Human hole system is a mystery to me. If you put beans in your mouth they come out of your ass but if you put them in (left or right) nose hole why they don't come out from another.
imagine explaining this to a doctor: "Yea so, some guy on the internet said not to stare at these images or you can cause serious harm to yourself...................... so i stared at them"
me: huh interesting, ill try *pauses video* fifteen minutes later: huh, lets see what tom has to say of the rest of the video tom:for up to three months me:*oh no*
"You will see the inverse of these colors" Yeah, that's not too bad actually probably kinda trippy "For up to 3 months" Now it's time to close the tab...
Heres a link for you then! www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3073381/The-picture-BREAKS-BRAIN-Bizarre-trick-transforms-black-white-lines-red-green-effect-THREE-MONTHS.html
lies. it depends on how long you look at it! www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/illusion-breaks-your-brain-so-you-see-black-and-white-as-green-and-red-10238436.html
I did this about 3 hours ago and the effect still lasts. I did the full 15 minute treatment, it is strange how vividly those black/white lines light up just after you do that. So far, the only time i've noticed it is when looking at the bars on the test, and slightly on the vertical parts of the cover on my tower fan. I'll update to see how this changes over the next few days. For science Edit: Day 1 - immediately stopped working. Very sad
I've noticed this effect on some black and red striped curtains I had. When looking away I would see a negative image of the curtains for a few minutes. I get the same with a black and white strip but I think that perhaps is down to the eyes adjusting sensitivity to the different brightness levels.
I did the same, because I want to keep precise vision to design my webpage, I don't want the colours to look different to me than to almost every other human on earth...
Actually, if you peruse around on the internet a lot in your spare time, you run into them all the time. Memetic effects are what make memes so popular. It's also where the name came from.
I'm so tempted to do this but at the same time this feels like a bad idea Edit: I'm doing it. I haven't gotten my drivers license yet so its a good idea to do this while I'm young if I want to experience it in my life Edit: After trying it, it went away after like 15 mins. and it doesn't change your entire brain, it seemingly only messes with the area that looked at it, and having a green square on your vision is not something id like
There was an experiment conducted where a group of college students were given glasses to wear that were inverters. They used lenses that made everything the person saw appear up side down. The students were instructed to wear these glasses all their waking time for two weeks. By the time the two weeks was up, all the students wearing the glasses were seeing the world right side up. When the glasses were taken away from them, they all saw the world up side down for a period of time similar to the time they wore the glasses but a few of them had the effect persist for months which frightened them AND the medical personnel overseeing the experiment. Those students even reported that their _dreams_ were up side down.
Without the lines, so just a block of red and a separate block of red side by side create a similar effect but for not as long. Look for like 30 seconds and it'll be sorted in around the same time although it won't be as powerful.
Do you wonder why you didn't understand the effect? Because it has literally nothing to do with your perception of red or green. It has to do with your perception of black and white lines.
@@Mythraen yea that is how comedy work:braking expectations witch this is couse it dosent have to do anything with subject but anyway everyone has different understanding of comedy
Well... I decided to read the Wikipedia article for this effect. There's instructions on there, that are quite clear, and with images as well. All I can say is, I now I have a fancy red and green grid imprinted on everything I look at. Granted it's only been 15 minutes or so since I did it... And I only did it for maybe 1 minute. So. it clearly does something.
It gradually went away after 20-30 minutes, but honestly I feel like I can believe the effect lasting a lot longer if you really stare at the images for a long time, on a large monitor and so on. Obviously things like this work differently for different people as well. 1 minute equaling 15 minutes of artifacts for me doesn't necessarily mean that 2 minutes of staring will mean 30 minutes of artifacts... Could mean 2 weeks for all anyone knows. But yeah, the effect is absolutely noticeable and real - just the strength of it is probably not as bad as suggested in the video for most cases... Doesn't mean it can't be that bad for some unlucky people!
stared at it for about a minute, but the grids are barely visible in dim lighting and for some reason flipped, the effect had completely passed by the time I finished the comment
Nah, it'd be safe. Euclid means it has some risk of escaping containment and becoming a serious issue. Safe means it can be contained, and won't cause harm if correct procedures are followed, especially if said harm is relatively minor, like temporary colourblindness.
I've actually experienced this! I had no idea it had been studied and identified. I like to make pixel art(ok, pixel doodles) and I usually leave the background transparent, so I would get that checkerboard pattern burned in. I don't recall it lasting months, but it was a little annoying for a few weeks.
PSA: 3 months is more of an extreme case, and that's after you look at it for 15 minutes. The effect is very mild and disappears quite quickly for most people.
Whenever I see internet ads which tell you "Not to press that button", I don't press that button because I'm not stupid enough to fall for that reverse psychology BS.
@@Stettafire It's impressive how much variety there can be in the systems used between countries. In NZ the turning light changes between the colours as well as being on or off, so at least here you'd be screwed if you did this.
"Don't do this dangerous thing!" Me: "Oh, I'm gonna do it!" "You would have to stare at these images for like 15 minutes." Me: "Boooring! Nevermind then."
I looked at it for just one second and clicked it away and then got SO SCARED when I saw stripes on the screen - but then realized it was my t-shirt's reflection. Phew.
+Rosie Isla I don't think you were paying attention. It doesn't make you see stripes on your screen or anywhere else, it makes you see tinted colors in between lines where there are no colors, if you see a particular pattern of alternating lines. It must be horizontal or vertical gratings like shown in the video (and I can find no evidence it works in real life or on anything other than those specific type of images as Tom claims), and you will see the inverse color as a tint where it's actually white. It only works after you've been properly induced, and he didn't show it for long enough for people to see anything other than a normal afterimage lasting a few seconds. You have to stare for a few minutes to get an effect that lasts hours or days.
Privacy Lover Yes, I know. But I don't think you were paying attention to my comment, because I said I was scared of that happening and quit the video before the image had been on-screen long enough for that to happen. It was then my shirt's reflection that scared me.
+Privacy Lover I just stared at it for at least 10 minutes, but not much happened.... Things are still the same colors they were. And I'm conveniently wearing a green shirt that's still green.... I iz disapoint.
skrubritos It's perfectly safe. What it comes down to is that the longer you stare at it the longer it will last (as in 15 minutes could last 3 months).
