This swing-set illusion is the last great pointless internet argument of the decade

If you're steeling yourself for arguments over the Christmas table this year, bookmark this now. When the conversation turns to impeachment, climate change, or whether Star Wars is ruined now, pull out your phone and show them this video of a silhouetted figure on a swing set in the snow. 

Then ask them which way the swinger is facing.

User @ectupper originally posted the illusion on Twitter in February, and then to TikTok recently, where it blew up and made its way back to Twitter to wrinkle brains and cause arguments about forced perspective. 

Like other conflict-inciting viral illusions, of the Dress or Yanny/Laurel kind, at first it seems obvious which way the swinger is facing. You can't even understand why anyone would see it the other wa—  Read more...

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