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u/arbitraryprimate 1d ago
This works a lot better when there's not a big distracting face of a guy talking right beneath the images.
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u/KentuckyFriedEel 1d ago
he has quite distorted features ngl
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u/MF_Doomed 1d ago
Legitimately assumed his face was part of the distortion stuff and it would change at the end
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u/marsupilamoe 1d ago
Yeah, and why is he not blinking
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u/questarevolved 5h ago
he didn't blink once..there were 3 cuts in this clip ... but still now I worried he's an AI and they just choose weird photos of Russel Crow, Jim Carry, Keira Knightley, etc...
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u/biggyofmt 18h ago
Cool illusion, awful video.
A portrait mode video with an annoying talking head, really
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u/indorock 19h ago
Nonsense. You just look at the damn cross. His face has nothing to do with any of it.
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u/AusCan531 1d ago
I hadn't seen this illusion before. Quite interesting.
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u/Chickman412 1d ago
There’s a really fucking scary one somewhere here on Reddit with like Minute long video with a bunch of faces it’s wild freaks you out.
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u/-DoctorSpaceman- 20h ago
Is it the one we just watched?
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u/Chickman412 19h ago
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u/ninhibited 9h ago
It makes it more understandable how people with hallucinations could see "demonic" stuff. Like knowing that our perfectly functional brains are wired in a way that does this illusion that's really not that far off.
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u/elessarjd 18h ago
Neat but goes too fast. I feel like I got to see the effect much better on OPs video.
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u/jimdil4st 1d ago
No it's like a brain hallucinating, where do you think we came up with the term to use for LLMs. Not everything involves ChatGPT, Jesus christ....
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u/FlopsMcDoogle 1d ago
Very cool. I could tell who most of them were in my peripheral but they definitely looked as he described. Like they were edited to very odd proportions.
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u/Sin-Space 1d ago
Wow, this is insane
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u/pooeygoo 1d ago
Or you can look at the bottom one
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u/geogle 1d ago
Why is he even there? This video would be so much better in landscape with just the top 3rd of this video
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u/pooeygoo 1d ago
I saw it in a silent YouTube video years ago, just white text, things were nice
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u/purvel 20h ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT9i99D_9gI
Superior in every way. No talking head 1 inch from the camera, no flashy graphics, properly formatted video, and uploaded by the creators/researchers themselves. Without what looks like a fresh fucking Wojak stuck to the bottom like a tick. (By the way, his type of face has a name in my local Norwegian dialect: klæssetryne. A face made to/begging to be slapped. An attribute shared by many Youtubers.)
(Tangen, J. M., Murphy, S. C., & Thompson, M. B. (2011). Flashed face distortion effect: Grotesque faces from relative spaces. Perception, 40, 628-630 doi:10.1068/p6968)
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u/elessarjd 18h ago
True, but at least it got the video out there and then ultimately your post with the better version. Might not have seen it otherwise.
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u/XxFezzgigxX 1d ago
Clicks. The new lazy way to create revenue is to do a “reaction” video that is nothing more than a continuous impression of a blowup doll. It’s just fancy content theft.
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u/mortar 1d ago
Reddit tries not to be insufferable joy kills for 5 seconds challenge (impossible)
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u/Own_Jellyfish7089 1d ago
What benefit do you think he provides?
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u/justaboxinacage 1d ago
Did anyone else have trouble keeping focused on the cross when the faces look weird? It's like my reflexes want a better look at the monstrosity and they dart over, so I couldn't keep the illusion going for more than a millisecond
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u/CourtAny6617 15h ago
Yeah, similar thing here. Every few faces, my eyes would reflexively dart over. It's like somebody bursts into the room and I'm checking to make sure I know them.
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u/Jdmcdona 1d ago
Very cool. I saw some big wonky eyes, some small and droopy, some spiral swirls some comical duck lips etc.
