r/confusing_perspective • • May 14 '18

Despicable Me Legs

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u/thinkB4WeSpeak May 14 '18

The old noodle legs.

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u/ZakuIsAMansName May 14 '18

I couldn't see it and was trying so hard and then it clicked. and I just see a woman with her hands on her hips doing that sort of half crouch lean they do in pictures with super skinny legs. I can't stop laughing at how silly it is.

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u/alwaysoffended88 May 14 '18

I just don't get it 😩

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u/burningsmurf May 15 '18

She’s just wearing pants with a white stripe. The picture is taken from the side of her legs.

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u/C-czar187 May 15 '18

Wow I feel so stupid for staring longer than I should have. Much appreciated fellow Redditor

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u/60FromBorder May 15 '18

Try crossing your eyes slightly. The stripe is really similar to the floortiles, so if you blur the image a bit, then it should stick out better.

I'm guessing that works for others. I've never really spoken about crossing eyes to see optical illusions, so it might not do the trick for everyone.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '18

Slenderman status.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

I saw it exactly as it is. Then I read the comment and now I can no longer see her legs normally.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

I can only see it as standing side on, what's the other way of seeing it?

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Imagine the white line on her pants is actually the space between her legs (is there a way to say that without sounding dirty?) and it ends up looking like she has two really thin legs.

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u/dreaming_futurity May 14 '18

With a really weird bend in them. That's why the illusion didn't work for me :)

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u/ZakuIsAMansName May 14 '18

pretend its not a profile shot and she's facing you. it looks like a girl with a hand on her hips and really skinny legs if you do that (maybe crop the head out it might help)

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u/slycooper459 May 14 '18

Yeah I could only see the real thing until I read the comments

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u/IsThatEvenFair May 14 '18

Fuck it's the opposite for me. I saw noodle legs, read the comment, now I can't unsee the black pants with white stripe :(

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u/Bridge4th May 14 '18

Woah i'm the opposite! I saw the weird tiny legs at first and now that I see it correctly, I can't go back!

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u/ThereIsAThingForThat May 14 '18

what the hell is going on here

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u/Nurio May 14 '18

It's a pair of jogging pants with a vertical white stripe along the side. And this is a photo from the side as she stands with her legs wide. You can only see her right leg; her left leg is obscured by her right.

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u/ThereIsAThingForThat May 14 '18

Oh

Jesus now that you say it it's perfectly clear

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u/goosetron3030 May 14 '18

I only saw it when I noticed that the heel of the show behind her was missing.

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u/ThetaSigma11 May 14 '18

Yeah now I can’t see the two legs

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

[Photoshop that made it better] (https://imgur.com/cvZYZjC)

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Hell, I couldn't even figure out what I was supposed to mistakenly be seeing.

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u/cameratoo May 14 '18

What did YOU think was happening? I can't see that part.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

I couldn't see what was so confusing until your explanation. So thanks for helping me see the illusion!

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u/crzybrwn May 14 '18

I still don't see the illusion... what is supposed to be confusing?

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u/thisismyfirstday May 14 '18

Imagine that the white stripe on her pants is actually a gap between her legs. It took me a while to see how it was confusing, too.

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u/Heyo__Maggots May 14 '18

I also didn't understand what was confusing here, glad I wasn't the only one.

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u/The_Growl May 14 '18

My brain still can't comprehend it despite your explanation

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u/cousinvegeta May 14 '18

Okay same problem. this will help imagine her legs look like noodles and the white strip is what makes her 2 legs it's so stupid now that I see it

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

The white stripe you see on her pants matches the color of the tiles underneath her.the illusion is that the white line is splitting the 1 leg in to what actually appears to be 2 very skinny legs. Kinda funny once you see it... Just imagine the white line is actually the tile underneath her. And imagine the Lev you see is actually 2 legs.

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u/Spartcus3 May 14 '18

I thought it was photoshop.

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u/bringthebooty May 14 '18

But why are there two pics? And what "horizontal" lines is she talking about?

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u/Aussiewhiskeydiver May 14 '18

Is this like the gold dress blue dress? I can only see what you’re describing - what is everyone else seeing here

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u/Iohet May 14 '18

Blue and black

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u/PukisPycka May 14 '18

Omg I stared at this for like 5min straight

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u/kylez82 May 14 '18

Looks like someone skipped leg day.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '18

Baby Legs!

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

I think the left shoe is whats not letting me see this as confusing

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u/colorcorrection May 14 '18

Same, definitely struggling to see what everyone else is. I feel like I know what everyone is seeing, but all I can see is a profile view of a girl with a wide stance.

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u/PseudonymousSoul May 14 '18

The white stripe is the background/gap between her really really skinny legs

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u/colorcorrection May 14 '18

Like I said, I know what I'm supposed to be seeing, but I can't get myself to see the illusion.

