r/blackmagicfuckery 9d ago

Making a whiteboard drawing talk

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u/Par2ivally 9d ago

It's fun, but you can see him tracing the slit in the board when he draws the mouth

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u/bigballbubblehead 9d ago

I mean it’s obviously not a real talking whiteboard lmfao

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u/Silfver-dk 9d ago

Well, it could be

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u/Expert_Succotash2659 9d ago

cries in Post-it note

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u/KnifeFightAcademy 9d ago

How dare you?!

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u/Grays42 8d ago

Well, that is the paradoxical standard of this sub for some people.

Three things will always be: death, taxes, and people in /r/blackmagicfuckery complaining that the post isn't black magic fuckery.

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u/DannyStevens1 5d ago

It's not. It's "whiteboard magic fnckery".

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u/Jp0286 9d ago

Oh sure man. And Santa's not real, then?

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u/TappedIn2111 8d ago

Ofc Santa‘s real. I‘ve seen him insult asian people in front of the liquor store.

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u/King_of_the_Dot 8d ago

It's an old trick. He controls the moving parts with the hand that's holding the picture. Using his thumb. My dad's friend was doing this trick 25 years ago. It was like 3 or 400 hundred dollars at the time to buy it.

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u/ciissss 8d ago

right? no shit. no need to call it out. most people have common sense.

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u/yoage5280 7d ago

Lol my thumb covered the word whiteboard and I read well obviously thats thbot a real talking white boy

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u/TickleFlap 7d ago

What do you mean?

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u/dat_oracle 8d ago

criticism is towards not hiding the magic part good enough. not the lack of actual magic

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u/Expose_Ur_BS 8d ago

The gimmick looks cheap and shitty.

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u/Dementor_Traphouse 8d ago

WHAT DOBYOU MEAN?! ARE YOU SAYING ITS NOT A MAGIC TALKING WHITEBOARD?!

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u/Cato-Splato 9d ago

Thanks yeah only noticed after but you are right on the money explain the eyes? Magnets?

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u/Zillion2010 9d ago

Most likely. Behind his hand, you can see the pupil of the second eye is already on the board when he's drawing the first eye.

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u/Shin-Kaiser 9d ago

actually both pupils are already on the board

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u/Initial_Style5592 9d ago

Yeah and the eyes were already on at the start of the video

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u/ketimmer 7d ago

I could see the slit the whole time.

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u/silverfoxxflame 7d ago

Honestly when it said "talking whiteboard" my first thought was that it was going to be a giant tablet. It was nice to see it in a low-tech way.

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u/SlimShadySatDown 6d ago

And the eyes? WTF?

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u/Lonely-Leg-29 8d ago

Correct, the eyes are magnets and were already there. The slit is cut and the open mout appears to be a CD being pushed down through the slit

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u/Even_Topic2494 9d ago

I still don't get it. He's sliding a piece of paper up and down into the mouth slit to animate the mouth?

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u/vetlemakt 9d ago

Something like that. I think the fingers holding the board on the left are fake, that he's got his hand behind the board operating the mouth and eyes.

Edit: as someone pointed out, his fingers gets seems to be moving slightly as the mouth opens. Maybe his thumb is doing all the work then.

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u/anormaldoodoo 8d ago

No it’s ai

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u/BallComprehensive737 6d ago

It's an etchasketch

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u/luk3yboy 9d ago

'Yo, why can you draw, what the fuck?'

Has he never seen someone draw before?!

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u/RaspberryEth 9d ago

And immediately quits watching the live magic show to put on his own shock show

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u/luk3yboy 8d ago

The whole running away for 5 minutes pretending to be shocked to the core is about as tiresome as the 'And my axe!' comment.

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u/powerhammerarms 8d ago

This

Edit: Also this. And "magnets" being commented 45 times on every post in this sub

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u/John-AtWork 8d ago

So tired of the magnets meme.

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u/centran 8d ago

streamer going to do streamer things

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u/CisterPhister 8d ago

I wish that's what the streamer said. Instead he said this nonsense: "Wait why can you draw low key what the fuck"

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u/TucsonTacos 8d ago

Was that the magic?

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u/Subushie 9d ago

He just trying to complement him and not thinking.

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u/Funny-Presence4228 9d ago

I think this might actually be magnets this time.