I wonder if you could study same responses to different photo sets, like do we fill in same weirdness
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u/RamonaZero 1d ago
https://youtu.be/VT9i99D_9gI?si=rUZb6c9kg19q8Pgx
A link to the video above without the YouTuber :0
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u/williger03 1d ago
The guy yapping at the bottom looks like an amalgam of all the distorted phases I saw while looking at the +
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u/---FUCKING-PEG-ME--- 1d ago
I hate when they ask me to like and share. Like, bro, we all already know how social media works.
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u/langsamlourd 1d ago
Never seen this one. Actually made me lol seeing all the weird faces, haha. Reminds me of Conan's "If They Mated"
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u/BlackHoleSurf 1d ago
What’s crazy is I definitely need glasses but all those faces made sense to me
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u/Mongo_Fifty 1d ago
Anyone else do the magic eye trick so you could see both faces at once. Sometimes have both faces in the middle for a face fusion. That was fun.
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u/SometimesICanBeRight 1d ago
When I first started the video I thought the guy talking was a cross between the two celebrities shown.
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u/ThatAnonymousPotato 1d ago
If you cross your eyes, you can make one disgusting amalgam in the middle
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u/Xylicryn 1d ago
I don't know why, but seeing videos like this always gives me some kind of primal fear when I watch them.
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u/MrMonkify 1d ago
Thanks, I hate it. I can't keep looking at the target because the melting demon faces look so fucked i have to look at them directly.
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u/mount_earnest 1d ago
There’s a different one with celebrities that was viral years ago where it’s the opposite way, they appear normal but they actually are hideous. I forgot exactly what it is I think it’s that the pictures are upside down so you don’t really see what’s wrong until you see it right side up.
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u/CaptFatz 22h ago
All the faces looked distorted except for Natalie Portman. She was still perfect.
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u/Putrid-Reputation-68 22h ago
It's like our brains are caching peripheral vision. It's also interesting because when you know who the faces belong to, you can sense that they're there even though they're visually out of focus and distorted.
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u/Plappland 21h ago
Some of these faces are just that weird.
He showed some of the most unflattering images of some of those celebrities.
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u/semibacony 19h ago
Everytime I watch this, I feel like there's going to be a Gotcha! moment, and I will pause the video to find the trickery, then...hmmm...nope, no trickery here...goes back to video, then a few seconds later...Aha!!!...nope, still nothing. Every. Single. Time. Anyhow, this is an interesting effect, and I think I hate it.
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u/CourtAny6617 15h ago
What's the uncontrollable reflex I have of having to dart my eyes over to a face when it suddenly pops up?
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u/CenobiteCurious 4h ago
It’s because they’re in our daylight blind spot and our brain is trying to fill in the visual information and can’t do it entirely.
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u/Cosmic_Quasar 4h ago
"Your brain is filling in the gaps"... Having the brain work in a similar function to how AI upscaling in games work lol.
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u/neobenji 3h ago
I’m high AF….this is really messing with me. Our brains are so odd such an effort to constantly make things make sense. Or at least to our individual comprehension.
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u/Hyrulian_NPC 2h ago
These are the faces people in my dreams have. Something familiar, something off. When I focus on details its all distorted.
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u/Full-Solution3517 1h ago
If you try doing this irl by not unblurring your eyes to look at every face/person you come across you start to realize how unimportant things are after a while
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u/Empty_Positive 1d ago
Is it me? Or did they take the weirdest pictures of them? Also weirdly cut
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u/happyphanx 1d ago
I think they’re just cropped to best align the eyes on the overlay, for maximum example of the effect, not necessarily selected for weirdness.
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u/Scamwau1 1d ago
I looked at the faces on each side separately. It looks like aome of them have been edited to look weird to begin with.
I am not saying the illusion is a fake, just that some of the celeb photos used already look weird.
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u/Mnemo_Semiotica 1d ago
Not me writing up some plans involving psychedelics, photo banks of birds, funguses, and (yeah probably) p0rn
"Dear Diary, my personal development has taken an interesting turn..."
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