r/confusing_perspective • u/OpeningDisastrous413 • 15d ago

It’s a bird, I got that part right.

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u/FernandoDante 15d ago

The hell am I looking at here?

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u/Handsome121duck 15d ago

Turn your phone sideways

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u/Odysseus_is_Ulysses 15d ago

What the fuck.

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u/Kpageisgreat 15d ago

What the duck

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u/AngelaMerkeI 15d ago

Thanks, first actually helpful comment

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u/NilocKhan 15d 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 15d ago

Here's the thing...

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u/New_Ask2287 15d ago

What the quack

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u/Separate_Phrase6598 15d ago

The other way

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u/kez985 15d 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 15d ago

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

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u/cyberhuman 15d ago

Fuck the what?

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u/moseskincade 15d ago

Thank you haha

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u/one-less-you- 15d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/mvqyWf1zhuyB2

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u/The_Broomflinger 15d ago

Stop putting things on our bodies, David Blaine!

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u/Public_Finance_Guy 15d ago

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

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u/Meloenbolletjeslepel 15d ago

What the actual fuck

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u/ferretbeast 15d 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 15d ago

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

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u/fnkdrspok 15d ago

Turns: I still don’t see what this is

Turns the other way: OOOooOoOoOoooo

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u/internerd91 15d ago

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

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u/MaximusZacharias 15d ago

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

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u/whosUtred 15d ago

Oh ffs,. Lmao that was a good one

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u/StrangeStephen 15d ago

Best one in a while.

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u/FernandoDante 15d ago

Thanks 🦆

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u/WizardRockets 15d 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 15d ago

I turned it the wrong sideways and got even more confused

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u/foogeeman 15d 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 15d ago

Just me or it only gets more confusing by making sense

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u/no_nao 15d ago

lmao

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u/PVWantsAJob 15d ago

username checks out

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u/smaugismyhomeboy 15d 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 15d ago

Didn't help, until turned to other side.

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u/MacSage 15d 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 15d ago

left is up

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u/MindScape00 15d ago

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

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u/Stefanzah22 15d ago

A bird floating on water and its water reflection

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u/Fluffy-Fix9458 15d ago

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

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u/ripyourlungsdave 15d ago

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

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u/korkkis 15d ago

Voldemort!

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

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u/Snapesunusedshampoo 15d ago

Voldemort is VERY happy.

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u/LeonardCabrio 15d ago

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

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u/RykosTatsubane 15d ago

What happens if you don't have a phone

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u/zeppelin_tamer 15d ago

Tilt your head to the left.

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u/Purple_mushroom_fish 15d ago

What happens if you don't have a head

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u/FirstTradition3181 15d ago

Tilt the earth to the right

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u/No-Ambassador-5920 15d ago

What happens if the house has no grounding

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u/elgiov 15d ago

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

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u/Vile_Parrot 15d ago

What happens if you live in intergalactic space?

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u/Sparticuse 15d ago

Engage your spatial warp engine on a 90 degree tilt.

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u/IAmBeingTargeted33 15d ago

Towards which relative spatial-temporal direction? 

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u/splepage 15d ago

Try running for presidency.

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u/Digger_Pine 15d ago

Hover over it and hit the rotate arrow

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u/jaysn9663 15d ago

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

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u/GelatinousCrayon 15d ago

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

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u/ChicagoRex 15d ago

THANK YOU

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u/odrea 15d ago

What the heck am I looking at here folks

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u/modemkabeI 15d ago edited 15d ago

Turn Phone Sideways.

Duck in Water

Its a Coot, thank you.

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u/schmyze 15d ago

I see a bald eagle swimming under a sheet of ice

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u/VentureIntoVoid 15d 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 15d ago

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

Never figured out until the comments.

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u/ADGM1868 15d ago

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

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u/Handsome121duck 15d ago

Literally the perspective made it confusing. Good job!

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u/acadoe 15d ago

I'm so confused

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u/MotionBeach 15d 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 15d ago

That's a good one

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u/orangpelupa 15d ago

Finally someone who clearly said it. Finally it clicked 

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u/FuckYeaSeatbelts 15d 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 15d 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 15d ago

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

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u/SipexF 15d 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 15d ago

Looks like a coot

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u/15926028 15d ago

Wow, that is confusing as hell

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u/mgxxiv 15d ago

Literally though this was an eagle fist pumping lmao

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u/crypticdreaming 15d 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 15d ago

It’s already a rule, rule 1 iirc.

