Tessa Coates, who is a writer and comedian, shared a photo of herself standing in front of two mirrors while trying on a wedding dress on Instagram.
The right mirror showed her arms crossed in front of her stomach, but in the other, her arms were down by her side. None of them described her actions in real life.
“I went wedding dress shopping and the fabric of reality crumbled. This is a real photo, not photoshopped, not a panorama, not a Live Photo,” she captioned the image.
“If you can’t see the problem, please keep looking and then you won’t be able to unsee it," she added.
This creepy photo quickly attracted many social media users, with numerous comments telling her to run immediately.
"This is so weird I can't stop zooming in trying to find a glitch," one social media user commented.
Another said:"How is this possible?! Magic mirrors!?. You should run as fast as possible."
"Congratulations!!! (And I think it might have to do with how phones take pictures by quickly sweeping across.. maybe...?)," another guested.
Tessa said she had gone to the bridal shop on her own and sent some pictures to her sister, who pointed out the difference between the three versions of herself in the mirror.
“I am freaking out, so the first thing I did was go back to the shop and ask if they were in fact mirrors or cameras,” Tessa narrated.
“My sister is a very rational person so she asked one of the tech people she works with. She told me eight men were looking at the photo and all freaking out.”
Run out of choices, she went to her local Apple Store, which produces iPhones to find the answer.
She waited two hours to speak to Roger, an Apple employee; however, he also admitted he’d never seen a case this bad, but it does happen.
According to his explanation, phones are considered computers rather than cameras. Therefore, even without the live photo setting turned on, they capture a series of images from left to right. Additionally, at the precise moment when the camera was positioned behind her back, Tessa must have raised her hands, resulting in a distinct set of images on the opposite side.
“It’s made like an AI decision and it stitched those two photos together,” Tessa recounted of the employee’s explanation.
“And one very clever person on Twitter found the exact line on my back, it’s a tiny tiny bit that’s not completely in line and that’s where the photos are stitched together,” she added.
