It’s one of those “When You See It…” type of photos that really had me puzzled at first. But then when it suddenly popped-out, I spilled my coffee all over myself. So how long did it take before you were able to see it? If you can ignore the meaning just for a second, I think you’ll agree it’s one of the better submissions we saw lately. Agree? Huge props to Michael J. Höller for bringing this to my attention via our FB channel.
HEY! Who’s taken a photo of my aquarium?
I wonder if all the exemplars of that species are the same. Maybe it’s photoshopped?
Wow, i didn’t notice it but when it popped out, i jumped a little!
Sergio, whats you last name? is it armato?
Impolite?! That fish is downright rude–but cute.
HAHAH thats a good one!
It took me about 10 seconds!
It is a wonderful illusion.
Nice. Very nice.
i dont get it. can someone explain
haha
Thats a rude but funny fish!
VERY rude!
Here’s some hints look at the pattern on the fish
It only took me a second to see.
I want that fish.
That’s fucking awesome!!
Is it supposed to look like a fish eating another fish?
look at it’s skin… try to read it as a piece of paper with letters on it
I’m I the only one that doesn’t see it?
Read the texts on the fish.
Read the ‘stripes’ on the side of the fish. They appear to spell a not-so-nice word.
help!
Only a few seconds, because of the title you used on it… Great !!
Hi’I saw it immediately
Oh my dear. XD I actually had to ask a friend to help me out on this one, but cute. For something like this I would highly recommend not having an “answer page” to since I know for a fact that children access this site too.
Glad you finally implemented the new layout and thank goodness you took out the gray bar. I’m a bit worried that everything is too blue and kind of melds into each other. Still a fan of your new logo though. ;)
I don’t see it! can someone point it out?
never mind i see it hahahahaha good one!
Looks like here’s the original, more polite fish: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wlschmidt/2172153262/
Okay, I’m confused. Help please!
Pre shopped.
[img]http://lifeofpixels.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Tropical-Fish6.jpg[/img]
thank you:D
Ha ha, great!
things like babies animals are just picking up words left and right
PHOTOSHOPPED obviously but good
At first I thought it was another fish behind that fish, then I saw your title and began thinking what gives. Now I can see it. Lol is it real though or photoshopped?
I want one ;-)
That’s not an illusion.
Illusion: a perception, as of visual stimuli (optical illusion), that represents what is perceived in a way different from the way it is in reality.
In reality this picture is just a fish with an offensive word on the side of it and that’s exactly what people see.
If it’s real it’s amazing!! Is it real..???
It’s not real, it’s photoshopped.
i don’t get it…someone help me? please?
never mind…..i see it….right after i send a comment of course….but that fish is REALLY rude
HAHAHAHAHA!
I don’t see it. What’s the illusion?
Oh my god! I see it now!
Definitly photoshopped!
…but well done ;-)
It’s a Copperband Butterflyfish, try google it, and see the real thing.
Jajajaja! It took me a minute to see it but I have to have it as my desktop picture! I know my partner will take one look at it and think “what a nice fish!” :D
Awesome! I wonder if it was edited.
I figure it out when i rolled over and read the picture’s name!
wow i had to read the comments and then look at it one more time and then i was like ooohhhh
It’s so obvious I looked for another illusion before i realised you didn’t know about mimicry in animals. The 90s film ‘Mimic’ is a classic if you’re into this stuff.
Man, once you see it, that’s all you see after that!
Wow, that is rude but the fish is cute. It took me some time to see it **** !
Sorry but photoshoped ;-)
[img]http://ak.scr.imgfarm.com/ocea/md/CB057816.jpg[/img]
I hope this image is legit and not photoshopped, becasue if it is genuine than it is pretty awsome.
it took me 10 minutes!!! i didnt look at any other illusions until i figured this one out!!!(such a blonde) but now its the wall paper on my phone;)
I don’t get it!.. Well, I don’t see it. I see a fish facing toward an underwater plant, the fish looked photoshopped. Someone care to explain?
I don’t see it! What is it??? Is it supposed to look like the anemone is a vagina?
Is this real? There is no way. Really?
Maybe you should change the title of the image file… I noticed it down the bottom after I worked it out luckily.
Awesome pic
Not nice
it took me about 20 seconds, then I saw the K
pretty cool, hope it’s not real, lol
Welcome to the cannibal reef.
so cool
It’s called a copperband butterfly and IRL the bands are vertical.
i dont get it!
Thats funny, i saw it instantly, but, neat
It’s a shame that the skill and quality of this illusion has been used to display such offensive and puerile language.
It’s a great illusion – I would have liked to show my kids.
Maybe the artist can use their talents for something a bit more inspiring?
I don’t get it
Oh.
I do not understand at all, what is is??
Dude there are kids on this site, vurdlak and once they see the word, Fu** on a fish they will go mad
Hmm… don’t kids browse this website looking for cool and innocent illusions? :/
WOW! At first, I didn’t get it, so I just gave up. But then, I looked at the whole fish, and saw the illusion. That’s a good one!
WOW!! Yea Spilled my coffee as well!!!
about 3 seconds and I burst out laughing :-)
I must buy this fish :D!
thats a bad 1 took a millisecond to figure it out.
