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Once upon a time, photography was considered a true art. People could take pictures only a few times in their entire lives, and each time it was a real celebration - along with a wedding, the birth of a child, or, for example, graduation from school. These photographs could well be considered genuine works of art.

But now, when almost every one of us has the opportunity to take a photo, the number of images is growing exponentially. According to the authors of the Photutorial website, almost 54.5K photographs are taken every second in the whole world, and it is not surprising that among them there are incomparable masterpieces, as well as some strange, disgusting or even cringy ones.

It is precisely this category of photographs that the Twitter page called "Cursed Images" has been dedicated to for over a year, collecting the most bizarre, creepy and funny pictures ever taken. As of today, the page has approximately 6.5K followers and tens of thousands of likes.

Bored Panda has compiled for you a selection of the most popular pieces of media ever posted on this particular page, so please feel free to scroll to the very end, laugh, facepalm and if you have some cringy photos taken on your own, we'd definitely like to see them as well in the comments below.

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Some of the photos you see were taken a very long time ago, so now they look quite weird. On some, the photographer managed to pick up a quite outstanding combination of foreground and background. And well, some of the photos can really be called "cursed", because it is difficult to understand what is happening in them.

"Some of these photos look clearly staged," says Ivan Strakhov, a Ukrainian photographer who was approached by Bored Panda to comment on the content on the Cursed Images page. "There is a special genre in cinema called mockumentary. As the name suggests, these are pseudo-documentaries with fictional topics. Examples of such films are the horror Blair Witch Project or Woody Allen's pseudo-historical film Zelig."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Mom! Can we take him home and keep him! I promise to feed him and walk him everyday!"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“Mom, can we have Kanye West, Moth Man and Batman at home?” “No we already have Kanye West, Moth Man and Batman at home“ Kanye West, Moth Man and Batman at home:

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"And just in this mockumentary genre, some of these photographs were taken. Somewhere you can see that people deliberately stood up or sat down in the appropriate position to make it look funny or strange, somewhere there are obvious traces of post-processing. But about half of the pictures obviously look like they were taken completely by accident - and this is their value," Ivan believes.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is such an inspirational picture. Each time I see it, i feel a kind of unexplainable emotion of pride which remins me of why I converted my religion to McDonald’sism

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whenever I get a spam text message, I respond with a weird image like this one. Just added it to the file 😁👍

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What does the fox say ? "These rabbits gonna rip you, muscle by muscle"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And this is the reason I don't go in the woods after dark. Well, 5 of the reasons.

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Paul Ellis
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"You going down the pub, Brian?" Me: "Yeah, give me a minute to find my horse head"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Me: mom can we got to the zoo Mom: we have a zoo at home *the zoo at home*

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Terri Antula
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is either a cult or an indie rock band album cover shoot, I can’t tell…

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glowworm2
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Time to sing the Little Bunny Foo Foo song in a creepy child-like voice!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm going to have to pay someone to hit me over the head every night for a year to fall asleep now! The h€ll!!!

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Jacob Stone
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

me and the boys! brings me back to the good old days in 1090A.C

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Niki A
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I seem to have left my mask back in Nope Town. I'll be back.....

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Henry Russell
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

looks like you have walked into a cult meeting they are looking for a blood sacrifice

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Caroline Kimber
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm so thankful I didn't see this before I was about to go to sleep!

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like a Richard Kelly version of "The Fox (what does the fox say)" by Ylvis

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I was in a forest with shirtless furries…I would join there cult!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now that I've seen what bunnies can do, thanks to BP, those are the freaking worst!

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becca
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This would be a fantastic album cover for a totally sick band.

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“In fact, when people now constantly walk around with smartphones, and many do not let go of them at all, just a few seconds are enough to see something funny or unusual and take a picture,” comments Ivan Strakhov. "And sometimes it turns out to be very interesting in general - a person photographs something ordinary, for example, their friend, car or pet, and then, having opened the photo, they see that there is something strange in the background."

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Of course, professional photographers react faster - especially those who shoot sports events or weddings. "They're both about anticipation, action and reaction. If someone gives a toast, there will be a reaction. If someone tells a joke, I'm looking for where the laughter is going to come from," says photographer John Solano in an interview with Nikon USA website. An ordinary person with a smartphone will react way slower - but still, this speed is quite enough to get something very strange and really exciting.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Idk about the kid but I'm traumatized by the picture. That looks like soul less , unripe pickachu.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m wondering if the story behind this photo could be anything but sad?

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Note: this post originally had 36 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.