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Probably don’t visit this site if you have epilepsy.

Discussion from reddit (~7 years ago): https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/htidn/til_of...

And from hn circa 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=273337

Definitely a hoax (but a really cool one, indeed) by the art collective Uber morgen.




Probably? I'll counter with very unprobably. It's mostly a blur effect and the amount it shifts is very small.

Edit: I hope whoever downvoted has actual evidence of danger.

Also the danger range is generally around 12-20Hz and that background is at 4.


I don't care if it's dangerous. It's annoying and makes me feel uneasy. Had to block it with ublock.


And from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2628328


I was wondering what you were referring to (later comments clarified this).

Once again, I'm happy that I don't allow scripting to run in my browser by default -- I never saw the effect you are talking about.


Just to be clear, there's no scripting involved, it's a plain image file set as the page's background.


Interesting. Then I can't explain why I don't see the effect.


http://www.gwei.org/img/bg_bwANIM.gif

No idea.




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