These Faces Are The Same Color!

[@Edu23u]

Math: "Two negatives make a positive" Vsauce: "Two Ls make a W"

[@VariantAEC]

Adding two negatives makes a greater negative number. You only wind up with positive results from multiplying or dividing two negative numbers. Alternatively, you can subtract two negatives and wind up with a positive result so long as both numbers are not of equal value.

[@JaymcJefty]

@@VariantAEC yea they meant multiplication Also here before the 🤓 comments

[@blizzardogisitc]

​@@JaymcJeftyToo bad, you are already after the 🤓

[@Ing_Failure]

Law of signs: negative times negative equals positive

[@miketeavee3085]

but two wrongs don't make a right

[@directionalmessage]

vsauce is the only guy who could turn two Ls into a W

[@Narayan]

I've seen ibp saying that long ago.

[@ZerglingLover]

I feel like anybody with two hands that have thumbs and index fingers could do it, actually- and in the exact same way as him, at that.

[@kevnLreemsj]

Would you like to play Gacha life with me

[@christiansilk1455]

fr W Vsauce

[@user-tp1dl1tf3u]

V sauce just did an uno reverse

[@Pumkinpi41]

Artists: that’s color theory! Vsauce: L + L = W

[@Coolcat121]

403 likes and no replies??!? Lemme fix that

[@lemon18809]

yes.

[@oasmsai2806]

L*L = W ***

[@Dr._MF_Glitch]

But hey.. That's just a theory!

[@zk-vd6uy]

It seem that vsauce is only human capable of making two wrong into one right

[@teenat7044]

And this is also a great example of why color theory is important to understand when doing art! We perceive all colors differently based on what other colors are around them :)

[@arvox1417]

A perfect demonstration actually.

[@Rida_Al-musawi]

​@@arvox1417here i subscribed

[@zericle1]

I help make topographic maps for USGS. Color is very important to get right or your map is going to be unreadable and less eye-catching.

[@gustavo9758]

Yup. I'm surprised this is a new video tho, this illusion has been in Wikipedia for ages (with a chessboard example). Just google "Optical illusion".

[@gaivsvalerivs5818]

Color theory is just that: a theory. Colors don't exist

[@Suprexme]

"It is better to be alive than right" -Vsauce 2024

[@Blackmark52]

"It is better to be alive than right" and even better to be both. There's never an upside to being wrong.

[@user-pz3fr2vy4v]

Good quote for man when women ask them something about themselves.

[@SeverinHawkland7855]

​@@Blackmark52did you watch the video?

[@kevnLreemsj]

Would you like to play Gacha life with me

[@BOBBOBBOBBOBBOBBOB69]

Very based.

[@Luschan]

It’s crazy how even when a direct line is drawn between the two, your brain still perceives a gradient there.

[@abarette_]

yea

[@MaxerV19]

Yea​@@abarette_

[@gumshake689]

​@@abarette_what a useless comment

[@cubeofmeat4982]

@@gumshake689what a useless reply

[@dot.3435]

​@@gumshake689you didn't add anything of worth yourself

[@jakeyboy7656]

My brain hates this with a childish rage

[@Letssstaytogether]

Me too i wiil leave my brain begin to be angry xD

[@JoseluisMoncadaRugama-tl7ye]

Bro solved racism

[@cha0spretzel-534]

“It’s better to be alive than right” *-Vsauce threatening me when I prove him wrong about something*

[@christiancaravetta-zt7md]

💀that’s actually hilarious

[@fbtmm300]

😂😂😂😂

[@gabrieliusgiedra5225]

This quote warns people mot to get into useless arguments. Just because you're right does not mean that correcting someone will lead to better results.

[@stonelion99]

Quite possibly the best comment I have ever seen.

[@amberv9424]

That's absolutely hilarious 😂😂😂

[@beaksters]

Vsauce accidentally solved racism again.

[@GriffinForte]

True

[@wesleymoore8552]

Again?

[@jonlufkin2671]

@@wesleymoore8552 Again.

[@wesleymoore8552]

@@jonlufkin2671 I wanna know the other time

[@danielrubatino416]

​@@jonlufkin2671 What's the other time?

[@zypher9690]

This was the most “judge by the content of character not by the color of their skin” analogy ever and it was so subtle.

