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This 9-second video of a kid in a funhouse mirror maze is perfect

🎵 I get knocked down, but I get up again 🎵

Sage Anderson

on July 15, 2019

The carnival can make clowns of us all sometimes.

Twitter user Erin Porter posted a video of her young nephew trying to make his way through a funhouse mirror maze, and he looks like he's got the hang of it. Almost.

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Running straight into his own reflection, full speed, he gets knocked down (but we assume he gets back up again.) The "bang" of the impact is cut off in the video so perfectly it could've been featured on a knock-off of "Perfectly Cut Screams" titled "Perfectly Cut Kids Bumping Into Funhouse Mirrors." To be fair, it seems to already be a pretty popular genre of "kid fails."

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While we wish no ill will, there's something about the adorable schadenfreude of watching kids get absolutely owned by inanimate objects that brings out the clown in all of us. For example, the immediate popularity of these two hilarious edits of the original.

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Everyone couldn't help laugh, especially the parents in the thread that started sharing their own kids' minor accidents.

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Others couldn't help but point out the obvious parallels between the kid running through the maze, and the terrifying events of Us.

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Either way, that kid should get one free punch on the mirror. Just to make it even.

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Sage Anderson

Sage is the newest Culture writer on the block at Mashable NYC. They recently graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and have previously worked for The Dr. Oz Show, NorthSouth Productions, and on Netflix's 'The OA Part II'. Off the clock, they can be found testing out cupcake recipes, collecting dolls, and watching Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure for the millionth time.