Vanishing point

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Ohhh it's a mirror behind the bar. You can see the ladies in the reflective vest approaching and then leaving

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u/Randyguyishere 1d ago

Bingo

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u/Famous-Restaurant875 1d ago

I enjoyed this one I watched it three times

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u/dat_oracle 1d ago

it's indeed mesmerizing, visual asmr for me

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Caira_Ru 1d ago

This was a great one!

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u/FormerStableGenius 1d ago

I get it now. Thank you.
But I still can't see; where exactly is the mirror located, and at what angle?

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u/Actarus31 1d ago

Look at the camera and wood bar in the ceiling

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u/creature04 1d ago

Still don't see it

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u/Blu3Stocking 1d ago

Look at those square things on the counter and their reflection. And the wood panel on the ceiling is not that broad. It’s touching the mirror. There is also only one camera on the wood panel the other one is a reflection.

Basically the mirror starts pretty close to the counter and the chairs from our perspective.

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u/alphanumericusername 1d ago

This helped. The original comment calling it a counter instead of a bar probably would've helped too.

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u/creature04 1d ago

Yeah I figured it out thanks to another comment. I just couldn't find my comment to delete it once I did 😅.

I thought there was actually 2 cameras and the mirror was out of sight or something.

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u/Deltamon 1d ago

The whole middle section side is a mirror.. The only non-mirrored window is on the right side of the recording

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u/creature04 1d ago

Yeah another comment helped me.

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u/oretah_ 18h ago

Ahaaa! The bar is just way smaller than I thought lol

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u/Actarus31 18h ago

Yep, and there’s only one camera and plug

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u/ebk_errday 1d ago

This was the comment I needed to understand where the mirror exactly is

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u/Randyguyishere 1d ago edited 1d ago

It was a makeshift salon chair, if I recall it was just one mirror but the salon setup makes everything look symmetrical

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u/charnwoodian 1d ago edited 18h ago

The mirror is flat, parrallel to the bar and behind it.

It is reflecting the beam structure that is behind the camera man. This gives the appearance of a 3D structure behind the bar.

Even when you know it’s a mirror, it takes a second to see it as a flat mirror, rather than two mirrored walls meeting in a corner behind the bar.

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u/FormerStableGenius 18h ago

Ah hah!
Thank you. Mirror is parallel to the bar, like a reflective 'splashback' in terms of location.

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u/Yokasta 1d ago

The chairs are directly facing and in front of the mirror. That black bar above the right chair is the edge of the mirror & wall that people disappear behind

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u/jemenake 1d ago

What makes it so good is that the right-most pillar (in the scene) is an actual object and is the right edge of the mirror. It looks like the mirror has a corner, but what looks like the far pillar is actually a reflected image of a pillar that is off camera to our right.

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u/jiggyflacko_ 1d ago

Also the security camera and the wooden beam is mirrored

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u/creature04 1d ago

THANK YOU!!!!

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u/ToranjaNuclear 1d ago

Pretty much everyone coming and going are the same people. The first ones are not that obvious just because they are a bit farther away.

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u/YuriRosas 1d ago edited 1d ago

2 mirrors to be more specific. In both corners. https://ibb.co/1tYpPbkc

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u/dasbtaewntawneta 1d ago

no that whole thing you indicated is one solid mirror, the line in between is a reflection of something we can't see off to the right

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u/Famous-Restaurant875 1d ago

Lol, I'll take your word for it. That hurt my brain

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u/wonkey_monkey 20h ago

It's one mirror: /preview/pre/hygkpcfkpsmh1.png?width=904&format=png&auto=webp&s=a5abfa6eaf40827f20382add3e41c0de82f350c8

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u/Randyguyishere 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes, mirror on the left

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u/shepsut 1d ago

I can see that it's a mirror, but it feels like it takes too long for the people to show up in the non-mirrored side. this is making it hard for me to parse, even though I think I basically get it.

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u/IotaBTC 1d ago

The people furthest right walking leftward are furthest from the mirror and take the longest to appear. The people walking in the same direction but furthest left are closest to the mirror and appear much faster after passing.