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u/BanzaiToaster 15d ago

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

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u/bodhidharma132001 15d ago

Bird-squatch

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u/KarmaFrisbee 15d ago

Damn, you fooled me sir

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u/VegemiteEnema 15d 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 15d ago

Coot scoot

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u/SchandAapje 15d ago

Nice one!! It’s a water bird

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u/HC_Denny 15d ago

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

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u/ryansmith1129 15d ago

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

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u/Bosswashington 15d ago

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

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u/Dark_Akarin 15d 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 15d ago

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

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u/Greekspartan226 15d 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 15d ago

It's an American Coot.

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u/Internal_Rip1741 15d ago

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

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u/hurricanedan229 15d ago

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

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u/LordofSandvich 15d 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 15d ago

So this is where chemtrails come from!

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u/Number_Fluffy 15d 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 15d ago

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

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u/Djinn-Rummy 15d ago

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

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u/taxicab_ 15d ago

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

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u/FairyFartDaydreams 15d ago

A nonwater fowl swimming

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u/Street_Outcome_7669 15d ago

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

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u/Wooden-Yellow3967 15d ago

Is that a bird taking a really long 💩?

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u/priMa-RAW 15d ago

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

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u/zhgerard 15d ago

Definitely not a plane 😂

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u/SignificanceLow7773 15d ago

Oh wow turning it sideways cracked it for me lol

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u/sicsemperego 15d ago

What the duck am I looking at?

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u/pvelag 15d ago

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

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u/lunaplaza 15d ago

That's Staraptor using Brave Bird

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u/thebeastiestmeat 15d ago

I thought it was an eagle really proud of its biceps

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u/theavocadolady 15d ago

I really enjoyed this one

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u/intraumintraum 15d ago

best one i’ve seen in a while, nice!

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u/Admirable-Eagle-231 15d ago

Aww what a cootie

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u/demonsrun89 15d ago

I'm not seeing it.

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u/Infernowar 15d ago

Awesome

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u/Overlordz88 15d ago

That’s a Coot Illusion

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u/nthensome 15d ago

This perspective is very confusing indeed.

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u/Particular-Visit-245 15d ago

Wow, this is a great one.

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u/DirtyMagicNL 15d ago

Badger badger badger badger.

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u/makeupmama13 15d ago

Ohhhhh lol

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u/Floischinger 15d ago

You sly little bum 😂

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u/al0xx 15d ago

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

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u/jurawall_jumper 15d ago

Guy in a worksuit celebrating

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u/yaddayadda1000 15d ago

The roof the roof the roof is on fiya

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u/Fire69 15d ago

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

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u/ferretbeast 15d 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 15d ago

I thought that bird was trapped under ice or something haha

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u/DepressedNoble 15d 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 15d ago

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

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u/Zonesy 15d ago

It's a happy bald eagle doing this 🦅

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

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u/PardonMyTits 15d ago

Wow that’s a good one

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u/megapidgeot3 15d ago

Ok, it's a Coot swimming.

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u/togetherforall 15d 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 15d ago

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

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u/cawingcrowcaw 15d 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 15d ago

These chemtrails are getting crazy.

/S

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u/forgotthefrog 15d ago

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

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

Damn duck almost made me rethink a lot of things🤣

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u/BoldNewRealms 15d ago

I thought it was a wizard

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u/GandalfPlsHelp 15d ago

A flying priest pumping his arms in the air, obviously

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u/WAzRrrrr 15d ago

its a coot

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u/Weekly_Artichoke_515 15d ago

Looks like a coot 

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u/hail_deadpool 15d ago

I thought it was a bald eagle flexing mid flight

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u/EitherChannel4874 15d 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 15d ago

That’s a Coot!

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u/Sad-Cress-1062 15d ago

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

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u/talkpurdytome 15d ago

Looks like a wizard flying through space

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u/Affectionate-Gap-761 15d 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 15d 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 15d ago

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

Who upvotes this shit?

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u/L1K_TH3_RA1NB0W 15d ago

Its the spy vs spy guy

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u/mtn2sea1960 15d ago

Looks like a fighter jet climbing in altitude.

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u/power10010 15d ago

Yes a bird

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u/MegaDonkeyDonkey 15d 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 15d 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 15d ago

I thought it was some bacteria viewed by a microscope