Still don’t get it or see the rudeness please someone explain
I donno get itz :(
i don’t see it, can someone point it out 2 me?
Bad FOTOSHOP
Hints please !
Does anyone know if the fish is for real or photoshoped??
FUC* stripes on the body
Please take this naughty fishy off my front page…
PLEASE?!?!?!?!?
Not appreciated
Not appropriate at home with 4 grandkids or especially at work (a children’s hospital). Must delete the gadget rather than risk this again. Sorry!
Today I’m deleting this sight from my links.
Low class- not very clever.
Photoshopped.. 1 star
Totally faked in photoshop. Copper-banded Butterflyfish (that’s the name of the fish) have 4 unbroken vertical bands on their bodies. The horizontal marks shown here are fake..
It would be so hysterical if it was real…
for all u ppl who are wondering what the illousion is, on the fish it has the “F” word. i dont wana say it cause im only 10 and i think this just reuend my day! >:U
OMG i just realized it, LMAO ;)
Hint: It says a four letter word on its skin ;)
‘Nother Hint: Starts with F
I saw it in 2 seconds yeah I have a dirty mind .-.
That was easy to see
Aside from the photoshop work, there’s actually an optical illusion on the fish itself, thanks to Mother Nature: the black spot on the fish’s body looks like an eye, making the fish look like a predator fish with a tail sticking out of it’s mouth to it’s enemies.
And I bet this fish’s enemies say “oh Photoshop-curse!” when they see him coming!
It says Fu*k on the fish’s side
This one is great !
[img]http://www.gizmodo.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/illusion-optique-cercle-carré.jpg[/img]
not a perfect curcle its riqid like its made of squares
Hint: look at the pattern of the fish…
i placed my cursor over the picture and solved it instantly. is this a real fish??
ANSWER: Look at the stripes of the fish. It should read the “F” word :)
besides the fish eating the other fish did any1 notice the stripes spell out “fuck” lmao
that is very inappropriate kids play on this site like me
No, it’s photoshopped. Read the posts above, especially by Keatk and Tulex.
What’s so impolite? Please ppl help me! Is it supposed to be looking at something or…..?
don’t see a thing people
Look at the markings on the fish :P I didn’t get it until a while after, either! Very Rude!
I honestly hope that fish is photoshopped.
Marine animals are getting crueler by the minute…
Please be photoshopped…Please….!!!
LOL this took me 3 days to finally figure it out…
what has science done!!!
Your gadget had been on my desktop until this illusion forced me to remove it. My two boys (8 and 10) had really enjoyed the illusions. I’m just taken aback, and disappointed, that you felt this was appropriate.
Check this out…[img]http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/401166_3121428155432_1256411501_33350038_1835633278_n.jpg[/img]
cool! Good work!! :)
cool! i love legos. ( by the way the fish says f#$%)
AWESOME! I love it!
Saw it right away ;) Wondered whether it was real or ‘shopped ~ thanxxx to jeromax for posting the original pic.
A hint for Halley ~ The yellow stripes form 4 letters…
OMFG MY NEW FAV FISH!! XD
It’s been photoshopped…. That just ruined my day, I thought it was pretty cool until I saw some of the pre-photoshopped pics…:( Sorry guys!
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH THEY SAID THIS WAS A KID FRIENDLY SITE!!!!!1 THAT IS NOT VERY KID FRIENDLY!!!!!!!!! I THINK THEY NEED TO STICK TO THAT PROMISE AND P.S AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Would be better if it weren’t photoshopped, and even better if the people with kids would just lighten up. It’s a word – and it’s not like they won’t see/hear it again.
You know kids go on here…
Not kid-friendly. I am disappointed. Plus, it’s shopped. so where’s the illusion? The fish doesn’t “appear” to be impolite by the false markings. It IS impolite.
What’s inappropriate about it? I’m sure that most kids, while absorbing their mandatory images of murder, abuse, alcoholism, drug use, chauvinism, bigotry, and other desensitizing perversions served up by the entertainment industry, they have come across the word “fuck” at least 4.37 times.
Saw 4 letter word on fish about 20secs after window painted. Looked all around it for other creatures 1st…
What it washed up on the beach and you saw it. (I know its photoshopped.) Just asking a what-if question.
I FINALLY GOT IT after like, a couple weeks… lol. *hints* the word is the yellow stipes on the fish. look at the strips, not the white parts
natural illusion..
OH MY GOD, OHHHHH MY GOT YOU CRUEL FISHY!!
When you see it….you will sh*t bricks
That is the coolest fish in the world!!!!!!
I think this fish to be rather rude.. xD
Yep, what you have there is a Fuckfish
at first it took me FOREVER to guess it because i was looking way to close. if your having trouble, just stand back, look at the fish’s yellow striped. the stripes are letter. and it says the f- word
This is the real one:
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/746/fishue3.jpg
LOLOLOLOL
only had to open it to speak
now i saw it. ohhhhh
My friend had this as a desktop and I wanted the picture but couldn’t find it. FINALLY
Oh, not to worried about anybody else getting the picture…
I won’t get in trouble.
ohhh i saw the ck and a weird guy at the end… how wrong i was