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u/shepsut 19h ago

oh thank you!

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u/ChartInFurch 1d ago

Yes. That was the part that was making it look like that scene from Labyrinth.

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u/Fesai 1d ago

I think it is only the left X that is the mirror. The right X is just a reflection in the same mirror. Look at the boxes on the counter.

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u/hrvbrs 1d ago

Nope, only one mirror. It goes along the wooden beam.

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u/EarlGrey07 1d ago

What you indicated as a mirror on the right of the booth is actually a reflection of a mirror on the left of the booth.

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u/wonkey_monkey 20h ago

No, it's a reflection of the open gap on the right.

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u/xylarr 1d ago

I mean yes, I see what you mean, but I still can't work out the orientation of everything.

Edit: ok, finally, I see it now

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u/slappadik 1d ago

ma'am, at least one of them is a sir

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u/DrunkenDude123 1d ago

It’s like a cosmetics mirror I would’ve never figured it out if the camera and that light on the wooden part above weren’t noticeable reflections

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u/TheShaydow 1d ago

But why though?

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u/Beleiverofhumanity 1d ago

Ah thank you detective

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u/SomewhereActive2124 22h ago

I took so long to understand this 😭

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u/The_Celtic_Chemist 20h ago

You saying it was a mirror (actually 2) made this make sense to me, and then you pointed out the reflective vest ladies and now I'm confused all over. Shouldn't the mirror be reflect where we can't see to the left? How do they appear on the right and walking the opposite direction?

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u/Randyguyishere 1d ago

I should have cut them out, it gives it away 🤣

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u/JustAnotherBarnacle 1d ago

Yeah that's where I got it too haha. Proper ahhh moment

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u/xylarr 1d ago

It took me a while, this is the mirror

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u/dooby991 1d ago

Ohhh thank you

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u/Chuck_Walla 1d ago

Yup, some9ne above pointed out the camera is mirrored. Helped settle my cortex a smidge!

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u/homedepotgrande 1d ago

Thank you for doing this. Already read that there's a mirror, but still couldn't place where it possibly can be.

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u/jma9454 20h ago

Ohh! I understood there was a mirror, but I thought it was behind the segment, and that there were two mirrors or something. This makes sense now

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u/tragicallyohio 18h ago

Thank you. I was watching this while pooping and couldn't start wiping until I figured it out.

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u/xylarr 18h ago

I saved you from getting crusty

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u/tragicallyohio 18h ago

Possibly even hemorrhoids

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u/CapeTwirlOfDoom 1d ago

OHH!! Wow I could not see the at at all

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u/GetVladimir 15h ago

This is a great explanation, thank you.

The metal bar in the middle was confusing and this helped to explain that it also was a reflection

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u/CraigLake 1d ago

Holy shit thank you

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u/FormerStableGenius 18h ago

Brilliant! Thank you!

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u/al0xx 16h ago

even knowing there was a mirror i couldn’t make it make sense. thank you lol

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u/yaredw 14h ago

Damn that was really good

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u/senhual24 1d ago

OMG 😌🤣

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u/shoobawatermelon 1d ago

Explain pleaseeee. We are seeing the people twice but I cannot understand

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u/noah253 1d ago

Mirrors is my best guess.

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u/ToranjaNuclear 1d ago

It is, you can see it's the same people coming and going. The first one are a bit farther so it's not as clear, but the two with the safety vests made it pretty obvious.

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u/Palladin1982 1d ago

Or perhaps magnets. Nobody knows how they work.

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u/uttyrc 1d ago

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u/ThomasTheDankPigeon 1d ago

Easiest way to see it is to look at the brown plank at the top of the frame. You can see a security camera and an outlet(?) being reflected in the mirror.

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u/miriapododeguer 1d ago

thank you so much, at first glance i thought it was two cameras before realizing it was a mirror, so i thought the mirror was on the pov’s right, my brain thanks you

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u/Famous-Restaurant875 1d ago

Mirror behind bar

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u/zytukin 1d ago edited 1d ago

There's a mirror in front of those chairs.