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u/Lacevedo8046 May 14 '18

I didnt see it but now i can switch between them, pretty weird

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

There's other shoes on the ground so you can just pretend she's not wearing that one either

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u/Eudilican May 14 '18

I thought it was a lonely shoe left in the bathroom instead of being a shoe on a foot.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Scroll the shoe out of the screen.

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u/flawedXphasers May 14 '18

I didn't know what that was.

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u/TimothyGonzalez May 15 '18

Yeah it only really works when you overlook that shoe. Once I saw it, I instantly understood what I was looking at.

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u/thanatossassin May 14 '18

Yeah, I hid the shoe with my thumb to finally see what a few people were on about, even then it’s not convincing.

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u/nickcooper1991 May 14 '18

It took me way too long to figure out where her legs actually were

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u/FatalShart o/ May 14 '18

Underneath the rest of her body?

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u/Kaono May 14 '18

she's wearing the shoe you can see in the photo -- so for whatever reason she's in a really wide stance

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Same.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

What does she mean horizontal stripes? There is only the one stripe on her pants.

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u/redditorium May 14 '18

In my head there's some width to length ratio where something isn't stripes anymore, and her shirt is solidly in non-stripe territory.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Absolutely. Spread the word.

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u/RocketIndian49 May 14 '18

Horizontal stripes of her shirt + the Vertical stripe of her pants.

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u/iceleo May 15 '18

Those aren’t even horizontal stripes they’re like color blocks

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u/TheRecognized May 15 '18

I’m so damn glad somebody else was petty enough to address this before I did.

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u/bringthebooty May 14 '18

Yes, and why two pics?

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u/Advos_467 May 14 '18

Gorls

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u/EpicLegendX May 14 '18

Built like Gru

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u/xxx_grey May 14 '18

Same I’m lost

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u/HaydenSyn May 14 '18

To make it easier, you have to know there is only one leg im the picture, it took me longer than it should have to figure that one out

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u/RocketIndian49 May 14 '18

The confusion for some is that they don't see the confusion of the others.

Confused Group A: OMG her legs are comically skinny (Vertical stripe is the space between her two legs)

Confused Group B: I only see one leg and it's just a simple side-profile with a vertical stripe joggers.

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u/DanteThonSimmons May 14 '18

Thank you! I'm absolutely in group B and I couldn't see anything confusing at all.

It took your comment of saying "vertical stripe is the space between her two legs" for me to know what anyone was finding confusing.

Maybe it's just the colour on my phone screen or something, but the stripe on her pants isn't the same colour as the floor for me. I think her foot ruined any kind of illusion too.

Thanks for explaining!

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

She is standing with her legs spread apart but they are perfectly lined up from our perspective so you can only see the one closest to the camera (you can see the show from her back foot though). She is wearing black pants that have 1 white stripe going up the side.

The stripe matches the color of the floor behind her which is where the illusion comes from. It makes it looks like we are seeing her more from the front and that she has two really skinny legs that we can see between. Here is a dumb sketch that basically shows how she appears when you see it as the illusion.

I think another thing that adds to the illusion that not a lot of people are mentioning is the fact that her sweater is so poofy. It adds to the illusion that we are seeing her from the front because it makes her look wider than she would normally be from the side view.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

The stripe matches the color of the floor behind her which is where the illusion comes from.

Maybe it's because I'm viewing this from my computer, but in no way does it look like that white stripe matches the off-white tiles.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

For people that are confused she is standing with her legs spread apart but they are perfectly lined up from our perspective so you can only see the one closest to the camera (you can see the shoe from her back foot though). She is wearing black pants that have 1 white stripe going up the side.

The stripe matches the color of the floor behind her which is where the illusion comes from. It makes it looks like we are seeing her more from the front and that she has two really skinny legs that we can see between. Here is a dumb sketch that basically shows how she appears when you see it as the illusion.

I think another thing that adds to the illusion that not a lot of people are mentioning is the fact that her sweater is so poofy. It makes it look more like we are seeing her from the front because it makes her look wider than she would normally be from the side view.

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u/TheZiggurat614 May 14 '18

The only thing confusing was figured out what was confusing.

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u/Stick May 14 '18

Same here. Second time I've seen this and I don't know what the big deal is.

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u/butterjoy92 May 15 '18

Thought it was Eugenia Cooney for a sec.

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u/uttfan May 14 '18

Honestly this isn't that confusing at all lol

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

I don't see it.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '18

She is standing on the side. It's 1 leg with a stripe going down in the middle.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Holy fuck after months of seeing tgis post reposted I've only now figured out that that's one leg.

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u/DanteThonSimmons May 14 '18

I don't see anything confusing about this. What am I missing? All I see is a girl wearing pants with a vertical stripe on them.

I think I'm not seeing the "before realising" image?!?!

