iStockphoto / nicoletaionescu It doesn’t take much for an optical illusion to go viral. They are, by nature, some of the most shareable phenomenons on the Internet because they blow people away by turning the mundane into the fascinating. This particular illusion has been around for years. It

pixabay A painting from 1670 is baffling many people on the internet as it appears that a man in it is holding a iPhone from the 21st century. While that, obviously, isn’t possible (right?) since there was no such thing as an iPhone in the 17th century, it hasn’t stopped a painting by Pieter de

pixabay A painting from 1860 has got many people on the internet baffled as it appears that a woman in it is holding a very much 21st century iPhone. Now obviously, 162 years ago there was no such thing as an iPhone. So there’s no way the woman in the painting “The Expected One” by Ferdinand

This TikToker shares dozens of optical illusions and brain teasers with his almost 4 million followers. Almost without fail, most of them come away completely stumped after seeing or trying them. Read more news about optical illusions here. People love optical illusions. And there’s good reason

iStockphoto A woman on TikTok has gathered almost a million followers with videos of various optical illusions and several tutorials explaining how they’re done. One TikTok video, she calls “reverse perspective,” has now been viewed over 5.5 million times with several hundred thousand watching