Evil life goal #42: Print this image out. Then, walk around at an art school, telling people you're doing an essay on optical illusions, and want them to look at the image for a few minutes and then answer a survey about what they see.
Colourblind people (ok, colourblind men, since for them it's much more likely to get it) were used in WWII for aerial reconnaissance, since they could interpret the monochrome pictures of enemy ground much better than normal people, as they were used to seeing no colours.
it is reversible . All you need to do is stare at the original red and green image , but rotated counter clockwise , for half the time you stared at the original image . www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3073381/The-picture-BREAKS-BRAIN-Bizarre-trick-transforms-black-white-lines-red-green-effect-THREE-MONTHS.html
It's probably exactly that complexity that makes us so fragile. The more intricate a machine is, the easier one broken part will make the entire thing break down, no?
@@croma2068 that explains why the newborns of our species are between the ones that need parental protection 24/7 for years. If not the longest, one of the longest times in nature
2.8 months is the longest that was able to be produced after 15 minutes of exposure in a lab setting. 3 months is theoretically possible, but you'd have to actively try to get it that long.
@@EndTimesHarvest Oh it was. Even just the mention of the song to friends and family who were on the same ride is enough to wipe the smiles from their faces.
I had this happen after I spent a long time weaving, now I know to change where I look every once and a while! It lasted like a week but went away Note* it was probably about an hour staring in one spot which lasted me a week. Different brains a guess, I don't think mine could make it stick for 3 months
Sounds like the unrideable bicycle. This is a bike with a reverse gear put into the handlebar mechanism so that you steer left to go right and vice versa. They say that once you master riding it, it breaks your ability to ride a normal bike.
It does. Smarter everyday (a TH-cam channel) recorded his progress and learned to ride this backwards bike and then showed a video of himself being unable to ride a normal one again!
"They say that once you master riding it, it breaks your ability to ride a normal bike." this exact with has already been done its on youtube some guy did it and its not even 3 years old
But how come when i drive with my hands on the bottom of the steering wheel, in effect using the opposite arm to turn a direction. It doesn't break my ability to drive?
Your hands might be moving in the opposite direction to normal, but the visual stimulus to your brain is still the same - the steering wheel turns clockwise or anti-clockwise as usual.
Well that's simply muscle memory, it's like, if you learned to type in qwerty, then in another layout, like dvorak, you wouldn't be able to type in qwerty as well.
That explains why, after laying down on the beach with my eyes closed for about 30 minutes, everything ended up having a blue tint for the rest of the day...
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I did the 15 minute treatment. Will update regularily Day 1. After the test I have this weird afterimage of a slightly red a lnd green color. Day 5. The effect is gone rip
You are in luck, you only need to do it for 3 minutes or more( longer for better effect I guess) on each image( seperately, yet to find anyone in the comment section that has done it right sadly, I am curious but can't because I write software everyday and dunno if I trust the cure enough). It potentially rewires Edge detectors in your brain but the effect is reversible. You simply rotate the squares 90 degrees and do it again.
I think the closest I've ever had was one time when I played a game (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion to be precise) for a rather long time in a bit of marathon with small breaks, for the next few weeks I could still see the HUD, I could see a little cross in the centre of vision and a semi-representative of me health/mana/fatigue bar, it was surprisingly useful I think as it was nice to have a visual estimate of how tired I was as well as what my willpower was like (I think that's how the mana bar was working) it went away after a little while though.
To reverse the effect, try staring at the same red and green stripes, but rotated 90 degrees (clockwise or counterclockwise), for about half the time you previously spent staring at them in the original orientation.
And, whatever you do, don't read the world's funniest joke. It is deadly. It was weaponized by translating it into German one word at a time, and was deadly when used in WW2.
telling people on the internet not to do something is just like the fallout 4 dialogue wheel, it always comes out as yes, no matter what option you choose.
I've tried it on 22. August 2020 for about 15 minutes and it worked! The horizontal stripes were much more intense for me; they are still very lightly discoloured (today is 03. November.2020). The vertical stripes started to fade back to black/white about a week after my experiment. It had no impact on my daily life whatsoever. But I ddidn't encounter much stripey things, to be fair. So it was a fun experiment for me (and a few weeks ago I wondered if the horizontal stripes will ever be "normal" again :D But now I know: yes, they are fading too!
camerinian well, it went away completely gradually over a period of about three days... I never found it to mess with my vision in every day life, only when I looked at that black and white lines picture I saw the change in color. It's a fun weird experience.
Reckl ess I think he commented on the "fun weird experience" bit of my comment, not in a skeptical way... In case it was, its totally legit, at least for me.
did this to myself around the time this video came out. i never got the flipped colors but i still occasionally get stripey vision. just horizontal lines in my vision where everything is just a bit darker. it's not really obtrusive or anything just a bit distracting. the worst part is that they're not perfectly horizontal to my vision but just slightly crooked.
***** nothing happens been staring at that thing for a while and everything is normal, i don't see a grid or anything. Everything is just normal even though i see the line superimpose one on top of the other for a moment. I am daltonic red green so i guess i have to find one that is, orange and blue, or yellow and purple to try and see what the effect is about :)
christiann93 I personally didn't know I was red-green until I was 18. I always had a bit of a hard time telling apart colours but nothing really crazy. It wasn't until we looked at a few plates from the Ishihara colourblindness test in my high school psych class for fun that I realised I was colourblind lol. For some people it's pretty apparent when they look at things that are red and green and think they're the same, usually when other people say they're two completely opposite colours, that they're colourblind. Apparently I was too thick to realise until I was an adult.
through the color blind test and plates that involve a series of 64 plates i think each with a number on them. People that are normal will see in certain plates certain numbers or images and i don't see anything on those plates. There are i think seven plates that are there too test to see if you are color blind or daltonic which i am, because in those plates i see the numbers clear as day while other people can't. Just type in color blind test on google to see some of the plates. I had the test done to me by my art teacher because i was have trouble reproducing and image because the detail needed to be exact it was in red and green to make hues of brown. The images was really messed with my eyes but in the end i found out i was daltonic
VIXsterna Augie Ciera Thanks to both for answering, thats something i had never asked to a real color-blind person ans you answers are really helpfull :)
+Aitch , It won’t really ruin your sense of color, though. I make digital paintings, and I subjected myself to the McCollough effect. Even when the effect was at its strongest, I was able to do my paintings just as easily as I ever did. If you did subjected yourself to the McCollough Effect, you’d only see it under very specific circumstances. You need stripes of a certain size, and very high contrast to see the effect. If you saw it on a gate or something, the phantom colors would likely disappear when you got closer to it. I only evey saw it when I looked at the test images to check if I was still under the effect. It lasted over four months. Really, evey time people mention this thing they warn people not to do it. Having done it myself I, on the ther hand, would say that it’s not really that bad, and that it is totally worth trying. It’s a fascinating effect, and none of the descriptions does the experience justice.