[@MinervaAlvarez-dx3jc]

Did anybody else notice the visual shade change in the bottom face at 0:12 though? Seems kind of 'shadey' to me 😂

[@Millticker]

@@MinervaAlvarez-dx3jc I don't see what you're talking about

[@gregbaxter6162]

Except it wasn’t an analogy

[@enekaitzteixeira7010]

Other comments have made jokes about this topic, but if you seriously think this is what the short is about, you should get a new brain.

[@sweetypuss]

turns out we were judging them by the content of their character the entire time

[@DJPastaYaY]

These illusions never fail to amaze me

[@owenw.1643]

the fact that it looks like a gradient at the end is fucking craaazy

[@GillOfTheNorth]

I had to take a screenshot and check the colours in paint. Both are RGB (123,123,123)

[@awesomegraczgie2131]

oh yes, just noticed that. When I look at the center of the thick line I see both faces in the same color. However when I look at the white face or the black face I see a gradient. Crazy. How can we believe our eyes if they do sh*t like that!

[@BattleKing00]

I saw that and I felt like a stoner staring at something with way to much interest. I've never smoked in my life.

[@ahawdjkmwodjikma6543]

the black face actually does have a gradient. i took the image and the colour they used, the "black" face is darkened at the bottom half.

[@Qxestionable]

Can confirm the dark face does in fact have a darker gray at the ends, when you cover it with the allusion gray it’s a bit easier to tell they are the same, but they still look pretty different

[@ThePCguy17]

Even with that stripe between the faces at the end, my brain's still going, "yeah, it changes color."

[@janJasenwa]

Right?! It looks like a gradient

[@NX-Delta]

mine too a bit, that's natural ig

[@Scyth3934]

@@NX-Delta Cover up your screen except for the line with your hands and you can see it. It looked like a gradient to me too until i did that

[@ceruleantear1]

@@Scyth3934 I put both images into Paint and snipped a piece from each. They are the exact same color. It's amazing.

[@aone9050]

I literally blocked out everything except the color, and it kept the same shade.

[@maxthebear7765]

Vsauce just solved racism

[@Yazume]

"For a species to continue it is better to be alive than right" -Vsauce

[@axiezimmah]

The illusion is so strong that even the solid grey line looks like a gradient. What the hell

[@ahmedouerfelli4709]

This happens because the brain perceives the chemical color when the object seems to be intelligible, and guess what, it is actually right, about the chemical colors being different. It is pretty hard to concentrate on perceiving the physical color (the color meant to be the same here) because it matters less in the real world.

[@LobyDobster]

It actually makes me doubt it even is an illusion. I'll test it myself with a screenshot. Result: wow... It actually is the same colour.

[@vapormissile]

​@@ahmedouerfelli4709yeah I understand. It makes perfect sense not it doesn't oh God.

[@REDSIX]

Same. I doubted the illusion but upon testing, it's legit. Very strong illusion!

[@JMBAD_art]

Oh this has to be the best color based illusion I’ve ever fucking seen

[@Aviv1201]

🏷️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😁🥹😃🥲🛍️🛍️🛍️🪣🪑🗝️🗝️💰💶👠👡ჰიუყუ. 🎎🎎🎏🖇️🖇️🖇️🖇️🖇️♌️♒️⛎👨‍🏫🥹🥹😙💋🌈🌈🌘💫⌛️⏱️🎆🌠🌠🖇️🏣🏦🇺🇦🇦🇪🇹🇳🇹🇳🎪🎪🥉🎼🎧

[@Vgamer311]

Its definitely among the strongest, hands down

[@15Hours_ago]

It's not an illusion people have a long way to go, they are to different colors it's only their ability to reflect light that is the base line. Check out my other comment lol.

[@insertnamehere1398]

this is litterally just the fucking black and blue dress all over again

[@Vgamer311]

@@15Hours_ago nobody is gonna sift through hundreds of comments to find yours bro, especially when you’re this blatantly wrong.

[@novembermember]

Confirmed, losing twice equals a win. Thanks for the perspective, vsauce.

[@CreativeGamer73]

"We've got a white face, and a black face" "A WHAT NOW?!

[@marktracy1721]

A WHITE FACE AND A BLACK FACE hear it now ???

[@A_Little_Goof_Ball]

crazy

[@PositiveLBo]

Whenever I lose an argument - “Better to be alive than right!”

