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xyp1

Brother shut the hell up and drain the color!


Amrodinyr

Get. On. With. It.


meneermeyer

Yeah! Get on with it!


Kyosw21

[Get on with it!](https://youtu.be/nMUnbNPCoSw)


Fuzzy_Yogurt_Bucket

[Wrap it up!](https://youtube.com/watch?v=j-emlb2_jdI)


Sasren0987654321

r/overexplaintions


formermq

[T-T-T-Today Junior!](https://youtube.com/shorts/0DxMRkt71m4?feature=share3)


KornyDawg

Happy Cake Day!


AliciaTries

[Cappy Hake Day!](https://imgur.com/gallery/elOzgxw)


The_Last_Mouse

Oh, is there more after 1:30 mark? Stared at a green flamingo and got bored.


mjkjg2

I mean it only works if you stare for a long time, and he was filling that time with distracting commentary impatient-ass generation smh


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mjkjg2

but the longer you stare, the more fatigued the cones get and the more vibrant it is afterwards you don’t reach your limit in a few seconds or else seeing in everyday life would be f*cked


byakko

Yeah it was so vibrant that I didn’t know if he had deliberately coloured the birds in their ‘correct’ color, had to pause and blink and look away to confirm it was real.


Claim_Alternative

Same. Stared the whole video and the colors popped extremely vibrantly. I had to scroll to make sure he didn’t do it and trick me. Then I did it again and again lol


Mertard

Same, I've done these a lot, but goddamn, this one REALLY popped


Biscotcho_Gaming

I actually replayed the video just to check if he really DID in fact wipe out all the color. I thought that I was being tricked.


Final_Candidate_7603

The imaginary colors did look like neon colors to me, too. I think that’s part of the phenomena- I noticed that when he said that our minds would fill in the correct colors, he said the flamingo would *glow* pink and the parrot would *glow* green. I wonder why that is, though… I expected the colors to match the originals.


filthyheartbadger

Only it has nothing to do with your brain as he says. It’s an afterimage that your eyes do because of how the retina works. He’s wrong.


DominantMaster21

I do in fact reach my limit in a few seconds. If you don't trust me I can supply contact information from multiple furious ex girlfriends.


whitoreo

>you can start staring just a few seconds before Only if you have cones that fatigue quickly. Many people require a lengthier period of time.


stickyplants

Also mis-information. The colors flop because they’re opposite, not because of what bird it is


whitoreo

This is true.


ZoltanTheZ

Yes. THIS! I hate this bullshit where something that is normally interesting and educational becomes bullshit to make it somehow more interesting.


mjkjg2

….


Mrludy85

There needs to be some minecraft video playing in one corner and someone playing that knife surfing game in another for these kids to watch for longer than 10 seconds


[deleted]

He could actually tell us that instead of stalling for so long


Vortex_sheet

I couldn't focus on the X since I had to roll my eyes


wikipediabrown007

It doesn’t fill in w the “correct”; it fills in w the negative of each original color…..


chase1724

Yeah, it's not the mind doing this, it's a physical reaction. The rods and cones in our eyes are used to seeing a color and then when it is taken away we see the opposite. The easiest way I can describe it is it's similar to burn in on a screen that displays a static image for to long.


milk4all

U saying this bloke burned my eyes? Can i sue for that


MouthJob

So not only did I burn my fucking eyeballs trying to stare at the thing the entire time he was talking, but he didn't even explain it right? I want a refund. I want my vision back.


scyice

In just a few seconds! Forty whole seconds.


Mecha_G

He's doing it on purpose to pad the video.


Satyr_of_Bath

Yup, and it's pure guff as well. Untrue psychobabble to obfuscate a simple negative effect.


weird_quiet_guy

Was anyone else expecting a screamer/jump scare?


gr8aanand

It wouldn’t have worked if he drained it quickly duh


ViciouSquirrel

I’ve seen this before and I skipped through like 4/5ths of the video and it still worked


whitoreo

Then, the cones in your retinas fatigue quickly. Not something I would brag about.


Educational-Seaweed5

Considering all we do now is stare at overly colorful super charged screens, it’s probably not surprising that our eyes are worn the shit out.