@@plxsma4601 I watched a video that goes back and forth between red and green for 10 minutes. I haven't noticed a difference yet but it is also night and everything is dark.
I'm surprised that there's no mention of one of the most universal memetics, yawning. Seeing, hearing, reading about, or even thinking yawning can trick most people's brains into yawning involuntarily. We're all used to it, but on a regular basis we give into a contagious thought for reasons we truly dont understand. It boggles my little mind
I did this. The black lines actually disappered, and all my other colors seem darker except for blue and red. Blue stays normal and red seems to vary depending on what is behind it
The really weird thing about The McCullough Effect is that it only works on people who have been told about it. Get someone who doesn't know about it to stare at a suitable print out of one of the pattern which can induce the effect and they won't report any effect, but once you tell them about the McCullough Effect and they try it again they notice the effect within a few minutes.
Tom, as soon as you mentioned a song, etc. "getting in your head", I thought of "It's A Small World" song at Disneyland. Then a second later the camera panned to that very thing and I have not been to Disneyland for many years. WOW!
Back in 2011, I played Minecraft quite an unhealthy amount. The McCollough effect fucked up the way I saw things for several weeks. I saw things all pixelized, I would have to blink and shake my head to remove these "textures" I would see on everything. It was really, really strange.
Had a similar experience, but was more like a sudden "pixelrush" where everything seemed pixelated for about 20seconds, it wasnt imediately after playing minecraft. I was pretty tired that day, so that might have factored in. Rather interesting effect. I'm well aware that your eyes and mind can trick you, and I know the limits of human perception, but such a strong altering of the visual input was new for me.
You think you played for too long? I used to play Minecraft so much, that one day I got up but instead of turning the light on in the room i was walking into, I waved my hand such as to place a torch.
Vedvart one day i woke up facing the wall and shaking my hands like a piece of the wall would break and turn into a block.i really didn't know what i was doing until i realized i dreamed with minecraft.i as completely sure that i saw a hotbar in my eyes when i woke up!
Does anyone know how to get beans out of your nose?
look at the sun for a few seconds
Block one nostril and blow thru the persons mouth they will shoot right out
you made my day!
Steve Salomon Jaramillo Villamizar No, the sun is a deadly lazer!
Thomas Jansen but now there's a blanket
Allow me to look at these images for 16 minutes while I stick beans up my nose
what is it about these beans in the nose that some people here are talking about?
@@tpal3243 Watch the video
@@tpal3243 Huh? Your parents never gave you the talk about the beans and the nose?
Human hole system is a mystery to me.
If you put beans in your mouth they come out of your ass but if you put them in (left or right) nose hole why they don't come out from another.
Mr Sir same
imagine explaining this to a doctor: "Yea so, some guy on the internet said not to stare at these images or you can cause serious harm to yourself...................... so i stared at them"
...And that’s how I got sent to a therapist.
Be even better if they tried it just because they thought you were insane or something
And then you both go to another doctor and the redgreen apocalypse starts. And this all happens in 2020 because why not.
@@denyraw Now it's 2030 and by law you must always watch this video, so to keep the new society's color scheme right
@@JonatasAdoM or just bioengineer people to see how they 'should' see the world
0:41 i actually stared at them and when you made them gray i was convinced my eyes were witchcraft
Gray? What are you talking about? They stayed red and green the whole time
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@OMEGALUL 123 r/wooosh
@@Cc-bh3ye r/fakeredditors
They went blue and pink for me
I love how he always wears green shirts.
Very underrated, sir.
@@stevieray9545 agreed
oh no
For me it's red wtf
@@zentrocs r/whoosh
You know, you missed the opportunity to change your endslate's colour to green.
Then you could catch who looked at the picture.
it is green though wdym
I have some bad news
You're tell me it's not
O frick did you look at it
Why is everyone honking and screaming at me when I drive.
ikr the light was literally purple
Maybe don't watch TH-cam while you drive bro
lazonico9 you dont do that?
Micheala W
What insurance company do you use? I need a more forgiving one...
How are you typing?
me: huh interesting, ill try *pauses video*
fifteen minutes later: huh, lets see what tom has to say of the rest of the video
tom:for up to three months
me:*oh no*
still got it?
Update? :D
uh, it disappeared a while ago
@@ant2818 rip
Why do they keep putting warnings after the spells?
"You will see the inverse of these colors"
Yeah, that's not too bad actually probably kinda trippy
"For up to 3 months"
Now it's time to close the tab...
same XD
Hahaha exact same
ABSOLUTELY
last year I did it 30 mins every month or so for 6 months and it's lasted ever since
3master You deserved it.
I really wanna do it, but as an electrician it's probably a bad idea :(
Heres a link for you then!
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3073381/The-picture-BREAKS-BRAIN-Bizarre-trick-transforms-black-white-lines-red-green-effect-THREE-MONTHS.html
You don't want to do it trust me
Lawful Lazy Works every time.
lies. it depends on how long you look at it!
www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/illusion-breaks-your-brain-so-you-see-black-and-white-as-green-and-red-10238436.html
xD
I did this about 3 hours ago and the effect still lasts.
I did the full 15 minute treatment, it is strange how vividly those black/white lines light up just after you do that.
So far, the only time i've noticed it is when looking at the bars on the test, and slightly on the vertical parts of the cover on my tower fan.
I'll update to see how this changes over the next few days.
For science
Edit:
Day 1 - immediately stopped working. Very sad
*Sad violin solo*
I've noticed this effect on some black and red striped curtains I had. When looking away I would see a negative image of the curtains for a few minutes. I get the same with a black and white strip but I think that perhaps is down to the eyes adjusting sensitivity to the different brightness levels.