[@kevnLreemsj]

Would you like to play Gacha life with me

[@Shuizid]

Sounds like someone is not leaving that argument alive...

[@watchpab10]

@@kevnLreemsjI don’t know what it is but sounds interesting

[@natahndolar2142]

@@Shuizidhow people be nowadays

[@deceasedposter]

💀uhhh what do you mean sir

[@Etx-z9]

Me explaining to the police officer how I actually don't match the suspect description:

[@Bkevinmss]

Would you like to play Gacha life with me

[@waterthecoolistYFGA]

I AM WAY THE SMARTER THAN VSAUCE MY CONTENT IS BETTER THAN VSAUCE.

[@waterthecoolistYFGA]

I AM WAY THE SMARTER THAN VSAUCE MY CONTENT IS BETTER THAN VSAUCE.

[@Ozzy_Axil]

@@waterthecoolistYFGAfr

[@Sepia_Skittles]

Wait, WHAT

[@Denn4ce]

In a book by Tom Chivers on Bayesian statistics, Chivers uses this example to show that people are inherently Bayesian machines running probabilistic inferences on sense input to make sense of the world. He goes on to claim that our expectation (thus; guesstimation) allows us to not use up all our resources on understanding the world. Knowledge of the exact hex code for a color grey doesn't tell us as much as the context and so we're prioritizing information that enriches our understading over the world rather than exacting information about the world.

[@drewt1717]

Yes, but also shows that our perception is easily altered if you know how.

[@Denn4ce]

​@@drewt1717 even though 'but' suggests a contradiction here I see none. You're right, up to the point that you'd argue context is mallable.

[@_SnowyWolf_]

As an artist this is my worst fear. Color theory

[@Bobintheb0x]

"artist"

[@_SnowyWolf_]

@@Bobintheb0x blud I was -_- I still do I just don't post it I'll prob do a art dump

[@tumortuner]

@@_SnowyWolf_ Inb4 bluey ship art, please never exist

[@_SnowyWolf_]

@tumortuner DUDE HAVE YOU HEARD OF FRIKIN DARK SHIPPERS OR PRO SHIPPERS ITS GROSS AF 😭 I JUST LIEK THE SHIW FOR THE MESSEGES NOT FOR THE WEIRD SUS FAN ART

[@simpleanimations2726]

“Two L’s equals a W” -vsauce

[@ChapatiMan]

Ls*

[@simpleanimations2726]

@@ChapatiMan L /ˈɛl/ plural is L's or Ls /ˈɛlz/ Britannica Dictionary definition of L. : the twelfth letter of the English alphabet.

[@william-afton607]

@@ChapatiManhumbled

[@ChapatiMan]

@@simpleanimations2726 apostrophes have never and will never be used for plurals. Apostrophes are for contractions or possessions

[@PlzDoNotTheFade]

@@ChapatiMan bro wanna argue with the fucking dictionary😭😭😭😭

[@Eis_]

"It's better to be alive, than right." Boeing whistleblowers: 💀

[@Marthegamemaker23]

Aint no way bro😭

[@SangheiliSpecOp]

Jesus

[@co7769]

as in AIRLINES??

[@SangheiliSpecOp]

@@co7769 look up John Barnett

[@Enigmatic22]

⁠@@co7769No Boeing is a plane manufacturer not an airline, But yes.

[@ProductBasement]

This is just an anime version of an illusion we all saw in elementary school

[@bakethecookie6088]

vsauce explaining is making my brain becomes hiroshima and nagasaki 1945

[@geemy9675]

this optical illusion os SO effective that even knowing it, is always stronger than any conscious effort you can make to defeat it. And yeah, its a testament of how good our brain is at intepreting colors, expositions and see the color of objects pretty constant they can send you very different light intensities and wavelengths. of course there are ways to trick it

[@ARandomPCGuy]

not at all, I can see that both are the same color. It takes quite a bit of focus though.

[@geemy9675]

@@ARandomPCGuy it's easy to say it when you know the answer. but if you do a blinded experiment and do the same illusion twice with slightly different shades of grey or with the same I can tell you 99% you won't be able to tell the difference whereas if you hide everything but the grey area it becomes obvious

[@GodplayGamerZulul]

@@ARandomPCGuy I think you're in the minority then. I can make most illusions break apart but not this one. You've got talent.

