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.

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 ...

With the jumping pylon, “We lack the acoustic quality of the scene,” Carbon writes, “But we are used to [hearing] typical noise while swinging a jump rope, and so this sound is directly ...

Created by a person using the handle IamHappyToast as part of a Photoshop contest on the online discussion board for b3ta.com, the GIF depicts a pylon “jumping rope” between two other pylons ...

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 ...

Consider us shooketh by this strange GIF doing the rounds on the internet. For those who don't know, GIFs are a silent collection of images, put together to make a short video. However, turning to ...

The GIF, originally created by @Iamhappytoast in 2017, shows silent electricity pylons playing skipping rope from a scene in the 2008 BBC comedy show “The Wrong Door.” The silent pylon video ...

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 ...

The GIF was created almost 10 years ago by a British artist who prefers to be identified only as HappyToast, but it recently went viral when it was tweeted by a scientist based in Scotland.

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 ...