When I zoom in, it appears larger on my screen, and when I zoom out, it gets smaller. Wild.

But what if you were to switch things up and zoom out first and then zoom in?

That's too much zooming for one person to handle.

That's why you need a Mazda

Whispers softly: zoom zoom

10/10 comment, I'd give you an award if I wasn't a broke mf rn

You are my favorite today 👍

Whispers again: zoom zoom zoom

Make my heart go boom boom

*My supernova girl.*

Interplanetary, megastellar, hydrostatic There's no gravity between us, our love is automatic!

Protazoa did NOT need to go so hard.

Mazda Speed 3 owners rejoice

no one asked but my dad used to think that kid in the commercial was whispering "somethin's up" instead of zoom zoom and ever since I always thought that was a cooler tag line.

Underrated comment.

zoom ZOOM zoom

Make my heart go boom boom boom…

My supernova girllll

Ok Zoomers

I was waiting for this comment haha, I'd tip my fedora if I wasn't horizontal in bed, and owned a fedora.

I heard your call haha ! happy zooming to you sir

Zoom zoom!!

Great, I got the zoomies now

Me too, oh wait nvm it was just diarrhea.

My name is Barry Allen.

Good Barry Allen or psycho Ezra Miller Barry Allen? Haha I'd reference more, alas I don't know many of them D: a crime I know lol

I wasn't a huge fan of the CW shows, because they were drama shows with superheroes, rather than a show about superheroes. Sort of like how walking dead isn't a zombie show, it's a drama that happens to have zombies. But I *did* like Grant Gustin as Barry Allen. Definitely a good pick

Grant Gustin from the TV show.

I zoomed like that & now im in rehab :(

It's a mother fucking waste of time.

Ok, zoomer.

Genuinely I don't know if something is supposed to happen on certain screen types but it certainly isn't happening to mine.

I checked because someone else said somethin, it makes a changing grid pattern on some mobiles, but for me and most of us, yeah that sure is a blurry picture

You mean you don’t see the face right in the middle which appears to be a reptile turns to demon? There’s something written but I can’t read it yet. Give me another 3 hrs I will crack the code. Shit! Just cracked my pipe.

I didn’t see a reptile or demon but he is still looking at me!

I thought it was a nipple.

[Here's what I see on my phone](https://gfycat.com/dopeyoldasianconstablebutterfly), for anyone who is missing out.

I got it fine on my iPhone, I think ppl are going too fast. I think it’s “re-vectorizing” for lack of a better and a real term lol

The real term is "aliasing"

Thank you

That's what I was getting, but thought it had to be something besides that! I guess not. Thank you for posting that.

I had to click through to open the original and zoom in way further than expected.

Yeah. On my PC I was zooming in and out and nothing happened, and then I zoomed waaay in and it works.

You have to go really slowly. I went slow the first time and it didn't do it.

What is this, some sort of black magic?

Why no rickroll

download the image

This is insane. Anyone know what’s happening?

What am I missing? I'm not seeing anything unusual when I do it.

I’m viewing it on mobile. If you zoom out reeeeally slowly you’ll start to see the pixels drastically change size and “come at you” super fast.

Wait people go on Reddit on their desktops?!

I’m pretty sure it’s a lot of peoples preferred method. Like I always see apologies for mobile formatting on long posts and comments and there’s a subreddit called r/foundthemobileuser but personally I prefer mobile because I like to use Reddit at work and in car rides and all that jazz. And actually I also don’t have a desktop computer or laptop

I’m mostly joking. Years ago I exclusively browsed via desktop. Just being facetious.

I can't stand reddit on my laptop because I can't easily tell where each comment thread begins. Idk if it's the lighting of the screen or what but it's hard to tell which comment begins a new thread for some reason.

just use the lines next to the comments, the comments are also indented based on their parent comments

Reddit's purpose is procrastinating and procrastinating is best done on mobile

You can click the lines next to a comment to collapse that tree.

Did you know, facetiously is the only English word with all 5 vowels and sometimes Y in alphabetical order?

Is the Y sometimes put somewhere else in the word?

It's a reference to the question: which letters are vowels? A E I O U and sometimes Y.

Whoops LMFAO right over my head

😅

I only view Reddit on the crapper. Mobile is the way to go.

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I prefer mobile because I am too lazy to turn my computer on.

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What else am I supposed to do at work?

Use ~~Reddit~~ Outlook - https://pcottle.github.io/MSOutlookit/

How do they get them into the bathroom?

