The great comedian and magician Pete Firman has just gone viral – wildly viral! – with this fabulous optical illusion which has been shredding brains everywhere.

Not the first illusion we’ve featured on these pages but we reckon this is one of the best.

I can make you see colours that don’t exist! pic.twitter.com/MRRXg1c9hH

— Pete Firman (@petefirman) August 19, 2026

And here are just a few of the many comments it prompted.

1.

Man hell nah wtf are our eyes https://t.co/phybWetmUH

— ☁Baby Blastoise☁ (@PatsOnYaBack) August 19, 2026

2.

Me expecting a jump scare but still trying to stare without blinking 🫪 pic.twitter.com/GZijrLStfh

— miskin.exe (@blacksail38) August 19, 2026

3.

How the fuck does this work. Do the colours get inverted because your brain knows the colours of the animals were wrong ??? https://t.co/uSqXgQx5Gs

— Hasan 👁‍🗨 (@flackospalace) August 20, 2026

4.

“Don’t blink”
Me every 5 seconds of this video: pic.twitter.com/DDT6N9UhKR

— Joe (@danielx_jo) August 19, 2026

5.

BRO WTF. https://t.co/qv72j5w1Ux

— iPodKingCarter (@ipodkingcarter) August 19, 2026

6.

My trust issues really had me thinking a jump scare was coming😭

— Yugi601 (@Yugi601_) August 19, 2026

7.

Wait what the fuck- https://t.co/4TIbaXZhlh

— TidyWire🍿(Commissions Open!) (@TidyWire) August 19, 2026

8.

What is dis wizardry?!!! pic.twitter.com/shlDKJlmvF

— (Rap’s Anthony Hamilton)(OfficialBig3Instigator) (@GhostAGDOPE) August 19, 2026

9.

Fully expected this not to work, I was desperate for it not to work and yet, it did. Mad. https://t.co/FevQz7g8kL

— HLTCO (@HLTCO) August 20, 2026

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Source @petefirman