Pete Firman’s latest brain-shredding optical illusion just went wildly viral and it’s a proper jaw-dropper
The great comedian and magician Pete Firman has just gone viral – wildly viral! – with this fabulous optical illusion which has been shredding brains everywhere.
Not the first illusion we’ve featured on these pages but we reckon this is one of the best.
I can make you see colours that don’t exist! pic.twitter.com/MRRXg1c9hH
— Pete Firman (@petefirman) August 19, 2026
And here are just a few of the many comments it prompted.
1.
Man hell nah wtf are our eyes https://t.co/phybWetmUH
— ☁Baby Blastoise☁ (@PatsOnYaBack) August 19, 2026
2.
Me expecting a jump scare but still trying to stare without blinking pic.twitter.com/GZijrLStfh
— miskin.exe (@blacksail38) August 19, 2026
3.
How the fuck does this work. Do the colours get inverted because your brain knows the colours of the animals were wrong ??? https://t.co/uSqXgQx5Gs
— Hasan 👁🗨 (@flackospalace) August 20, 2026
4.
“Don’t blink”
Me every 5 seconds of this video: pic.twitter.com/DDT6N9UhKR— Joe (@danielx_jo) August 19, 2026
5.
BRO WTF. https://t.co/qv72j5w1Ux
— iPodKingCarter (@ipodkingcarter) August 19, 2026
6.
My trust issues really had me thinking a jump scare was coming😭
— Yugi601 (@Yugi601_) August 19, 2026
7.
Wait what the fuck- https://t.co/4TIbaXZhlh
— TidyWire🍿(Commissions Open!) (@TidyWire) August 19, 2026
8.
What is dis wizardry?!!! pic.twitter.com/shlDKJlmvF
— (Rap’s Anthony Hamilton)(OfficialBig3Instigator) (@GhostAGDOPE) August 19, 2026
9.
Fully expected this not to work, I was desperate for it not to work and yet, it did. Mad. https://t.co/FevQz7g8kL
— HLTCO (@HLTCO) August 20, 2026
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