- How does that work? - What is going on here?
- What is happening? We're in a simulation.
The simulation is glitching.
♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
- What's up, Matt? - What's going on?
- (FBE) So, we want to know, do you get confused easily?
- Do I get easily confused? Very much so.
- What? Just kidding.
I'd like to think that I don't, but I'm sure that I do.
- Sometimes I call myself her name. (chuckles)
- Okay, what? - Huh?
- (FBE) Today, you're gonna be participating in a challenge
we've only done once before.
This is a "try not to get confused" challenge.
- I think I already lost. (laughs)
- (FBE) So, there are all sorts of video compilations on YouTube
and even entire subreddits dedicated to this type of confusing content.
So, we've gathered some of the most confusing things
on the web to see if we can confuse you.
- Oh, trust me, you'll be able to confuse me just fine.
- (FBE) So, we'll have you rate each one on a scale from one to five
based on how confusing you thought each one was.
- Is five the most confusing?
You should have flipped them around just to make that confusing.
- I'm definitely gonna get confused. Let's do it.
- Oh, gosh! Little girl, what are you doing?!
- Oh, god. (sighs) This makes my hand sweat.
- Oh, she made it to the red carpet for her movie premiere.
- Is this like Cirque du Soleil? Oh my god!
That was confusing as hell. (chuckles)
- Oh my! Oh, it was a painting! - Nope, don't do it, though.
It's still scary. Nooo! Oh, I knew it!
I knew that. I recently went to the Museum of Illusions
for the first time two weeks ago. If I didn't go, I would have
been confused, but I guess I'm street smarter than I thought.
I see. You know, the depth perception and the illusions. All right.
I thought she was just a daredevil.
- (FBE) So, on a scale from one to five,
how confusing was that for you? - That was a five.
That was so confusing to me.
I really thought that she was on a ledge.
- One out of five. That's about what I was expecting.
- I'm gonna give it a one. It sort of ruins the illusion too
when she jumps. - We'll say a four.
- Two. It was confusing at first but only for a split second.
- I give it a one. - I gotta go with a one.
- Two. It wasn't that confusing. - For me, that was a one.
- I would say that's a two, 'cause at first, I was just like,
"Oh, what's happening here?" - Five.
I do not like that at all. Next!
- Okay, a little family trip. Oh, no! His legs are gone!
He really skipped leg day. - Oh, where did his body go?
- That man has no lower half of his body!
- How does that work? - What is going on here?
- I mean, he must be wearing camouflage pants,
or he's laying on something.
- Trying to see what kind of pose he's in.
- He could just be a floating person.
You know, I'm not gonna judge. - I'm hoping the confusing thing
is that this little kid is actually the dad.
I can't figure it out, so I think I have to give it a five.
- Four. - Yeah, a good four.
- Five! (laughs) I have no idea
where this man's lower half is. - A two?
- Four. - I'll say a two.
Is there a dead man in the back? - Three.
- Already a five. - I'll give it a four.
- This is a five, because I cannot figure out
how this is being done right now.
- (FBE) So, he's bending at a 90-degree angle
and each of his legs is blocked by one of the kids.
- Ohhhh! Oh, he's manspreading to the tenth degree.
- That makes sense now! I was so confused!
- Oh. Okay. - (both gasp)
- They're gonna hit each other! N--! Oh. (chuckles)
- Aww, Hawaii-- oh, no! Don't do it!
- (sucks in breath) Ooh! It looks like the wing
is gonna chop off the whole top of the other thing.
- Yeah, I get that. That's not that confusing.
It's just the angle. - If I have bad depth perception
like a sloth, that might have confused me.
But I'm not a sloth! I'm a human being. Check it.
- That was a one. If I just saw it randomly on Instagram,
maybe I'd freak out. - I'd give it a three, average.
- I'm gonna say one. - I give that a zero.
I solved the case! - That's a one.
I thought maybe the wing might touch it, but we good.
- One. - Two.
- Three. It's a little more confusing than the first one.
- That was a good four. - I say three.
- Honestly, I would put a two. I don't even think that was confusing.
That was more like panic.
- Okay, it's a mirror.
- It's like some special mirror th-- Oh, no! It's the same thing
on both sides! Wait, what?
- Oh, man. Oh, my brain.
- I've seen these before.
I know it's just something with this shape.
- And this is saying physicsfun? It's not fun.
- Huh? Wait a second. - Mm-hmm.
Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.
- Oh, okay. Nope, still don't get it.