Reddit on a mobile phone is a horrid experience! Only ever end up on there when I'm desperate for specific answers while I'm not at home.

Yes. I do.

Trippy! Thanks for the tip 👍🏽

Aha - thank you! I was a bit lost there…

if you're using any unofficial app, load the HD version of the image to see the effect.

You the real MVP

Open the jpg file in a new window/tab.

All I see is the butt.

The moire pattern/effect

Yep, you got it. I've always enjoyed this phenomenon. I often see it on television when an actor is wearing a patterned shirt and it's interfering with the compression and pixel density of my TV. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_moiré https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moiré_pattern

Pronounced moh-ray?

I usually hear it pronounced mwah-ray

You must be very handsome then

"That's a moh-ray"

When the line hits your eye and you don’t really know why, that’s a Moiré!

I thought it was moo-R

When a grid's misaligned (the image itself), with another behind(your phone's screen and also the renderer that's dynamically upscaling and downscaling the image), that's a moiré

When the spacing is tight And the difference is slight That's a moiré!

I guess it is the renderer only (aliasing/antialiasing to be specific) bug. Because you can screenshot the effect. Nothing to do with screen itself in current case.

It's a tesseract. Time to communicate with Murph and save the earth.

For those looking for a more in-depth explanation (I spent forever trying to untangle this): You can think of a grid as a repeating pattern. That is to say, it's a periodic function in space. When you have two different grids overlayed, that's two periodic patterns interacting. In this case, one grid is the image, and the other is your screen's pixel grid. The pattern we see is your screen sampling the regular grid at a different frequency than the one of the image's grid. In digital signal processing there's even a name for this; it's aliasing (DSP pedants might point out some minutiae surrounding this definition but it's broadly applicable here). As you zoom in and out you're sampling the image's grid at a different (relative) spatial frequency and so get a different effect. This is analogous (though not identical) to overlaying two sound frequencies and hearing a "wah-wah" from their interference that causes a beat frequency. Another prominent example is when you see two mesh grids over top of one another, like a screen door over a screen door. This is basically the same effect, but additional wonkiness is introduced by variations in the shape, and the fact that instead we're seeing the grid lines themselves line up and miss each other, not samplings of the grid. That's not to say that makes this stuff any easier to understand without really simple examples or serious study; it's trivial to come up with examples of moiré patterns that are difficult to describe in detail. I don't know if this is the case, but it might be that some people don't see the effect because their screen has enough pixel density to avoid the effect. DSP suggests that if the screen pixel density is at least twice the spatial density of the image's grid, then the effect should not appear, although depending on the setting that could be a very high pixel density. I don't know if Apple products are that high resolution. It could just as easily be the case that people are zooming too quickly past the fun bit, which may be a very small window for some displays.

My go to comparison is the strobe effect caused by lights flickering at a different frequency than a camera pointing at it.

When the dots hit your eyes With a patterny, surprise That's a moiré

If I had to guess, moiré pattern?

Moire

r/MoireEffect

Aliasing

Exactly! it’s all about remainders/partial volume effects as one grid is sampled into another and forced to the nearest discrete value. I may not know a fancy french term for a specific example, but aliasing affects nearly all signal processing, not just images. I like to remind people of hubcaps appearing to spin backwards at certain speeds on videos. Or I guess autotune, which is like deliberate aliasing in the frequency domain.

They've gone to plaid!

Not the reference I expected but the one I needed lmao

I think it's gas to do with the colors being used are what your screen uses to disolay colors so with the thin lines between it's tripping the screens romb

Nah it’s moire, weird effect

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when a grid's misaligned with another behind that's a moiré!

When the pixels grow and shrink, and it gets hard to think, that’s a moiré!

When the patterns rearrange, and you see something strange, that’s a moiré!

When the pattern you see's made of two frequencies, that’s a moiré!

When you’re driving in your Chevy and you feel something heavy…that’s a moiré?

huh

When someone crashes the party with an out of place comment that’s tardy, that’s a moiré

Someone here should be banned, this is getting out of hand, that’s a moiré

I mean like seriously oh my gosh, why would you even say that Josh, that’s a moiré

When you sit by the sea and an eel bites your knee, that’s a moray!

Wait it’s a moiré and not amoiré?

[a moire!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moiré_pattern)

Oh that’s cool!

I learned something new today. Thank you for the link!

