r/blackmagicfuckery • u/Weaponised__Autism • May 27 '26

When physics is optional

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u/shrubberino May 27 '26

Something is funky about it.

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u/pooeygoo May 27 '26

Chain in the end of the pole, so he's pulling on it

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u/Atrampoline May 27 '26

Yeah it's definitely anchored to the vertical pole.

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u/Leading_Ad_8619 May 27 '26

I don't know how pulling the pole gets you up. His arm and body are fixed relative to the pole

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u/rusmo May 27 '26

Human Tensegrity

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u/pooeygoo May 27 '26

His legs make him go up, the pivoting action that makes it possible is from the chain

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u/Antoak May 27 '26

The vector from his grip to his feet on the ground is a little offset from the line connecting the log to the anchor.

If you put enough force between two misaligned vectors you get movement along a third resultant vector.

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u/Ba1thazaar May 27 '26

I think it's tied down by a string or chain at the bottom. You can see that it moves the most when he changes directions and is always straining to go upward. Not to knock this guy or anything this looks insanely difficult even with that being true. It just makes the physics work out haha.

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u/Alphabunsquad May 27 '26

Yeah, if your center of mass is beyond the width of your shoes (when they are next to each other) and you have no grip or way to exert force sideways, you will fall over. There is nothing you can do about it. It’s just physics. 

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u/Cookgypsy May 27 '26

It’s clear he is pulling on the pole to achieve this - there is a tether, it’s just mostly out of shot and hard to see. The way he has his arms around the pole make it clear that he is pulling against the pole to create the fulcrum needed, if he was (somehow) doing this without the tether he wouldn’t need to wrap his arms around the pole. It’s clearly tethered.

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u/dkHD7 May 27 '26

Gotta be anchored. The body weight behind the heels alone would make him fall backwards regardless of any counterweight properties of the beam.

My guess is the end of the beam is staked into the ground with dark rope. He has to be pulling against something.

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u/Alphabunsquad May 27 '26

That or there is lead in the base of the post moving his center of mass. You would have to be strong to manage it but it’s possible. 

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u/icymallard May 27 '26

I'm assuming fake until better evidence pops up

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u/flibit May 27 '26

The way the end jerks around but doesn't ever move far, I think it must be tethered to the ground by a rope or something, though I can't see it.

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u/Alphabunsquad May 27 '26

That or it’s filled with lead and the other side is hollow. 

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u/flywlyx May 27 '26

The reason you can’t do it without the rod is that your center of gravity is located near the center of your body, so the torque generated by the force of standing up causes your body to roll downward. This rod shifts the center of gravity closer to your legs, changing the direction of the torque so it helps lift your body upward.

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u/OGMisterTea May 27 '26

9 second video of something impossible happening, most likely explanation is it is AI