- Oh, that's so cool! Oh, that was my favorite one.
- It looks like it's only one side as an arrow when you're looking
at it dead-on, but then when you're at a different angle,
it can go either way.
- (FBE) For that one, it's not a special mirror.
It's just the way that it's shaped.
From the way that you're looking at it,
it just looks like it's pointing a different way.
- Fine. Jeez. Take away my detective badge.
- Okay, that's a five. - Five as well,
because I couldn't figure it out. - That's a five.
I will never understand that one. - Three.
- I'd say a two for that. But for me, it's almost
just more satisfying to watch than anything.
- Three. - Three, 'cause I I understand
on a basic level what's happening here,
but definitely not the specifics.
- Three. - A four.
- Five. - Definite five.
- Who makes these things? Who's like, "I wanna trick people. Ha-ha"?
- (voice-over) Muahahahaha. ♪ (ominous music) ♪
- Oh, it's just a photo. Gosh, I was waiting for it to move.
I was like, "Move, horses!"
- Donkeys... on... sand?
- Looks like donkeys. Oh my god. Are they zebras?
(gasps) Oh my god. I get it. It's shadows of zebras.
- (gasps) Oh, I figured it out! I figured it out!
It's zebras, and then the shadow-- the black part is their shadow.
- This is a pack of zebras, and their souls
are leaving their bodies. - Wait a minute.
Are those shadows? What is hap-- where are they coming from?
I'm gonna give this one a freakin five.
- A two. I'm sorry. - I'd give this one a two.
- Two, because it did take me a second to figure it out,
but it's still dope. - Four.
- I'll give this a four for confusion.
- I'd give that one a two.
- This is pretty confusing. I would say--
- This is a five for me. - Oh, I was gonna say four.
I figured it out pretty quick, though. - Oh, I didn't.
- I'd give that one a three out of five.
That one was pretty hard, but it was satisfying.
- I give it a four. That was pretty confusing.
I really thought it was just black horses,
but it's zebras!
- I think it's a hill with smoke. - Is it ocean spray?
- Wow. That looks like clouds. - Is this just the-- whoa!
- Oh. What? - Whoa!
- Whoa. Whoa. Why did that look like a wave?
- So, are those clouds? Was that smog?
I thought it was a dust storm for a second.
- Either they're really high up, or this is some kind
of perspective illusion. - I'd give that one a two.
- A solid one. - I rate that a one
on the confusing scale, but five on the pretty scale.
♪ (chimes tinkling) ♪
- That one was a one. - Two?
- That one's a one. It wasn't even confusing.
I knew exactly what was going on. - No confusion over here.
One. - Yeah, a one.
- Zero! It's clouds. - I'll give it a two.
- I give it a two. I guess I'm really
into optical illusions and messing with my brain,
so I've seen a lot of these tricks before.
So, I know what to look for.
- Okay, so the birds are, like, frozen in midair.
- (laughs) Birds, you're supposed to be flying, man.
You can't just hang out up there all day.
- That's creepy. - Are you seeing this? (chuckles)
- It's gotta be a slow-motion video.
How are the birds just hovering there?
- What? Oh, I got it. It's just slow-mo.
- That actually happened. That was a thing that was filmed
in real life. - What is happening?
We're in a simulation. The simulation is glitching.
Oh my god. What was that? Why were the birds not doing anything?
-So, they are moving, but it doesn't look
like they're moving. But if he's on a train or a car,
he going pretty slow, so it must be that slow-mo.
- I'm gonna give that one a one out of five.
I feel like there were context clues that I could piece together
to figure out what was going on. - I'd give it a five.
If I saw this out my window, I would definitely pull over
and start taking videos. - This deserves a four,
'cause, yeah, I look at it and go, that's kind of baffling.
- So, that one's a solid one, 'cause I already knew it.
- I'll give it a three. It wasn't that confusing.
- A two, because it took me a second to figure it out,
but it was really cool. - Five. I don't-- ugh.
What happened? - I'll give it a five
just 'cause I can't figure it out. - Five again.
- I give that one a five. - One! That was a one for me.
- Thinking of how it was filmed, though?
They would have had to have drove by really fast,
film it super slow motion to get it, right?
Please explain. - (both chuckle)
- (FBE) So, you're actually right. They were driving past fast
and they did a slow motion video, and I think the birds might have
been flying in the opposite direction, so it goes even slower for them,
so it looks like... - Ohhhhh. See? I knew it!