[@schizoposter1499]

I genuinely had to screenshot the image and look at it in Photoshop to confirm that it was the same color. I know that it is the same color now, but my eyes still deceive me.

[@Yormolch]

The effect is so strong for me, that my brain imagined a color gradiant, when he connected the two faces.

[@thesigmauation]

Vsauce killin' racism, one sanity at a time.

[@AllwaysNever]

Dude

[@xeyDB10]

same pfp rahhhh

[@donutonahole]

What are you even talking about?

[@voidhumor2740]

im still racist, im just confused now

[@preppen78]

@@voidhumor2740 I believe the lesson learnt here is that if we keep light people in light surroundings and darker people in darker surroundings, our brains won't be gaslighted

[@briannawatt4741]

This was the answer to the whole dress debacle!!!

[@yohumanfrisk]

This is just like how orange can be seen as brown based on lighting conditions.

[@user-ls8vw7yn8d]

No joke, this is the craziest “trick illustration” I’ve ever seen. When I saw the thumbnail, I literally said “Nooo, this can’t be real…!!”

[@Vsauce]

I know! I couldn't believe it. This isn't the first or only luminance illusion ever, but it's particular strong!

[@Dorm303]

@@VsauceHow can this be true? When you drew them, they were still different shades

[@lastnamefirstname8655]

@@Vsauce me neither! it was so difficult to believe that it was the same color, even though i suspected as much anyways!

[@𰼿]

​@@Dorm303they were the same shade, he colored the ends differently though

[@tllgestalt1942]

Yeah, I've seen others like that tilted cube vs the ground/sky, but this one is actually insanely effective.

[@anthonycorais-marsh5503]

“For a species to survive, it is better to be alive than right” that is an amazing quote and explains so much about society.

[@w花b]

Real deep sh*t bro...

[@catsdogswoof3968]

It's why evil

[@truthboom]

@@catsdogswoof3968 death is peace, atoms that doesn't move is cold

[@andieallison6792]

We truly love In a society

[@yeahah3617]

@@truthboom Imma steal that one!

[@sausboi9677]

"For a species, it is better to be alive than right" Michael juat casually explained non confrontational people

[@Vienna3080]

Finally my eyes can expirience existential dread

[@jimmrexranoco3795]

Them: "So we're all just gray?" Vsauce: "Always has been"

[@MANIII-wl1vf]

*gay

[@BatBoy2627]

@@MANIII-wl1vf Until July

[@Mr._Bellic]

I salute you men.

[@jaisummons2304]

Spaceman: shoots

[@watsonwrote]

As a digital artist, this kind of thing is both useful and a pain-point. It's important to remember how shades and tones can change context with their surroundings like that. Any color and can be seen as a black or white color in a digital artwork.

[@thetasucks5058]

"digital artist" lmaoo

[@kendallthompson1781]

​@@thetasucks5058what

[@laden5568]

​@@thetasucks5058?

[@mckinneym.2743]

​@laden5568 Their pfp is Ai, I think there are people who see digital artists as chumps for not jumping on the AI (or often NFT train) also alot digital artists are anti AI and NFT so I think some AI bros are butt hurt about that. Obv could be very wrong but that's all I can ration

[@thiskid990]

@@thetasucks5058sorry not everyone likes crappy ai art

[@izaiahtyo-boots7050]

I just popped a blood vessel thinking of this.

[@Rudxain]

Rare instance of an optical illusion being a reasonable feature rather than a "GPU" bug

[@moutassemkassas3142]

This is exactly how the blue vs gold dress works. The lighting is unclear but basically which dress you saw is based on whether or not you perceive a brightly lit or dimly lit image. This is why some people can "switch" which dress they see. They just view the image under the perception of the other lighting.

[@jamieyakimets839]

@@namelessuser77I actually care quite a bit, as I always wondered why I started off seeing the white/gold dress and later on could only ever ‘get’ the blue/back dress.

[@atgosh]

Lucky we can all agree the eye is gold, right? …Right?? 🫣

[@MessedUpBrainspike]

I don't think this is true though? The same picture was shown to a group of different people (like me and my friends all looking at the picture on the same phone screen) and still saw different colors. Wasn't it concluded that it was because of a color visualization thing in the eye that a high percentage of people were missing?

