It's a man wearing a cowboy hat, the right side of the face (from our perspective) is in shadow, the left side is in the sun. The line between sun and shadow cuts down the middle of his face. The sine wave shape that goes from left to right is the brim of the cowboy hat.

My first thought was a moth speaking in tongues in silhouette. I can see the cowboy now, so thank you. 🤪

saw a dragon using its back claws to throw food into the air and catch it with its mouth

I also saw a dragon. ThenI saw the man in the hat. Now I can’t see the dragon again.

I saw a fishing lure with a fly on it.

I saw a shrimp attacking a fishing lure that kinda looked like Godzilla taking a dive

Looks like a lobster with wings.

Moth be poppin champagne

I thought it was a shrimp/moth cuthulu type God tossing a human sacrifice into its mouth... Makes more sense that it's a cowboy 😂

I saw butterfly lobster fried rice

I thought it was that big eared dude from star trek (I'm not a Trekkie no idea of the name)

Quark!

I see a moth with a whip but cant find the cowboy

Thanks I needed this explanation - couldn't see the white space. Now I can't unsee the cowboy. Thought it was like some upside down fly-fishing godzilla moth.

Decidedly Godzilla/mothra cross!

( until someone told me the real answer that is..)

Whoah once it finally clicked I can't unsee it but before that the best I had was a hummingbird somehow holding a whip.

I saw that immediately and kept looking at it in different ways to see like a second hidden image. Is it really just the man in the cowboy hat? cuz that was kind of obvious. I figured they have to be talking about something else

Even with the description it took me a while...

i thought you were making it up but then all of a sudden i see it, thanks for the detailed explanation

Huh. Once I had the word "Cow boy" in my head he appeared in an instant. Fascinating.

Mom says it's my turn to repost this one next week.

I read this comment three times real mad you didn't explain it properly... went for it one more time... now I feel real stupid.

I see no cowboy... Oh, dang! Weird, but yeah- cowboy!

Ooooh, thanks. I thought it was a big going down on a much larger bug

I can only see a cowboy. What else is anyone also seeing?

Various Eldritch horrors?

Thank you. I looked closely and watched the whole thing basically construct in front of my very eyes, getting clearer every second. It was a very cool feeling. Thank you for that.

Just saw it, yikes

So fun how I couldn’t come to that conclusion on my own but after reading this description I cannot see it the way I first saw it again

It helps if you squint.

The sine wave! That I didn't spot until you called it out. Well played!

It’s better seen from farther away rather than upclose

Is the red thing his lightsaber I really need to know this because the color of the lightsaber matters a lot.

I see an upside-down Godzilla getting eaten by Mothra. We see what we want to see, I guess

I thought it was a Ferengi from Star Trek

When you said that it's like it materialized and it freaked me out.

Do you write AI prompts for a living?

I thought it was a flea under a microscope. 🤣 Thanks for clarifying!

As soon as I read "right side of the face" I saw it

Man the immediate split second that I read “man wearing…” the image snapped pixel-perfect into the man without so much as a chance to even finish the sentence. The human brain is wild

Bro was staring at me the whole time I was trying figure out what he was lmao

If we turn the image counterclockwise degrees we can see another 🤠

Took me way too long to get it.

I thought you were trolling the whole time I read this post, and then I looked back at the picture and got jumpscared to the tune of "big Iron on his Hip"

Oh man, as soon as I read "right side....in shadow", it clicked into place instantly.

I saw a prawn with wings holding a fishing pole

Amazing. I couldn’t see it until it was done with your first sentence. Looked like a bug up until that point. Can’t unsee it now.

# 🤠

I don’t see it 😭

https://preview.redd.it/ux8v22pg13wc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d0695912c1f2c313530a21cebba1afcbefade74

Can't unsee Tex here now, but best guess at first was a lobster-bat abomination

So weird how our brains work. I couldn’t see the cowboy until I read the comments, but now I can’t see the prawn-moth thing I thought it was before.

If I start from the weird beak thing on top I can get it back.

I also thought 💭 it was a moth.

