Happy Friday! Here Is A GIF That Will Ruin Your Weekend

Hi hello Internet! Would you like us to ruin your weekend? Yes? If yes, take a look at this here GIF of everyday things in life that just go annoyingly wrong.

I. KNOW. I mean, how can something be so simultaneously mesmerising and fucking frustrating at the same time? What is it in our little human brains that gets us going like this?

The animation comes from Parallel Studios in Paris, who described it thus: “Life is painful and sad but sometimes it’s just unsatisfying”.

Devotees of internet phenomena will remember the long-running “Things Fitting Perfectly Into Other Things” fad. This craze involved salivating over, you guessed it, things that fit perfectly into other things. The Atlantic, in their highly necessary exposé into why we’re so fascinated by such phenomena, waxed all poetical about it. “It’s the sort of little joy that can’t be forced, only discovered,” writes Julie Beck. “When two objects that shouldn’t go together somehow click, they provide a serendipitous moment of order in a world that’s mostly chaos.” Too bloody right, Julie.

This GIF, from Parallel Studios, is kind of the exact opposite of the perverse satisfaction that comes from Things Fitting Perfectly Into Other Things. It’s, like, indescribably vexing. So, great! Look forward to feeling itchy about it from now until the end of your life!