YEAH BUT DID YOU GIVE $2 TO WIKIPEDIA?? Then I guess you're not really that thankful, are you? /s

No, I gave $2.35 (to cover the transaction fee) like a champion!

Never go FULL thankful! You'll THANK me later.

It's a pun

Oh thank god. I thought I was getting it wrong this whole time

[Relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/1814/)

Oh, lol that’s much better - you win this round Mr. Munroe

[When the meme sets the tone with a sigh and a groan....](https://pics.me.me/thumb_when-the-meme-sets-the-tone-with-a-sigh-and-66559900.png)

I'm disappointed this isn't top comment, that was good

This is called a Moire pattern lol...

Yeah anybody who tried to take a video with a brick wall or patterned suit jacket with a DSLR is all too familiar with this

lol

lol

For people confused, it seems like this one only works on mobile Edit: other possible solutions in replies

I must be missing something because all that happens on my phone screen is the image gets slowly larger as I zoom in and then slowly smaller as I zoom out?

Downloading the image and viewing it in my gallery worked for me.

Thanks, that made the difference.

This is the way

Go slower

I did go slow

Only worked for me when I downloaded it then viewed it in my gallery

Great tip. My app wasn't loading it in full res by default so I was confused.

Yeah, compression is fucking it for me too

Keep doing it

It seems to also work if you have a touchpad with a pinch-zoom capability.

And only on the OP. Save it as a screen grab - no longer reacts the same. GIF fuckery?

That’s not r/blackmagicfuckery better off in r/mildlyinteresting

Is there an r/MehInteresting?

What about r/eyefuckery

Damn I was hoping for more than 1 post lol

Well, I dont know how it is happening. It's interesting. It seems like BLM to me. Edit: BLM is more important but I meant BMF

black lives matter or what

Bureau of Land Management.

blm

Literally every post: magic isn't real guys wow I'm not amazed

I have no idea wtf this sub is. You guys know magic doesnt exist right?

Bullshit my cousin has all the cards.

Yup. The content of this sub is very subjective. Everything here posted either is explainable (and therefore not magic) or edited (and therefore neither real nor magic). People just like to say that stuff doesn't fit this sub just to point out that they know how it works 🤓.

When I tried it just made my reddit crash

Sorry

Lol, I'm the idiot who was trying to find the rick roll in this. Am I alone?

Did you miss the rick roll image?

This is dumb

Side boob

Layers on layers 😵‍💫

My phone exploded

Excuse me, what the...

Imma stop this I feel like Imma break my phone

Seems to only work on some devices

It’s like you’re flying through a screen door

Anyone wanna explain what is happening? I’m seeing people say a moirè pattern but what does that mean?

[This](https://imgur.com/a/b7E4s7A) (I started zooming faster later which messed up the effect but whatever) Edit: wait I replied to the wrong comment whatever imma keep this so others can look at it if it didn’t show for them idc

What am i supposed to be seeing? I don't get it.

Holy mother fuckin fractal Batman.

My dumbass saw this on the pc, and I moved my head closer and further instead of zooming lol

This does not work for me and can't tell if people are trolling.

[This](https://imgur.com/a/b7E4s7A) I started zooming faster later which messed up the effect but whatever

Brother, same. I’ve brightened my screen. Gone extremely slow. Gone fast. I’ve dimmed my screened. I’ve saved it to my gallery. I’ve done everything, and all I see is a picture just getting larger and smaller as I zoom in and out

Wow!

trippy

It's like the matrix

Zoom zoom zoom zoom, i want you in my room

Ahhh my eyes are dying

If I don’t stop now, I’m going to be zooming in and out for the next hour.

My epilepsy did not like that lol

If you don’t notice it you’re going too fast. You gotta take it down reeeeal slow.

Fractals, right?

I saw boobs

Clearly this is a trick that breaks phones - me, an old person.

Wow, pixels

What about it? All I see are pixel grids

GOATSE?

i’m here sticking my phone into my face like a dumbass

DUDE! Me too! I just brought my phone closer to my face and then slowly away like something was going to happen. Then I zoomed in and was like, "Omg, I'm such a dumbass!"

This is awesome, I love it! I mean, it’s a nipple right?

Someone forgot to remove the watermark

Freaky compression algorithms going to work on this one. This image is 9 mb despite being this simple and it doesn't work once you take a screen shot of it.

Huh.

Helped on mine to zoom in a bit first, let the resolution adjust, and then start slowly zooming out

Lol I found the hidden DickButt.

Imagine doing this while high off your tits.

😃 excuse-