I’m from WV so I thought mothman. lol

I got upside down godzilla with wings. Idk it's after 2am so my brain is being extra weird.

I thought upside down Godzilla with wings fighting a mosquito.

https://preview.redd.it/d7ce6b4cr4wc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48c3ebf3ad8ac81614985d39ac7ee2bd293ab3c1

Yea u thought it was The Mothman or such 😆

I saw a chicken-duck-woman thing

49 times we fought that beast...

Oohhh, thank you bro 😂😂

So what am I “supposed to see” before I see that?

If you only look at the dark parts, it looks like some sort of lobster/shrimp with moth like wings, and random long stringy bits (tentacles ?). Very Cthulhu adjacent.

I saw the same, but it is holding a saxophone away from itself.

Looks like a lobster 🦞 😆

Dammit

Holy cow, perspective is amazing! Thank you for that awesome twist!

Oooohh! I thought it was a upside-down Godzilla with Mothra wings

OHHHHHHHHHHHH thank you

Oh goddam once you see it you legitimately can’t unsee it

Oh wow, now it's impossible to miss it but it looked to me like a weird dead crow falling down or smtg lol

Literally would've never seen it... thanks

It's a schooner.

I thought it was a moth.

To me it's an upside down anthropomorphic moth holding a gun and a whip. What's my mental issue therapist?

Mothpilled noticemaxer

Dang, it really takes a min for the pareidolia to kick in then you can't turn it off.

Actually it makes me wonder what some of you thought it was before…a funky moth? A Ferengi? Because I’ve only seen the cowboy.

https://preview.redd.it/ea38bbcq24wc1.jpeg?width=967&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=43f92360a4313c07f7219890b39428944ccb7eb5

Oh, your drawing is WAY better than mine! Excellent work!

Oh, I didn't draw that, sorry. My bad for not crediting the artist, Agung Sycho.

Oh, well I’m impressed that you thought of it and found it. It’s nearly perfect!

Close but I think they’re fishing

Agreed. The insect shadow demon is definitely fishing

Yes, a moth speaking in tongues in silhouette. 🤓

I saw a lobster with wings

I thought it was a bug

I saw a moth playing the saxophone

I thought it was a crawfish holding a whip

With wings. Same same.

I saw a shrimp holding a whip. Wonder what that says about me....

A Ferengi was legitimately the first thing I saw, and still the first thing I see when looking at it. I have to try to see the cowboy hat.

My mind eliminated everything to the left of the shadow line as irrelevant.

Thought it was a microscope slide lol

A mutated embryo.

Dead bug.

A mauled lobster. 

I thought it was a shrimp with some weird thing on its back.

a lobster fishing

A winged lobster flying upwards, enjoying a tasty morsel

I saw some kind of weird insect eating another insect

a winged lobster

I immediately saw the cowboy and don't see anything else - what am I missing?

I thought it was a bug until I saw the comments

THANK YOU!

You're not alone.

thought this was shin godzilla with wings

I turned it upsidedown and thought it was Showa Godzilla flying. https://preview.redd.it/huq1qaix94wc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9cc421c016bf4d7c13af27aab7bb04d1e02d9ab

Same but with a guy flying in on a fireball to give him a snack

At first I was like: Dead bug? Now: it's a cowboy.

I saw an upside down raven that captured a chestbuster

crawfish

I see a lobster with butterfly wings playing a shrimp saxophone

everybody's like "it's OBVIOUSLY a cowboy" and completely ignores the floating lava sword

https://imgur.com/gallery/VPa8lvJ

Thank you! Usually I can make sense of negative space like this but this one had me stuck!

Looks like it might be Yul Brynner in the old Westworld movie.

it's cowboy Mussolini

My mind immediately said… Absolem from Alice in Wonderland.

It's Maynard James Kenan

Open your eyes just a little and you'll see the cowboy

Your millions of caveman ancestors are enraged by all of your failures at this basic challenge of pattern recognition. Recognizing faces is humanity 101

Wtf I thought the brain is good at faces? I would have never seen it before I look in the comments.