@@Mr_Penguins_Pet_Human Negative? Like ghosts of the object? I have those some times.
I did for 2min it was really cool, i noticed it when reading
F for the fallen comrade who died before day 2
Never thought I'd catch myself staring deep into Tom's eyes to keep safe from harm.
69th like
I do this for every video regardless
hahahahhha fr
I did the same, because I want to keep precise vision to design my webpage, I don't want the colours to look different to me than to almost every other human on earth...
666th like
"If you work with text or images"
- the graphic design student fights the curiosity with all their might
i just looked away while the images were on screen, just to be safe
YuukoDream Serenade literally😂
IM SO TEMPTED TO LOOK AT IT NOW MY CURIOUSITY IS KILLING ME
I have an assignment to complete so I’m restraining myself from doing this
@@omega2194 me too
I thought I would never see a "memetic warning" outside of the SCP Wiki, in a serious manner.
eXAKR Same. Pretty interesting stuff though. I wonder if there are any other things in real life that could be classified as memetic hazards.
Actually, if you peruse around on the internet a lot in your spare time, you run into them all the time.
Memetic effects are what make memes so popular. It's also where the name came from.
Same. I was actually kinda spooked by this video due to reading way too much of that wiki.
I do not recognize the bodies in the water.
SeaGod333 that last failed test had me freaked for a sec
Thank you Tom for teaching us how to trick our friends into becoming colorblind for three months.
Just thinking about this. What would happen if you had say a colorblind friend look at the image?
icool22 That's a fair question.
i'm colorblind, nerds
justtim013 DO EEEET!
It would do the same thing , with his range of colours instead of ours
I'm so tempted to do this but at the same time this feels like a bad idea
Edit: I'm doing it. I haven't gotten my drivers license yet so its a good idea to do this while I'm young if I want to experience it in my life
Edit: After trying it, it went away after like 15 mins. and it doesn't change your entire brain, it seemingly only messes with the area that looked at it, and having a green square on your vision is not something id like
The hero we needed
How’d it go
How did it go
Did it work?
They died
as soon as he said 3 months I was like fuck this, goodbye
+Husky Bros same here
Same here
Picobyte woah, mind out everyone theres a Satanist here!
+Husky Bros As soon as he said "don't do it!" I was like how do you spell it again?
+Husky Bros Well, if you clicked on it, you're sense of colour would be back by now ;)
There was an experiment conducted where a group of college students were given glasses to wear that were inverters. They used lenses that made everything the person saw appear up side down. The students were instructed to wear these glasses all their waking time for two weeks. By the time the two weeks was up, all the students wearing the glasses were seeing the world right side up. When the glasses were taken away from them, they all saw the world up side down for a period of time similar to the time they wore the glasses but a few of them had the effect persist for months which frightened them AND the medical personnel overseeing the experiment. Those students even reported that their _dreams_ were up side down.
+BigRalphSmith That is so interesting and gives us a little more insight into the allusive world of dreaming. Thanks for sharing.
that's scary
+BigRalphSmith Dude you have my photograph as your avatar, that is awesome.
PiccoloNamek
No way!
Link me to the original!
PiccoloNamek
Dude, you rock! I chose it because it's easy to spot when scrolling quickly or among many other avatar images.
"It works” -from me a person who stared at it for 5 minutes specifically because i was told not to
Shania how long did it last?
@@mylifeisaparty
It's been one month since you asked... I think it killed them.
@@vidblogger12 RIP Shania, thoughts and prayers
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When the quiet kid says "Don't come to zoom tommorow"
*this is what they mean.*
You've got to be some new species of idiot to stare at an infohazard for *fifteen minutes*
@@MarkusAldawn People use Twitter for far longer than that daily
@@MarkusAldawn What do you mean "infohazard" also I like the green pattern on your profile pic
@@MarkusAldawn infohazard lmao
That was one of the best laughs I've had all day. Thanks.
Hey, if we're stuck inside for a few months...
hi
lmao i thought the same thing, but I'm worried about it messing up my art
just use red instead of green
@@everardogarcia6047 Not really that simple
My A levels start in a month, so I might as well.....
Hey, you changed the end card to green. What's up with that?
DeltaGamer
No, to me it appears to be blue
Your telling me its not a static void?
I hear Laurel
I see it as black and blue
I smell covfefe
Now I'm gonna mix up Mario and Luigi for the next 3 months.
Digging Mario LOOOOOOOOLLLZLLZZZZZ
Digging Mario Your username is wrong, you should be Digging Luigi
LazarouDave It's been 3 months since I made that comment.
Digging Mario Ah, so you must be cured then
xDDD
ok but now I wanna know if staring at a version of the image with the colors switched, while under the effect, will change your vision back to normal
It probably will
Good question.
Remember to come back with your results 👍😉
It doesn't. You just get the same effect
Nah it extends the effect for 3 more months
In my experience it did.
This video has been deemed a memetic hazard by the O5 Council.
I had to think the exact same thing xD
Individuals exposed to this video are to be given class 2 amnestics.
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This video should be [REDACTED]
Skidoodle Skidacted your colour perception is now [REDACTED]
This new green endcard looks nice. But why did Google change the color of the TH-cam logo?
Uh oh
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Tom Scott in Disneyland
"Imma do a video about neuroscience here"
Very very dangerous neuroscience
@@quincyw6940 no difference who cares.
Cos disney is as boring as cardboard
@@slice6298 It's not remotely dangerous.
or optics
When the video began I actually thought it was going to be about how It's A Small World really is a memetic hazard.
It’s a really bad ear-worm, I can tell you that much.
15 Minutes could save you 15 weeks or more on color perception
That’s called the Geico Effect.
whats that effect ?
r/wooooosh
"So what's the problem with your eyes?"
"Well, there's this guy on TH-cam named Tom Scott.."
Doctor: *NOT AGAIN*
And why have you got beans up your nose?
Alan Barnett Never seen purple beans tho...
@@green90s 😄
Me: This sounds like an experience, I may do it later.
Tom: ..."up to three months"
Me: Ok, no.
it is fun though
btw i have beans trapped in my nose
@@laurencelong the beans are still stuck after 3 weeks
@@benjamincoffey7860 that made me laugh!
