Shocking illusion - Pretty celebrities turn ugly!

tangenlab.com
Tangen, J. M., Murphy, S. C., & Thompson, M. B. (2011). Flashed face distortion effect: Grotesque faces from relative spaces. Perception, 40, 628-630 doi:10.1068/p6968

[@shockadelic]

"These faces have not been altered" At least 40 plastic surgeons would dispute that

[@TJ-fg3vs]

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[@connorpaulsen4414]

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[@braindeadtroglodyte2973]

oof

[@ursidae97]

I have unlocked my brain's content aware scale.

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[@mohammedaafrinhabid9779]

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[@sveeny]

Fantastic comment 😅

[@M3Lucky]

so hard to keep my eyes focused on the cross though

[@offchan]

M3Lucky When you feel like the face is ugly, you try to look at the face and see that it is not ugly. I know the feel.

[@yeakitkat]

+Chanchana Sornsoontorn (Off) OMG Yes! My eyes keep moving

[@betseyolsennamjoon8969]

I threw my phone because of the spider profile pic.

[@desireerarama5826]

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[@janiceloi5842]

me too

[@GaelMaisBiel-dr2hb]

Muito obrigado cellbit, por me traumatizar. Alguém mais veio pelo balela?!

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[@waankerdanker]

It's hard to focus on a cross when a demon staring at you

[@dakotan9310]

That's when you need to focus on a cross most

[@sarov7658]

That's why the cross is there 😀

[@sonteguh]

Honestly i can't sleep good after this 🫠

[@mmcc2852]

when you look at them again they look "normal"

[@Benjavaz]

Damn that was actually kind of scary. Some of them appeared faceless, while others had distorted or terrifying facial features.

[@w花b]

Some looked like they were under a bright light

[@mrliner8273]

For me their eys just became abnormally huge

[@0.towa._.towa.0]

@@mrliner8273 same one looked like an alien

[@Zeex2k6.]

Their chin became bigger, damn 💀

[@iihxneyd3wii]

They looked distorted or like a doll from the 1800s or something

[@Drinapropriatetouch]

Thats fascinating, to me it really looks like they've transformed into a caricature of themselves.

[@chadangeles3856]

Exactly

[@aliasofanalias7448]

Never done mushrooms? That's exactly what happens lol

[@UploaderOfGoodMusic]

They start to look like demonic caricatures... Like I was suddenly thrust into a horrific mushroom trip and the only thing melting was the faces of celebrities. Ghastly.

[@TheInfamousLadyK51]

UploaderOfGoodMusic lmaoooo! I laughed so hard at this! Like seriously tho this is what I would expect a bad trip to feel like 😂😂😂😂

[@mrmaniac3]

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[@redbeast7055]

They are like a vampire

[@saltwater7366]

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[@konajisenta7784]

@@saltwater7366 my reaction: a wild ghastly appeared random little boy: look its a dinosaur

[@PedroHenrique-ky5ny]

To aqui por causa do Balelao com o CELLBIT

[@pudimjogando1198]

Eu também

[@LuizMiguel-bq4lp]

tmj

[@lorenzoseabra635]

Idem

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[@kimberlyrocha9162]

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[@nick3035]

Valeu cellbit, talvez eu tenha pesadelos :)

[@bubbl3andsqu3ak]

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[@felipetransador]

Balelão 🙏🏻

[@itsmiguel8274]

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[@vex2592]

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[@bolodeuvaa]

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[@creativename2567]

KZbin recomenda coisa aleatoria pra quem ve coisa aleatoria.

[@paulovinicius5473]

Alguém enviou pra ele numa live, eu tava no dia

[@feltrin9401]

Ele viajou pro futuro e assistiu o balela dele mesmo

[@luisotaviomury5874]

Já é clássico na gringa. Um monte de youtuber conhece.

[@CaptainGiratina]

THERE ARE NO FACES

[@Eden--]

I see a Local 58 fan here

[@somthing9723]

*D O N O T S E E A D O C T O R*

[@conswizzy710]

lay on the ground, face up

[@sabussy212]

Treeleaf123 LOOK AT THE MOOOON or don’t OR DOOOO

[@uncomfortablyoversizedbrea6347]

ONLY MISERY

[@katycrisz]

VIM PELO BALELA Mds q troço estranho, amei

[@tux1468]

It looks like somebody used the Photoshop liquify tool on them

[@fuzzyotterpaws4395]

Unedited my ass

[@i-am-a-pear]

Look at the video again without looking at the cross

[@gunman46100]

Many of the faces look super weird even without the illusion.

