People Are Adding Misleading Titles To These Images, Completely Changing What Our Brain Sees And Here Are 50 Of The Best Ones
The internet is this one enormous space where every weirdly specific thing finds its home. There’s no secret there. Like, misleading thumbnails. Yep, you heard it right. Misleading thumbnails you often find on social media are a thing for this Reddit community which goes by the exact same title: Misleading thumbnails.
489k members of this online group are sharing weird, funny, and cool pics that are not always what you think they are. The logic is simple: some Reddit thumbnails cause a unique optical illusion due to their small size and make you go: “hmm… let’s see.”
According to the group’s description, “when you open the images to full size, you're in for a surprise.” So today, we picked some of the most misleading pics that will make you scratch your head before realizing you got bamboozled.
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This Hole Right In The Middle Of My Kitchen
Trashy Bride Lets It All Hang Out
Waddaya mean Not Safe For Work? Can't a girl wear a black sleeveless dress to work anymore? You guys only see what you want to see... ;-)
Load More Replies...Huge Underwater Iceberg
🎶 Frosty the bison.. was a very angry soul...with two curving horns and some big sharp hooves, and a nose with two big holes... 🎶
Judging from the size of the head, I'd say it's more a Wisent than a Bison. Bison's are broader in general and especially their foreheads are much bigger and their horns further apart. The Wisent is the "forest-bison", habituated in Europe
Load More Replies...To find out more about the Misleading Thumbnails subreddit, Bored Panda reached out to their moderator team, who was happy to share their story. The moderator u/pajam said that r/misleadingthumbnails was created by a user named Noot 9 years ago when he was “scrolling through Reddit and came across this thumbnail.”
The creator couldn't imagine this not being some sort of NSFW image, but then when he opened it and saw the full-size image, he realized it was just a baby pig between two other pigs. “So he was misled by the thumbnail, and thought it was a unique experience blending optical illusions with a sort of 'mind-blown' experience.”
And since there was no subreddit dedicated to this, he created r/misleadingthumbnails, which now has 489k members.
Homemade Baguette And Nutella
I was not fooled for a second. I also have an orange cat, though. theCrazySm...def5e9.jpg
i wasn't fooled either. I have two calico cats
Load More Replies...Crowd At A Concert
Man With Curly Hair About To Dive Into The Water
But it turns out that the evolution of the subreddit has been “somewhat frustrating,” because “for over a decade, Reddit's default design included thumbnails for every post,” u/pajam explained.
But the new Reddit redesign has made r/misleadingthumbnails way more confusing for new members. “New Reddit has made 'Card View' the default view for new users, thus those users won't see any thumbnails whatsoever unless they actively switch to 'Classic View' or change their settings to use the 'Old Reddit' design.”
As a result, r/misleadingthumbnails attracted a lot of new users who didn’t get the purpose of the subreddit. “They would instead treat it like the plethora of other 'Misleading Images' subreddits (/r/Pareidolia, /r/confusing_perspective, /r/forbiddensnacks, etc.).”
But the moderator said the community stays positive since they still have a lot of redditors who prefer the old Reddit design as “most users who were redditors before the redesign” and “they are passionate users about keeping the subreddit true to its roots.”
My New Eyeglasses Are Blurry
everyone talking about the illusion, me wondering if those berries on the bottom right side are edible................
They really are, you can't see berry well at all. Until you manage to focus clearly, a lot of water will have passed beneath the bridge.
This is awesome. Nature at least has SOME benefits. All other times its a bajilion degrees or -100 where i live
Vista Of Jupiter
I knew it! And people called ME crazy when I told them I hear quacking when I point my telescope at Jupiter..
Load More Replies...the ducks beat humanity in space travel....... they got to Jupiter while we are still preparing to go to Mars
Giraffes Enjoy A Serengeti Sunset
Also a reminder to us about global warming (oil industries) :(
Load More Replies...This one actually is kinda cute. I'm just imagining it's the steampunk era and there are metal giraffes walking into the sunset :)
Today, the subreddit gets an average of 1 to 30 posts a day. “Our content is limited and comes in waves, as it relies on random chance. You never know what images will end up looking different when it gets shrunk down to Reddit's thumbnail size.” However, when it happens, it's a pleasant surprise for everyone, and “we'd love people to share those posts here.”
When it comes to the meaning of “Misleading Thumbnails,” u/pajam explained that it refers to “the experience of scrolling through Reddit, browsing the post titles and thumbnails... then seeing a thumbnail that your brain can't imagine could be anything else besides what it assumes it is looking at.”
But as soon as you click on the post to see the full-size image, you literally get bamboozled. “Your mind gets sorta blown as the image looks entirely different now. Somehow the act of shrinking the image down to the size of a tiny Reddit thumbnail unexpectedly caused a unique optical illusion.”
Train Speeding Down A Old Tunnel
Imagine if there was as train that looked like a cat tho.... it would be so cool......