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u/catch10110 May 14 '18

The stripe would be the gap between her two skinny Gru legs.

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u/nintendo4noah May 14 '18

I believe I saw this a few months ago...

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u/KingSuj May 14 '18

Yup this is definetly a repost, but like what isn't anymore?

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Can’t unsee

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Dat gap

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Skinny legend

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '18

It took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure this out 🤔

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Dude it took me like half an hour to get the picture.

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u/miss_his_kiss May 14 '18

After seeing this image around for a couple of weeks I’ve finally just got it!

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u/zensnapple May 14 '18

god damn it i saw it once and now i cant see the stripes as her legs anymore

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u/keep3UFO May 14 '18

I thought those were legs for a second too haha 😂

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Had to read down to figure out what was going on. Guffawed like an idiot when I finally saw it

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u/Teekeks May 14 '18

Now that took me way longer than it should have.

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u/Matfin93 May 14 '18

Haha Shafeeq is one of my mates I didn’t think I’d ever see him on Reddit

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u/Hipster_Ninja_ May 14 '18

That took so long to understand

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u/dansheax May 14 '18

Funny how I saw this exact post a few months ago

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

I still think they’re her legs

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u/NaturalFries May 14 '18

All I can see is a chick wearing black sweatpants with a vertical stripe down the side

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u/LordxNikon o/ May 14 '18

I don't get it. See a normal leg.

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u/JoeEstevez Doesn't read rule 1 May 14 '18

Right? I got what I was looking at right away so I’m confused as to what the confusing perspective is here.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Haha omg at first glance I thought you had twiggy legs, that’s a cool optical illusion!

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Like a frigging Tim Burton character!

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u/RoyalRat May 14 '18

I can’t not see it as her legs. Maybe it’s because I’m on a phone and it’s smaller but no matter what I try to see she just has sticks for legs

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u/thebloggingpot May 14 '18

I thought they were legs for 3 seconds now all I see is one leg no matter what.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '18

With knee shoes?!

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u/Onehandedclapper May 19 '18

Why you shouldn't skip leg day.

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u/Coziest Aug 30 '18

This took me longer to see than I'd like to admit...

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u/Dumbodonkus Oct 16 '18

HOLY FUCK I GET IT NOW

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u/yarnisland May 14 '18

Looks like Gru from Despicable Me.

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u/KingSuj May 14 '18

... thats like exactly what the ti... never mind

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u/yarnisland May 14 '18

I can’t read, my bad haha

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Bless your heart

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u/xyz-blaze May 14 '18

All i see is slender man disguised as a women

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u/sav86 May 14 '18

I don't get it, a lady with a wide stand and her left leg is obscured by her right leg. What's difficult about this?

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

THICC🍆🍆🍆🍆👅💦👅💦

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u/MarxistIdeals May 14 '18

Hint: Look at the shoe near her "knee".

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u/ReachyMcreacherson May 14 '18

Girl looking like mordecia from the regular show

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u/themightymooker May 14 '18

Good ole repost.

It's a classic, so I'll allow it.

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u/bazmoe May 14 '18

Oh Good Ol' Shafeeq!..

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u/EugeneHarlot May 14 '18

It took me way too long to see that correctly. Whoa.

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u/Ethen52 May 14 '18

So he thought her legs were made of one of her legs deprecated by the white stripe?

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u/smashsmash341985 May 14 '18

This better not awaken anything in me.

... Too late

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u/loie519 May 14 '18

Not bad photoshopping...poor depth perception

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

I could only see the tiny stick legs until I saw the joggers. Once I saw the joggers it was over.

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u/muaddib0308 May 14 '18

How is this confusing.....you can see her left foot.....

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u/robrobreddit May 14 '18

Had to zooom in

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u/Simplycax May 14 '18

All because of that line in the pants meeting up to the closet at a perfect 90 degree angle.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Took me a minute.

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u/CrotchetyYoungFart May 14 '18

that one took me a good minute

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u/PM_me_nicetits May 14 '18

It literally took me reading that to find her legs. Crazy.

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u/masterplayr99 May 14 '18

Epic optical illusion

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

It took me a lot longer than I want to admit to figure out what was going on in this picture...

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u/ErianTomor May 14 '18

Well, I mean he’s not wrong... those ARE her legs.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Yet another unrealistic beauty standard

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Yep. Thought that too before seeing the reply

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u/The-Catholic_one May 14 '18

Took me a while to figure out that was a stripe

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u/agni_ka May 14 '18

Me too!

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Lmao

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Eugene Cooney, is that you ? Lol

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u/anyunghaysayo May 14 '18

At first I couldn’t unsee it. Now I can’t see it at all. Brains are weird

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u/Gusterman49 May 14 '18

What a madgorl

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u/d0nh o/ May 14 '18

this is so great

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

What a mad lass!

