What on Earth is going on here, at the Democratic National Convention, between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton?

I mean the photo below, one that I had previously given barely a glance.  But Claudia of iOTWReport has a better eye and implores us to focus:

I admit that I wasn’t able to see much.  So she offers this closer look.

Hmm…he is animated here, definitely. But then Claudia bids us look closer:

The eyes are the windows of the soul.

OK, let me amend my initial question. “What on Earth the hell is going on here?”

Claudia has a theory.  See it here.