50 Unsettling Posts From This Instagram Account Dedicated To Sharing Cursed And Weird Pics
Even the most seasoned and battle-hardened social media veterans can end up getting surprised by the content they stumble upon. No matter how experienced you are, no matter how many degrees in Internet Browsing and Meme Appreciation you might have, you can never be truly prepared for how hard ‘cursed’ memes hit.
And, wow, does one Instagram page know how to pick ‘em! One popular account with 57.4k followers documents some of the most cursed and downright bizarre memes from the darkest corners of the net. Scroll down to check them out, but be warned—many of them are so nonsensical that they may end up raising more questions than answering them.
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The strongest thing in the universe...hopefully it doesn't break the handle.
My husband dropped his phone in a restaurant deep fryer... And it still worked. Ooh, how I miss those old phones!
I dropped mine in a toilet once and it was OK after... but a deep fryer? WOW
Load More Replies...If Thor would have had this in the third movie it would have been Hela that bursts instead
Often, you can rely on your intuition to tell whether a meme is ‘cursed’ or not. Cursed images, as a genre, are generally incredibly weird, both in their content and style of presentation.
What’s more, they’re usually very unaesthetic—they’re the opposite of the usual glam and glitz you’d see scrolling through your social media feeds. Cursed memes don’t want to impress anyone with their beauty. Rather, the creators of such memes want to make the viewers feel uneasy and unsettled.
The man in this photo is Charlie Todd and the woman in the red dress is his wife Cody Livingston. They were at a Know Your Meme Party at a museum in New York City, when he noticed that his wife was wearing a red dress and standing near the blown up meme image. He thought it'd be cool if he took her photo standing in front of the girl in the red dress. As he was getting ready to do so, a gentleman offered to take his photo with his wife, so he agreed. Suddenly, the girl in blue realized what they were doing and ran over to them, calling out, asking to be the other girl in the photo. They all laughed and thought it was a great idea, so the photos were taken. The gentleman over the Know Your Meme party was there and has went on record to authenticate the photo. It was a fantastic idea and they do seem to look similar enough to make people question it. They were having fun and making memories, I guess that's what matters most.
Load More Replies...Doesn't the girl in blue look younger and different though? Is it just me?
Load More Replies...It was at a Know Your Meme party. Don't know much about it though.
Load More Replies...Ahh, if that's a mirror, we should be seeing the back of the woman in red, not her face.
Ok so we're do u start with this pic hahaha I will say the look on her face is priceless
Only one of them is a member.
Load More Replies...Next in the news: sunburned Florida man has a nip slip whilst drunk driving home in a car.
Load More Replies...How come BP didnt censor out the nipples this time? because if it was a female, BP would have 100% censored them out.
Yeah, I'm with the woman on this one. I'm not sure what it is she's thinking, but those wheels are definitely turning!
I always feel a tinge of sadness when I'm reminded of Jacko. I'm fairly sure that he needed more psychological support than he received, but there is always that cloud of paying people to go away that will haunt my memory of him. Excellent musician. The rest? Not sure.
It goes way deeper than that. His father was an abusive monster and being raised Jehovah's Witness didn't help either. Couple that with the childhood stardom and he never had a chance at a normal life. I truly pity the man.
Load More Replies...Dont mind this comment. Or do. But it will likely bother you: Dude wth (to this picture). I’m probably the most “meh” about everything shady surrounding this guy. Just because he died close to my birth. Even after learning about everything… if what he did was true, then yes he needs punishment. But also know that fame doesnt come without strings. And Michael wasnt really given a choice of whether he wanted fame. I know, he could’ve left it if he wanted to. But that’s the thing about fame. If you grew up with everyone’s eyes on you, marveling at your abilities, and coming only for you, what would the logical or ANY response be? He did not like his father, the manager of his then band. Probably just wanted to get away. And there were other people, SO MANY people who were willing to give their love to this guy. INFP. Introverted, so he did appreciate privacy. Intuition, a visionary. Feeling, emotional. Perceiving, fun and free. And honestly, I feel bad. This guy would have been awesome in a perfect world. So, i dont blame this guy for being flawed. I blame the world for being broken. And… yeah. Don't call him wacko. I’m not going to throw a chair at you, but dont. It’s like calling me a troll. I cant stand it. Ready for the downvotes in tres, dos, uno…
You say that there were many people willing to give their love to Michael Jackson, but I see it a bit differently. It seems to me that once he became an adult, he had no one who loved him enough to tell him, "No." "No, you shouldn't get any more plastic surgery." "No, stop wasting your money on weird things." "No, adults don't have this kind of relationship with children." It seems like the people closest to him viewed him as a cash machine and/or someone famous to validate their own desire for fame.
