What's happening in this GIF?

October 10, 2012 9:00 AM

What's going on in this GIF? I keep on looking at it and people assure me something awesome's happening, but I am still confused?

I want to be in on the joke/awesomeness! I'm not naturally a visually oriented person and I'll eventually be left behind by everybody on the internet, but in the meanwhile, what is this?

posted by maykasahara to computers & internet (15 answers total)

They are costumes. The 'people' on their backs are just dummies.
posted by empath at 9:03 AM on October 10, 2012 [6 favorites]

To me, it looks like the young women in this built costumes that make it look like they're being carried by ghouls/zombies, but the creatures "behind" them are just tops of costumes?
posted by xingcat at 9:03 AM on October 10, 2012

Looks like weird dudes carrying girls; is actually girls cleverly dressed in costumes made to look like weird dudes carrying them and running about on their own two legs. It took me a while to get! (Look at the hands of the carrying party!)
posted by harujion at 9:03 AM on October 10, 2012 [1 favorite]

Those girls aren't being carried. They have stuffed legs and a body wrapped around them.
posted by ish__ at 9:03 AM on October 10, 2012

Yeah, it's kind of like one of these (less emu, though).
posted by fight or flight at 9:14 AM on October 10, 2012 [1 favorite]

Look at the spindly little skinny-jeans lady legs. Either two grown chicks are being carried by some ca. 2006 emo boys, or...it's a costume.
posted by phunniemee at 9:14 AM on October 10, 2012

Here's the video it comes from. Bump up the quality and pause it to see in more detail.
posted by 2bucksplus at 9:14 AM on October 10, 2012 [3 favorites]

The legs portrayed as blonging to the carried women are dummies as are the torsoes protrayed as belonging to the carriers.
posted by Blasdelb at 9:21 AM on October 10, 2012

nthing that those are costumes being worn by the girls, but adding, also, that those girls appear to be having a simply swell old time.
posted by Greg Nog at 9:25 AM on October 10, 2012 [6 favorites]

For a different version of this concept, see it in jetpack form.
posted by zamboni at 9:30 AM on October 10, 2012 [13 favorites]

The guys carrying the girls around have humorously long fingers.
posted by BurntHombre at 9:49 AM on October 10, 2012

Does anyone know what to search for if I want one of these?
posted by herbplarfegan at 11:03 AM on October 10, 2012

Does anyone know what to search for if I want one of these?

DIY materials list:

-$5 of thrift store clothes
-a few wire hangers
-some newspaper
-extra pair of sneakers
-whole-head mask and creepy hands from a costume store
-duct tape
-gumption
posted by phunniemee at 11:06 AM on October 10, 2012 [1 favorite]

Yes. Similar to this costume, which is one dog dressed as two dogs dressed as pirates carrying a treasure chest.
posted by The Bellman at 11:17 AM on October 10, 2012 [17 favorites]

My Halloween problem just got solved.
posted by ShutterBun at 11:33 AM on October 10, 2012 [4 favorites]