[@robinsss]

Halle Berry is pretty but here she looks grotesque

[@fuzzyotterpaws4395]

Unedited my ass

[@pernilladomander7648]

Wrong gendered skulls and bones that's why.

[@Idkwhats_goingontbh]

​@@fuzzyotterpaws4395look at it without looking at the cross

[@giovannareis6457]

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[@kidomaru8741]

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[@shaycosta1893]

Isso é assustador

[@B-Century]

when you look away from the cross and quickly glance at the image.....

[@franchescaarevalos5153]

I did the same thing creppy how it fixed it slf.

[@unrepentantjaegerist7236]

@@franchescaarevalos5153 creepy*

[@yourlastbraincellwia5663]

lia raizel *creepy

[@twister356]

I had to restart it like 6 times it was so weird

[@fuzzyotterpaws4395]

@@yourlastbraincellwia5663 you put the asterisk after

[@DamianReloaded]

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! So these is where caricaturist portraits come from our brain is so weird! XD

[@Davirone]

Eu sei, você veio pelo Balela.

[@jubernardi880]

vim pelo melhor podcast: o Balela

[@ericcampos6209]

Os meninos do balela me fizeram vir aqui

[@skeome]

This brought me insight on how tripping on psychedelics works. The reason the faces distort is because the image is changed before your brain can take in the details and the effects add up as your brain falls farther behind. Also the fact that it's in your peripheral vision. Through personal experience, visual distortions seem to be more prevalent in your peripherals. In sober day to day life I've also noticed visual distortions in my peripherals when I start to zone out and stare at one spot. I don't have an explanation on why we see patterns in psychedelics though, maybe that everything in nature is made from advanced math and sciences Edit: fixing autocorrect errors

[@epkoda]

from my understanding, the general mechanism behind hallucinations/visual distortions (not only on psychedelics) is basically too much pattern recognition. "pattern recognition", in this case, is referring to our brains associating visual signals with certain objects. basically, since the only information our brains receive from our eyes is what photoreceptors are activated, the brain has a certain system for transforming those firing patterns into a recognisable object. kinda like how image files on computers are stored as strings of numbers, and the computer has to decode those numbers to figure out how to display the image. this distortion illusion gives insight into how this process works. since our peripheral vision is bad at detecting details, our brains tend to amplify the features of faces in our peripheral vision. you need a lot of details to analyse and recognise a face, so we evolved to overexaggurate them. the hallucinations you're reffing to are slightly different. they are caused by something (for example a substance) tampering with this algorithm, so a firing patterns is associated with something else (for example a patterns of white noise, which wasn't associated with anything beforehand, can become associated with a face. this is why looking at grainy surfaces like towels or carpets tends to produce more hallucinations).

[@Awayyy]

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[@derickhenrique4368]

Obrigado Cellbit, agora terei pesadelos

[@kidomaru8741]

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[@FantasmaNaranja]

you could have so easily put a screamer at the end

[@TailRunnerOPSpec]

Thank fuck they didn't LMAO

[@Marlaina]

Nooooo lol

[@cheifrat5362]

Johnny joestar

[@waankerdanker]

Would it make a difference from what we see already though

[@tba6403]

Hahahaha reminds me of youtube before like 2010, some videos gave off an odd feeling like they were put together half-assed disguised as whatever the title was, and u knew something was up so check and turn ur speakers off lol remember those vids? Sorry if I stopped making sense alittle I just finished a joint

[@evy3497]

Cellbit, pq ?

[@gabrel2184]

obrigado balela e cellbit agora tenho mais um assunto para minha terapia

[@Kidicaruslover]

Lol I had to stop for a little bit at 0:21 it was getting freaky, the eyes just kept getting bigger and farther away from each other, ugh

[@sniffelur7996]

Some of them looked like they had more than just two eyes...

[@Glamrock-Sakura]

One of them had a super square face and the eyes were really far away from each other and it's mouth was real tiny, lol

[@socialsense1594]

@@Glamrock-Sakura Made me laugh while I was eating my cereal. Reminded me of a snapchat filter

[@Frog101_Real]

one of them had their eyes super close like a default sim when you download the face slider mod

[@rusty4896]

I wonder if this works in the opposite way.. like if I could use it to my advantage. you know?