Load More Replies...I don't think he ever touched a child in a wrong way. He has even said in interviews that he just wanted children to experience joy. Hence his Jackson play parc
I think he was just trying to relive his childhood they way he always wanted to live it but never was able to. Any grown man hanging out with children will be deemed a pedo no matter if that's the case or not.
Load More Replies...Proven innocent time and time again. Just accept the fact and move on.
Load More Replies...... he was he's dads "FAVOURITE" child, and people wonder why he might have become pedo..
Load More Replies...The man died due to a Dr. Prescription overdose. MAID. Look it up. In Canada we have this , and are now fighting for mental illness to be included.
It’s probably because many people’s social media feeds are filled to the brim with gorgeous influencers showing everyone how ‘perfect’ their lives and travels are that so many people enjoy cursed content.
After all, if all you see are pristine and aesthetic pics every single day without pause, at some point, you’re going to grow bored of them. Unaesthetic, strange, and even downright ‘ugly’ content, then, can offer a fresh, as of yet unseen perspective.
I’m glad you said that because I thought why is Samwise Gamgee holding a croc?
Load More Replies...I remember him but didn't recognise his face. I get it now, thank you.
Load More Replies...Stared at this for 5 minutes and couldn't figure out how they got the picture (unless it's just photoshopped?)
He has tiny feet and is wearing his sneaker back to front.
Load More Replies...Not gonna lie, it took me a second to figure out how he got this picture 😅
about to text because im to anti social to call one sec EDIT: i texted, il tell you guys if they responf
Load More Replies...Oh, you poor f****d thing if that's papa. On this the eve of fathers' day, a shame.
Load More Replies...Well 985 area code is southern Louisiana, and they got some bad juju down there. I wouldn't mess with him.
Leftover from the alumni party of the Southern Louisiana Underwater Basket Weaving School.
Load More Replies...Dad? Hey that's my dad! He went out to get milk five days ago. Thank God you found him
According to Know Your Meme, cursed images are meant to be disturbing and illogical. They usually focus on abnormal internet content. Sometimes, the images themselves are either low-quality or slightly altered to create a more eerie and unsettling atmosphere.
Broadly speaking, if you’re looking at a meme, getting chills, and can feel the hairs stand up on the back of your neck, then you’re likely dealing with a cursed pic.
Good to see you getting out of your comfort zone. You needed a break.
Load More Replies...Doesn't matter - waist turban is freaking hilarious.
Load More Replies...having never seen/been inside a blockbuster ever, would buy just to experience it
I practically lived at Blockbuster in the 90's. It was actually a really frustrating experience because you found that movie you *really* wanted to see and it was always checked out. And I honestly don't remember it having a smell. I know the nostalgia is there, but you really didn't miss much.
Load More Replies...My local one had also had a ceiling leak at some stage so there was also a nasty, musty, manky old wet carpet smell on top of that.
Ah yes, good times. We used to inhale that fragrance weekly until they tried to charge us something like $200-$300 for a misplaced movie. My dad went off on them, then drove across the street to Venture, bought a copy of the movie for $15.95, and slammed it on Blockbuster's counter- still in shrink wrap with the price tag. We then left and he found a local video store with a back room that skeevy looking guys always came out of. That place had a whole other smell I didn't figure out until I was grown.
One issue that cursed meme creators have to deal with is striking the right balance between creating content that is sufficiently weird to stand out from the crowd while also making the images familiar enough to resonate with the audience at least on some level.
If there’s absolutely no relatability, the odds are that the meme might misfire. On the flip side, that’s exactly what some creators go for—spreading confusion and making folks laugh because of how absurd the pics are.
It is more than likely. One of those people who asked someone to photoshop a photo where the contractor took the assignment quite literally. This is the result.
Load More Replies...But it is, this is Manspider. The superhero arachnid who dresses as a man to fight crime and injustice in the world.
Load More Replies...Well, if he were an anatomically correct spiderman, his webbing would come out of his buttocks.
Right? How far are they willing to commute??
