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Louis Dor
Nov 08, 2017
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Micah Horn/Twitter
A photo of a cotton picking machine in a field is confusing people on Twitter.
We know the internet loves an optical illusion - but when Texas photographer Micah Horn took a photo of a John Deere cotton picking machine at night, he probably didn't think it'd become the latest fascination.
The farmer in one of the machines photographed, Brandon Brieger, tweeted the image, picking up a few hundred retweets and a few thousand likes at the end of October.
The Boys of Fall https://t.co/Gh1WCB7hyM— Brandon Brieger (@Brandon Brieger) 1509417544
People began to see what they wanted to see in the image, picking up thousands of retweets in the process:
You know you rave too much when you look at this and think it’s a festival pic https://t.co/7jQkfsvdRt— Raving Taco 🌮🌮 (@Raving Taco 🌮🌮) 1509727945
This looks like a mad sesh till you find out it’s a combine harvester in a cotton field https://t.co/GjCVikvQOt— Tom (@Tom) 1509875206
Soon it hit Reddit, and Facebook pages were then using it as prime #content:
Basically, people are still shook:
What the... https://t.co/2iKtotnc4m— Footy Accumulators (@Footy Accumulators) 1509974254
Has to be the best farming tweet of the week! https://t.co/YpoIiB4bPP— National Farmers' Union (@National Farmers' Union) 1510044749
budget 'live festival' music video here i come https://t.co/Cyg0MpzGfm— Plini (@Plini) 1510043690
On first glance, thought this was a shot from a music festival. Talk about mind-bending https://t.co/0P01gbjpRJ— Sachin Nakrani (@Sachin Nakrani) 1509992690
Whether this will be one of the best optical illusions of 2017 is yet to be seen.
Here are the best of 2016, while you're here - there are some absolute mindbenders.
HT Twitter
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