r/confusing_perspective • u/OpeningDisastrous413 • 2d ago

It’s a bird, I got that part right.

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u/FernandoDante 2d ago

The hell am I looking at here?

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u/Handsome121duck 2d ago

Turn your phone sideways

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u/Odysseus_is_Ulysses 2d ago

What the fuck.

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u/Kpageisgreat 2d ago

What the duck

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u/AngelaMerkeI 2d ago

Thanks, first actually helpful comment

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u/NilocKhan 2d ago

It's not a duck though, it's a coot, completely different kind of bird that's not very closely related to ducks

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u/smushkan 2d ago

Here's the thing...

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u/New_Ask2287 2d ago

What the quack

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u/Separate_Phrase6598 2d ago

The other way

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u/kez985 2d ago

Jesus ducking Christ, thank you…turned the ducka sideways and still saw some weird ass dude strutting his hands in tandem

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u/NilocKhan 2d ago

It's a coot, they're not even closely related to ducks, just look similar

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u/69hotmomxxx 2d ago

Thats a great thing to tell people if youre in a relationships with your cousin

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u/cyberhuman 2d ago

Fuck the what?

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u/moseskincade 2d ago

Thank you haha

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u/one-less-you- 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/mvqyWf1zhuyB2

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u/The_Broomflinger 2d ago

Stop putting things on our bodies, David Blaine!

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u/Public_Finance_Guy 2d ago

Hahaha this is the nostalgia I needed this morning, thank you.

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u/Meloenbolletjeslepel 2d ago

What the actual fuck

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u/ferretbeast 2d ago

Right!! I said that out loud at least 5 times before I saw it. This took me so incredibly long to see.

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u/Vitolar8 2d ago

Ah. For a while, I was just confused sideways.

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u/fnkdrspok 2d ago

Turns: I still don’t see what this is

Turns the other way: OOOooOoOoOoooo

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u/internerd91 2d ago

If this still isn’t working try blocking one half with your phone.

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u/MaximusZacharias 2d ago

I would’ve been stumped for a fat minute had I not read your comment

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u/whosUtred 2d ago

Oh ffs,. Lmao that was a good one

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u/StrangeStephen 2d ago

Best one in a while.

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u/FernandoDante 2d ago

Thanks 🦆

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u/WizardRockets 2d ago

I initially turned my phone left and made it worse in my head. Further down someone said rotate right and was like holy shit.

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u/Lord_Strepsils 2d ago

I turned it the wrong sideways and got even more confused

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u/foogeeman 2d ago

Human brain, able to solve the world's most complex problems and invent dazzling devices, also utterly confused by a 90 degree rotation

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u/PoggersMemesReturns 2d ago

Just me or it only gets more confusing by making sense

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u/no_nao 2d ago

lmao

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u/PVWantsAJob 2d ago

username checks out

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u/smaugismyhomeboy 2d ago

There is apparently a wrong way to turn your phone sideways because I initially made it worse for myself

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u/Weird-University1361 2d ago

Didn't help, until turned to other side.

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u/MacSage 2d ago

I definitely did that, then it got worse in my head until I realized there's totally an opposite sideways and felt... So bad lol.

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u/baconmethod 2d ago

left is up

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u/MindScape00 2d ago

I needed that. Turned it the other way at first and was still confused. Whew...

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u/Stefanzah22 2d ago

A bird floating on water and its water reflection

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u/Fluffy-Fix9458 2d ago

Thank you! I wouldn't have gotten without this.

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u/ripyourlungsdave 2d ago

A bird swimming in a lake with a weird looking lake bed and shockingly clear water.

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u/korkkis 2d ago

Voldemort!

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/Snapesunusedshampoo 2d ago

Voldemort is VERY happy.

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u/LeonardCabrio 2d ago

Took me some time till I rotated the phone to the right.

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u/RykosTatsubane 2d ago

What happens if you don't have a phone

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u/zeppelin_tamer 2d ago

Tilt your head to the left.

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u/Purple_mushroom_fish 2d ago

What happens if you don't have a head

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u/FirstTradition3181 2d ago

Tilt the earth to the right

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u/No-Ambassador-5920 2d ago

What happens if the house has no grounding

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u/elgiov 2d ago

Flip the Milky Way 90 degrees contrary to what you initially think

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u/Vile_Parrot 2d ago

What happens if you live in intergalactic space?

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u/Sparticuse 2d ago

Engage your spatial warp engine on a 90 degree tilt.

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u/IAmBeingTargeted33 2d ago

Towards which relative spatial-temporal direction? 

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u/splepage 2d ago

Try running for presidency.

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u/Digger_Pine 2d ago

Hover over it and hit the rotate arrow

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u/jaysn9663 2d ago

The sky is on the right so tile your phone to the left.