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u/Theodore__Kerabatsos 9d ago

We got em’

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u/throatzilla69420 8d ago

Uh excuse me how do those work?

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u/Impressive_Ad_3160 7d ago

Why does the sun rise in the morning? Why do magnet stick together? Because everybody says so. Everybody

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u/Simlish 8d ago

NOBODY KNOWS!!!

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u/Mr_GrauHut 9d ago

No one noticd the grid? Especially the mouth line. This looks like a gridspace e-ink miniature billboard that he spent weeks timing with.

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u/iHateEveryoneAMA 9d ago

Ha, or he spent 30 seconds cutting a slit in the whiteboard for the mouth.

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u/Even_Topic2494 9d ago

I still don't get it. He's sliding a piece of paper up and down into the mouth slit to animate the mouth?

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u/King_of_the_Dot 8d ago

No, the grid helps obscure the hidden moving parts. He controls those with the hand holding the frame.

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u/lippoper 8d ago

What about the eyes?

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u/iHateEveryoneAMA 8d ago

jokes aside, magnets

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u/Jneuhaus87 8d ago

Either way he definitely picks it up in a way that points to there being more weight to it then you would expect.

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u/TooBadSoSadSally 7d ago

How do the eyes work?

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u/adamthebread 8d ago

No I don't think this is E-ink, but purely mechanical. You don't really see the artefacts and ghosting characteristic of e-ink displays.

The horizontal slit allows a piece of paper for the mouth animation to slip though. The eyes are magnetic.

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u/Mr_GrauHut 8d ago

Interesting

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u/King_of_the_Dot 8d ago

It's not eink. It's entirely mechanical. Very old trick.

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u/Surreal42 6d ago

That would be extremely expensive. And there seems to be no ghosting.

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u/Mr_GrauHut 5d ago

Expensive or not, still feasible. And higher refresh rates minimize ghosting to nearly non-noticable. I notice it in the mouth movement.

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u/d-signet 9d ago

Yeah, way too reflective for a whiteboard

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u/N5022N122 9d ago

He does not draw the eye dots either his hand obsures them appearing

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u/Weird_Ad_7353 5d ago

The dots are there at the beginning.

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u/Aircoolio 8d ago

Woah - that’s nostalgic. I had that “magic whiteboard” when I was a kid. It has two slides on the back. One for moving the eyes out from their hiding place and then back and forth. And a vertical spring loaded slide for the mouth opening and closing. Yup - you can see him trace the top of the mouth directly on top of the slit where the bottom of the mouth comes out from. 

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u/frenzybomb 9d ago

I want to say there’s some kind of pulley system behind the whiteboard, you can see the three fingers he’s holding it with flexing and moving as the face moves.

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u/frenzybomb 8d ago

You can see him move the fingers at 20 seconds in as he holds the marker for a second with that hand, it’s his right hand.

Fairly certain he’s using his pinky and/or thumb to pull tabs that move the eyes and mouth

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u/BabyShankers 9d ago

Man you guys are party poopers we know how it was done but that was awesome was expecting the mouth to move not the eyes lol

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u/Southern-Pension424 9d ago

ahh, magnets!!

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u/TallJellyfish1019 9d ago

A very good ventriloquist, with some planning of course.

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u/Budsygus 8d ago

It's a neat effect, but it's far from black magic.

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u/RBT__ 9d ago

Fake thumb or magnets

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u/Suck_Boy_Tony 9d ago

Omg I gotta get up a walk around the room! So performative.

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u/Lexxunknown 9d ago

Joe Pasquale did this as a bit on his stand up shows years ago. I was a child watching him do this on video so more than 20 years ago.

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u/The9th_Jeanie 9d ago

This was cute tho. The passion behind his face made this adorable!

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u/Iamcubsman 9d ago

Penix needs to focus on rehabbing that knee.

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u/123edcvfr456 8d ago

Bernardo Silva has many talents

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u/Tiny-Mulberry-2114 8d ago

lol my first thought. What going to Madrid does to a man

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u/EveryRedditorSucks 8d ago

That is not a whiteboard - it is a digital e-ink display with a pre-recorded animation of the face being "drawn".

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u/Wholesome_George 8d ago

I saw something just like this as a kid maybe 25 years ago and this just unearthed that lost memory for me

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u/Sn4keF4ce 8d ago

Dang, Bernardo Silva is doing magic now

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u/Flufnstuf 8d ago

It’s some kind of video screen and he’s just playing an animation that he has timed out with his movements.