My Friend Tweeted Me The Lunch Salad She Was About To Eat
Delicious Sushi
The moderator summed up that this precise experience of “clicking into the post and getting your mind blown, or a few seconds of straight-up confusion, was a unique experience we wanted to capture in our subreddit.”
The moderator further explained that “Old Reddit thumbnails were always a tiny 70 pixels wide, so it wasn't uncommon for the loss of detail and small size to lead to unexpected optical illusions.”
However, even if you don’t use old Reddit on your desktop, you can still choose “Classic View” on new Reddit, or other mobile apps. In this way, “you’ll get similarly sized thumbnails to have the same experience.”
Man Taking Bath With Burnt Corpse
What kind of shoes has he been wearing to get bunions like that ?
Load More Replies...A Bowl Of Spaghetti-O's With A Side Of Avocado
*frames this comment on my wall*
Load More Replies...Fun fact! These frogs are actually the same species! The bigger one is the female and the smaller one is the male.
"Scientists Discover "Giant Fossil Frog from Hell" : https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111119
Load More Replies...Getting Some Fresh Air
At first I saw something very inappropriate but then I figured it out
Mark Zuckerberg At Home Sick In Bed
Did he take acting lessons? I'm not used to seeing him this expressive.
Draw Me Like One Of Your French Girls
My lady D'Arbanville, you look so cold tonight Your lips feel like winter Your skin has turned to white, your skin has turned to white
My lady D'Arbanville, you look so cold tonight, Your lips feel like winter, Your skin has turned to white, your skin has turned to white (Yususf/Cat Stevens)
Ummm...... I've taken bath and showers in freezing water. And had to take a bath in a camper where they heated up water on a grill OUTSIDE during winter so they were constantly opening and closing the door letting in blast of cold air while I saw sitting in lukewarm water. Not fun but the arctic would be SO much worse.
Load More Replies...Aww Man, My Glazed Pastries Came Out All Wrong!
For me, they looked like cinnabons. And ngl I imagined eating it. Then as I scrolled down I was like: 1qg58mx-5f...d82f67.png
Unfortunate Split In Leather Couch
That is a very calming picture. Every single person who lives in a place with a view of the sea is so, so lucky. With Covid lockdown and being stuck in the city, I long to set my eyes on Nature.
Wait so is it really a boat or a rip in leather couch because i cant tell??? 𝕋𝕖𝕝𝕝 𝕞𝕖 𝕡𝕝𝕫 𝕚𝕞 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕗𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕕
I can't see the leather, this really looks like a boat. With all the details and ocean waves
Firewood Splitting Apart
My Pan Left A Burn Mark On The Sheet
Crazy Bacterial Growth After Swabbing And Culturing My Work Keyboard
My Asshole Cat Always Loves To Sit Over The Stuff I Leave In The Table...
I know that's a bag, but this is very tru. ou cats absolutely love sitting on paper, and idk why. We have a basket to keep loose papers in, and that's one of their favorite spots to sleep, as well as the table
I finally just figured it out - it's one of those tan plastic grocery bags.
Load More Replies...Stunning Aerial View Of The Amazon River
Can it not eat in a straight line?! What is it, the more turns the more delicious?! 😂😂😂
Impressive Splits For A Bride With Very Long Legs
Ma'am that's not very safe, I suggest you get down from there
Load More Replies...i'm waaay to scared of heights to do something like that, i agree with u
Load More Replies...Looks like she is just sitting with her toe peeking to me..to get there and back off safely is a bit scary with all that dress..
This Giant Antelope Skull I Found In The Desert
Someone Drew A Crab On My Sheet Music
who knows, maybe they wanted crab rave and not the doge theme song?
Load More Replies...Okay, this one did not fool me:P THE DOG IS SO CUTE!!!
Haha I thought that it was a piece of sheet music until I noticed it had only four lines, not five. Took me waaaaay too long.
"Say it ain't so, I will not go. Turn the lights off, Corgi in snow na na na na
Dog With Horribly Deformed Nose
An Advanced Elevator System In Japan
Wouldn't you just crap your pants if you were shopping in this store and came down this isle to look for frozen blueberries? I'd have to find the restroom quickly!
Why is there a man in the frozen food section though? He’s clearly been misplaced and belongs with the chips.
Finally a new way to get a boyfriend without even trying. Just throw some money in there and you got a new man. But they should have a return button just in case
Load More Replies...Wait... We can buy those in the frozen food section?
oh, good, does this mean that this is the new way to pick up a man?
Load More Replies...Frame From The Matrix (1999) Where A Mouse Cursor Was Accidentally Left In.
my cursor was on the picture and i was like wtf there actually is one on here
The Head Of Great Pharaoh Cleopatra
A little bit of photoshop and we have "solid evidence that aliens have visited earth in the past".
Even if it was, the title wouldn't be pharaoh. (Male rulers were pharaoh's!)
A Bunch Of Bananas
I would still eat it as it watches me
Load More Replies...It looks like the snake has spectacles (I actually thought it did for a split second!)