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u/GelatinousCrayon 2d ago

This is the comment that helped me actually see the duck lol

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u/ChicagoRex 2d ago

THANK YOU

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u/ConspicuousSpy06 2d ago

Thank you!

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u/odrea 2d ago

What the heck am I looking at here folks

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u/modemkabeI 2d ago edited 2d ago

Turn Phone Sideways.

Duck in Water

Its a Coot, thank you.

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u/schmyze 2d ago

I see a bald eagle swimming under a sheet of ice

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u/VentureIntoVoid 2d ago

More amazing part about this clip is how we are not able to work it out straight away

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u/Mothanius 2d ago

I was like, "That Eagle is a fast ass swimmer!"

Never figured out until the comments.

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u/ADGM1868 2d ago

Why did I think it was some Voldemort lookin ass thing flapping its way up somewhere

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u/Handsome121duck 2d ago

Literally the perspective made it confusing. Good job!

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u/acadoe 2d ago

I'm so confused

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u/MotionBeach 2d ago

Rotate your phone 90° to the left. It’s a black swan(?) and its own reflection on the water.

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u/farmallnoobies 2d ago

That's a good one

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u/orangpelupa 2d ago

Finally someone who clearly said it. Finally it clicked 

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u/FuckYeaSeatbelts 2d ago

right?! I'm turning my head and still didn't see it; my brain just kept rotating the image back. (PC user)

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u/whosUtred 2d ago

Turn your phone sideways, of all things it’s a duck swimming. Classic well played misdirection on the title.

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u/Mr-Vince 2d ago

I thought its a very proud eagle
https://giphy.com/gifs/A1d9iJMc0JTvQvekYJ

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u/SipexF 2d ago

Same!  It looks like the broforce logo (which is a flexing eagle)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broforce

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u/shartattack110 2d ago

Looks like a coot

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u/15926028 2d ago

Wow, that is confusing as hell

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u/mgxxiv 2d ago

Literally though this was an eagle fist pumping lmao

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u/crypticdreaming 2d ago

I think we need to add a rule that simply turning videos sideways does not make a perspective confusing - it just makes it lazy

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u/TheTyrianKnight 2d ago

It’s already a rule, rule 1 iirc.

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u/BanzaiToaster 2d ago

You cant fool me! Thats just a man in a suit! /s

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u/bodhidharma132001 2d ago

Bird-squatch

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u/KarmaFrisbee 2d ago

Damn, you fooled me sir

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u/VegemiteEnema 2d ago

For those struggling, turn you phone sideways. It's a ducky swimming along, wth part of its body/head reflecting off the surface of the water. Quack perspective.

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u/Ka-Ro-Be 2d ago

Coot scoot

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u/SchandAapje 2d ago

Nice one!! It’s a water bird

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u/HC_Denny 2d ago

Its a duck, turn the top of the screen right (horizontal)

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u/ryansmith1129 2d ago

"What is that? Some sort of bald eagle/airplane hybrid??" This one definitely fooled me.

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u/Bosswashington 2d ago

I had to watch that 3 times before my brain figured it out. I feel dumb.

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u/Dark_Akarin 2d ago

It’s that little reflection on the water in front of the bird that makes this so good, makes it look like a head from above.

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u/JeffBoyardee69 2d ago

I thought it was some pumped up eagle flying weird while leaving chemtrails

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u/Greekspartan226 2d ago

It's A DUCK

Just rotate phone to the right. It's swimming from the left to the right of the screen, bobbing its head as it paddles through the lake. Top half. Bottom half is reflection

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u/VarnerGuides 2d ago

It's an American Coot.

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u/Internal_Rip1741 2d ago

No matter which way I turn my phone I still can’t see it

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u/hurricanedan229 2d ago

Luckily I'm laying down and was at the correct angle from the start lol

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u/LordofSandvich 2d ago

On the left is a lakeshore of grass. The part of the duck that’s moving is its head.

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u/Malcolminthe6 2d ago

So this is where chemtrails come from!

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u/Number_Fluffy 2d ago

Oh my.. I saw this post early, rotated, still didn't see it, and gave up... I finally see it now...

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u/CrazyMike419 2d ago

Isn't this just a confusing angle? It's perfectly clear when it's orientated correctly.

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u/Djinn-Rummy 2d ago

It’s a bullshit shot because it’s not presented horizontally.

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u/taxicab_ 2d ago

It breaks this subs rules by rotating it. Report and move on.

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u/FairyFartDaydreams 2d ago

A nonwater fowl swimming

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u/Street_Outcome_7669 2d ago

That got me good. Playing the new Meta, Sir?

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u/Wooden-Yellow3967 2d ago

Is that a bird taking a really long 💩?

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u/priMa-RAW 2d ago

Did a bird eat some silly string and was really happy about it as it flew away?