I already was while listening to the video then I heard there months and immediately stopped
Without the lines, so just a block of red and a separate block of red side by side create a similar effect but for not as long. Look for like 30 seconds and it'll be sorted in around the same time although it won't be as powerful.
I watched this 6 years ago and I still wonder why TH-cam changed their logo to green
Do you wonder why you didn't understand the effect?
Because it has literally nothing to do with your perception of red or green.
It has to do with your perception of black and white lines.
@@Mythraen Do you wonder why you didn't understand the joke
@@Stefma4All Nope. I understood it.
It was stupid, because it has nothing to do with the effect.
@@Mythraen yea that is how comedy work:braking expectations witch this is couse it dosent have to do anything with subject but anyway everyone has different understanding of comedy
@@Stefma4All No, it isn't.
Demonstrating a failure in understanding the concept is not breaking expectations.
Someday someone will stumble upon a fractal that crashes the brain.
you mean a seizure?
Haha, you gotta try reading Snow Crash
paused tbe video and been staring at it for 4 minutes straight... i se everything normally
Umm... Do you see your typos?
T Hh you have to watch an induction video. It affected me for 3 days.
I'm going to get these printed onto a shirt.
That's the evilest thing I've read all year
Hack google and make it the website's background
I'm going to sue you
88zachary88 you should print a girls T-shirt with this on the boobs everyone who stares gets karma
You're on the right track but I have a better idea. Print it across the ass of some tight pants.
Well... I decided to read the Wikipedia article for this effect. There's instructions on there, that are quite clear, and with images as well. All I can say is, I now I have a fancy red and green grid imprinted on everything I look at. Granted it's only been 15 minutes or so since I did it... And I only did it for maybe 1 minute.
So. it clearly does something.
How's that going?
so you looked at these photos for ONE minute and you saw a red or green grid for just FIFTEEN minutes and nothing else?
It gradually went away after 20-30 minutes, but honestly I feel like I can believe the effect lasting a lot longer if you really stare at the images for a long time, on a large monitor and so on. Obviously things like this work differently for different people as well. 1 minute equaling 15 minutes of artifacts for me doesn't necessarily mean that 2 minutes of staring will mean 30 minutes of artifacts... Could mean 2 weeks for all anyone knows.
But yeah, the effect is absolutely noticeable and real - just the strength of it is probably not as bad as suggested in the video for most cases... Doesn't mean it can't be that bad for some unlucky people!
+Mythricia thanks for replying, and if it lasts for to long you can undo it easily, so yeah Tom was kinda overexaggerating.
stared at it for about a minute, but the grids are barely visible in dim lighting and for some reason flipped, the effect had completely passed by the time I finished the comment
I'm struggling to physically restrain myself from staring at the images to see if it works.
Object Class: Euclid
It would be safe
True it'd be Safe, but technically it is dangerous. Then again, I've seen worse Safe Class items..
***** storage locker 356 at Storage Site C
Nah, it'd be safe. Euclid means it has some risk of escaping containment and becoming a serious issue.
Safe means it can be contained, and won't cause harm if correct procedures are followed, especially if said harm is relatively minor, like temporary colourblindness.
We know what it means Mr. Buzzkill. It's a joke.
I stared at the image for 30 seconds and now there are all these beans up my nose... WTF!
yea thats one of the effects of looking at this image. I did the same exact thing and the doctors had to pull the beans out from my nose
Scott : this will affect your brain on how you perceive colour.
Me : well this is interesting...
Scott : for up to 3 months.
Me : NOPE.
"Up to"
So it could be less than that
Scott?
@@tomburgess7859 scott is the dude in the video
@@thesovietkevin7275 Bruh his name's Tom
@@tomburgess7859 it's tom's last name u gore
I've actually experienced this! I had no idea it had been studied and identified.
I like to make pixel art(ok, pixel doodles) and I usually leave the background transparent, so I would get that checkerboard pattern burned in. I don't recall it lasting months, but it was a little annoying for a few weeks.
The length of time it lasts depends on how often you test it.
You can literally wipe it out in minutes by repeatedly testing it.
PSA: 3 months is more of an extreme case, and that's after you look at it for 15 minutes. The effect is very mild and disappears quite quickly for most people.
Do you have any citations for this? I would like to research it
@@hollodollo4771 I looked at it for 15 minutes and 38 seconds and it's only lasted for about a day
@@liamerickson7281 i looked a it around 1 min and 30 sec nothing happened other than the grey went a bit red
I stared for 10 minutes and got nothing. I have a lazy eye, so it kept drifting away.
@@liamerickson7281 bur even one day is already extreme
*title suggests that if you click on this it will harm you* *3 million people click on it
I guess your brain didn't work even before you clicked on this video
guess so yeah
It's a me Mario ironic.
Reverse psychology, god bless humanity.
Because we trust Tom.
Whenever I see internet ads which tell you "Not to press that button", I don't press that button because I'm not stupid enough to fall for that reverse psychology BS.
You mean the booby-trapped stalemate button?
kobebeef415 OH NOES! :P
Stefan Constantin Dumitrache The cake is a lie
UberRaybob I know, right? The cake was always a pie.
What if it's reverse reverse psychology?
"The Image That Can Break Your Brain."
me: I shouldn't watch that.
me again: *clicking the video anyways*
Tom : This is very dangerous
Me : Oh no , anyways
Before you try this, don't forget about traffic lights!
Big Boy couldn’t you just look at which light is on the top, middle, and bottom?
@@forsenE But the turning arrow often doesnt have extra light, and the same one can be red or green so you could still be buggered
@Maddie Stone not in the UK, our turning lights are always green, or blue if the traffic light is a little messed up
@@Stettafire It's impressive how much variety there can be in the systems used between countries. In NZ the turning light changes between the colours as well as being on or off, so at least here you'd be screwed if you did this.
Unless they start putting the green light on the top you'll be fine
"Memetic Hazard"
*_*SCP Intensifies*_*
357-357-357
*Meme* tic Hazard
Hello, I am a toaster
Meme thicc hazard
@@sm3nt0r47 haha very funny would laugh 10/10 ign
"Don't do this dangerous thing!"
Me: "Oh, I'm gonna do it!"
