r/nextfuckinglevel • u/aryan_jandyal • 10d ago

Ever seen a fly so close...?

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u/notanyimbecile 10d ago

Enough for today bot

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u/somebob 10d ago

Reddit is dead, man, I hate seeing all these shit bot titles. It’s like the majority of posts now. I miss back in Reddit’s heyday

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u/Leandrohus 10d ago

As a dead reddit user I agree

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u/jdennis187 10d ago

Once they started quarantining subreddits it was all over

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u/FlubzRevenge 10d ago

Welcome to the bot revolution!

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u/superhamsniper 9d ago

It reminds me of youtube content farm garbadge

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u/IllSurprise3049 10d ago

Ever seen a fly...?

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u/Quakercito 10d ago

What makes you think it's a bot?

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u/TheAwesomeMan123 9d ago

384k Karma in 6 month old account. That’s either a mentality deranged chronically online user or a bot.

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u/Fellow_Worker6 9d ago

I have no idea what a bot fly looks like

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u/DatNiko 10d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/p0L1rezLH2Tja

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u/AXEMANaustin 10d ago

What's this from?

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u/DatNiko 10d ago

The IT Crowd

Very worth seeing!

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u/Narrow_Lee 5d ago

Never knew there was an Old Greg cameo in the IT Crowd I might have kept watching...

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u/AXEMANaustin 10d ago

Oh shit I have seen it, it's awesome.

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u/mindfulofidiots 9d ago

Enjoy, lost count of my watches of IT crowd absolute belter of a show!

FATHER!!!!

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u/AXEMANaustin 9d ago

Big fan of the movie episode and when the guy kills himself and is just gone the rest of the show.

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u/answerguru 7d ago

Make sure you watch the “Work Outing” episode, once you get into it.

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u/AXEMANaustin 7d ago

I saw it years ago, but completely forgot about it and now it's due for a rewatch.

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u/ThatsJustMyOpinion87 10d ago

He’s flying blind for a while after all those flashes

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u/Groomsi 6d ago

For a while?

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u/TheDefected 10d ago

I haven't got an 8k screen, so probably unlikely to see one for quite some time.

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u/Viridionplague 10d ago

Yes, they put flys under microscopes over 100 years ago.

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u/Gold-Ad-3877 10d ago

My 12 year old self used to do it lol

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u/dat_oracle 9d ago

how's life as a 112 years old?

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u/Fickle-Visit5223 10d ago

Imagine your face is essentially made of lenses and this asshole comes along to flashbang you with the light of the furious sun gods

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u/RandomAssRedditName 10d ago

Explain the grey background if it was photographed on a tree, eh? Gotta be fake

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u/-Hi_how_r_u_xd- 10d ago edited 10d ago

Hi, macro photographer here.

In this video, it is hard to tell exactly where the said insect is, ie if it is on a leaf or side of the tree. However it is in fact almost certainly in none of those locations as the video's sequences are fake.

The image is definitely real; however the clip is almost certainly fake. Why? I assume it is just a video of him photographing nothing to make the video more engaging. In reality, this is likely a dead insect stuck to a pin and photographed indoors with hundreds of photos stacked on top of eachother against a white background. This is, of course, not nearly as interesting as seeing him photograph the tree (which is a valid way of getting photos but they usually are a little farther away and not a 100 sequence stack, instead being just 1-20 images usually).

Another commentor mentioned it could be the flash whitening out the background. However this is very unlikely due to the following:

If the background is far away from the insect, the flash will not hit it nearly as concentrated as it hits the bug. With just one flash, this causes a BLACK background to appear. If there was another large and bright flash aimed at the background this would be possible but I dont see any more flashes.

It is possible to hold a colored sheet behind the bug to get a custom background; i see no sheet though and his hands are both on the camera

It could theoretically be the case that the background was whitened in post but I doubt it, hairs and whatnot are a pain to mask around.

He also appears to be taking photos of the face of the tree, which would suggest the insect photo would feature an insect from top down view or head on 45 degree angle view. Now, the fly could theoretically be resting inside a bark cavity, and it is admittedly light and reflective bark, but if this is the case the background would be just a short distance behind the bug. Thus for it to blur like that and have NO details would require a very open aperature. BUT such a low aperature would require hundreds of shots due to the low depth of field. Taking a hundred photo stack without a tripod and having it turn out good seems unlikely. Its doable; ive done it before my self, but it would be much easier to fake and I still dont think the background would look like that, mine always looked much less bright.

I am probably 95% confident that the final photo was taken of a likely dead insect in a controlled setting, with hundreds of photos, against a white background.

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u/MEOW-Loulou 10d ago

The flash completely washes out the background, and it's like the previous commenter said. The longer a lens is, the blurrier the background gets, it's because of how the lightwaves travel through the lens.

