The brain is an extremely fascinating organ. Finding patterns, both logical and visual, is essential to acquiring new and relevant information about the world around us, and this is exactly what pattern recognition does for us. The brain is not a flawless mechanism, though. The brain’s natural desire to seek logic and patterns leads to severe confusion when applied to an illogical visual.
Here we present a series of photographs that appear to be depicting one thing, but the misleading titles completely alter the meaning of the image. Reddit users have posted these images as “misleading thumbnails” to demonstrate that they are deceptive in some way.