"You would have to stare at these images for like 15 minutes."
Me: "Boooring! Nevermind then."
"What wire do I cut?"
"The Red one!"
"Okay..." *Cuts green wire*
You misunderstood.
Idiot
I looked at it for just one second and clicked it away and then got SO SCARED when I saw stripes on the screen - but then realized it was my t-shirt's reflection. Phew.
+Rosie Isla Were all proud of you, you did a great job!
+Rosie Isla Were all proud of you, you did a great job!
+Rosie Isla I don't think you were paying attention. It doesn't make you see stripes on your screen or anywhere else, it makes you see tinted colors in between lines where there are no colors, if you see a particular pattern of alternating lines. It must be horizontal or vertical gratings like shown in the video (and I can find no evidence it works in real life or on anything other than those specific type of images as Tom claims), and you will see the inverse color as a tint where it's actually white. It only works after you've been properly induced, and he didn't show it for long enough for people to see anything other than a normal afterimage lasting a few seconds. You have to stare for a few minutes to get an effect that lasts hours or days.
Privacy Lover Yes, I know. But I don't think you were paying attention to my comment, because I said I was scared of that happening and quit the video before the image had been on-screen long enough for that to happen. It was then my shirt's reflection that scared me.
+Privacy Lover I just stared at it for at least 10 minutes, but not much happened.... Things are still the same colors they were. And I'm conveniently wearing a green shirt that's still green.... I iz disapoint.
I'm a graphic designer. Nope Nope Nope.
Same here... still going to try :)
Mintysaur :3 You are strong. did it have any weird effect?
skrubritos After I started seeing colored outlines, I decided to go to sleep, I still feel weird, I'm happy I stopped after 20 seconds o.o
Thanks :) then i won't try this haha
skrubritos It's perfectly safe. What it comes down to is that the longer you stare at it the longer it will last (as in 15 minutes could last 3 months).
I had to cover that image up with my finger while watching the video
Evil life goal #42: Print this image out. Then, walk around at an art school, telling people you're doing an essay on optical illusions, and want them to look at the image for a few minutes and then answer a survey about what they see.
Nooooo not an art school
That’s some chaotic evil stuff right there
they'd certainly be inspired.... possibly to murder.
r/foundsatan
Tell them its a Magic Eye hidden 3D image and they just need to stare longer.
Well this is a time where being colorblind gives me an evolutionary advantage!
blue and yellow variation of McCollough Effect
You mean grey and grey
Colourblind people (ok, colourblind men, since for them it's much more likely to get it) were used in WWII for aerial reconnaissance, since they could interpret the monochrome pictures of enemy ground much better than normal people, as they were used to seeing no colours.
Red and Green? Heavens no! Brown and brown!
But the percent of colourblind people who can actually not see colour is tiny-
Colourblindness usually means you can’t differentiate certain colours
Say if someone was silly enough to ignore your hazard. How does one go about reversing the effects?
you wait
meanwhile Ahhhhhh... Hmm.
it is reversible . All you need to do is stare at the original red and green image , but rotated counter clockwise , for half the time you stared at the original image .
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3073381/The-picture-BREAKS-BRAIN-Bizarre-trick-transforms-black-white-lines-red-green-effect-THREE-MONTHS.html
Did you create a youtube account just to say "you wait" so it sounded like "Meanwhile you wait"?
+TheCoolKid nope.
I love how we say how humans are super complex, yet looking at lines can screw up our brain
Yes, human are so complex that even the simplest thing can screw and stop a body part or cause minor/major mental damage.
It's probably exactly that complexity that makes us so fragile. The more intricate a machine is, the easier one broken part will make the entire thing break down, no?
@@croma2068 that explains why the newborns of our species are between the ones that need parental protection 24/7 for years. If not the longest, one of the longest times in nature
complex is not equal to well
The sound that can break your brain is actually called the Macarena.
Hide your children!
+Michael Parker US army torture device
More Like British Boy Bands
AAAAAAH MACARENA ... you're so right...
1:14 I was almost about to try this until I heard 3 months nope.
_its time to stop_
I saw somewhere that it's up to 3 months and most times it lasts about a week
Coward
Got up to five minutes... gets quite boring
2.8 months is the longest that was able to be produced after 15 minutes of exposure in a lab setting. 3 months is theoretically possible, but you'd have to actively try to get it that long.
You can manually get rid of it similarly to how you manually acquire it. Just "test" it repeatedly, and it will go away quite quickly.
I liked how you showed the ride "it's a small world after all" as that brought back painful memories. Was stuck on that ride for 8 hours when I was 6.
Must have been traumatizing.
@@EndTimesHarvest Oh it was. Even just the mention of the song to friends and family who were on the same ride is enough to wipe the smiles from their faces.
Perversely we now have the tune as our front door bell chime. I love it.
I remember watching a video about how that's happened a few times.
@Locust Hypnosis Disney theme parks never shut down--everything runs 24/7 and only have time periods where customers can't access the activities.
I had this happen after I spent a long time weaving, now I know to change where I look every once and a while! It lasted like a week but went away
Note* it was probably about an hour staring in one spot which lasted me a week. Different brains a guess, I don't think mine could make it stick for 3 months
Sounds like the unrideable bicycle. This is a bike with a reverse gear put into the handlebar mechanism so that you steer left to go right and vice versa. They say that once you master riding it, it breaks your ability to ride a normal bike.
It does. Smarter everyday (a TH-cam channel) recorded his progress and learned to ride this backwards bike and then showed a video of himself being unable to ride a normal one again!
"They say that once you master riding it, it breaks your ability to ride a normal bike." this exact with has already been done its on youtube some guy did it and its not even 3 years old
But how come when i drive with my hands on the bottom of the steering wheel, in effect using the opposite arm to turn a direction. It doesn't break my ability to drive?
Your hands might be moving in the opposite direction to normal, but the visual stimulus to your brain is still the same - the steering wheel turns clockwise or anti-clockwise as usual.
Well that's simply muscle memory, it's like, if you learned to type in qwerty, then in another layout, like dvorak, you wouldn't be able to type in qwerty as well.
I've just had a great idea for my new desktop wallpaper. :D
Oh, how I wonder of what it could be!
It should be tits!
I agree with the tits!