Load More Replies...Listen, if Craig and Corey are truly handy men, I would hire them to mow my lawn, put up my gazebo, build my deck, and a myriad of other chores I can’t do myself, and my husband is getting too old to do for me. Like a kind of rent-a-husband. But only for chores.
Content creator, comedian, and broadcaster Trev Lewis previously shared his thoughts with Bored Panda about nonsensical memes that practically demand that someone explain the context behind them. According to Lewis, memes that lack context can be considered to be the “purest distillation of what a meme actually is,” in his opinion.
I love Gritty! Not a Flyers fan, but love me some Gritty.
Load More Replies...Reminds me of the double bill I watched with my ex when we were dating: Monsters Inc and Monsters Ball. Not a franchise
The only thing better would be getting a ring IN a Monsters Ball 🤣
Load More Replies...There was an episode of some cartoon I watched as a kid where they “improved” the streets by making them rubber and gave all of the cars stone tires. It might have involved humanoid dinosaurs. Does anyone else remember this?? It was probably late 80s or 1990…
Are you perhaps thinking of the Flintstones? Seems like something they would do
Load More Replies..."The standard definition of a meme is, 'an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme,’” the comedian and content creator explained.
“So, if a meme is nothing more than an image, and it's entirely up to the audience to interpret the symbolic meaning rather than offering any sort of caption or explanation, this is the very nature that memes are founded on," he pointed out that the lack of context and the confusion it creates can actually work in favor of the pic, not just against it.
I am so honored. This is exactly what I was hoping for when I came back to life.
I SAW THIS MEME LIKE TWO YEARS AGO AND COMPLETELY FORGOT ABT IT UNTIL NOW
She deliberately made the sketch, has done multiple interviews about it and has made money, I'm sure she's cool with it.
Load More Replies..."Overly attached girlfriend" meme: https://www.ranker.com/list/the-very-best-of-the-overly-attached-girlfriend-meme/robert-wabash
Load More Replies...She got bullied at school. This was just one of the "pranks". I don't think she liked it very much at that time
This was from a meme convention, and she was actually treated very well by the con goers. The expression in this picture is posed and they were not being a*seholes to her.
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"It makes sense, then, that they are widely popular. If we think back to the earliest popular memes, stuff like the 'I Can Has Cheezburger?' cat, they were basically inside jokes for the terminally online. As the internet became more mainstream, so did memes, but it wasn't that long ago most people weren't familiar with the word and were often pronouncing it 'maymay,'” Lewis told Bored Panda.
It 's Marge Simpson who married Carl, Homer's colleague. Together, they had for son Gerald Johanssen, the best friend of Arnold in the series Hey Arnold! An old animated series from the 90s...
Load More Replies...It's not the worst Simpsons tattoo I've seen, but it's still not something I would want to look at every day for the rest of my life.
Oh no I did it. OH NO I DID IT AT 3:15 AM HELP ME IM SCARED!
Load More Replies...Picture like this in optical illusion book I own always freaked me out
Shaq now works for Henry County Sheriffs Office, in Georgia as Reserve Officer, working as the Community Director. He attends weekly meeting and has a hand in A Friends House (for foster kids and homeless youth), getting them new beds and other necessities and he's also working on a domestic violence shelter for women, and he said he would "make it real nice", putting in a beauty salon, so they can get their hair done and nails done. Which I think is awesome, bc hair and nail are very expensive, but when you've been through hell and back with a violent partner, something as small as getting a hair cut or your nails done can mean the world to you. He give A LOT back! I don't even think he gets paid for what he's doing, either. I know reserve officers don't get paid in my state. But he's using the money he's made (and continues to make) to help others.
I wish I the Obvious Plant people were in my area I would LOVE to find one of these in the wild
“There's something about an inside joke that makes people feel more passionate about it. I suppose it's the nature of exclusivity, or perhaps just the bond we feel when other people share in our niche interests," the content creator noted that there will always be memes that far from everyone will get.
The really terrifying thing is that I'm not at all confident this is Photoshop. This might be a genuine attempt at a normal human expression.
It is 100% photoshop. Here is the original. g51gheeg_m...ber_21.jpg
For one thing, he doesn't have the freaky robot haircut. This is more 'man with receding hairline' and less 'hello fellow humans! Please stare directly at my giant forehead!'
Load More Replies...What the typical alien thinks is a reasonable facsimile of a human smile.
