Move toward the button below — it leans in, and a bead of it stretches out to meet your pointer like warm syrup, then rounds back when you leave. It’s still just a link.
Fine-pointer only. On a touchscreen this whole layer never runs — the native cursor and every link stay exactly as authored. Under reduced-motion it’s a plain, fully-visible, clickable pill.
The stretch you see is an SVG metaball filter painted behind a single, ordinary <a href>. The link’s text sits on top (never blurred), its hit area moves with the lean so clicks always land, and the follower bead does zero work the moment your pointer rests or leaves. Nothing here shifts layout.