This... This is madness!!
Tits or GTFO
Someone must post the image with a caption "Can you spot this?"
That is actually scary. Someone can weaponize this. Im glad I saw this video
neutral evil
DO NOT
Now this is evil
Ok satan calm down
That explains why, after laying down on the beach with my eyes closed for about 30 minutes, everything ended up having a blue tint for the rest of the day...
Unfortunately, colordistinction.exe has stopped working.
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Mason Rafferty I for some reason understand all of what you just said
Tony Flamingo who can't?
Genius! 😂
That would be one way of getting out a ticket for running a red light. Great channel by the way! I subscribed :)
+The Enigma you're*
+Cynt3r what?????
+Tushar Mahajan "And lose your license while YOU'RE at it"
+Cynt3r its funny yur the won corecting ppls when yer pictur is teh werd meh
heh heh
+All5! No it wouldn't as you know that the top light is the stop light no matter what colour you're seeing.
(Fifteen minutes later) "why is the grass red?"
Klockorino what other colour would it be?
The effect doesn’t switch red and green.
I did the 15 minute treatment.
Will update regularily
Day 1. After the test I have this weird afterimage of a slightly red a lnd green color.
Day 5. The effect is gone rip
Update?
Overrated he’s dead
@@eitanseitchik no only lasted 3 days and the effect wasn't that strong. Just disappointed
@@kozygeorg What did you do to make it work?
I was tempted but i didn't want to waste 15 minutes trying to ruin my eye
Gizio the Jackal oh... Ok then!!
Gizio the Jackal oh well, you cant break what’s already broken
You'll only ruin your eyes for 3 months, don't worry
It doesn't ruin your eyes. It ruins your brain.
You are in luck, you only need to do it for 3 minutes or more( longer for better effect I guess) on each image( seperately, yet to find anyone in the comment section that has done it right sadly, I am curious but can't because I write software everyday and dunno if I trust the cure enough). It potentially rewires Edge detectors in your brain but the effect is reversible. You simply rotate the squares 90 degrees and do it again.
I think the closest I've ever had was one time when I played a game (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion to be precise) for a rather long time in a bit of marathon with small breaks, for the next few weeks I could still see the HUD, I could see a little cross in the centre of vision and a semi-representative of me health/mana/fatigue bar, it was surprisingly useful I think as it was nice to have a visual estimate of how tired I was as well as what my willpower was like (I think that's how the mana bar was working) it went away after a little while though.
that sucks, but i wonder if you got sick or injured your health meter would go down?
I didn't mind really, made the world slightly more interesting. I didn't get sick or injured within the time span but I reckon it probably would have.
Toby Lawrance i did'nt mean to say it sucked, it would be actually kinda awesome
Bumblyninja You said "that sucks" but sure I'll take your word for it.
Toby Lawrance yeah, i dont know why i said that, i was sleep-drunk
Watch a bunch of McCullough Effect memes start to emerge saying "Can you find the hidden message" underneath it lol.
creating it as we speak
To reverse the effect, try staring at the same red and green stripes, but rotated 90 degrees (clockwise or counterclockwise), for about half the time you previously spent staring at them in the original orientation.
Man, you’re a lifesaver.
What if i don't have the effect on and do this??
And, whatever you do, don't read the world's funniest joke. It is deadly. It was weaponized by translating it into German one word at a time, and was deadly when used in WW2.
Somebody's been watching Monty Python...
someone's secret identity is captain obvious
EmoPunkSupport ...I didn't expect the Spanish inquisition...
Daan Dekker Don't worry. Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition...
Thorkon Amperius apparently amongst their chief weapons are sur..... nevermind
telling people on the internet not to do something is just like the fallout 4 dialogue wheel, it always comes out as yes, no matter what option you choose.
I'm a pilot (in training). No beans for my nose.
I did this and tried to fly like it was an uncontrolled airport because I saw red but it was blue
Nice Yes-Man profile picture from FNV.
I've tried it on 22. August 2020 for about 15 minutes and it worked!
The horizontal stripes were much more intense for me; they are still very lightly discoloured (today is 03. November.2020).
The vertical stripes started to fade back to black/white about a week after my experiment.
It had no impact on my daily life whatsoever. But I ddidn't encounter much stripey things, to be fair.
So it was a fun experiment for me (and a few weeks ago I wondered if the horizontal stripes will ever be "normal" again :D But now I know: yes, they are fading too!
three hours later I still see horizontal greenish and vertical redish. I think I've broken my brain :D
Shit, after a night of sleep its still there...
The Heretic Any updates? How's it looking for ya now?
camerinian well, it went away completely gradually over a period of about three days... I never found it to mess with my vision in every day life, only when I looked at that black and white lines picture I saw the change in color. It's a fun weird experience.
***** Your skepticism is undeserved. Try it for yourself...unless you're chicken.
Reckl ess I think he commented on the "fun weird experience" bit of my comment, not in a skeptical way... In case it was, its totally legit, at least for me.
hm. that is the logo for ableton
Good thing you don't need eyes to make music.
^ on acid
It's a conspiracy against music producers.
See, fl wins ones again
But the effect has to do with the specific colors there
someones gonna look at this for a whole day and see this until they die
did this to myself around the time this video came out. i never got the flipped colors but i still occasionally get stripey vision. just horizontal lines in my vision where everything is just a bit darker. it's not really obtrusive or anything just a bit distracting. the worst part is that they're not perfectly horizontal to my vision but just slightly crooked.
