kamikaze shakedown @kamikazeshakedown - Tumblr Blog

It occurs to me that there are people who weren’t on this website in 2012 and therefore never saw the magical gif that you can actually hear:

It’s been over five years and that still impresses the hell out of me.

galwaygremlin

wdym you can hear it?

superpaperclip

Basically, it’s a form of synesthesia, movement-hearing. In this case, you expect to hear a thud, so you do. It’s estimated that 20% of people experience this type of synesthesia, as opposed to 2-4% for other kinds.

eat-the-door-to-the-v0id-deacti

YO what the FUXK

burntcopper

The longer you watch it the more you get convinced that you can hear a distant thud and the air displace.

lasrina

I heard the thud. I closed my eyes and the thud stopped. I opened my eyes and I heard the thud. My goodness but human brains are a mess.

macleod

This was easily the first ever viral post on Tumblr back in 2011/12. Perhaps even before the great “what your leg feels like after falling asleep” followed by a picture of a static teevee channel.