But I was still confused. (chuckles)
- Oh my gosh. Girl, what kind of PTA meeting is this? (chuckles)
- Oh, I got it. Figured it out. Bow!
She is Jasmine in the modern world, and she on a flying board.
- ♪ A whole new world ♪
- It does immediately jump out like, this person's floating.
And I bet you the person who took this picture saw the same thing.
- Oh. She's on the sand, but there's a flag shadow.
- It's just depth perception, you know, when you have layers
and the foreground and the middle ground
and the background. I'll give it a one.
- I'd give it a four. The flagpole gave it away.
- One. - This was a zero for me.
I didn't even for a second go, "Oh, she's floating!"
I was like that's a plank there and a flag.
- I know what it was, so it's a one for me.
- One. It confused me at first, but I caught on pretty quick.
- It's a one. - This is a one.
If there were no flags
in the background though, I'd be so confused.
- That's a two. - Actually, that was a two,
because I was like, "oh." - That's a two.
You gotta look at it pretty good. - One out of five.
This is inflating my ego. I'm like, "Oh,
maybe I don't get confused as easy as I thought."
- What the hell are those?
- Little dinosaurs. - What the heck are those?
They look like little brontosauruses.
- Wait. (laughs)
- Oh, it's them backwards. - They're not little dinosaurs!
What was that? - Oh, this is lemurs backwards.
- At first glance, they look like a bunch
of [bleep] dinosaurs running around, which is funny, but then you look
at it and it's the tail and the thing.
That's super cute. - That'd be so cool
if dinosaurs were real and they were that size. What?!
- That one's a five. I thought I was looking
at The Land Before Time footage. - I'd give this one
a three out of five. - One. My very first initial reaction
was these are lemurs in reverse. - Animals are weird.
I'll give it a two in honor of that. - That deserves a four.
- One, because I saw what it was. But it's one of the cooler ones.
- That was just a one. - I'll give that a one.
I saw through you, lemurs. - A three,
because it threw me off at first. - That was a three...
- That's a three. - ...because at first,
you're like, what kind of animal is that?
- (FBE) We have one more for you. As you're watching this last video,
make sure you stare at the green dot in the middle of the screen
and notice what happens to the yellow dots around it.
- Mmm, okay. Here we go.
- The music is intense.
- They're disappearing one by one.
- They're gone. They're completely gone.
- Oh, they going bye-bye.
♪ (eerie music) ♪
- Are the dots even yellow? - They're gone! Ah!
- Oh my gosh. They're completely gone.
(gasps) But then when I look for them, they appear back.
- Is it bad that I see nothing? (laughs)
- Now they're all gone again. They're back.
The yellow dots are like, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.
- (chuckles) It feels so severe with the music.
- So yeah, it's interesting. Sometimes the yellow dots disappear.
Sometimes the top two disappear.
- It's sort of crazy how untrustworthy our eyes are, you know? (chuckles)
It really makes you go, "Huh." My eyes and what's actually going on
is not what is really happening. - The yellow dots seemed to be moving
even though I think they weren't. It was the the blue crosshatch pattern
that was moving. I maybe am at an advantage here,
because I do have a degree in brain behavior
and cognitive science, so I've been hit with lots
of stuff like this before. That's a one. No confusion there.
- Five. That one was hard. - I don't know how it happens.
It's confusing, and I'm gonna give it a five.
- This is a four. - Even though I've seen stuff
like this before, it's just wild to me how the brain works.
- That's a five, because you see them fizzling out at the side of you.
It's weird. - Four.
- Five. - That's a five.
- That was a three. - Five. That takes some engineering.
I think that one was really, really cool.
- Two, because the only thing confusing about this is...
not knowing why it's happening, which is the definition of confusion.
- Once you know what to look for, it's easier to figure out what it is.
But I could totally see myself on a chill Friday night
go into that subreddit and just being like,
"Let's test out my brain muscles." - These are a fun thing to look at
on the internet, 'cause it's kind of like a little mental workout.
You see these things and maybe if you come across
similar illusions in real life, now you'll be more primed
to catch them. Keep sharing these things
and we'll become a more evolved species because of it.
- Thanks for watching? I think. I don't know
where I am right now, 'cause I'm confused.
- Check out and subscribe to all the creators in this episode.
Links below. - (both) Bye!
- Hey, everyone. Lauren, producer here at FBE.
Thank you so much for watching this episode
of YouTubers React. - Make sure you check out
all the creators who came in and shot with us today.
Their links are gonna be down there. Bye, everyone!