As a colorblind i can't even imagine what would happen if i stare at this sht for 15 min. Maybe my eyes turn "normal" ? :O
***** nothing happens been staring at that thing for a while and everything is normal, i don't see a grid or anything. Everything is just normal even though i see the line superimpose one on top of the other for a moment. I am daltonic red green so i guess i have to find one that is, orange and blue, or yellow and purple to try and see what the effect is about :)
Augie Ciera I have a question, how did you nkow that you are daltonic if you have never seen "real" colors?
christiann93 I personally didn't know I was red-green until I was 18. I always had a bit of a hard time telling apart colours but nothing really crazy. It wasn't until we looked at a few plates from the Ishihara colourblindness test in my high school psych class for fun that I realised I was colourblind lol. For some people it's pretty apparent when they look at things that are red and green and think they're the same, usually when other people say they're two completely opposite colours, that they're colourblind. Apparently I was too thick to realise until I was an adult.
through the color blind test and plates that involve a series of 64 plates i think each with a number on them. People that are normal will see in certain plates certain numbers or images and i don't see anything on those plates. There are i think seven plates that are there too test to see if you are color blind or daltonic which i am, because in those plates i see the numbers clear as day while other people can't. Just type in color blind test on google to see some of the plates. I had the test done to me by my art teacher because i was have trouble reproducing and image because the detail needed to be exact it was in red and green to make hues of brown. The images was really messed with my eyes but in the end i found out i was daltonic
VIXsterna Augie Ciera Thanks to both for answering, thats something i had never asked to a real color-blind person ans you answers are really helpfull :)
I video edit as a hobby. I noped the fuck out of there... Fuck ruining my sense of colours for 3 months..
Wait... he only says that at the end, so you noped pretty slowly
+Aitch , It won’t really ruin your sense of color, though.
I make digital paintings, and I subjected myself to the McCollough effect. Even when the effect was at its strongest, I was able to do my paintings just as easily as I ever did.
If you did subjected yourself to the McCollough Effect, you’d only see it under very specific circumstances. You need stripes of a certain size, and very high contrast to see the effect. If you saw it on a gate or something, the phantom colors would likely disappear when you got closer to it. I only evey saw it when I looked at the test images to check if I was still under the effect. It lasted over four months.
Really, evey time people mention this thing they warn people not to do it. Having done it myself I, on the ther hand, would say that it’s not really that bad, and that it is totally worth trying. It’s a fascinating effect, and none of the descriptions does the experience justice.
+Evi1M4chine Also add "Endowed with McCulloch effect" to your resume/CV and let the jobs roll in.
+Anıl Ertürk Yeah. I do it too.
Cop pulled me over, said i ran a red light but i could've sworn it was green.
That’s... not how it works
Tom: Do not look at these for long periods of time.
Everyone pausing the video to look at the images: "Interesting."
Tom: This image can actually break your bra-
SCP Foundation: *stares*
Rather, the SCP Foundation would lock this website and panic that one of their SCP's has somehow breached containment.
@@pestilence.and.plague probably but close enough *heavy breathing in SCP Foundation*
@@pestilence.and.plague your profile picture looks kind of c.......
NOT MY BRA!!
"FBI" OPEN UP
Who else jumped into comments to see if anyone has tried that?
d2dyno tried*
I'm about to try it
Speedy S. how’d it go
@@plxsma4601 I watched a video that goes back and forth between red and green for 10 minutes. I haven't noticed a difference yet but it is also night and everything is dark.
Me
why would you tell me this. Now I will be resisting the urges to do this forever
I'm surprised that there's no mention of one of the most universal memetics, yawning. Seeing, hearing, reading about, or even thinking yawning can trick most people's brains into yawning involuntarily. We're all used to it, but on a regular basis we give into a contagious thought for reasons we truly dont understand. It boggles my little mind
I yawned
@@albertnewton8296 same
I did this. The black lines actually disappered, and all my other colors seem darker except for blue and red. Blue stays normal and red seems to vary depending on what is behind it
dude
Outstanding move
Mathieu Schuler So, your comment says “3 years ago”. How’s it going in 2019?
@@THE1MAU
OP ded.
"memetic hazard"
SCP Foundation: *interesting.*
shut up
@@chewtag no
I have read too much SCP.
If you got that stuck for more then a month, report to sick bay for immediate administration of class A amnestics.
***** Because it's that or immediate termination.
+D Wells what? Can you type it simpler?
***** SCP
+D Wells You sir, deserve an award for being part of that fandom. :D not many others get it XD
+D Wells However, this is not recommended if you are working on important files that cannot be written down.
The really weird thing about The McCullough Effect is that it only works on people who have been told about it. Get someone who doesn't know about it to stare at a suitable print out of one of the pattern which can induce the effect and they won't report any effect, but once you tell them about the McCullough Effect and they try it again they notice the effect within a few minutes.
!COGNITO HAZARD!
This guy looks like you can't beat him in a debate. I'd like to see him and Thoughty2 do a crossover or something.
Gratz on the club choice
Ejosi Hahah, thanks mate ;)
I agree
COYB. Congrats everyone here on being a blue.
Aldin debate in geek stuff especially
Tom, as soon as you mentioned a song, etc. "getting in your head", I thought of "It's A Small World" song at Disneyland. Then a second later the camera panned to that very thing and I have not been to Disneyland for many years. WOW!
*sees thumbnail*
Memetic hazard
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I would love if TH-cam removed comments showed [DATA EXPUNGED]
And that, kids, is how you make a trip to an amusement park into a business expense
I had the song "I believe i can fly" in my head for like 10 years, it was terrible. It didn't hurt me but i felt sorry for the people around me.
Hi so the beans are up there what's the next step? Thanks.
+sirico smell them vigorously
+ryan sanders (and his 2 stroke) *Don't smell them vigorously
Oh god you're really putting my morbid curiosity to the test
Back in 2011, I played Minecraft quite an unhealthy amount. The McCollough effect fucked up the way I saw things for several weeks. I saw things all pixelized, I would have to blink and shake my head to remove these "textures" I would see on everything. It was really, really strange.
Shaking your head must not be that difficult for you though!
same thing heppend to be
I saw things in blocks
Had a similar experience, but was more like a sudden "pixelrush" where everything seemed pixelated for about 20seconds, it wasnt imediately after playing minecraft.
I was pretty tired that day, so that might have factored in.
Rather interesting effect.
I'm well aware that your eyes and mind can trick you, and I know the limits of human perception, but such a strong altering of the visual input was new for me.
You think you played for too long? I used to play Minecraft so much, that one day I got up but instead of turning the light on in the room i was walking into, I waved my hand such as to place a torch.
Vedvart one day i woke up facing the wall and shaking my hands like a piece of the wall would break and turn into a block.i really didn't know what i was doing until i realized i dreamed with minecraft.i as completely sure that i saw a hotbar in my eyes when i woke up!
Quarantine is getting the better of me, time to break my eyes for 3 months.
Lmfaooo time to go colourblind cause boredom
How was it?
Did it work?