[@wagman68]

Youll be the most handsome man in all the land, just as long as you stay on the very edge of peoples line of vision

[@MattActorGordon]

Nonsense, you're already really cute.

[@shrekonion8307]

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[@sychurii9394]

Photoshop without photoshopping?

[@Angelo-mg9vg]

Yes

[@exidy-yt]

Wow, this technique works even when flashed slowly like this. In fact, I think it works better! Gives you a longer time to 'observe' the effect. I did find that I was switching my eyes to one or the other more grotesque image and seeing the real person before the image switched off, but I dont think that's really a bad thing as you can move right back to the centre and get more f'ed up faces immediately. Great work!

[@JPeltsi]

omg, natures own face twisting program.. FROM 90's! How can I upgrade it to the better version?

[@jblen]

I put this in my playlist of things to watch again. I'm watching it again and still it's super freaky. Imagine some artist with photographic memory could draw the faces that my brain sees when doing this, it'd be cool to be able to look in more detail what I'm seeing

[@KazzKobb]

this was creepy, at least put some chill music

[@beenibroh]

chills music it is number 15 : deformed celebrities

[@dr.prismatic5118]

Don’t take that out of context please

[@dr.prismatic5118]

Oh god

[@remisan7214]

ur right, put some music that gives you chills

[@vickiborges]

cellbit eu te culpo por esse trauma

[@Sad1_SadoYasu]

Mds to com medo de olhar agr... Aaaaa todo mundo falando q vai ter pesadelos e os krl. Mas fds. Tenho q deixar a minha mente forte. Vo ve essa poha

[@Sad1_SadoYasu]

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[@aleksy_sos]

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[@NicolaiRM]

The effect seems to depend on processing each face in light of the others. By aligning the faces at the eyes and presenting them quickly, it becomes much easier to compare them, so the differences between the faces are more extreme. If someone has a large jaw, it looks almost ogre-like. If they have an especially large forehead, then it looks particularly bulbous. We’re conducting several experiments right now to figure out exactly what’s causing this effect, so watch this space! (copied)

[@parkerjones1679]

I would disagree as if you cover up one side of screen (one of the faces) and continue to stare at the plus with the other face in you peripheral vision, you find that it has the same effect.

[@AdrianOkay]

the effect is because the brain part of face recognition stops working, so you're seeing their faces like an alien would see us, for example

[@pernilladomander7648]

They are flip flops genderinverted.

[@sofria9070]

sim, voce está aqui pelo cellbit

[@nunes.anaaaa]

to aqui pelo balelinha valeu celbo capango e zerao por me traumatizarem, amei

[@kaed201]

Meu deus mano que coisa estranhamente incrível KAKAKAKAKAK

[@StewieGriffin]

FUCK MY ADHD! EVERYTIME THE PICTURE CHANGES I LOOK LEFT OR RIGHT OF THE VIDEO

[@shirhazan8551]

same omfg

[@noobassassin5046]

I SO AGREE BRO SAMETHING

[@xoJaee]

same xD and it's always the fucking left picture for me

[@ThatOneGuy-do6nu]

Same. mine's always the right

[@ashakumarigopal822]

that is cool thinking

[@giovanafonseca158]

pov: vc veio aqui por causa do balela

[@Loydzinho]

Alguém mais veio pelos balela boys??

[@vagaruti]

Obrigada Cellbit...

[@briansvendsson4036]

It would be cool to have a good draw/painting artist and make him draw all the ugly faces in this video and then make a video to see if the ugly faces would turn to be pretty celebrities :D

[@CaptainDijango]

I cant help but laugh because they all start to look like characters created in elder scrolls oblivion

[@cainksks]

selbit divulgou 👍🏻

[@giovannamarcondes3400]

Vim pelo cellbit falando no balela🇧🇷

[@Maine_87]

That was some creepy shit. What if that's how we all really look?

[@JustinWadeShorts]

🤔

[@valkanadimova]

A BIT OF A "THEY LIVE" MOMENT THERE!

[@sasahizzy8402]

Obrigada em Cellbit, hj eu não durmo

[@yuhh.3354]

todos estamos aqui pelo balela

[@caionunes3271]

Só quem veio pelo balela :v

[@Non-Normal_Channel]

Did anyone else come here from Unus Annus?

[@Redlac24]

Memento mori

[@chromaxd26]

Unnus Annus Unnus Annus...