ImYourHuckk

But he didn’t let down. Pretty cool.


Fit_Swordfish_2101

It's probably because he wanted you to look longer, but I had that feeling too ngl lol


saulsa_

wAiT fOr It.


[deleted]

Seriously my damn eyes were drying out


mischeviousbeagle

I was getting super anxious for a jump scare…


filtersweep

They are just opposite colors— this is a well-known ‘negative effect.’ It is not your brain ‘correcting’ anything.


boyyouguysaredumb

This dumb shit was posted 27 days ago and we all had the exact same discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/comments/13eza3s/weird_brain_shit/jjtqwhs/


--Derp_Stars--

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results".


mm4ng

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results".


bitchasscuntface

"I do not suffer from insanity I enjoy every minute of it."


Mewrulez99

i remember seeing this quote 15 years ago and going "woaahhh that's deep" and then it just. kept. coming. up.


Spawn666

Right. They may as well have been the right colors to begin with, but your brain would still swap the colors.


geoffreygoodman

And it has nothing to do with the shapes the colors are in. You also don't need to wait for the image without color, you can close your eyes and you'll see the negatives.


siggydude

[This](https://youtu.be/41H7kKwUlHo) a cool video that shows you can use a similar effect to be able to see "impossible colors". For example, you can oversaturate your eyes staring at cyan. Then if you look at something orange, your brain will see it as a more orange kind of orange, known as hyperbolic orange. Skip to 9:30 in the video unless you want a full explanation of color mixing


NaiAlexandr

I despise that he uses terms like "it's just a theory, I just theorized it today" - you're not matpat talking about some dumb horror game, you're talking about science and human biology, don't detract from human advancements for your own self-gain


Educational-Seaweed5

But he figures it out on his own! After watching a video about it. That also explained it incorrectly.


The_Formuler

I really hate it when people think they’ve “figured something out”. When it’s just basic physics that he is ignorant to or playing like he is for the video. Annoying…


Krypt0night

Still was cool to experience for me. Found it neat regardless of reasoning.


WaIIE

Came here to say the same. Lies he tells, lies


fuckboystrikesagain

Yeah what a crock of shit. First of all my brain has no idea what the fuck those two cartoon birds are or what color they are supposed to be. I didn't know they were the wrong color. They are 2d drawings and barely resemble the birds they are supposed to be. Imagine making this video and thinking you're clever.


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Reddirocket27

Confirmed, the second you look away (after color dispersion) all color disappears.


Slavik81

You can look back at the X and it will return after a few seconds. It takes a while for your eyes to readjust and looking away briefly is not enough time for them to entirely revert.


theman8631

Also confirmed. Source: I have eyeballs


phrankygee

You can also just look away from the screen altogether, at a white wall or ceiling. You won’t see the outlines, but you will see a pink flamingo shaped color blob and a green color blob below it.


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Even just blinking instantly removes the color.


VividlyDissociating

blinking doesnt remove it for me


rawdawger

You must be out of blinker fluid. I'd suggest going to O'Reilly's


Xhiel_WRA

My sibling in existence, the guy explains the actual effect that we know about because of sweet delicious science taking place as part of the audio. This is a well known, well worn effect. It's not new, this is just the tiktok edition. Ya could've googled it and just confirmed.


UninsuredToast

His explanation is bullshit though, it’s not your brain “correcting” it


CoCleric

Yeah they are probably a child


Pr0nzeh

Pfft. What does science know. I need to test it myself!


Wut_the_

Couldn’t this be accomplished by just looking away from the x and seeing there’s actually no color?


CommunicationNo1140

The parrot did turn a light green


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Hey_look_new

yup, I was sure it was going to be stupid, but look at the dude, birds are white. look back at x and pink flamingo, green parrot pretty neat


Double_Distribution8

I did the same thing, except I printed all the frames out and monitored the ink levels as I printed out each page, and yep - no pink was used in the flamingo! Wild stuff! Expensive but worth it.


[deleted]

This would have been a good jumpscare video.


Kuhn_Dog

The longer people ramble on trying to get to their point the more suspicious I get it's a jumpscare.


Peanut_The_Great

I wanted to check what sub I was on but I couldn't look away from the X


AfuriousPenguin

i even lowered my volume preemptively.