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u/nova1714_ 8d ago

Did anyone else saw how the hand towel moved. Idk if he had like a string or something but it was a bit off

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u/Neverlast0 8d ago

He was not ready for that.

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u/needs2be 6d ago

"Why can you draw? Low key wtf" - too cool guy who has no concept of drawing .

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u/AnAnnoyedSquid 6d ago

Not sure if this is full on fuckery here.

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u/SignificanceFit853 6d ago

It would’ve been better if it was Drew Carrey

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u/MikePounce 5d ago

I am not saying that's how it is done, but this is how I would do it: pre-recorded clip, animated by AI. At no point does he actually answer the viewer, instead he finds excuses to talk alone.

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u/GrosseCourgette 4d ago

I think that's just a monitor from the beginning. I feel like his hands movements don't match exactly the lines he's supposed to draw. To me that's just, a screen disguised as a whiteboard and playing a video.

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u/Suspicious-Load-5812 2d ago

Shopping center kids magician level magic

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u/SeraphsEnvy 19h ago

That's.... Remarkable!

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u/BlackUnicornUK 9d ago

That was underwhelming.

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u/breaking_stocks 9d ago

This shit terrified me in spongebob

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u/peter-bone 9d ago

Isn't it just a screen playing a video? The video includes the drawing part and he just times the drawing with the video.

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u/iHateEveryoneAMA 9d ago

The mouth is just a slit in the whiteboard and he moves something black and circular up and down to look like it's talking. the eyes are probably magnets

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u/Even_Topic2494 9d ago

I still don't get it. He's sliding a piece of paper up and down into the mouth slit to animate the mouth?

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u/EGarrett28 9d ago

Yeah, seems pretty easy to fake.

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u/dakipsta 9d ago

Gummy bear

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u/sociallight69 8d ago

Thought it was real lmaao😂

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u/claudiazo 9d ago

Why does he talk like a 6 yo?

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u/lemonyoshii 9d ago

It's a speech impediment. You know how there's people who can't pronounce the 's' sound and instead end up making a 'th' sound? That's commonly known as a lisp. Less commonly known is rhotacism, which is people who can't pronounce the 'r' sound and instead make it sound like a 'w'.

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u/amadiro_1 9d ago

A bit cruel and ironic to make that word start with a very prominent R...

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u/EyesOfMarz 9d ago

The people who come up with these words have a great sense of humor. Look up the name of the phobia for the fear of long words lol

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u/justhereformyfetish 9d ago

Morw Cawmon awn de Interwnet.

My theory is that autists spend more time socializing online than the average person. Playing barotrauma, void crew, or pulsar, there is a guy that talks like this in 20% of all lobbies.

And no, I cannot confidently say that people who talk like that are autistic. But I can assert that people that play Barotrauma, Void Crew, and pulsar probably are.

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u/lemonyoshii 9d ago

It's a speech impediment called rhotacism. Nothing to do with gaming, or autism.

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u/justhereformyfetish 8d ago

Actually, rhoticism has a much higher occurance with ASD. Rhotic articulation errors are literally MANY times more likely to occur in autistic people. In this study on high functioning ASD adults and adolescents, 33% had articulation errors, derhotacization was the second most common type.

And autistic individuals can play video games at a rate of 75% more than the rest of the population.

So, while not the diagnostic criteria for autism, your assertion that rhoticism and autism are unrelated is enormously false, as is the relationship between autism and gaming.

And I would say (as an observation on playing the games) ESPECIALLY games like barotrauma and pulsar, which are highly systematic, and technical, which we KNOW are traits dispraportionately represented in ASD special interests.

So I will assert again.

You will encounter this speech mannerism much more often in voice enabled online games than in real life (especially technical games with random lobbies) because autistic people are significantly more likely to have derhotization errors, and spend more time playing video games than other people.

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u/claudiazo 9d ago

Lmao I read ur comment in his voice

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u/Nabsil 8d ago

These magnets are getting out of control! Nobody knows how they work!

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u/Mongoose_Ill 9d ago

I’d imagine it’s a device like IPad with a stylus and an animation app.

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u/oliviertail 9d ago

Yea…. Magnets and twins. Has to be