If there's one thing the people of social media love - apart from a heated debate, celebrity gossip, politician scandals, and cat videos - it's a good optical illusion.
Now, one parent has left Reddit users scratching their heads after posting a snap of their daughter "sinking into the ground".
Taking to the social media platform to share the eyebrow-raising photo, Reddit user MK24ever left people at odds with what they were seeing thanks to an incredibly timed image of their daughter walking outside.
They posted the baffling photo along with the caption: "My daughter, where's the rest of her?? Ohh I see, do you?" Take a look at the pic in question below:
The picture features a young girl playing on what appears to be a driveway... but the bottom half of her body appears to be completely missing - as if she has sunken into the solid ground.
The confusing snap did not go unnoticed as it already received more than 80,000 upvotes at the time of writing.
Reacting to the baffling snap, one Reddit user simply wrote: "That's a good one."
A second commented explaining that the caption made the illusion all the more confusing, writing: "Part of the reason it's so good is that the title implies that there's a 'rest of her' to be seen, so we're not expecting half of her body to be completely concealed, we're expecting her to blend in."
A fourth Reddit user reacted to the picture with a simple "WTF" before a fifth suggested that the optical illusion is created by the young girl being behind a wall.
Meanwhile, a fifth Reddit user admitted that they had to come to the comments section to work out exactly what was going on in the picture.
Another baffled social media user wrote: "Everyone who saw it just keeps saying 'there's a wall' instead of saying that the entire foreground is like an elevated plateau and she is standing behind it. I kept looking for a wall between the grass and the girl and it was melting my brain."
Another Reddit user went on to explain that the camera angle is also playing a role in creating the illusion.
However, not everyone on the social media website believed that it was the result of the girl standing behind a wall, as one person joked: "People are saying there is a wall she is standing behind but I don't see it. I think this poor kid is trapped in some kind of Manhattan project accident."
All of which ultimately begs the question, what do you think is going on in this optical illusion? Let us know in the comments.
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