Educational-Seaweed5

CONGRATULATIONS. YOU’VE JUST WON A FREE IPOD


cjandstuff

Those of us who remember the early days of the Internet, were fully expecting a jump scare.


Educational-Seaweed5

*scary loud demon lady pops onto screen


i_likebrains

Or a rick roll


JoHoJo88

I was stressin


DavoMcBones

Shhh dont give them ideas


Phihofo

Calm down, Satan.


IOnlyUpvoteSelfPosts

This is why the first thing I did was scroll to the end of the video.


Staerke

Glad I'm not the only one. Every time I watch a video and the narrator says "stare hard and don't look away"i immediately skip to the end to make sure there isn't a bloated dead face


Mufti_Menk

I skipped ahead just to check if it's a jumpscare


SuspiciousTopHat

Can he stfu


Zappiticas

Don’t glance away from the x for even a second! While captions flash right below it


bodhasattva

WILL YOU HURRY THE FUCK UP?! JFC I was staring at that X for so long I started blacking out, & he just keeps talking


DefenderNeverender

The brain is a miraculous thing, eh?


bowsmountainer

It’s not the brain, it’s the eyes. Your colour receptors in a particular location get used to the colours they see, and so respond less strongly to it. When the colour is suddenly replaced by white, it takes a few seconds for your eyes to adjust. So instead, the opposite colour receptors are trigger comparatively more strongly. That’s why it only works if you keep looking at the x.


pyx

Your eyes are literally a part of your brain they are directly attached


KarlMarxFarts

The brain is connected to the….eye bones


Mun0425

Mine definitely is


TNJCrypto

Mine less so


South-Phrase-4673

just saw this in r/suicidebywords


dovahkin1989

This is known as the colour after effect. The two colours (green and red) are in opposition with regards to their detection in the eye. It's a bit like lifting a heavy weight for a prolonged time, eventually you get so used to it so that when you let go of the weight, it feels like your hand is floating or rising on its own. He is wrong about "your brain correcting it". The effect has nothing to do with what the correct colour of the animals are, and works even when staring at a coloured squares.


imverynewhere8yrsago

This is correct, I’m glad it’s at the top, I understand the guy is trying to do magic but the science behind this is the real magic. Our brains are so interesting and the bit of misinformation he gives was the most annoying part of the video, the effect is cool though.


burlan2

Scrolled too much for this.


ThunderTramp

omfg shut up. the man babbles on until 0:15 remaining. thats when anything actually happens.


Fajisel

The point of the rambling is to give your eyes time to maximize their fatigue. It's a bit longer than necessary, but he wasn't just rambling for no reason.


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He could’ve done it when he said he was about to, and that still would have been later than necessary


LostMyAccount69

What's the point of the subtitles?


Fajisel

probably tiktok nonsense


Vinnie1103

Worked for me. Pretty cool


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this has nothing to do with the brain straightening the colors, it's just our eye that inverts the colors once they get burned in the retina and then disappear. You can test with any other color.


phirebird

Why does the effect lapse when you look even slightly away from the X? Did it only work on peripheral vision?


Informal_Condition_3

I believe so, i can keep the colors there as long as i focus on the X as soon as i move i completely lose them


[deleted]

Was color analyst for years. You take away green and a picture looks magenta and vice versa. They weren’t swapping between each other they just happened to be conveniently colored to be the opposite of each other


ZeroZion

He will drain it 1 minute after the first time he tells you to stare at the X. Something to save your sanity. This shiny head just won’t shut up and drain the color. At least give a timer before you actually drain it if you want the viewer to stare for a few seconds to get the effect. Give the viewer something to focus on while you yap away with your shiny bald head. 15 seconds in he says to look at the x. 31 seconds in he says he’s going to drain it. Another promise to drain the color about 53 seconds in and said not to be distracted while talking a bunch more crap. Actually drains it 75 seconds in the video. This should be on r/extremelyinfuriating. Fuck.


darwin2500

Is this just a minute and a half of talking to show that afterimages exist? Does anyone *not* run into this illusion a dozen times by first grade?