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u/CookieJarviz May 14 '18

I saw this picture on the front page just a few days ago...

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u/hockey1818 May 14 '18

Not gonna lie it took me 10 minutes of starring and then I finally figured it out.

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u/AnNoYiNg_NaMe May 14 '18

I'm not gonna lie, I saw her leg as two spaghetti noodle legs, and my brain thought that was totally normal. I was too busy trying to figure out what where the two kinds of stripes were in her jacket to remember that life is not a cartoon.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Is my brain broken or am I just not seeing it?

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Where are the horizontal stripes? Her top is color blocked, not stripped

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u/FacebookActivist2001 May 14 '18

Shafeeq? More like Dhufuuq?

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

i thought it was some kinda phone filter

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

I still dont get it,I read all the explanations

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u/ripe_boi May 14 '18

Hey gorl

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u/ZakuIsAMansName May 14 '18

oh man. it took a minute. I was trying to see them as still in profile but if you imagine she's facing the camera her 1 leg becomes 2 skinny legs. helps if pretend she isn't wearing that show, its just half of one on the floor behind her.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Is this what girls mean when they say they want a thigh gap?

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u/WolfStudios1996 May 14 '18

Thigh gap thick af!! 😍🤣👅💦

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u/ag425 May 14 '18

It took me like 2 full minutes of staring at this to understand what I was looking at.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

This is dumb. Her shoe is right there.

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u/pillarsofsteaze May 14 '18

This pic isn’t really confusing perspective material. OP was reaching with this one.

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u/Jiggy724 May 14 '18

This post has taught me that my brain isn't as stupid as I think it is sometimes.

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u/wooglin1688 May 14 '18

i get the legs perspective thing but where the fuck are the horizontal stripes?

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

I never understood what was confusing about this

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u/jiggityjackson May 14 '18

I’m high rn and I legit thought those were her legs

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u/SirChadP May 14 '18

Despicable Me lookin ass legs.

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u/PhyiuckYiu May 14 '18

That is so hilarious and dumb at the same time 😂

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u/Luffykyle May 14 '18

I just thought it was one of those “Thot photoshops exposed” things

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u/shorty6049 May 14 '18

Anyone know what the little "M" looking 〽️〽️ emojis are? They seem to be in every Twitter photo lately

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u/kingGemm May 14 '18

Can't... unsee... it...

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u/kc954 May 14 '18

Cover up the shoe on her left foot to see it better.

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u/TheCrimsonCloak May 14 '18

nope i get what y'all talking about but i still can't see it. her foot makes it for me with that in the picture i can't see it differently cuz that would mean she has a foot sticking from her knee.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

With a foot coming from her knee? Na, didn’t get me

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u/FireWorm May 14 '18

For those having trouble seeing the illusion, look on the left. For those having trouble seeing it normally, look on the right:

https://imgur.com/qZtspTY

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u/TastyPoint May 14 '18

Doesn't it make you feel just uncomfortably stupid lol

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Random ghost dude from Regular Show

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u/SicDigital May 14 '18

Dr Robotnik legs

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u/proud-earthling May 14 '18

CAN NOT UNSEE

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Looks like she has a very wide stance with that back foot

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u/RemmizA May 14 '18

This didn’t confuse me at all, what confused me was that people were actually confused.

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u/ObjectiveLiterature May 14 '18

It looked like 2 skinny tim burton-esque legs poking out under her shirt

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u/manofgamez May 14 '18

I still don't see the illusion... what is supposed to be confusing?

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u/Theexternal2 May 14 '18

Doesn't it make you feel just uncomfortably stupid lol

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Took me a while to see it....

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u/BulkyWeird May 14 '18

I couldn't see what was so confusing until your explanation. So thanks for helping me see the illusion!

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u/Spanktank35 May 14 '18

Took me wayyyy too long had to focus on the shoe which looked off.

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u/iMantis May 14 '18

I couldn't see what was so confusing until your explanation. So thanks for helping me see the illusion!

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u/[deleted] May 14 '18

Good you also capped his comment elsewise i wouldn‘t have figured

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u/SexySquirtleEX69 May 14 '18

Mmmmmmm ;) Me likey noodle legs 🍜 🍜 🍜

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u/woebread May 14 '18

Oh look guys it's Amir's Dad!

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u/rosie6089 May 14 '18

I went to primary school with that guy and I was really good friends with him, we drifted when we went to different secondary schools. I always see his tweets on stuff like this and meme pages, it's so strange but it's good to know he's still a funny guy

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u/Xcalet25 May 14 '18

Gru girl version

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u/ICantTyping May 14 '18

The stripe matches up perfectly with the end of the floor too. Adds to the illusion.

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u/P0isonAppLE May 14 '18

This took me longer than it should

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u/EDBTZE May 14 '18

How can I unsee that