This photo of a hug is also a very confusing optical illusion
A hug hasn't confused us this much since middle school.
A photo of a casual hug has become a viral optical illusion. Uploaded to Reddit by user Blood_Reaper, the hug either features someone hug-lifting a man off the ground, or a by-the-books vertical embrace.
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But then, if the hug is a standard vertical hug, why are their arms positioned like this? Who does that?
A closer look at the subjects' feet reveals the solution to this visual riddle: the man in the photo is wearing some weird shorts or something.
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