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When people say a “picture is worth a thousand words,” the images in this list are a good example of that. Emotions, meaning, beauty, terror, all can now be encapsulated in just a few pixels and spread over the internet for all to see.
These Instagram pages gather examples of “blursed” images, a portmanteau of “blessed” and “cursed,” reflecting the fact that many people end up feeling a whirlwind of emotions when they look at them. So get comfortable and prepare for a roller coaster of feelings as you scroll through, upvote your favorites, and be sure to comment your thoughts.
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#3
Jods 2 years ago
The Richard heads that run the UK want to have cards inserted into every pack of ciggies with a picture of a person with smoking related cancer. This is not going to put people off. There are days when I simply need one to stop me doing something else. Until one of those days hits me I can go months without having one tiny cigarette.
Nitka Tsar 2 years ago (edited)
Cards inside? We have pictures of smoking related diseases, injuries and consequences all over the packaging, including pictures of babys.
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Attributed to the American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” started out as "Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words," during a conference on journalism in 1911. The version used nowadays, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” comes from a 1918 newspaper advertisement for the San Antonio Light.
It makes sense that newspaper owners would already be thinking in these categories in the pre-digital era. After all, words mean ink, and ink means printing costs, directly affecting the business's bottom line. Ironically, despite professing the ability of an image to convey an idea, this precise formula still required text.
#4
glowworm2 2 years ago (edited)
Now sing it slowly in a child-like voice! You've got a trailer for a horror movie!
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Bouche has beautiful yellow eyes that flash evilly whenever Audi pounces her tail.
Spikey Bunny 2 years ago
You can even make out his arms, watchband, hands... and looks like he holding a fluffy cat!
Anička 2 years ago
Yeah, really helps the creep factor/I see a human factor. Whoever took this picture planned out so well/what an amazing coincidence all around!
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#6
Willem Reese 2 years ago
A prodigy! They usually don't start getting that snarky until maybe 14 or 15.
Meghan Wood 2 years ago
REALLY?! I feel like my 12yo has been fully snarked for at least 5 years…
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A similar ad, about a decade later also showed a bit of inflation, as Fred R. Barnard wrote the copy of an advertisement for Printers' Ink, that stated "One Picture Worth Ten Thousand Words", which he also, deceivingly, labeled a Chinese proverb. Despite this deception, all in all, the words still ring true, as the science of photography developed and people began to see photos not just as strictly ways to consume data, but as an art form.
#7
Cricketgeeklol 2 years ago
More like take of the first 'h' - AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAH
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#8
Ms.GB 2 years ago
Me too, he's kind of a d**k but I've known him since I was a kid.
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#9
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 2 years ago
🎵He sees you when you're sleeping 🎵 He knows when you're awake 🎵
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
I always feel like somebody's watching me, and I have no privacy...BA-NA-NA
Tina Kathrarg 2 years ago
Told my psychiatrist I feel like I'm being watched. He said I was paranoid and gave me a prescription... it isn't helping!
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
It's like having a Minion screensaver when you are going to bed and won't be using the outside for a bit
Mistiekim 2 years ago
If it was my room, that minion would be pretty disappointed - no one wants to see this naked body. NO ONE
Similar variants have existed across time and other cultures, all pointing to the ability of a visual to quickly say a lot more than words. Leonardo da Vinci, who painted, drew, and wrote, stated that a poet would be "overcome by sleep and hunger before [being able to] describe with words what a painter is able to [depict] in an instant,” which likely still applies today.
#10
PlatinumThe8-BitCat 2 years ago
I just wanted to mention it since this is an orange, but I sort of stopped peeling each carpel (yes, I just looked that up) apart and I just stuff the entire thing in my mouth
#11
LizzieBoredom 2 years ago (edited)
They never showed up because they were busy smoking weed and listening to Quadrophenia.
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#12
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
I used to have an old maths teacher in secondary school with a beehive. She was actually incredibly nice despite all us dumb teens making fun of her rather bulbous bouffant.
Shelli Aderman 2 years ago
Please tell me that’s a Halloween costume, Please tell me that’s a Halloween costume, Please tell me that’s a Halloween costume…
Regardless, as both the art of the Renaissance and these blursed images show us, a picture can very easily fill us with emotions, sometimes by the intention of the creator and sometimes just because the subject matter can be so bewildering that we can’t help but stop and stare. While images that are cursed have been around for decades, it’s only recently that we have had the vocabulary to categorize them.
#13
Zuzana Necasova 2 years ago
My dirty mind explained it itself in a different way. But yep, now I can see Spiderman too
#14
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
It's possible she'd have trouble unwrapping it at that point.
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#15
Crybabyartist 2 years ago
Life as a mailbox, all the unsolicited offers getting stuffed into your chute every day. No, I think I'll be a hammer.