[@owndapwn]

If it made Neil Patrick Harris ugly, it is too powerful for mortal use.

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[@igorgoulart4761]

Cellbit tinha razão.

[@dayghoulz1192]

cellbit fez eu ter medo de olhar na cara das pessoas agora.Inclusive vim pelo balela

[@rovahrovah4624]

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[@GoldDoubloons_]

This is all so cool but tbh, Nicholas Cage was the only one whose face I did not perceive a major distortion effect on lmaoo

[@devilsadvocate6381]

Man, if any of y'all were struggling to get into caricature art, this would do wonders for your inspiration!

[@PakileMonoke.]

Dizem que a gente só vê em sonho rostos que nós já vimos... De hoje em diante eu só terei pesadelos.

[@kamillamagalhaes5202]

Com só pelo Balela com o Cellbit

[@bearodrigues6600]

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[@OrangeJulius_JMC]

Its even weirder when you look at one side. The side tou look at is normal but then the other side gets distorted even more

[@meredocu]

it is almost as the brain had a "normalized" idea of humans faces, and extrapolate distinctive disparity when flashed quickly on the side of our sight. I have so much questions, does the brain realized that these are faces? (does the part of the brain which is known to be used for face recognition is activated?) if not, have u tried a quick algorithm to reproduce the deformed image (by accentuating the size of large plain area for example), if yes, are autistic person ( they respond differently on face recognition ) affected by this effect ? more or less? is it different? how many persistence time does it takes for the effect to disappear? (do the effect really disappear?)

[@Margueritebourgeoys]

meredocu ta yeul

[@jvcdeadmoney]

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[@mickimoritz9921]

I am autistic. I was able to produce the effect the video suggested. (for me the reason recognition is difficult is because all you humans look the same. heeheehee!)

[@milky_wayan]

A thing I found was I kept seeing people's faces mirrored. Like half of their face mirrored onto the other as if my brain was trying to extrapolate on limited information, and that was partially responsible for fucking things up. This along with more noticeable features being often exaggerated makes this a convincing explanation

[@dar1n_fgp]

My guess is that schioztypic type symptoms interfere with it, just like a schizophrenic cant understand the negative-face type illusion where it appears that its gaze follows you. Autism may interfere, but not nearly as much in my estimation.

[@15LaDell]

Its hard to keep my eyes on the cross, but Ill try again

[@rockerseven]

My mind just broke... It's like Conan's "If They Mated" lol

[@Nontuwe]

Cool!!! I've notice that after focusing at the cross, stir at the top, still in the middle of the image and it looks like their cheeks is growing/moving downwards.

[@dr.prismatic5118]

Oh god why

[@joemesmo643]

Ba le le le la

[@TechnicalParadox]

Amazing insight. Amazing how your brain works. Whenever I hear people are seeing ghosts and such I think of times I've been in a dark room and swore I saw something, but I remind myself our brains are wired to see faces. Had I never learned that or attempted to understand it I would have explained it as ghosts or whatever too

[@raito7956]

Quem passou aqui por causa do balela da um lime aí kkkkkk

[@ImNotJoshPotter]

Just focus on one side of the screen and the opposite one will be even more scewed while you focus on regular faces.

[@nanicrash]

You know what I noticed? I look at the right face and I see that the left one is screwed up, but I keep imagining it's straight. Like, I can't stop it. I just fill in straight features in my brain, even tho I know it's not what I perceive.

[@hectichive889]

Literally every single picture of Jim Carrey, yes specifically him, looks like he has fingers where his eyelashes should be...

[@MoolsDogTwoOfficial]

As terrifying as it is, it is also very fascinating on how our brains fail to recognised faces when not focused.

[@brunoramos104]

Quem tá aqui por causa do balela? KKKKKKKK

[@Divine8678]

After i was staring into it for long time i started to laugh super hard because of their faces 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@chukukaogude5894]

My eyesight is horrible to the point where I can barely make out facial features without my glasses. Guess what? The distortions still happened. This means it is more than just vision causing this. Holy crap close one of your eyes and the people on one side become CYCLOPES!!! Now I know exactly what is causing this and I can maybe explain it. My hunch is that since the faces are out of focus when we look at the "+" sign, the brain is trying to use whatever information it has to fill in the blank. It just blows my mind that one side becomes cyclopes when I closed one of my eye and played the video. Has anybody done this? Actually, I also think that this illusion also makes use of our natural blind spot we all have in each eye and that's why the cyclops thing happened. For me at least. You can find your eye's blind spot by looking at the cross and then moving it towards the left on one celebrity face or the right on another celebrities face. For example my blindspot was just on the same plane of the cheek but below the eye of tom cruise on the right of his picture. It was in a similar place for the lady but on the cheek level but beneath the eye. (The place where the maxillary bone meets the zygomatic bone.) This illusion is solved lol. EDIT: Ok wikipedia these two concepts Blind Spot Filling-in (this should be at the bottom of the blind spot page to click to this page) This is what is happening in this video.

