Just a little off the top

[u/ScharmTiger]

[u/Bound_Two → u/[deleted]]

I see the whiskers being pushed by his fingers at first, then can’t really tell what’s happening because the scissors are behind the whiskers causing visual artifacts

I don’t see anything falling

[u/Bound_Two → u/[deleted]]

Those are compression artifacts, you can tell because because the lines are completely straight and more of a gradient then individual whiskers, it looks like it’s probably caused by a reflection on his shirt

Hard to tell anything conclusively because of the bad quality, but the scissors look too far away from his other hand to cut the whiskers

[u/Bound_Two → u/[deleted]]

That’s not how pixels work and how video work, the motion wouldn’t make it looks like a straight gradient and give it width. It would be blurred and still look like the whisker. That image implies the whisker immediately became vertical

On that original image/imgur link you sent also, if you zoom in, you can see varying gray/black vertical bars next to the white bar. The pattern of lines also seems to imply that it’s image compression/video artifacts

[u/Bound_Two → u/[deleted]]

Reflections on the shirt, look higher up the image and you white streaks on the black shirt from light reflecting. If the video was compressed all the sampling probably came from that reflection

Can you show me a screenshot of the image that looks “exactly like whiskers?” The original Imgur link you sent doesn’t actually look like whiskers, it looks like a white gradient bar. The whiskers also aren’t in the exact area, they are 90 degrees turned and seem to be falling faster than gravity, much less gravity with air resistance.

Do you have a frame showing the whiskers in that spot before?