Social media users are saying there must be a glitch in the Matrix after a soon-to-be bride shared a bizarre photo of herself trying on a wedding gown. Writer and comedian Tessa Coates posted the photo on Instagram with a very strange detail that everyone was struggling to explain.
The photo showed Tessa standing in front of two mirrors while wearing the wedding dress.
She looked beautiful in the gown, which featured a floral pattern and an off-the-shoulder design. However, people couldn’t pay too much attention to the dress because there was something else that stood out.
“I went wedding dress shopping and the fabric of reality crumbled. This is a real photo, not photoshopped, not a panorama, not a Live Photo,” she captioned the Instagram post.
“If you can’t see the problem, please keep looking and then you won’t be able to unsee it.”
Tessa’s arms look… strange.
Despite it being a single photo which Tessa insists hasn’t been Photoshopped, it wasn’t long before people realized something really freaky.
Her arms appear to be in three different positions — in both of the mirrors and in reality, she’s holding her arms three different ways. But given that it’s a still photo, how is this even possible?!
Tessa herself went on to say the “glitch in the Matrix” literally made her want to throw up in the street.
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Commenters didn’t know how to feel about what they were seeing.
“Only you can find the most epic way to announce your engagement – mystery and excitement – congratulations!” one person wrote.
Another said, “What in the Black Mirror is happening?” while a third added, “Obsessed that this is the deranged way you accidentally announced the engagement.”
So, what exactly WAS going on here?
Tessa said that she was “freaking out” when she saw the photo, so she went back to the shop to ask if the mirrors were cameras. “My sister is a very rational person so she asked one of the tech people she works with. She told me eight men were looking at the photo and all freaking out,” she recalled, per the New York Post.
She then said she went to the Apple Store to find out if anyone would have a clue to what happened. An employee named Roger pointed out that our iPhones are more like computers than cameras, and that Tessa’s phone took a burst of images from left to right. As the camera went behind her back, Tessa must have lifted her arms, leading to an entirely different set of photos.
“It’s made like an AI decision and it stitched those two photos together,” Tessa explained. “And one very clever person on Twitter found the exact line on my back, it’s a tiny tiny bit that’s not completely in line and that’s where the photos are stitched together.”
While Roger said the resulting photo was “one in a million,” it’s good to know there’s a logical explanation. WHEW.