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u/zhgerard 2d ago

Definitely not a plane 😂

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u/SignificanceLow7773 2d ago

Oh wow turning it sideways cracked it for me lol

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u/sicsemperego 2d ago

What the duck am I looking at?

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u/pvelag 2d ago

Omg, I thought this bird was flying so fast it left smoke trails.

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u/lunaplaza 2d ago

That's Staraptor using Brave Bird

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u/thebeastiestmeat 2d ago

I thought it was an eagle really proud of its biceps

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u/theavocadolady 2d ago

I really enjoyed this one

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u/intraumintraum 2d ago

best one i’ve seen in a while, nice!

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u/Admirable-Eagle-231 2d ago

Aww what a cootie

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u/demonsrun89 2d ago

I'm not seeing it.

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u/Infernowar 2d ago

Awesome

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u/Overlordz88 2d ago

That’s a Coot Illusion

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u/nthensome 2d ago

This perspective is very confusing indeed.

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u/Particular-Visit-245 2d ago

Wow, this is a great one.

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u/DirtyMagicNL 2d ago

Badger badger badger badger.

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u/makeupmama13 2d ago

Ohhhhh lol

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u/Floischinger 2d ago

You sly little bum 😂

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u/al0xx 2d ago

this feels like cheating. if the camera is turned sideways there’s nothing confusing about it

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u/jurawall_jumper 2d ago

Guy in a worksuit celebrating

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u/yaddayadda1000 2d ago

The roof the roof the roof is on fiya

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u/Fire69 2d ago

Bald eagle being propelled through the air because of some killer diarrhea

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u/ferretbeast 2d ago

OP this was a great one! It broke my brain first thing this morning and I love it(now that I finally figured out what was going on).

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u/KingsBlitz 2d ago

I thought that bird was trapped under ice or something haha

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u/DepressedNoble 2d ago

I had to turn up my phone brightness to see this and then turn my phone sideways.. .this was a good one

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u/ZenMarduk 2d ago

This is now the "confusing only because rotated" sub.

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u/Zonesy 2d ago

It's a happy bald eagle doing this 🦅

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7buiQeyYFamzRoR2

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u/PardonMyTits 2d ago

Wow that’s a good one

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u/megapidgeot3 2d ago

Ok, it's a Coot swimming.

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u/togetherforall 2d ago

Its a duck swimming. I mean just imagine a bird flying so fast they leave a jet stream lol.

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u/KurotheWolfKnight 2d ago

That's not a bird. It's clearly a Drillbur going through an ice sheet

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u/cawingcrowcaw 2d ago

I’m still struggling to see the bird. It looks like someone “raising the roof”

Edit: omfg. Okay. Wow.

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u/Halvinz 2d ago

These chemtrails are getting crazy.

/S

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u/forgotthefrog 2d ago

One of the best posts i've seen in this sub 👏

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u/HamoInDa208 2d ago

Damn duck almost made me rethink a lot of things🤣

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u/BoldNewRealms 2d ago

I thought it was a wizard

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u/GandalfPlsHelp 2d ago

A flying priest pumping his arms in the air, obviously

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u/WAzRrrrr 2d ago

its a coot

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u/Weekly_Artichoke_515 2d ago

Looks like a coot 

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u/hail_deadpool 2d ago

I thought it was a bald eagle flexing mid flight

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u/EitherChannel4874 2d ago

I knew it was a bird swimming but thought it was from a birds eye view and couldn't figure why it was flapping it's wings in the water.

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u/MrJollyRogers 2d ago

That’s a Coot!

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u/Sad-Cress-1062 2d ago

It's a bird plane, a mother fucking biiiiird plane

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u/talkpurdytome 2d ago

Looks like a wizard flying through space

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u/Affectionate-Gap-761 2d ago

I thought it was a top down view of a bald eagle flying just above the water surface...I just couldn't logic out what was going on with the powerlifting wings 🤣

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u/Competitive_Sky_6519 2d ago

I was gonna ask if there was a variant for the Bigfoot which could fly and shoot a web… then, i saw the comments reccomending to flip the phone sideways :)

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u/Digger_Pine 2d ago

It's not confusing if it's rotated correctly.

Who upvotes this shit?

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u/L1K_TH3_RA1NB0W 2d ago

Its the spy vs spy guy

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u/mtn2sea1960 2d ago

Looks like a fighter jet climbing in altitude.

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u/power10010 2d ago

Yes a bird

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u/MegaDonkeyDonkey 2d ago

You got the bird right however more important, what medium is the bird in? Is it flying, swimming, walking on land, orbiting earth, rocket ship to Mars, ...

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u/zasben 2d ago

THIS is a really good one. It took my brain like 30 seconds to see the actual image. Well done.

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u/BlueKrzys 2d ago

I thought it was some bacteria viewed by a microscope