[@HazeEmry]

​@@atgoshthe eye or the dress

[@IgorNetoAnimation]

@@MessedUpBrainspike No it's completely true, it doesn't matter if you saw it on the same screen with your friends, the way you visualize it at the moment is entirely dependant on your brain, it's why you can switch between the two.

[@NiMareQ]

Draws a line from one face to another. The line still literally looks like a gradient.

[@Vsauce]

It's wild!

[@quincylorenzodones4689]

​@@Vsauceain't no way bro got replied

[@oatmealman1586]

Try covering the sides of the line with your fingers so that only the drawn line is visible and it stops looking like a gradient which is wild.

[@tomealmeida4581]

Thats the only way i can se the line as the same colour by covering the sides! So weird that that as soon as you spread out your thumbs the gradient just magically apears back! ​@@oatmealman1586

[@NiMareQ]

@@oatmealman1586 funny thing is that I still saw some extra content around the fingers which tricked my mind to see a gradient. Only after I took two sheets of paper large enough to cover both sides completely, only then I could VERIFY that it was really just a solid gray line! WILD

[@samepee]

Bro just solved racism

[@EnglishBruv]

Vsauce ends Racism

[@xaviershah3159]

Normal people: "Two wrongs make a right" Michael: "Two L's make a W

[@fuseteam]

Meanwhile the english: "two wrongs don't make a right, but 3 rights make a left"

[@KATORI_EMPIRE]

Or do they?

[@inonknow5215]

Vsauce is the only person that can make two wrongs make a right

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@xbox1813]

@@EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@echoarts3366]

I love your brain knows they are the same color but is still like "nah, gradient between the two greys"

[@cwei9581]

2Ls make a W is one of the hardest come back line I have ever heard, and it comes from Vsauce

[@7head7metal7]

Another big W is the Laura Kampf Shirt, nice!

[@thealayaseverus]

i'm so used to seeing her logo, it didn't even register :D nice!

[@tommarnt]

lauren cohf?

[@DantinozMC]

Yeah I don't wish it was "mine" though 😐

[@SmokeyChipOatley]

@@DantinozMCDangit… you beat me to it. Guess you could say… I did *not see* that coming 🥸

[@Florenz-_-]

Yeahhhh!

[@Kanye888]

Vsauce makes me feel like I'm the dumbest creature alive

[@RCAvhstape]

It is better to be alive than right. - Vsauce 2024

[@whatamidoingwithmylifelol_]

At least you’re alive

[@TJ14142]

Vsauce makes me feel like no more than the 2nd nerdiest person on the planet.

[@danielrubatino416]

You may not be right, but at least you're alive

[@jguenther3049]

He's incredible.

[@ShaimingLong]

Whenever I see someone claim they saw something supernatural, I tend to think of all the optical illusions that easily prove human perception to be flawed. It's amazing how efficient the brain is at putting assumed information into what we perceive, I just wish more people understood that a lot of what we see is simulated by ourselves.

[@non-existent8837]

this is the same reason the black and blue/white and gold dress illusion happens. People who see black and blue interpret the image as having a light source behind the camera, lighting up the dress. People who see white and gold interpret the image as the dress being in the shade without a light source behind the camera. The image is taken at an angle where the light source's location is unclear, allowing for misinterpretation. The dress is black and blue.

[@SolidSiren]

Ok THIS one is more impressive than the others I've seen. With other similar illusions if I squint both of my eyes hard and focus in between the images I can tell they are the same color. But with this one, they don't appear even close. bravo on this one!

[@paulcooper8818]

Agreed. I wouldn't even suspect this was an optical illusion, outside of this context.

[@Crosshill]

yeah normally you can put a finger between the borders and it breaks but i cant for the love of me do it with this one, the harder i try the more different they look

[@kevnLreemsj]

Would you like to play Gacha life with me

[@Lewisking50]

The only way I can actually percieve it as the same color is in the last 5 seconds when I cover everything on the bottom picture except for the Line Michael has drawn.

[@SolidSiren]

@Lewisking50 I did that too, yep

[@natahndolar2142]

Him drawing the line through at the end really got my brain in a loop, it literally looks like a gradient despite it supposedly being the same shade of grey

[@Happyradio1234]

same

[@kirilrotan7653]

Because it is.