The people walking away from us are disappearing behind the mirror.

The people walking towards us is the reflection of people walking away from us, and we later see them a 2nd time where they vanish behind the mirror.

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u/Tunamelts-2 1d ago

Look at the camera in the top center..it's mirrored. The whole thing there is a mirror.

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u/BlueFeathered1 1d ago

I think it's two lanes with a wall between them, and a cleverly positioned camera? I'm not sure though. This is pretty good.

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u/x_Advent_Cirno_x 1d ago

Ohh this one's good, I quite like this

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u/MarleyDawg 1d ago

My brain hurts

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u/N8dork2020 1d ago

The mirror is closer to the chairs, look at the wood beam where the two security cameras are and the two plugs on the beam

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u/Visible_Honeydew_941 1d ago

This one took me a while

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u/They-Call-Me-Taylor 1d ago

This is a good one!

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u/Obvious_Incognito- 1d ago

I know it’s mirrors but my brain still can’t comprehend.

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u/Corporate_Overlords 1d ago

If you were sitting in the chairs, you would be looking right at the mirror. Your reflection would be staring back at you.

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u/Obvious_Incognito- 1d ago

Ohhh, ok. I think I got it. Thank you.

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u/Corporate_Overlords 9h ago

No problem, Boss!

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u/jcdahl 23h ago

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u/Acceptable_Owl6926 1d ago

Who else caught on when the vests reversed

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u/Danibandit 1d ago

Ty! You are the reason I could finally understand the perspective. The vests in reverse bring it all together.

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u/dildomiami 1d ago

this is a good one.
might even be one of the best,
ever posted here.

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u/UMSHINI-WEQANDA-4k 1d ago

This has to be staged/AI, right? If this is staged the timing of people exiting the frame while others appear in the mirror and vice versa is very impressive.

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u/TypicalHaikuResponse 1d ago

Mirrors. how do they work?

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u/Fun-Benefit116 1d ago

It's a mirror lol. That's all.

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u/Top-Committee-954 1d ago

This is why malls are dying in the U.S.

Little known fact that once they opened up the public walking area to vendors it created these Bermuda Kiosk zones.

Strange phenomenon where pedestrians and WWII fighter planes disappear at odd hours of the day.

Some say it's C02 bubbles mixed with Orange Julius fumes, others believe the magic overlap from so many snow globes and Christmas ornaments localized creating a bend in spacetime.

Whatever it is they've done nothing about it not wanting to cause a Black Friday like panic.

Fun fact, sometimes these people reappear minutes to years later in a dressing room having no idea of the passage of time but with great big bushy beards yet not aged at all. It's always in The Gap, though. We were told not to ask about Baby Gap.

Got my degree 1994 from Glendale Community college telecourses in Mall Sciences. I had to leave after 3 years due to the stress of watching this on the monitors day in and day out, no one the wiser.

Thanks to lobbying by the Mall of America it was decided to be kept secret so as not to incite panic from people believing malls are eating people, but that's an entirely different problem.

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u/jcdahl 23h ago

Here's an image that may help!

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u/Randyguyishere 17h ago

Nice

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u/AKA-Pseudonym 1d ago

It's maddening because it's a gif and you can't scrub back and forth to see what's happening more easily.

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u/ordiclic 1d ago

Alt + right click on the gif => show controls. Works in many places, especially when it's a video masquerading as a gif.

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u/Gr1ml0ck 1d ago

I’m on mobile and it allows me to scrub the video.

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u/dmtslayr 1d ago

See the cam and socket? Its a mirror, you can see ppl vanished reappear right

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u/MrLancaster 1d ago

I kept looking for a white 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T

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u/Randyguyishere 1d ago

Well, now I have to watch that movie

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u/mbutterfly32 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/DvWJHSOxTff84SQsD9

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u/lazespud2 1d ago

This is fantastic.

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u/jfk_47 16h ago

Incredible. Love this.

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