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Optical illusions are quite a favourite with those who spend quite a bit of time on social media. After the super viral photo of the dress that divided the Internet on whether it was white-gold or blue-black, we saw similar debates on flip-flops and even bags. Now, 2018 has presented this year’s first viral optical illusion photo — a selfie of a girl with ‘one leg’.
As it happened, model Marisol Villanueva, who goes by the name ‘Rose’ on Twitter shared photos of herself in track pants and sweatshirt in an attempt to make a fashion statement by combing horizontal and vertical strips. “Yea I just combined vertical and horizontal stripes [SIC],” she wrote sharing two pictures.
But clearly, the Internet had a more intriguing topic than her sense of fashion. The tweet and the photos got many to do a double take as they couldn’t make out if the model had one leg or two. Although one can see her two sneakers-clad feet, her lean thighs had many quite puzzled. The optical illusion in not one but both the photos has left Twitterati quite confused.
Check out snippets of the discussion on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/IaviedeIuxe/status/967255925752041472
https://twitter.com/victoriaylito/status/967553846699610112
https://twitter.com/nialloutsold/status/967190309934387200
https://twitter.com/lustforversace/status/967244924847558656
https://twitter.com/ficklehoney/status/967212317569179648
https://twitter.com/uItjieun/status/967198784403988480
https://twitter.com/golclversace/status/967463540847235073
Later she also posted a photoshopped photo of herself with one leg and said that’s not how she looks.
Some mistook the white stripe on her pants to be the gap between her legs and they freaked out thinking she was terribly thin.
However, this is not the first time optical illusion have baffled Netizens. While last year, a photo of a girl’s arm in a group photo of five people baffled many, another adorable selfie of a young couple freaked out everyone online.
