Get Blazed, Then Watch This Video of a Stick Figure Coming to Life in a Puddle of Water

A perfectly reasonable explanation for this visual trick exists, but why bother yourself with that?

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First things first, we should begin this with another friendly reminder that you should drink more water because water is everything. When not drinking it, perhaps you can put some of your cherished H2O to good use by filming yourself dousing a poorly drawn stick figure. But WHY?!?! For the fairly easily amused among us, we present this:

Pouring water on a magic marker stick figure magically brings it to life https://t.co/wrdri1L15s pic.twitter.com/sZaZvBCJ62

— Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) January 24, 2017

As Gizmodo reported Tuesday, the quick experiment involves a refreshingly short list of easily attainable products for successful reenactment:

  • Approximately 1 whiteboard marker
  • Approximately 1 esteemed stick figure artist
  • Approximately 2 human hands, one for filming and one for pouring
  • Approximately one flat surface or piece of furniture about which you give zero fucks
  • Approximately one helping of water

But just so we're absolutely clear: There is no real-world magic, sorcery, or other related fuckery involved with this visual treat. Such a fact, however, isn't stopping anyone from kicking their panic into overdrive at the sight of a dancing stick figure:

can we just take a min for that vid of the stick figure moving in water like what

— livvie (@oliviagravel22) January 23, 2017

look that sharpie water vid is still fukn me up but i try it my mom would kill me if it didnt work n there was a stick figure on the table

— rui 🌱 (@petiteknj) January 23, 2017

Others are more aware of the absence of magic in human existence:

magically? pic.twitter.com/bfGq6sp9vJ

— |S| Jarboe (@Jarboe) January 24, 2017

Perfectly reasonable explanations for this clip doexist, but feel free to speculate further as if they do not.

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