Girl's Mangled Leg Injury
Surfer Rides Rare Double Tube Wave
This happens when melt water gets into fissures in a glacier. It can carve almost perfect vertical holes. As the glacier descends the slope, gravity makes the tunnels go in different directions, and when it meets the sea the ice can break off and the holes can present in all kinds of strange shapes.
Load More Replies...Microscopic View Of Tweezers Picking Up An Organism
Oh yeah, why wouldn't the flight crew let me access the fuel compartments last time I flew then huh? They are hiding something.
Load More Replies...mmmmm..... yummy plane rice, and right on an orange/clementine/cutie too!
A Sewing Needle Going Through A Cotton Sheet
It's real: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/space-shuttle-tilt-shift-photo/
Load More Replies...Cosplayers Headed To Frogcon 2018
Class "A" Haz-Mat suits. The hump is their SCBA (breathing air). The suit is simply leaning forward at the head making it look like they are hunched.
Lol! You think there’s even such a thing? Cuz, I’d totally go
Load More Replies...Pretty Girl Showing Off Her Homemade Inuit Doll
New McDonald's Chocolate Sundae
That face!! One of those that are so ugly that they are so cute.
Throwing A Dog Out Of A Helicopter
So glad you added the video of what was really happening! That’s great
This Massive Ethernet Hub
all the windows have the shape of network cable plugs
Load More Replies...Molten Lava As It Flows Through Rocks
That's not a sunset, those are clouds over some of the wildfires this last summer/fall.
Ducks Swimming On The Lake
Its a bunch of bikes under the water from a flood
Load More Replies...This is heartbreakingly sad.... I really wanna know if there were any survivors.
My Pokémoncard Collection.
My favorite Medieval Pokemon was Brother Maynard. In battle he threw the Holy Hand Grande of Antioch.
I love this
Those Chickens Look So Happy!
Probably a hog farmer with contract to haul off out of date milk..will slop the pigs with it
Tom Cruise On The Set Of Top Gun (1985)
Lt Col. Amy McGrath was a _real_ US Marine fighter pilot who would have been a much better Senator for the people of Kentucky than Moscow Mitch. (she's also at least 4" taller than Cruise)
Tom Cruise has no where near the balls that this woman has. She's for real, he's a fake. What an insult.
Uncooked Bacon
My Brand New Motherboard
This Massive Watermelon Seed
Boop... i love birds. parakeets and lovebird are my favorite tho... burb
Explicit Poster For Gayclub
I don't kno spanish will someone pls tell me wat the hail that means
Extreme Morbidly Obese Cat
All Of My Grandfather's Wwii Ribbons On Display In A Case
I want to know where and what this is? I am imagining a college dorm?
Elevator Scene From The Shining Re-Enactment
looks like a form of kudzu made out of alien muscle tendons to me,
My New Phone Case
I'm thinking THAT Is the point. BTW... You aren't alone. I am definitely having to do multiple takes.
Load More Replies...Can't figure it out? Spoiler alert.................................................. Its a bathtub with slightly sudsy water
How dirty are your dogs that your tub looks like this after washing them?
Beautiful Bloodmoon
Thicc Tunnel
Do you not see it? The black concrete part of the tunnel is suppose to be like the underwear or shorts or whatever and the lighter concrete walls are suppose to be the legs. And in result, a butt. Hence why the caption is, "Thicc tunnel".
Load More Replies...ohhhhhh i see it!!! took me about 2 minutes of looking at comments to see it!
Death Himself, Walking Through My Yard.
Giant Oreo Waiting For Creme Layer
How Is He Supposed To Lift Those Pancakes?
World Record Attempt For Largest Pizza
Broke My iPad Screen
So cool! I can see the street that I grew up on at the right side!
You must be those people I thought lived in the TV and acted out the shows if you lived on a broken iPad
Load More Replies...Wife Just Got A New Piercing..
My Newest Keyboard
This Bible Has Been Passed Down For Six Generations
Medieval Spike Torture Machine
Don’t really know what it actually is anyway, so, sure, Medieval torture device sounds good
The Ghana Swimming Team Getting Ready For Their Group Prostate Exam.
yeah optical illussion.. BUT CAN WE PLEASE TALK ABOUT THE "REAL" PIC? 101 coats of polish?! dafuq?! why?! ew..
Sorry, I thought that those were colourful stormtrooper helmets for a second. What is the point of those nails?
It was an internet meme people did for a while -- 100 coats of foundation, mascara, fingernail polish, etc.
Load More Replies...Bernie Sanders And Aoc Take A Trip To Gettysburg
"Dad... the slaves are free already." "WE GONNA STOMP SOME GREYBACKS OR NOT CHARLOTTE?!" "Ugh... ok dad..."
Load More Replies...Starting 4/20 Right With This Massive Joint I Rolled
Police With Riot Shields Blocking An Alley
False-Colour Jupiter
Ngl I love optical illusions but they make me dizzy. In the good way though.
Those were amazing tricks! It's so wild how our perception works on different images.
Ngl I love optical illusions but they make me dizzy. In the good way though.
Those were amazing tricks! It's so wild how our perception works on different images.