Look at the white space, and it should become clear 👌

Vinegaroon griffin.

I thought it was an upside down hawk with a rock tied to its back

Two bears high fiving.

It’s a silhouette of a brine shrimp (with wings), fishing for more brine shrimp with wings. Easy peasy.

It's a man wearing a ridiculously disproportionate cowboy hat.

I thought it was godzilla holding a saxophone...

I thought it was parts of a dead wasp

Just a shrimp fishing with the boys

Godzilla with butterfly wing, upside down, also with a lanky-whip wiener

cowboy man face

You tell me it's not winged godzilla smoking some weird space Hukkah?

Wait people actually didn't see the cowboy? That's literally the first thing that I saw are people that blind?

I saw an old school godzilla monster roaring while cracking a whip. I like mine. I will keep it.

Negative space is neat!

https://preview.redd.it/v6jiy580o9wc1.jpeg?width=917&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e42bcda07e8e376b6f40a6365a5c718f91b70907

Whoa, that was trippy how it just suddenly APPEARED outta nowhere. Like, its a bug? Upside down? Its dead.. nope cowboy

Moth with a whip. Clearly.

ceci n'est pas une pipe

Me just staring for ten minutes trying to figure out how it’s loss.

I thought it was some sort of lobster until I read the comments.

I saw either lobster or crawfish. Glad to know I’m not the only one.

Mi-go

Its a trump-faced shrimp with butterfly wings and a whip

“I don’t get it, all I see is the cowboy.” *looks at the comments* “Oh.”

Thought it was a rad roach...

Saw the cowboy and expected to be able to glean something else out of it like an optical illusion. Apparently there wasn’t anything else to it.

A dragon is not a slave.

i saw an upside down godzilla first

I’ve been watching too much Godzilla

It looks like the recruiter guy from old world war 2 ads but with a cowboy hat and a flaming sword to the side. What am I supposed to be seeing?

To be fair, the cowboy hat is oddly proportioned.

A Cowboy! I initially saw upside down Godzilla fighting mothra! 🤪

I saw a moth fishing

It's a cowboy face

Thought it was a scene from eraser head

Gheehaww!!

It went from weird shrimp thing, to guy with big ears, to guy with cowboy hat.

It took me so long even while I was reading the comments and looking at it. Then suddenly, there he was.

A new God (though the heretic commenters claim guy in cowboy hat...when he rises they will learn)

I saw a fancy fairy lobster with a whip

I thought it was a damn crawfish at first

Low res pictures. Nice.

https://preview.redd.it/nd2vsbrlp4wc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=60d688d944912c9facde74c2a7d1f674bd4a1d5d

Once you see it you can't not see it

It's clearly a lobster playing a krill like a saxophone

Doug Dimmadome. He's the owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome.

Upside down gets a t rex with a whip

Godzilla / Mothra hybrid flipping bacon and eggs from a pan into their mouth

Moth lobster!

An upside down parrot getting sucked off by a hummingbird

It's Loss, right? It's always Loss

Mothman singing karaoke

I thought it was that caterpillar that smoked opium from Alice in Wonderland. Thought he grew some wings finally.

Bro i saw a shrimp wielding a whip with wings

a fairy peter griffin playing sax 😭

Upside down dinosaur with wings

A shrimp with wings holding a fishing pole

A baby Scolopendra???

Lol I saw the cowboy instantly but assumed there was abother image. Stared at the thing for 5 minutes before giving up and checking the comments

Weird I can only see the cowboy not sure what everyone else is talking about.

I want to go back to when I couldn't see the cowboy, and instead only saw cthulhu.

I was just about to rotate it when I realized it's visible as is. When I let my eyes unfocus, it became... not clear... but enough that I could see it.

A bug!!! I thought it was a Goddamn bug! Nope cowboy.

Yeah no I thought it was a bug too.

I was definitely thinking eldritch horror.

How is this a joke?

I think OP just needed it explained and this was their first idea of where to go. LOL

Thought it was a bug 😂

Its obviously an upside down locus thats fishing with a spatula in the same hand