Orange, are you angry because you can’t understand it? Well, hundreds of TiKTok users are certainly after an eagle-eyed man stumbled across an unsolvable optical illusion, declaring that it could be a glitch in the Matrix.
The now viral video, uploaded by a US-based content creator. eddyshows the reflection of a bright orange C8 Corvette in a storefront; however, it does not appear to be in the parking lot.
He zoomed in on the window of the pizzeria in Fresno, California, where the eye-catching vehicle can be clearly seen.
But, when he zooms out to show the parking lot where the Corvette should be, the parking lot doesn’t have the orange car.
‘Can anyone explain it?’ Eddie captioned the clip, which has since been viewed more than 2.3 million times.
In a video uploaded by TikTok user Eddie on June 3, the now-viral video shows the reflection of the bright orange C8 Corvette in a storefront, which does not appear to be in the parking lot.
Eddie walked around the nearly empty parking lot just in case, where there was definitely no orange car in sight.
‘Where is this car?’ she asked in the clip. “Seriously, I don’t see that car anywhere.”
Millions of TikTok users were left baffled (and scared) by the apparent optical illusion.
“Parallel dimensions,” declared one user.
“That’s the portal, it’s on the other side,” another agreed.
Others swear they cracked the code and post their theories in the comments of the video.
Many onlookers claimed they could see the top of the orange car through the windshield of the Mercedes SUV, indicating that the Corvette was parked in front of it.
“It’s right in front of the black SUV and you can see the orange roof through the windshield,” someone stated.
‘Based on line of sight. It’s behind that Mercedes,” another user agreed.
‘In the reflection you can see a bush at the bottom of the C8. When you turn left you can see the bush, but the C8 is on the other side of the lot.
Millions of TikTok users were baffled – and scared – by the apparent optical illusion
“It’s behind the bush next to the cafe/bus stop, looking further back,” someone else commented.
‘It is being reflected from a certain point of view. Cool optical illusion!’
Later, Eddie uploaded another clip from the same parking lot to prove that the car was not inside the pizzeria or in a shop window.
Since it was a different time of day, you can see the inside of the pizzeria, as well as the cars parked outside the front of the store.
“There are no cars here,” he confirmed while filming the store.
The phrase “glitch in the Matrix” comes from the 1999 film The Matrix, starring Keneu Reeves, which presented the idea that humanity lives in a giant simulation.
It is now used to describe inexplicable illusions or events that seem illogical.
Last year, a woman went viral on TikTok after posting a clip of her chickens stopping mid-run for more than two minutes.
In the clip, user Brianna Antionette was shown feeding at least five hungry chickens who ran away just seconds into the clip.
The birds suddenly stopped running at the same time and remained in place near a bright green light despite Antionette’s attempts to make them move.
“Have you ever seen a mistake in the Matrix?” he wrote in the video.