Optical illusions never fail to boggle my mind, like this straight line illusion that took over the internet last year.
But this girl’s trick really takes the cake, the biscuits and the entire bakery.
On Friday, a woman named Jaylynn Malone tweeted a short clip in which her sister can be seen sitting down on a bathroom floor and zooming quickly forward without any help, reports Business Insider UK.
Check out this stunt below:
Today this is what my sister came into my room to show me pic.twitter.com/3TiubH1VxR
— Jaylynn Malone (@ebonypotatohead) June 1, 2018
Status of my mind: BLOWN.
The Twitterverse exploded over the video, puzzled over how she managed to pull this “floor car” trick off:
So how did Malone’s sister do it? Was it supernatural forces? Demons pulling her to the underworld? The grace of God?
Or did she somehow get hold of a real-life invisible car?
The answer is simple, and a bit anti-climactic: perfectly timed movements and video editing:
As Malone explained in the thread below her original post, all you need to do is record yourself sliding backward on the floor. Malone’s sister, for example, pushed her body backward by pressing her legs against the side of a bathtub.
Then, use the “rewind” filter on an app like Snapchat or Instagram to play the recording in reverse so that it looks like you’re moving forward instead of backward.
Easy-peasy.
And if you wanna try it out for yourself, Malone has posted video clips of her mom recreating the viral clip to show how it all goes down:
The process pic.twitter.com/B3r0xU6grS
— Jaylynn Malone (@ebonypotatohead) June 1, 2018
The product pic.twitter.com/9XfdMAVD4R
— Jaylynn Malone (@ebonypotatohead) June 1, 2018
Wow, Malone’s mom scoots like a boss.
Have fun driving your floor cars, friends. At least you don’t need petrol to get it anywhere.
[source:businessinsider]
