This Is a Hand Doing an Impression of a Foot. Brains Refuse to Accept It

What's going on

There's an account in Japan that has spent years doing what it calls "face-wash impressions": photos taken mid-wash, covered in lather, impersonating whatever comes to mind. Over time the lineup has included comedians, a TV personality, a famously unsmiling rugby player, a sumo grand champion, a sea slug, a dinosaur and a train.

The latest entry is a foam-covered hand doing an impression of a foot. It is a hand. The people who saw it are having a hard time accepting this. The thumbnail passes for a big toenail, the wrist bone sits right where an ankle would be, and more than one viewer assumed the joke was simply someone washing their foot.

The reactions come first, followed by a handful of earlier entries from the same series.

Comments

@sugiura16738120Official

(No caption. Just the photo.)

@sugiura16738120Official

(Also no caption.)

Most confused I’ve ever been. Way too good

過去イチ意味わからんすごすぎる

I was happily heckling it in my head like “heyyy whose foot is thiiis lol, what’s this even supposed to be an impression of lolol” and then… it’s a hand… wow…

お〜い誰の足やね〜ん笑何のモノマネだよ笑笑と脳内ノリノリでツッコんでたんだけど手か…凄いな…

No, this is wrong. That toenail looks 100% real. So this ISN’T a sneaky “we take baths together” post?… (A “nioase” post hints at a secret partner without saying it outright, e.g. a second person’s foot that just happens to be in the shot.)

いやおかしいだろ親指の爪どう見ても本物じゃん風呂に二人で入ってるという匂わせ投稿じゃねえのかよ…

Front feet

前足

Honestly impressive

本当にすごい

Biggest brain glitch I’ve ever had

過去一頭バグった

Thanks to this person I finally realized that little bump of bone on top of your wrist is basically the hand’s version of an ankle bone

この方のおかげで手首の上のぽこんって出てる骨が足でいうくるぶしなんだってことに気づけた

Does this person walk on all fours?

この人四足歩行？

Actual genius. I genuinely thought they’d run out of ideas and just put foam on their foot

ほんと天才だろ。普通に足に泡塗ってると思ってネタ尽きたのかと勘違いしたわ

@sugiura16738120Official

Face-wash impressions ①Nobu (Chidori) ②Nicole Fujita ③Inagaki, the rugby player ④Junior Chihara (Two comedians, a TV personality, and a Japan rugby forward known for almost never smiling.)

洗顔ものまね ①千鳥ノブ ②藤田ニコル ③ラグビー稲垣選手 ④千原ジュニア

@sugiura16738120Official

Yokozuna Onosato (Yokozuna is the top rank in sumo; Onosato is one of the wrestlers who holds it.)

横綱大の里

@sugiura16738120Official

🎑 (The moon-viewing emoji. Early autumn is moon-viewing season in Japan.)

🎑

@sugiura16738120Official

(No caption.)

@sugiura16738120Official

Sea slug

ウミウシ

@sugiura16738120Official

(No caption.)

@sugiura16738120Official

🦖🦴

@sugiura16738120Official

🚃

My take

Even after figuring out how it works, my brain still refuses to see anything but a foot.

#Impressive #Culture

Source & translation note

Comments loosely translated for tone. Reactions collected from Togetter and X threads.

View original thread →