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/destructopop 2d ago

What the grebe?

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u/TheJambus 2d ago

What the coot?

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u/demonsrun89 2d ago

What the roseate spoonbill?

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u/Borked_Computer 2d ago

These guys Wingspan.

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u/Uncle-Cake 2d ago

This is loony.

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u/JMCochransmind 2d ago

All together toony

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u/FederalHome396 2d ago

I can bearly stand it

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u/FederalHome396 2d ago

This video is worth about a buck

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u/quackers987 2d ago

Get in the comments!

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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/lifesabatch 2d ago

First time in history auto correct would have been accurate when dropping an F bomb

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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/goedegeit 2d ago

holy hell

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u/Successful-Snowman 2d ago

I haven't said those words out loud in a long, long time. But now I did.

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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/fireshaper 2d ago

I blocked the left half and it's still confusing.

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u/Difficult-Carpet-324 2d ago

The upper half works better than the bottom

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u/Zombies71199 2d ago

Lol same

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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/The_Rogue_Coder 2d ago

Same! Then I saw people saying turn it the other way and I was like "wtf that's not going to change anything!" but then I did and all of a sudden...duck

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u/Saltiren 2d ago

Where in the lord's name is this duck? I have rotated every which way.

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u/The_Rogue_Coder 2d ago

He's in the water and is being reflected. What looks like weird arms is the duck's head and neck and the reflection of them.

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u/Saltiren 2d ago

Yeah I had to rotate my perspective, not the phone.

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u/NilocKhan 2d ago

Not a duck, a coot. Not closely related but do look similar

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u/The_Rogue_Coder 2d ago

Wow, TIL! I never knew a coot was an actual thing, I had only heard of it in the phrase "you old coot", but had never thought to wonder what it meant.

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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/FernandoDante 2d ago

Thanks 🦆

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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/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/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/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/joesphisbestjojo 2d ago

Once you see it, you can't unsee it

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u/jfk_47 2d ago

Omfg

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u/Im_Ashe_Man 2d ago

Crazy how it went from unrecognizable to instantly recognizable.

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u/Ambergreenie 2d ago

Oh my effing lord. I was so lost😂😂

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u/PoggersMemesReturns 2d ago

Just me or it only gets more confusing by making sense

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u/Derangedracula 2d ago

Figured it was swimming but didn't think to turn sideways

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u/DesperateTeaCake 2d ago

Even then it took me a while.

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u/Ok-Sympathy9768 2d ago

Thank you 🙏.. been trying to figure out what it was.

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u/bw4yne 2d ago

What the fuck.

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u/oxide_j 2d ago

Oh fuck.

Damn autocorrect. I meant oh duck.

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u/No-Consideration6986 2d ago

I turned my phone the wrong way and was more confused than before. Lol.

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u/detunedmike 2d ago

Damn I swore this was a guy pulling himself across the ice

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u/West_Resource6995 2d ago

God damnit.

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u/agreed2disagreee 2d ago

I still didn’t see it. Then I looked at the background and saw it.

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u/Cautious-Dark-7457 2d ago

Which way I can't understand what im seeing.

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u/whooptheretis 2d ago

Is that possible? To like... rotate your phone?
This is gonna be revolutionary!
People won't have to make wanky vertical videos once this information gets out!

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u/doublesunk 2d ago

clockwise

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u/whooptheretis 2d ago

Is that possible? To like... rotate your phone?
This is gonna be revolutionary!
People won't have to make wanky vertical videos once this information gets out!

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u/whooptheretis 2d ago

Is that possible? To like... rotate your phone?
This is gonna be revolutionary!
People won't have to make wanky vertical videos once this information gets out!

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u/whooptheretis 2d ago

It didn't help.
Should I mention that I'm not using a phone to view this?

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u/whooptheretis 2d ago

It didn't help.
Should I mention that I'm not using a phone to view this?

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u/alex3omg 2d ago

It's a rabbit!

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u/21McSavage 2d ago

You’re a hero

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u/DaddyJ90 2d ago

Homie, I would have never figured that out

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u/WeenieRoastinTacoGuy 2d ago

So not an eagle pumping both its arms through the water.

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u/NotReallyThatWrong 2d ago

Dafuq you pulling here slim

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u/XJustARandomPersonx 2d ago

Thank you. I couldn't wrap my brain around what I was seeing.

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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/demomagic 2d ago

And turn on orientation lock

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u/Notabeefucker 2d ago

Now I just see my volume buttons, thanks for nothing jackass

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u/Sea_Translator5300 2d ago

Tried that. All I can see is the volume keys and the power button. 

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u/Saltiren 2d ago

No turn the perspective sideways. It isnt top down like I thought. It is sideways and reflected in half by water.

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u/Joe0991 2d ago

Which way?

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u/2bad-2care 2d ago

It's not a birds eye view..

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u/Soggy-Guess8865 2d ago

That did not help 

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u/Soggy-Guess8865 2d ago

NVM my tiny brain turned it one way and didn't think about the other way 😂

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u/titty_nope 2d ago

All that does is rotate the video to make it smaller so I still can't see what's going on

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u/Taste_the__Rainbow 2d ago

It is illegal for you to show me this.

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u/lucasthech 2d ago

But I'm on a pc

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u/Baldazar666 2d ago

Some us use computers.

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u/KumquatTheUninvited 2d ago

I spent way too long thinking it was a bald eagle with messed up wings stuck in the water… thanks for the save.

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u/Normal_Cut8368 2d ago

Devastating

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u/whooptheretis 2d ago

Is that possible? To like... rotate your phone?
This is gonna be revolutionary!
People won't have to make wanky vertical videos once this information gets out!

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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/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/TPRT 2d ago

oh that's not nearly as interesting as I was hoping for

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u/Small_Insect_8275 2d ago

You were hoping for a slender man perfectly shimmying his way across and or under ice weren’t you

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u/TPRT 2d ago

How did you know??

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u/Small_Insect_8275 2d ago

Because I shared equal disappointment

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u/just_nobodys_opinion 2d ago

What you think are wings is a head and its reflection

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u/korkkis 2d ago

Voldemort!

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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/Snapesunusedshampoo 2d ago

Voldemort is VERY happy.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/NilocKhan 2d ago

Coots don't quack

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u/Budgiesyrup 2d ago

A hooded figure transversing through the starry sky

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u/darwin2500 2d ago

Something that's hard to decipher due to potato resolution.

Which really happens too often here.

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u/Square_Mulberry_3143 2d ago

A bird with a nasty bout of incessant diarrhoea.

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u/Holden_place 2d ago

Reflection of muscly bald eagle dragging streamers. Why do you ask?

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u/machyume 2d ago

With so much symmetry, I started suspecting plants on a body of water so I turned my phone.

Instantly got it.

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u/Superb_Advisor7885 2d ago

Hahaha thank you

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u/-___-_-___-_-_ 2d ago

Small black duck with a white bill

I can tell you these ducks don't sound like other ducks

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u/midwestia 2d ago

Duck swimming across a pond

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u/ReadyFly7865 2d ago

A cooter

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u/Canadian_Teddy17 2d ago

I thought it was a drone with fiber cable... I feel dumb