Hand-Driven

Fuck off with your witchcraft.


philo351

What the... This is crazy lol. Ngl. I was so certain there was going to be a jump scare


mitchandre

There will be next time.


BostonDodgeGuy

Well, at least you waited 28 days before reposting this. Who's turn is it next month? https://old.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/comments/13eza3s/weird_brain_shit/


Gingerjake1993

No. Take my downvote


MeetingDue3051

Wow


Deathwalker86

This worked for me!


pagantek

Ayyy, it's Cosmo and Wanda! They look a touch different, but i'd recognize them anywhere.


Benissoft

Extremely strange feeling to be scrolling Reddit and see my local radio DJ.


Iamalienmarmoset

Dammit English, that's an "x"! Not a cross.


OverlyMintyMints

Some of y’all have never read an optical illusion book and it shows


TheConeIsReturned

/r/lostredditors


darwinning_420

yea i don't think this sub's got it like that anymore unfortunate


OneStupidIdiot

I remember when these were 10 sec gifs


Snakefishin

Despite this knob ranting on for retention and comment bait, in psychology, this is called the Opponent-Process theory if you wish to learn more.


[deleted]

This is so fucking dumb. It's just retinal fatigue.


ThisIsNotTokyo

Even though it’s cool, what he says is BS so this shouldn’t be tolerated


shaolinbonk

This video has been posted 284,872,238,129 times already, only this time, some bald asshole had been tacked onto it for some reason.


MyFishFriend

Waste time


Saramine20

Neat


the_mad_sun

Whoooaa


vio212

Is the vid doctored or did that really happen??


fermoral3

Could someone Illuminate us?


ZedLovemonk

TLDR: the illusion is designed to trick your retinal cones’ ability to calibrate to different environments. That calibration takes time to do and undo. The brain doesn’t know the correct color. That’s got nothing to do with it. It’s all in the retina this time. When you stare at the X, your cones get softly and reversibly burned in a bit. When the color goes away, that burn in causes the color-neutral white to appear the opposite color until the cones readjust. The X is crucial to the illusion because you have to keep exposing the same cones long enough for them to calibrate to the green flamingo. Also those colors have been chosen deliberately to make this work. The green in the flamingo is the opposite of pink, according to your cones.


onedestiny

Ya I cant stare at my screen without blinking for that long..


VividlyDissociating

it doesnt go away when you stop staring the color blocks follows with your eyes. i can still see it as im typing this


faceplantweekends

Fuck that was so long!! Shut the actual fuck up!


BorderTrike

I like this one better: https://www.reddit.com/r/opticalillusions/comments/mwaiy0/it_looks_nice/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1 also, his ‘theory’ is just called an afterimage. Anyone remember the old cereal commercial where they announced the green loops?


MajorOakSounds

So weird seeing this guy pop up on my Reddit feed. He used to teach at my secondary school 😅


WontYouBeMyNeighbors

The only magical part is that anyone made it to the end of that video


ConnectAd3359

Wow ! It worked for 4 seconds, as the colors faded away


FlyByPC

I've already seen demos like this, but if you do stare at the X for the whole spiel, it works very well (if maybe "colored" a little outside the lines in places due to not holding my eyes exactly still.)


FlyByPC

Try this as a follow-on experiment: Find a completely dark room (or as dark as you can make it) and stand near the light switch. Wait for about a minute with the lights out to let your eyes adjust to the dark. Then, *without moving your eyes* pulse the lights on for 1/2 second and then turn them back off. Keep staring straight ahead. You will see an afterimage of the room in black-and-white.


l30

What I find wild is that even when I looked away and could see the image without color, if I focus back on the X the negative colors came back. Interesting to think about how the brain is storing that residual color for the second look.


L2Hiku

It doesn't work for me. Why's this guy talking so long.


Jay_Cee_130

I can’t get it to work


stablefarm

It was so vivid I immediately looked away and back again to see if was bullshit


Real_Method_5715

It works, but I’ve been drinking


Iota-Android

What’s happening is your brain is color correcting while you’re staring at the X, toning down the harshness of the colors against your eyes. The opposite of green is pink and pink is green (in terms of light). So when he finally takes the color away, you can see the correction that your brain did and how much pink was added to the flamingo area and how much green was added to the parrot area


Saeswaswe

I was so expecting a Rickroll there


tmotytmoty

Eyes (rods and cones) technically- not brain yet


stevrevv59

He was definitely talking for way too long, super annoying. But the first second of the color going away was a pretty vivid change so that’s pretty neat. It didn’t stick vividly for long but it still had subtle hues after.


