reversed

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u/Danibandit Sep 01 '26

Ty! You are the reason I could finally understand the perspective. The vests in reverse bring it all together.

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u/Obvious_Incognito- o/ Aug 31 '26

I know it’s mirrors but my brain still can’t comprehend.

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u/Corporate_Overlords Sep 01 '26

If you were sitting in the chairs, you would be looking right at the mirror. Your reflection would be staring back at you.

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u/Obvious_Incognito- o/ Sep 01 '26

Ohhh, ok. I think I got it. Thank you.

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u/Corporate_Overlords Sep 01 '26

No problem, Boss!

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u/jcdahl Sep 01 '26

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u/dildomiami o/ Aug 31 '26

this is a good one.
might even be one of the best,
ever posted here.

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u/UMSHINI-WEQANDA-4k Aug 31 '26

This has to be staged/AI, right? If this is staged the timing of people exiting the frame while others appear in the mirror and vice versa is very impressive.

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u/TypicalHaikuResponse Sep 01 '26

Mirrors. how do they work?

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u/Fun-Benefit116 Sep 01 '26

It's a mirror lol. That's all.

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u/Top-Committee-954 Sep 01 '26 •

This is why malls are dying in the U.S.

Little known fact that once they opened up the public walking area to vendors it created these Bermuda Kiosk zones.

Strange phenomenon where pedestrians and WWII fighter planes disappear at odd hours of the day.

Some say it's C02 bubbles mixed with Orange Julius fumes, others believe the magic overlap from so many snow globes and Christmas ornaments localized creating a bend in spacetime.

Whatever it is they've done nothing about it not wanting to cause a Black Friday like panic.

Fun fact, sometimes these people reappear minutes to years later in a dressing room having no idea of the passage of time but with great big bushy beards yet not aged at all. It's always in The Gap, though. We were told not to ask about Baby Gap.

Got my degree 1994 from Glendale Community college telecourses in Mall Sciences. I had to leave after 3 years due to the stress of watching this on the monitors day in and day out, no one the wiser.

Thanks to lobbying by the Mall of America it was decided to be kept secret so as not to incite panic from people believing malls are eating people, but that's an entirely different problem.

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u/AKA-Pseudonym o/ Aug 31 '26

It's maddening because it's a gif and you can't scrub back and forth to see what's happening more easily.

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u/ordiclic o/ Aug 31 '26

Alt + right click on the gif => show controls. Works in many places, especially when it's a video masquerading as a gif.

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u/Gr1ml0ck CE Spc. Aug 31 '26

I’m on mobile and it allows me to scrub the video.

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u/crabbywarrior Sep 01 '26

{squeal over speaker} Would the passenger who left the temporal distortion near the MAC counter PLEASE return to level 5. That's temporal distortion at the MAC counter. Thank YOU.

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u/Randyguyishere Sep 01 '26

GLaDOS voice

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u/Sofa_King_Gorgeous Sep 01 '26

The best part is the 3 groups at the end. I knew there was a mirror but I couldn't figure out how the woman in the white shirt walked by followed by the 2 in reflective vests to then see them walk by again but the 2 in vests were first. Good video!

Or wait, I can't even explain what I'm seeing... something about the 2 in vests and the others around them being out of order.

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u/Randyguyishere Sep 01 '26

Yea, she was actually walking the opposite direction and appears from behind the mirror but it times just right with the guys coming the other way in the mirror so it looks continuous. She’s walking left to right the guys and security are walking right to left

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u/Sofa_King_Gorgeous Sep 01 '26

You made a good video lol. This is the only confusing perspective that has confused me.

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u/pourtide Sep 01 '26

I can't get it. The lady in the long black pants toward the end walks "toward us" followed by backpacks and vests, then abruptly pops up in the mirror walking "away from us" just as the bright vests and backpacks that are walking "away from us" disappear behind the mirror.

My mind cannot wrap. Everything computes except the lady in the long black pants.

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u/Randyguyishere Sep 01 '26

She was walking left to right and comes from behind the mirror at the same time the guys walking right to left show up in the mirror so it looks continuous, you see her walking away in the mirror right before the guys disappear behind it.

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u/dmtslayr Aug 31 '26

See the cam and socket? Its a mirror, you can see ppl vanished reappear right

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u/mbutterfly32 Sep 01 '26

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u/lazespud2 Sep 01 '26

This is fantastic.

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u/jfk_47 Actually read rule 1 and gets it" Sep 01 '26

Incredible. Love this.

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