This is actually the only picture of Mark which I believe was not created by our alien overlords
Oh he's auditioning for a role in the remake of the Windowlicker videoclip
I don't know who this guy is. All I know is the word is related to "death". Does anyone else see that? And what an irony it creates in this context. Okay, let me have it.
Also Brick, opposing women in the newsroom: I read somewhere their periods attract bears. Bears can smell the menstruation.
Load More Replies...Please enjoy this collage of my cat enjoying a lamp. Lucy-lamp-...b425ab.jpg
"The truth is there is no perfect formula to give a meme longevity. There are a couple of things that can help, though. If a meme relies too heavily on current events, its relevance will likely fade along with those events. A standup comedy routine about food can be enjoyed for generations, but a talk show monologue about this week's news is going to expire quickly. It's the same principle,” he said.
“Someone may be able to resurface a screenshot that contains the original context, but already you're losing people if the joke has to be explained too much.”
I’m so happy to give you a present. Can you tell? Does it show?
They probably ordered a large number of pizzas for an office party, maybe? I hope?
Meanwhile, something else that can help a meme pack some more punch is either condensing the headings down as much as possible or getting rid of them altogether.
"The other thing that helps is, as this genre showcases, not relying on a written language to convey the humor. Slang is a lot like memes in that it's constantly changing and being discarded. A funny phrase today may be seen as corny tomorrow. There's also the language barrier. If an image is funny without words, that's a more universal meme than one that relies on English, Spanish, and so on. The more people enjoy and understand a meme, the more it gets shared, and the more likely it is to live on,” the creator said.
NOPEDY NOPE NOPE NOPE. NOPE NOPE :Edit: Omg I never thought I would get so many likes Edit2: dang I forgot about this comment
Duo???are you here to remind me to learn instead of scrolling around on BP?
Load More Replies...Part of me finds that adorable, the other part of me really wishes I never started reading this thread....
Climate crisis averted by genius invention; more energy produced than ever - Some random newspaper
"Powered by Cummins" I recognise the logo. Cummins is a company that builds diesel engines for trucks and heavy equipment.
So is my truck, but you don't see me spoiling it for those who jizz want to make a rude comment!
Load More Replies...who gives such a young kid a pizza box? It was basically inevitable that the pizza lands on the floor
omg. I did the same thing as a kid. I was so proud to be chosen to carry the pizza into the house from the car. I got chosen over my older sister. This was the biggest moment of my life. and I dropped it. on our gravel driveway. I feel this kid's pain. I am 50 and I still feel that pain.
“Patrick, your snail is a rock” “Yeah, thanks I know, he’s got nerves of steel”
Tiny bit sad that I know that''s the wrong episode.
Load More Replies...This made me think of Trevor Noah's favorite toy as a kid in Soweto - a brick. Not just any brick, but a face brick, the crème de la crème of bricks.
One hundred people surveyed and the number one answer is this just disturbing.
The number two answer is this is funny even though it shouldn't be
Load More Replies...Pornstache Shrek and little girl with a pornstache? That’s just so wrong, and on so many levels.
It was free to not make this photo. The therapy I need now, however, is not.
Hey, you gave us free will. Can't complain when we use it.
Load More Replies...Consider: this person's rights are protected, and our wives', girlfriends' and daughters'' are not.
I mean, Jesus is Lord but the Earth is not flat and we did go to the moon. The heavens weren't put the for us to stare at, but to strive to reach. I mean, if people like this want to get really technical (the whole "if God had intended Man to..." argument) then they shouldn't even be driving that vehicle.
There is as much evidence for a god as there is for a flat earth.
Load More Replies...I seek the dissolution of the Holy Roman See. However, I'd be contented if THEIR rapture would just finally come and I might be left alone from their tragic lapses in logic. Apparently they know not what they do.
I want to know what series of events led up to this photo. I'm sure it is very interesting.
She has a very sturdy lower back. This photo is causing me pain by just looking at it
Technically its her butt/hips that are strong. And she has the immediate support of her legs. There’s no way this doesnt hurt tho
Load More Replies...Yes that is more accurate.. especially when you find like shiny purplish meaty bits
This is one of those things that seems like it might be cute and romantic and whatever, and then you do it and you realize how stupid it was. Hopefully not when someone rips their earlobe and both of them wind up covered in blood.
"I don't need no instructions to know how to ROCK!" - Carl Brutananadilewski
I prefer the bleu cheese, but they're never available in the variety packs.
Is it wrong of me to kind of want to try the BBQ one?