The 12 best optical illusions that went viral and stumped the internet
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The internet is filled with optical illusions, both intentional and accidental.
The most famous one is The Dress, a photo that made a dress seem possibly black and blue or possibly white and gold, depending on who saw it and under what conditions. It ignited a firestorm of controversy around the web.
Here are 12 0f the most puzzling optical illusions that have gone viral in the past few years, along with some explanations of how they work.
Kendall Jenner seems to be missing a leg.
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Earlier this year, InStyle magazine posted an Instagram photo of Kendall Jenner, Kylie Jenner, and Hailey Baldwin hanging out together after the Golden Globes.
They are all very leggy. So it's odd that one went missing. Kendall's left leg is nowhere to be seen. Where'd it go?
It's under her dress.
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Eventually, the internet figured it out. It was under her dress all along! If you look really closely, you can see the horizontal top of her leg. She's pointing her knee to her right and twisting her body forward to be more prominent in the picture.
This illusion of six girls with five pairs of legs flummoxed the internet.
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Legless women are a staple of the viral optical illusion genre. This photo that went around Reddit in late 2016 showed six women sitting on a couch.
But — yet again — a leg was missing. The person sitting in the middle of the couch seems to have no legs at all.
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