The ‘trippy’ TikTok hand challenge looks like magic

Another week, another TikTok challenge. This latest trend will bring out your inner magician.

Tori Pareno, a Los Angeles-based content creator, posted a TikTok video that creates an optical illusion to appear as if her hands are magically passing through one another.

“Here’s something trippy for your night lol,” the 19-year-old wrote to Twitter on Thursday with the TikTok video.

https://twitter.com/ToriPareno/status/1197430561175818240

In the eight-second video, Pareno quickly moves her fingers to the beat of a dubstep song. At the end of the video, her face explodes with excitement at her accomplishment.

In the four days since she posted the video, it has reached more than 8.7 million views and has been shared more than 174,000 times.

After her video went viral, others tried to do the same “trippy” hand challenge.

https://twitter.com/Rjeyyy_Bil/status/1197877092999806977

This guy took it to the next level and created the hand illusion wearing LED gloves.

https://twitter.com/JomarriSalomon/status/1197722730470072326

However, it wasn’t as easy as Pareno made it look.

https://twitter.com/YBNNahmir/status/1198017810489729025

https://twitter.com/CalebSamuel/status/1197891540636622850?s=20

Some people jokingly called the trick “witchcraft” or “sorcery.”

Pareno tweeted that it was “creepy but cool” that people had viewed her hands “half a million”– now millions– of times. She has dubbed herself “the hand lady.”

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