“How does the mirror know this?” asks another video:
My absolute favorite comment that I’ve read on any video in a LONG time is this one:
Bailey clearly didn’t get the joke, and in case you don’t either I will explain it to you…
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The joke is that school taught us all mostly irrelevant information that had no bearing on our actual lives.
One of the most egregious offenders was drilling into our heads that “the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”.
It’s funny because we all know that phrase.
It was repeated to us year after year starting in probably 4th grade all the way through 12th grade.
And it’s completely irrelevant and unhelpful towards succeeding in life (unless you’re going to become a microbiologist or doctor).
For everyone else?
We didn’t really need to learn that once, let alone every single year.
So the joke and point that Valerie so perfectly makes is that we have no idea how to decipher this scientific quandary because our brains were not taught critical thinking.
We were just taught to memorize nonsense like “the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell” and spit that back out on a test.
But critical thinking or empirical testing?
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No time for that.
And now for everyone wanting to know the answer for how does this truly work, read this from Goosed:
Basically, this mirror trend on TikTok is an example of people learning some science by observing something that doesn’t immediately make sense. People are placing a small object, like a pack of chewing gum, against a mirror. The trick is that they’re placing a piece of paper in between the mirror and the object. On the surface, the shock comes from being able to see the item in the mirror despite the paper “blocking” it.
Now, TikTok is full of videos saying “what, no way?” as people replicate the test, trying to understand how it works. As I said, it’s science.
How Does the TikTok Mirror Reflection Trend Work?
When you look at an object in a mirror, you’re actually seeing its reflected image. This image appears to be behind the mirror, but it’s not actually a physical object – it’s just an optical illusion created by the reflection.
When you place a piece of paper between the object and the mirror, the light reflecting off the object still reaches the mirror and is still reflected back towards you. The paper doesn’t block this reflected light, but instead becomes a part of the background that the reflected image appears against.
Diagrams for science
So even though there’s a piece of paper between the object and the mirror, you can still see the reflected image of the object because the light reflecting off the object is still able to reach your eyes after being reflected by the mirror. The paper simply becomes a part of the background that the reflected image appears against, and does not interfere with the reflection itself.
This TikTok mirror trend is really just a secondary school physics experiment out in the wild. I’m viewing this as a massive positive. Lots of people are learning things like the laws of reflection without even knowing it. This might be the first time I’ve seen social media indirectly making people smarter. The U.S. really can’t afford to ban this app!
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Reminds me a little bit of this:
FREAKY: It’s The New “White or Blue” Dress Brain Teaser And It’s Wild!
Remember two years ago when everyone on the Internet was talking about the white or blue dress?
This picture divided the internet:
Was it black and blue…or…white and gold?
I’m guessing you see one of those options right know and can’t imagine how anyone could see the opposite choice.
And yet they did.
Split 50/50, people swore they saw what they saw and it didn’t seem possible someone else (the other 50% of the world) could see exactly opposite colors.
As I type this right now, I see white and gold.
Curious what you see?
The reason I bring it up is because we have the new version.
This is a 6 second video that I’ve probably watched 30 times (and NO pervs, not for the “Hooters Girl”).
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I’ve watched it 30 times because I keep switching which word I am reading and without fail I hear a different word each time I switch!
FREAKY!
Try it for yourself:
Ok this is wild….
I literally hear different words depending on which I'm reading….without fail.
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