The silent GIF shows what appears to be three pylons jumping rope. But the camera shakes just as the middle one lands, which some viewers believe they can hear or feel. Dr. DeBruine, from the ...

It's an animation of a group of pylons playing jump rope with their wires. But that's not what's remarkable about it. Even though it's a GIF file — meaning it's a moving image with no sound ...

2017 A silent gif of pylons playing jump rope with their wires surprised many last week when they heard the thumping of the structure striking the ground eventhough the clip had no sound.

The GIF was created almost 10 years ago by a British ... but simply wanted to include “the suggestion of weight to the giant pylons, which is the camera shake that most people are reading ...

However, turning to Twitter, one curious user has asked why people can actually hear one GIF. User Lisa DeBruine posted a tweet of the offending clip, which shows a small pylon jumping rope ...

Watch this GIF of a pylon leaping and landing on the ground between two other pylons as if it's jump roping. There's no sound, but do you hear a thud in your head when the pylon lands? You are ...

That happened early in December 2017, when Lisa DeBruine, a psychologist at the University of Glasgow posted a GIF on Twitter of two electrical pylons playing jump rope with a third. As the ...

The mystery of the "Pylon Skipping Rope" GIF is back. Social media users are divided in their opinion on the silent GIF that show three animated electricity pylons in a row, with the one in the ...

The noisyGIFs subreddit has almost 100,000 subscribers, and last year an animated GIF of three electricity pylons playing jump rope became a viral hit on Twitter. Many people said they could hear ...

The sound many people hear is a thudding noise when the jumping pylon hits the ground. The GIF is actually from almost a decade ago in 2008 but was shared on Twitter a few days ago. Content cannot ...