[@napnope]

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[@_etuardo]

Mano que bagui loko, obrigado cellbit

[@matthieutardits1489]

Merci feldup, d'avoir réanimé cette passion

[@jewdyism]

yeah... you're right! i watched the video again, stared at the cross, but covered the right side faces with my hand and the illusion still works. weird! thanks for pointing this out :)

[@police-security]

ha ha !!!! i see zombies!!!!

[@melissasaidmiguel9124]

obrigada cellbit e balela por mostrar essa obra prima bizarra :)

[@NostalgiCrazy]

I LOVE optical illusions like this. So crazy what our brain can make us see!

[@yawgmoth6568]

They don't even have to be flashing. Just stare to the side of any still picture of a face and it starts to distort. In fact, most of these faces are weird even without the distortions.

[@laramayer4566]

crl q daora, tmj cabeludo, vim pelo balela

[@maox7012]

Tem um pessoal dizendo que ficou traumatizado e tals, mas eu comecei a rir muito kkkkkkk.

[@Scirocc0]

"Soup for you!"

[@igalacticheroi]

Some of the things i have seen today, i will never be able to forget.

[@mymelody1002]

Nah im just seeing scary faces like I keeps seeing them have a dot as eyes

[@PG-83]

pov: voce veio pelo balela do cellbit

[@michaelscott8901]

Momento mori

[@zipperozicvideodump]

IT'S LIKE THE STRETCH TOOL FROM PHOTOSHOP IS IN MY FUCKIN' EYEBALLS. I actually see a lot of them with no mouths, or three eyes

[@Xizziano]

Zipperozic billybobjenkins gold

[@mr.jackjohn289]

Memento mori, unus annus

[@mikeveee1017]

A useful tool. Now when I watch movies I won't look directly look at actor's face, and just like that my self confidence has been born.

[@999shawn]

i wonder if this would work in person. if u took 2 ppl the same height one girl one guy with good lighting

[@presleyreaney6241]

+Shawn Mahoney No, if it's not flicking through different faces then it doesn't work. You can see this if you pause the video. Doesn't work.

[@ImNotJoshPotter]

Presley Reaney actually it does if you can really focus on the cross and up close so the faces are all up your peripheral vision. It's not as messed up as the flicking images but to me it starts to look like their faces are melting.

[@subscribetomymain9194]

do it in a mirror and stare at yourself untill it gets blurry, then you're own face starts distorting its called the Troxler Effect

[@someblackguy7371]

This only works for people with TWO WORKING EYEBALLS! Fuck.

[@aprilmccants1054]

LOLOLOL!

[@jammydodger1449]

It just looks normal to me?

[@chriscriswell7535]

Jammy Dodger crosseyed as fuck lol

[@katecamire4061]

ur weird. it creeped the he11 out of me

[@aceajax5216]

You attention seeking sack of bullshit there is absolutely no way that looked normal

[@m0rShh]

Help! The faces are messed up even when I'm not looking at the cross! ... Oh wait, that's just Nic Cage. Never mind.

[@stevenborham1584]

I noticed that the effect occurs even more so if you watch one lot of faces and peripherally see the others. But the effect is simultaneous when focused on the cross hair. Also wiggling your attention from the cross hair when paused will create the distortion. For me Halle Berry's face stunned me the most even though she is stunningly beautiful to look at (directly). I had curtains printed with the "Mr Men" characters (1980's Pepper pig sort of fellas) in my room as a toddler and they absolutely scared the crap outa me due to this effect. My parents just kept shaking them "Look there's nothing there", I felt mum was only pissing them off more by doing that Hehehehe. Terrific video thanks for reminding me of my human software glitches!!

[@oRursu]

Marcando presença... Vim pelo Cellbit e Balela boys.