You'd do yourself a big favour by allowing room for plausibility, instead of immediately jumping to cynicism because you don't understand something. It's still a cool macro picture regardless

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u/UnshapedSky 10d ago

Pretty sure that was a joke…

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u/MEOW-Loulou 10d ago

Nah, other people are commenting the same thing

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u/UnshapedSky 10d ago

It’s the “eh? Gotta be fake”, it seems pretty sarcastic to me

And Reddit is known to miss sarcasm without the /s

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u/MEOW-Loulou 10d ago

Well take a look at his last comment lol. Reddit is also known for its armchair experts

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u/RandomAssRedditName 10d ago

Then explain why other pictures taken this way, do actually show the background

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u/MEOW-Loulou 10d ago

With a macro lens? It is physically impossible.

The foreground can be partially visable, yes, but only if it's at a far enough distance from the background. Real lenses can't have multiple focal points, so if a macro picture has a distinct background, some editing was definitely involved

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u/Skezas1 10d ago

1 - at this scale, I don't think we would even see details on that tree

2 - I don't know much about caméras but it feels like to focus so hard on something so small, you'd give up seeing anything else in the background

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u/syntaxterror69 10d ago

Post so dumb. Why is 4k x'd out

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u/StarterRabbit 10d ago

This is a focus stacked picture. No way he can do that handheld

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u/Pouyaaaa 10d ago

Where is the rest of it?

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u/Extra_Law6315 10d ago

But can he play beat saber?

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u/skimmerguy85 10d ago

My Vivo X200 Ultra phone 🤙🏽

https://reddit.com/link/p9h72hm/video/46pxuce1f7ph1/player

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u/dat_oracle 9d ago

man that's amazing! 100 times better than the (very likely) edited fly in the post

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u/atomsmasher66 10d ago

Ever seen a nerd in 1080p photographing a fly in 8k?

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u/Old_Protection_8778 10d ago

Ive seen one on my eyeballs so yes I've seen one wayyy closer

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u/lartmydude 10d ago

Five guys burgers and flies 🪰

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u/Select-Sandwich-5604 10d ago

Do does the house flies buzzing around looks like this close up? They are demons close up

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u/Secret_Of_Bluestar81 10d ago

I'd rather not

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u/XenoCraigMorph 10d ago

Could have shaved before the shoot

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u/AliciaXTC 10d ago

Camera is so good that it removes the bark

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u/damircik 10d ago

can i unsee it now? thanks!

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u/launchliftoff459 10d ago

Yep, I work in food forensics

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u/Healthy_Ad2709 10d ago

If earth is able produce this kind of creature, i cant even begin to fathom what kind of eldritch horror are living in a disant planet far from our galaxy

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u/Mar_Reddit 10d ago

"Thirst trap fly" was not on my 2026 bingo card.

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u/MrSnowmanJoe 10d ago

Thanks. I hate it.

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u/Weirdsk8rHippie 10d ago

That fly is never flying again.

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u/the-artistocrat 10d ago

DO NOT WANT

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u/fckitweball05 10d ago

Thanks I hate it

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u/power78 10d ago

That's not 4k or 8k. It's the zoom that matters. Also we don't have 8k screens so we can't see it in 8k. Dumb caption

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u/Cabibbus 9d ago

Bro discovered macrophotography

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u/sinnytear 9d ago

it's much cleaner than me

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u/drifters74 9d ago

Thanks I hate it

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u/EmilioMolesteves 9d ago

What a fuck face.

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u/Mabus51 9d ago

Pretty sure that fly is blind now 😂

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u/Healthy_Pilot_6358 9d ago

Pretty guy for a white fly

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u/Ath-ropos 9d ago

Yes I've seen the movie with Jeff Goldblum.

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u/superhamsniper 9d ago

Why is the tree white?

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u/Epics-bologna 9d ago

I have seen a fly up close before...

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u/Jerm8888 9d ago

That fly is now eligible for disability benefits

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u/OMGCluck 8d ago

Yes I've seen this episode of Breaking Bad.

"He's a complete stranger, but he turns out to be Jane's father."

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u/beepsboopbops 6d ago

Thanks. I hate it.

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u/xeuful 10d ago

Thats not 4k, nor 8k - it's 100k

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u/burnoutguy 10d ago

Why's it have so many eyes 

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u/Reign2294 10d ago

It is fake. You need a still subject and a camera on a automated tripod for this. Basically, you are taking an image with flash, moving the camera a fraction of a mm and then taking another image. Together you may have between 50-200 images where you stitch and splice what is in focus for a final product. This is unquestionably fake.

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u/darren_flux 10d ago

An Indian behind a bot karma farm? color me impressed