“I Want To Leave” Is Pretty Much The Weirdest Instagram Account, And Here Are 50 Pictures To Prove It (New Pics)
Not every Instagram account consists of avocado toasts, latte foam art and carefully staged aesthetics. As a matter of fact, some of them are hilariously bizarre. Looking at pictures that seem stranger than strange, you can’t help but scratch your head while trying to figure out what on earth is going on there.
Enter the appropriately called Instagram account I Want To Leave, a place dedicated to the most ridiculous pictures you’ve ever seen. Pizzas on the bathroom floor, dogs doing dishes and huge lizards on ATMs—the list goes on.
Bored Panda has collected some of the funniest no-context images from the account that grab your attention and don’t let go. So scroll down, upvote your favorites, and make sure to check out Part 1 of this post right here.
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This Instagram account with over 111K followers shares tons of hilariously strange things that can make you feel uncomfortable. Without giving any context whatsoever, it makes it even harder to understand what’s going on. It seems that the creator of this account is on a mission to collect some of the most ridiculous photos of people and animals that’s been floating around on the Internet. And the results are amusing.
Scrolling through this list, you will notice that the posts that the 'I Want To Leave' account uploads are funny and puzzling all at the same time. They are the perfect attention trap because once your eyes land on them, it’s difficult to look away. In the past couple of years, Instagram meme accounts that appeal to audiences of all types seem to be on the rise. Their explosive growth has been explained by Mediakix, an influencer marketing agency.
One of the reasons for their popularity is simply the format. Compared to watching YouTube videos or reading long captioned posts, it takes mere seconds for us to consume memes. One could say that they’re designed for the fast-paced nature of our lives. It’s especially convenient for Instagram users since they “don’t spend a great deal of time viewing a single image or video but instead scroll quickly,” Mediakix explained.
Another important factor would be the content—memes tend to be topical and always feel fresh for the audiences. And category-specific accounts are becoming more and more popular: “Themed meme accounts toe that fine line between being particularly relatable to a specific group of people, but universal enough to attract a large following.”
Let’s not forget the millennials. They are the ones who are specifically targeted by such social media content. Instagram meme accounts usually operate on a broader scale, so they also appeal to a variety of users instead of just targeting one kind of millennial. But the question is, why is millennial humor so weird?
In a piece for The Washington Post, Elizabeth Bruenig first acknowledges that millennials grew up in a world that is nothing like the one their parents grew up in. One reason why their sense of humor is so dark and surreal could be that the world had stopped making sense to them. And they have their reasons.
“Long-lasting careers seem out of reach; millennials are told to go to college so they can make money, but mostly they just amass debt and then job-hop in hopes of paying it off. In the meantime, they put off getting married, having kids, buying houses, and so on. And waiting feels like — well, waiting,” she explained.
Since today, the meaning of life looks like it's going further and further away, we seem to find ourselves immersed in a peculiar and chaotic form of comedy. “Rather than trying to restore meaning and sense where they’ve gone missing, the style aims to play with the moods and emotions of an illegible world,” Elizabeth Bruenig said. And let’s not forget the important fact that today we are getting bombarded with so much information which is so accessible yet so unreliable at the same time. The levels of anxiety millennials feel can really seem overwhelming.
A study conducted by Pew Research Center in 2014 only confirms it. According to the researchers, millennials are the “first in the modern era to have higher levels of student loan debt, poverty and unemployment, and lower levels of wealth and personal income than their two immediate predecessor generations.” Not to mention that they have emerged into adulthood having low social trust for other people and traditional institutions.
Good enough rule, since kids can’t understand this concept, this might be message for the adults
As Kim Koltun stated in Rick, Morty, and Absurdism: The Millennial Allure of Dark Humor, there are three important sociological contexts to the rise of weird forms of humor amongst millennials: “The contrast between upbringing and reality, expedited modernity, and rapidly changing information structures. These set the stage for a distinctive style of humor that materialized as a means of comprehending the absurdities of life.”
Heath Ledger reborn as a puppy whilst still having Joker mask on..
Load More Replies...Some guard dogs aren't barking at you, they are silently judging you.
His name is Junebug and apparently, he is an absolute darling!! https://www.thedodo.com/amphtml/daily-dodo/this-little-dog-peeking-over-fence-is-making-people-uncomfortable
Thanks! Seeing other pics of her made me way less uncomfortable…still not great tho…those eyes
Load More Replies..."why did you wake me from my beauty sleep? I will judge you by this, mark my words"
Uhm, hi, Mr puppy? This dog looks like it asks humans "who's a good boy?"
His eyes hold too much human-ness and he looks like he would sniff your feet while you sleep
When you accidentally toss your ball into your neighbor's yard and their dog dares you to try to get it.
I cannot look away......it's drawing me in to where ever hell it came from.......aaaaahhhhhhhh
I think he’s got the same makeup artist as that seal in a tank that said “Hello Clarice”. (It was posted here around Halloween)
So ominous.. is that yu Beetlejuice??! I thought the snake was horrifying.
Straight up looks like Pennywise decided to try out incarnation as a dog.
Hey, Mac, can this human understand us?! I think he heard us. No really, he's just standing there looking at us with his phone pointing at me. I think he knows!!!
your kids stopped kicking their balls in my yard Ted, tell them to start doing that again immediately!
I bet he has an adorable name to match his sweet demeanor like Cupcake, Snowball, or Mr. Wiggins.
They are what help us navigate the prevailing ideas and trends of today’s American society. Growing up in a world that promised you everything but failed to deliver has definitely had some negative effects on millennials’ lives. However, such absurd humor that we can see in the I Want To Leave Instagram account can reduce the burdens and stressful factors we feel every day. Moreover, it gives us the opportunity to let out a few laughs in response to the things we cannot change.
Those are some of the main explanations why so many of us turn to the online meme culture. Looking at confusing and ridiculous pictures is not only refreshing but also necessary. Such millennial comedy will not give you any earth-shattering realizations about the meaning of life but it can help you turn down the volume on the noise around you.
"what? that is how my voice sounds? oh dear my camera was front facing"
i always forget how tall they are... then i see these sorta pictures...
If ever a human needs a stick, just a low tech, regular stick, it's this guy.
Sir your credit card declined. Would you like to pay by treats instead?
I had a laptop like that once. Reviews came with a warning saying not to actually put it on your lap while working, and especially if you're a dude.
*Tell me you're rich without saying you're rich*: my horse's bowl is a Porsche
This is what they put on the wheels of F1 cars at Monza Circuit. True fact.
That's the reason why Thanos wiped out half the planet.
Load More Replies...OK there's so much weirdness going on here that I'm like OK but then I'm also like yes to all of it?
That's the reason why Thanos wiped out half the planet.
Load More Replies...OK there's so much weirdness going on here that I'm like OK but then I'm also like yes to all of it?