[@btb2954]

@@kirilrotan7653 wdym?

[@VariantAEC]

​@@btb2954 Video compression.

[@hy7864]

​@@kirilrotan7653 try to screenshot that part then cut the image

[@Bob-the-1-and-only-blob-fish]

I love the people who refuse to believe this for no reason

[@nobodyanon]

My brain is inventing a gradient where there is none in that line between the faces at the end

[@EdKolis]

Two Luigis equal a Wario. Got it

[@ildyil1748]

If L is real then W is 2real

[@LolSaiYes]

a waluigi sir

[@AbiSaysThings]

The line between them at the end is crazy, my brain has created a whole gradient

[@btb2954]

it actually is a gradient. The colors are slightly different

[@adriking4272]

​@@btb2954No the colors are the same

[@Dyl_Cam]

@@adriking4272 Cover everything around both faces, they are different colors??

[@caseydia3957]

@@Dyl_Cam thats my test too, weirdly enough on the lines going outside the image the darker one is the same color throughout, while on the lighter one the line leading to the circle is the same color but the circle is much lighter than the rest of it. I don't know what happened here or if he was trying to demonstrate something but it muddled his point completely.

[@MDG-mykys]

​@@caseydia3957I assume you're talking about when he changed the color of both circles to explain what the brain assumes?

[@ThisCHild2509]

Vsayce nearly solved racism

[@calebtheriot9320]

I fucking love vsauce

[@itshammertime4297]

Micheal just destroyed racism in front of our eyes

[@rahulmistry5019]

or, he just reinforced it

[@KenW418]

Definitely reinforced it. Better to be alive than right. Essentially that means our minds stereotype things as a survival mechanism and on the extreme end of this is racism.

[@EvenWhyProductions]

@@rahulmistry5019no he stated we were all the same in the end despite looking different at first

[@ommsterlitz1805]

@@EvenWhyProductions We are not the same

[@InMaTeofDeath]

@@ommsterlitz1805 Not exactly no but nothing is. We are all human beings though there is only one race that falls under the banner of homo-sapiens.

[@xristos.l4259]

Still waiting for Vsauce to find how much force you need to close a door with alll the windows closed.

[@kevnLreemsj]

Would you like to play Gacha life with me

[@AI_Caseoh.]

@@kevnLreemsj no i need to take my chair for a walk

[@JohnGramer06]

@@kevnLreemsjgladly!

[@Guzmananinmates7077]

​@@kevnLreemsj Naur

[@lunitaaditya3376]

@@AI_Caseoh. i am the storm that is approching

[@jarrmann]

I can imagine vsauce talking like this and moving his hands intensely while explaining something simple like what he wants at a restaurant.

[@shaeisgae8952]

I've seen this concept in so many illusions but this is the most effective one for me, even after it's explained and has a like between them, I can tell they're the same shade but they still look different

[@Doodles1265]

the art style is really cute, reminds me of those old korean girl flash games

[@Clover_Tea]

I'm thinking Avata Star Sue.. I had the greatest time playing those games (without understanding any of the instructions) =)

[@sammy_slammy]

Kinda reminds me of Lacey Games tbh... Best old school Flash, sux what happened to the website.

[@BrocksJellyFilledDoughnuts]

I'm so glad people actually remember that character more than I'd originally thought.

[@tay-lore]

It's super effective! The connecting line at the end even looks like a gradient

[@HellbirdIV]

If you pause the video it becomes easier to see that it's not a gradient at all, and if you cover up the sides, or in my case screengrab just the connecting part, sure enough, it really is one colour! That's genuinely a wicked illusion.

[@adlieart3234]

​@@HellbirdIV it is gradient. You can even screenshot and use pick color tools to see both pic have different colour value

[@cbrxyz-sturvecancri4921]

​​@@adlieart3234But when I use pick color to brush the illusion still there

[@Freun]

​@@adlieart3234 just put 2 thumbs around the line 🗿

[@Freun]

​@@adlieart3234 it's not 🗿

[@thenoob2329]

How to solve racism

[@AnEnemySpy456]

What's wild is even when you connect the two faces it looks like the line is getting darker.

[@star-iv]

Vsauace making me question my own eyes. I had to block out the rest of the image to see that the line was in fact one color. Incredible!

