Be a Friend, Lend Me a Hand

Landen Young Gessell uploaded this photo to our fan-page, which was companioned by the following explanation: “A friend of mine found himself tagged in this picture… and couldn’t decipher what was going on! After a few minutes of scrutinizing, I think I understand what happened… Can you?”

If you haven’t noticed anything strange, check out the both dude’s hands! It seems as if they were conjoined twins. Can you guess what happened? I can confirm that there was no morphing nor digital editing performed on the photo below.

34 Replies to “Be a Friend, Lend Me a Hand”

    1. i figured it out, what it looks to be the conjoined part, is his elbow, the guy on the lefts rest of his arm is tucked under lol

  1. The arm belongs to the guy on the right. The guy on the left has his arm behind the girl’s head and only his hand and watch are visiblebut gis watch is at the perfect location to make it seem as if the two guys are sharing the arm.

    1. @ Billiam, that isn’t what this is about! we are trying to figure why their arms are together. hmmmmm…

  2. It’s quite simple how this works. the guy on the left’s arm if behind the girls head only showing his watch. The guy on the right is then pressing his arm down on the girls head which squishes it down making it appear thicker. Then the picture was taken.

  3. The guy with the red sunnies’ arms are not in sight. The other guy has 2 hands! To prove this, look carefully… how can the arm with the watch be attached to the red sunnies guy?

    1. It’s all in the placement of the eblows. The guy to the left, (red sunnies guy as you called him) has his elbow further down than the guy to the right. The guy to the right has his elbow up higher making it look like the end of his elbow is the forearm to the guy on the left when it’s not.

      Maybe it’s easier to imagine the guy to the left has his wrist on the girls head and the guy to the right has his forearm on the girls head.

  4. the dude in the red’s arm is covering the dude in the glasses arm which is positioned lower than the dude in the red’s…WOOORDS!

  5. Well the guys already found it out but it is the girls hair, that really helps creating this illusion aswell. Her hair between the both arms makes it look round where the arms meet. This way you cant see the arms overlapping so does the watch too.

  6. Ah I see it. You cannot see any of the forearm of the guy on our left. The arm that we see belongs entirely to the gentleman on our right.

    1. no!!! read the text!!! the guy on the right has two hands on his arm. im only eight so i dont really understand anything else :D

  7. The guy on the left has his arm behind the girls head more and thee guy on the right has his arm highrt

  8. Cover the guys watch on the left with your finger. You will see that the arm of the guy on the right is the back.

  9. this illusion happened because of the wristwatch!!

    the arm behind the wristwatch is the red guy’s arm, while the glasses guy’s arm was hidden down and made his watch up there.

    yes? :D

  10. Clearly, the guy on the left, his watch covered the rest of his arm, and it made the guy on the right look that way.

  11. The guy in red has 2 hands on his right arm and ad for the whole wristwatch theory the guy with the polka dots arm if you start at the the elbow would be behind the girls head and since there was no morphing nor digital editing I would say that both hands belong to guy in red

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