Half. Not a random half.
Every element on that panel gets a coin flip and the losers come apart into dust that drifts up and to the right before fading out. Snap again and half of what’s left goes. Keep going and you’re eventually staring at one stubborn button that has survived six rounds.
The dissolve isn’t a fade. Each piece is genuinely broken into a few hundred particles that carry the colour they came from, which is why the logo turns into coloured dust and the grey text turns into grey dust.
Slow it down and watch one letter
At normal speed it’s over in about two seconds and you see the whole panel dissolve at once. Slowed, you can follow a single character coming apart from the edges inward. It’s a better effect at quarter speed and nobody ever bothers.
Taking all of it
Skips the halving and dusts everything in one pass. Satisfying exactly once, which is why the halving version is the default.
Bringing them back
The particles reverse, reassemble, and everything returns to where it started. It takes longer than the destruction did, which feels like the right call. There’s no penalty for doing this fifty times.
Why this one spread
A film scene turned into a search command turned into a thing people show each other on phones. Thanos snap is probably the most recent trick on this list to enter general circulation, and it’s still the one people ask about by describing it rather than naming it.
Other ways to lose the page
Google black hole takes everything too, just slowly and with orbits. Zerg rush eats the results while you fight back. Google gravity only knocks it over, and you can pick the pieces back up.
Softer things exist. Let it snow google, for one. Full list on google easter eggs.
