- It seems like the internet provides us with a new, baffling optical illusion every day.
- On Saturday, a Twitter user posted a video of a stream of traffic seemingly disappearing as it turns a corner into a river.
- Needless to say, people were confused, but the answer is simple: the cars were driving into a parking lot and the “river” was its wet roof.
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Optical illusions are everywhere, and the internet is rife with examples of images and videos people couldn’t quite figure out on first sight. On Saturday, a Twitter user introduced another real-world video that confused the masses.
Twitter user @DannyDutch posted a video of cars seemingly disappearing as they drive off of a bridge. Here’s the video in question:
Yes, the traffic just disappears. pic.twitter.com/XPcGrzadu5
— Daniel🎗🏴 ॐ (@DannyDutch) June 29, 2019
“Yes,” wrote @DannyDutch, “the traffic just disappears.” Of course, people were confused. In attempting to understand what, exactly, they were seeing, Twitter users hypothesized the traffic was finding its way into the world of Harry Potter.
Going to Hogwarts
— Che Bhai (@chebhai1) June 30, 2019
They'll all probably wind up on Diagon Alley. #HarryPotter
— Vasant Subramanian (@VasantS10) July 1, 2019
Others assumed the traffic was finding its way into another dimension or universe.
https://twitter.com/kaithebeaurusso/status/1144997188616912898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfwhttps://twitter.com/anusha_srini/status/1145094515818029056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
They are not so secretly testing teleportation technology through the use of controlled wormholes that were accidentally discovered by the Large Hadron Collider. All were volunteers and a few actually made it back to the lab nearly in the same shape that they left in. pic.twitter.com/OwSKuMfwVk
— Oh, THAT Robert :0) (@Robert00696780) June 30, 2019
Others were simply confused.
Seriously... pic.twitter.com/BWf3od9iJk
— VS (@WinAaYak) June 30, 2019
Ultimately, Twitter figured out that the bridge in question was not a bridge at all. The "bridge" is a normal road, and what looks like a river below is actually the roof of a parking lot these cars were driving into - the video was shot from above.
https://twitter.com/ab041937/status/1145021534517358593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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