[@marin_1441]

Vsauce explained racism in more scientific words

[@CowDudeTheBestistAwesome]

I AM WAY THE SMARTER THAN VSAUCE MY CONTENT IS BETTER THAN VSAUCE

[@CowDudeTheBestistAwesome]

I AM WAY THE SMARTER THAN VSAUCE MY CONTENT IS BETTER THAN VSAUCE

[@Bkevinmss]

Would you like to play Gacha life with me

[@P1X3LcrasheR]

All 3 replies here are… um….

[@SolidSiren]

​@@CowDudeTheBestistAwesomeyou suck

[@user-gv7eb2dc6e]

did bro just solve racism

[@g_m4sk]

Vsauce is the lawyer you need to give a reason to call a cop racist

[@andrewmypocalypse]

In other words, it’s a survival mechanism that prioritizes contrast over color. You can survive being colorblind, but contrastblind? You’re screwed. 😂

[@oowaz]

i think that is more just a visual paradox than some kind of "mechanism" or evolutionary strategy. it's just a logic puzzle. you're being presentated with something crafted to look paradoxical, using visual cues you take for granted to play with your perception. it's not really a flaw in how we see things, it's just challenging your comparison skills

[@andrewmypocalypse]

@@oowaz I hear you, but the information is too basic to be a logic puzzle. It’s about pure recognition. We see things for what they are and what they are not in order of importance. “How does this serve me?” Logic is magnitudes above color in my personal opinion. Which, logically, doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.

[@oowaz]

@@andrewmypocalypse it's really difficult to explain this quickly but i'll try: so the way this works is basically playing with how we understand lighting conditions. you're presented with 2 characters where the linework looks exactly the same, the background color is similar (but not the same) you assume they're in the same environment (this is psychological) and they share the same tone for skin (the key of the illusion) EVERYTHING else is different tho: tone of eyes, hair, theeth, even the tone of the linework in the 2nd character is different - why is that? because the idea here is to present the 2nd character in a bright environment (notice how their background is lighter). why? because the 1st character is in a darker environment (this is really important for this illusion) here is the logic part: if the first character is in THE DARK and skin tone looks like X and the 2nd character is in a brighter room and skin tone is also X, then the 2nd character must have a darker skin tone. why? because when exposed to the same lighting conditions as the 2nd character the 1st would have a lighter skin tone.

[@AgileGeoff]

I love that swipe you draw at the end. My brain sees a gradient!

[@ImNotABarber.]

Nobody: Vsauce: 2 L's = W

[@FrankLoq]

wasn't buying until vsauce drew the line

[@Blueberry_Koi]

This is why as a painter its important to squint your eyes and eliminate enviormental information from ur brain when trying to match colours

[@mikebar42]

All day every day

[@DanVogt]

Maybe that's why a Japanese man was able to create this

[@CamoRoll]

@@DanVogt nah thats wild bro 💀

[@IamAJoe]

There are alot of people on Twitter that need to see this.

[@meino6465]

Indeed, reality is an illusion!

[@RaptureDragon1]

This is going to somehow make certain groups less violent? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@fantomas4935]

@@RaptureDragon1 he meant the "better to be alive than right" part, you went straight for the color. When you're a hammer everything looks like a nail and all that I guess.

[@w花b]

​@@RaptureDragon1 found the Twitter guy.

[@EternalSearcher]

There are a lot of people on KZbin that need to go back to climb palm trees in Africa somewhere tbh

[@Luluthebluemoon]

does anyone else see when the colors crossed into the second image? it made a gradient when the color changed to black?

[@chickenmonger123]

It didn’t make sense until I realized that every single color except the face was different.

[@pup64hcp]

"It is better to be alive than right" is unironically really good advice

[@spookyscarylamppost3431]

I mean, people living under dictatorships are pretty much living that.

[@MuslimBaconLuvr666]

Of course you'd think so, natural selection made you that way

[@zapman6528]

This is why color theory is so important in art.

[@user-hd7gq3bf6k]

yeah ive seen a few videos of people picking a colour pallet randomly in greyscale before painting, then putting the colour back on when theyre finished. Because theyve followed tone and light direction correctly in greyscale, the artwork looks amazing when colours are turned back on. Amazing how infrequently used colours can work so incredibly well and look realistic when done right.