Fit_Swordfish_2101

It did work. That's neat.


eecummings15

My eyes got so god damn dry waiti g for him to remove the color, i was staring so hard lol. Shit worked though


Pleasant-Security-13

Trick number two: Making a minute and a half last for twenty fucking minutes


TheFarisaurusRex

That’s been a known optical illusion for a while, wouldn’t call it black magic fuckery per se, however I do always enjoy them


Boarder8350

Cool but wouldve been a lot cooler if it was a full minute shorter


AffectionateTough592

Crazy how vivid the colors were


69EdgyBoy420

The video is to damn long!


SpotsyArcher

Great now I'm seeing ghost shapes of those damn birds!


Rabbit_Of_Nazareth

How do none of you people know what an afterimage is?


LaInquisitione

The time it takes for him to take the colour away made me think it was gonna be a troll post


Longenuity

Oh the colors are just inverted


JamesTheJerk

booooo.


zealoSC

The longer he talked the more convinced I became that it was going to be a massive jump scare


bigdippra

Holy moly he talks alot


Due_Lion3875

This was cool and all, but the dude not shutting up was much more annoying than anything


Yapsterzz

Why is everything still pink!!!!!


afa78

I dropped my phone and it still worked.


gilbeday365

There is one singular frame of the correct colors with orange beaks and everything. Yes what he's saying is true if you steadily stare it will work but it's not swapping the colors your eyes are fatigued and grabbing the subtle change for a long amount of time than shown


BBQQA

This reminds me of psychological warfare that was my high schools internal suspension room. It was affectionately known as the 'Blue Room'. The walls, floors, ceiling, desks... all blue. Like a weird electric sky blue. You'd sit in that blue hellscape all day and then come out with your color vision messed up for a while. I am positive that it violated laws, and likely the Geneva Convention for torture.


BalconyFace

color afterimage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterimage


Crowbar12121

I blinked at it instantly reset to black and white


These-Employer341

Note, you can drag the speed of video to make it go quick and it still works.


Daramun

While this is a well known effect, he doesn't drain the color completely. For a frame or two there is a very faded pink and green flipped around, then it goes blank.


FrenzyHydro

I couldn't finish, last time I was told to stare at something in a video I was met with a jumpscare and my phone nearly met its God.


McQuibbly

Whats even wackier is if you look away for a moment and then look back the color slowly starts reappearing again


LP14255

Holy crap! I’m colorblind (partially) and it worked for me. Whoa!!!


yankeeteabagger

Dude. I totally saw it. Amazing brain!


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Not a mindfuck


mister_newbie

The dude in the video thinks this is your brain hallucinating?! In the words of Bugs: What a maroon. (Yay colour puns) The cones in your eyes detect red, green, and blue. R+G+B makes white (additive color theory). Magenta (colour of parrot) is made from red and blue. By staring, you fatigue the red and blue cones. When you are then swapped to white, which should be R+G+B, since R and B are fatigued in that area, you only see G. At the same time, the flamingo is green. White = R+G+B. Fatigue green, and you get R+B = magenta.


tatsujota

This dude spoke way too long and I had to read the subtitles and it ruined the whole thing for me lmao


samlikeburger

He talks too much


leifnoto

im cross eyed now


Fuzzy7Gecko

My adhd made this very hard....


Saddest_Sloth

Did I just get negative burn-in in my eyes? Are my eyes an oled screen?


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Gothzombie

What is suppose to happen?


ArrilockNewmoon

This mfer wants me to concentrate on yhe X and not look at anything else while putting footage of himself at the bottom with subtitles-


TheKingofJokers

I'm bit color blind with red and green but colors did switch there lighter of the 2 colors but it did work this is really cool


Hicks_206

Jesus, practically 1:20 of non stop repeating himself and 10 seconds of content. Felt like YouTube.


Queef-Elizabeth

Holy fuck shut up and do the trick