ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Flashed face distortion effect

Okay, kiddo, let's talk about the Flashed Face Distortion Effect! Have you ever seen a picture of a face that looks really weird or funny? That's kind of what happens in this effect, but it happens really fast, like a flash!

So, first, we need to understand what distortion means. Distortion is when something looks different from how it usually looks. Like when you look in a funny mirror and your body looks all stretched out or squished down, that's distortion. In the Flashed Face Distortion Effect, we're distorting people's faces!

The way it works is that we take pictures of faces and then we show them to people really fast, one after the other. But we change something each time! We change the distance between the eyes, which makes the face look squished or stretched out. And because we're showing the pictures so fast, your brain can't keep up! It gets confused about what the face is really supposed to look like, and it creates a weird, distorted image in your head.

So, even though you're looking at normal faces, your brain makes them look funny because it can't keep up with the changes we're making. It's kind of like when you're playing a game of tag and someone keeps changing the rules, and you get all confused and don't know what to do!

That's the Flashed Face Distortion Effect, kiddo. It's a fun way to play with our brains and make things look really silly!