[@zapman6528]

@@user-hd7gq3bf6k ive seen those too! Truly amazing how the mind works. Understanding these concepts is something every serious artist should study.

[@SaitamaTheLastAirbender]

Math teacher: Why do you said that 1+1 equal 11? That's not how the math works! Are you dumb? Me: _"It's better to be alive, than right."_

[@tjpopp8688]

Ok so let’s make this illusion even crazier. Can you do the magic eye trick? The kinda reverse cross your eyes to see those crazy 3d pictures from random patterns? Try and do that with the faces when they are side by side. Do it right and they will “lock” into a single center face. But the different colors will kind of “vibrate”. At first it looks like the grey skin color vibrates too. But really focus on it and you’ll see the hair and background is vibrating and it only looks like the skin is doing it by comparison.

[@maggpiprime954]

I tried it, and it's really interesting! And it's the outlines for me; the eyebrows, the eyes, the more. The dual black/white lines give it a weird luminescence.

[@AceWhitlockMC]

“A white face and a black face” -Vsauce 2024

[@piefighter36]

Mathematically solved racism

[@1223santigato]

Thats is one of the qualities of colors, is called chroma. Chroma is how colors appear to look when surrounded by other colors. Painters have to constantly readjust the colors on a painting when more colors are added because the previous color might change in appearance once more colors are added.

[@tomm-ft1cf]

"But that's a W" -vsauce 2024

[@CowDudeTheBestistAwesome]

I AM WAY THE SMARTER THAN VSAUCE MY CONTENT IS BETTER THAN VSAUCE

[@CowDudeTheBestistAwesome]

I AM WAY THE SMARTER THAN VSAUCE MY CONTENT IS BETTER THAN VSAUCE.

[@Bkevinmss]

Would you like to play Gacha life with me

[@Hithalo]

Don't you just love rage bait bots?

[@PlzDoNotTheFade]

@@Bkevinmss yes

[@Docypher]

I’m nearsighted and I found that if I hold my phone away from me and try not to focus, I can see the same colour. Cool illusion though, colour theory is wild.

[@owlboy8x469]

“better to be alive than right” Me to myself in an argument with my parents

[@bboyramen]

"The brain has taken two L's on this one! But that's a W-" Wait what.

[@kozie.probably]

He knows everything. Why wouldn’t he know brainrot terms?

[@dolsopolar]

considering the amount of comments that say "bros ending racism 💀" I've seen here he sure knows his audience.

[@Vik1919]

​​@@kozie.probablyFunny, considering you are using one of them. That term isn't gonna last long, as explained by a linguistic teacher. Slangs don't last long but they can be turned into a good meaning. So yeah, please stop acting like you are not one of the people using the dumb internet slangs. You aren't special, you are just a sheep.

[@Vik1919]

​@@kozie.probablyYou are acting as if you didn't just use an internet term. The lack of self-awareness is off the charts.

[@jibus3556]

@@Vik1919 I'm so puzzled by this reply I literally can't figure out what you thought he was trying to say to make you think he lacked self awareness about something

[@channel-pd2yn]

I love how Micheal is still using the moon men song after all these years. It's like his theme song at this point. Hopefully he never changes it.

[@deusexmachine2834]

Bro ended racism in a second

[@thelagbotroblox]

Wait, isn't this the same way that that black and blue/gold and white dress worked back in 2015?

[@ai_is_a_great_place]

Of all these color matching illusions, this one was hands down the best and most jarring and most unbelievable

[@84warhead]

Seriously, I did a screen grab of this just to test it in MS Paint, they're both literally the same color.

[@NamiberGames]

« Sike, they’re both white … » almost got us

[@VerneDoran]

No such thing as blackface, its just over exposure of light

[@FunniMonke69]

we got vsauce brainrot before gta 6 💀

[@sydney6698]

Anyone remember the gold/white dress and blue/black dress? Same concept. I took a screenshot of it years ago while in a dark room. It was white and gold but then when I looked at that same screen shot in the middle of the day in a bright classroom it was black and blue.

[@NeonStudiosOfficial23]

Two "L"s is a "W" Vsauce, 2024. (The most epic line ever)

[@LordBete]

I honestly didn’t believe this but sure enough, went into photoshop, sampled the colour of both faces and they are identical. Absolutely wild

[@jaybuck9124]

Fr....