Bill Swallow 2 years ago
From the Dudley Moore movie 'Crazy People' - Ad exec to patients in a mental hospital: "How many of you want to be advertising copywriters?" (Everyone enthusiastically raises their hands.) Dudley Moore, not impressed: "How many of you want to be fire trucks?" (Everyone enthusiastically raises their hands.)
Prince of Darkness 2 years ago
so many people in this world already who are unqualified to be a mailbox
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago (edited)
This child is certainly going places. I mean I wanted to be a cat or a mermaid when I was four, so I guess I'm one to talk...
Early photography perhaps did not always feature such an eclectic collection of subjects, as film was expensive and the process was labor-intensive. Similarly, old cameras were slow, so photographers had to focus on subjects that were inert. This is why, keeping with the theme of cursed, many early “historical” photos were of corpses from battlefields, which, incidentally, skewed how many people thought of wars at the time.
#16
Willem Reese 2 years ago
Oh great, Now I'll see that every time I wash my hands at that type of faucet.
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#18
robin aldrich 2 years ago
That's an easy formula ...plus chocolate plus Graham cracker equals smores.
Basically, before the smartphone, any sort of photography involved resources, unless one was getting a disposable camera. At the same time, the desire to take a picture and the ability to handle a real film camera well are not equal. This is why there are mountains of bad, old photos from people who were trying their best but really could not necessarily get focus and lighting down.
#19
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Posting this on social media in China will get you in major trouble.
Chihuahua Mama 2 years ago
Xi doesn't like his picture being posted without his permission
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Stary_cat 2 years ago
Ive got clowns to the left of me jokers to the right here i am stuck in a the middle of a bunch bears
PlatinumThe8-BitCat 2 years ago
It’s Hunnyfest! Or should it be Winnie convention? Or maybe the assembly of the Poohs? I’m trying to think of a cool name for this
AsiaS 2 years ago
It was something like „Polish Winnie the Pooh Convention” :D It took place in 2012 in the town of Kazimierz Dolny, Poland. ;)
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Willem Reese 2 years ago
In Portugal, the policia are no help when the town square is covered in pooh.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
I like how the some of the Poohs are circling a human and pointing at them lol
#20
️ ️lefty libra️ (she/her) 2 years ago (edited)
when you need sleep but the sleep dont need you 💀
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Colleen Glim 2 years ago
I think somebody is cleaning his tank. Temporary accommodations
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#21
blobby 2 years ago
I saw something about this on another post - they're testing a medical machine.
Jods 2 years ago
The result? All the lights went on at once and the buzzer buzzed continually.
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Nick (He/Him) 2 years ago
This image was on here yesterday! they are testing the robot using operation.
Tracy Mason 2 years ago
Ours is called a DaVinci robot. I don't know if they are all DaVincis. Google it. It's pretty neat.
The flip side is a style of image that is clearly not professional, but this in turn gives the image more legitimacy, as a professional can “doctor” the image, while an amateur photographer has no choice but to capture what's in front of them. This, perhaps, is what gives these images their effect, as they could not have been faked given the technology of the time and the ability of the photographer. And if they were not faked, obviously, they must be real.
#22
Panda-sized Potato 2 years ago
As Sir Topham Hatt made his escape with the stolen rail funds, he looked in side view mirror and realized his fatal mistake. "Nil unquam simile" he muttered under his breath.
#23
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago (edited)
Me'sa Jar-Jar-sus. Me'sa turns this blue milk into wine.
#24
OhnoI’vebeencensored 2 years ago
Well if it isn’t my old friend Mr. McGreg, with a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg!
Bear Hall 2 years ago
'We have to admit mistakes were made during the surgery, but now you have the strongest punch ever."
This adds to the effect, as the images here are hardly “normal,” instead reflecting something so unusual, that it either “curses” or “blesses” us. Even if you don’t see these things in real life, seeing an image, particularly one that appears to be real and unedited, might be enough. The viewer now lives in a reality where there things can happen and has to make sense of that.
#25
Panda-sized Potato 2 years ago
You could probably cut the bun shape for a sandwich, and eat the rest like fried steak.
XenoMurph 2 years ago
I can taste the oil that all those breadcrumbs have soaked up
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hillybilly gourdess 2 years ago
You're in pork fritter and crinkle cut fry territory now, boy.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Welcome to the height of Hoosier cuisine - the breaded pork tenderloin sandwich. (And the meat-to-bun diameter ratio is only slightly exaggerated.)
#26
SonicAlchemy 2 years ago
Looks like they're on a sidewalk, next to a tree with a water retaining grate, and the bumper of a taxi cab in the top right corner. Definitely bigger than real bananas. Maybe the size of a small table lamp?
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Sparkysheep 2 years ago
What the duck! .. (can't believe no ones said that yet 😂) On another note, I love these 😍😜
Donkey boi 2 years ago
For scale of length, and if something is made of wood. If it weights the same as a duck it is made of wood.
#27
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Thought of the penguin first but realized he looks like the guy from Despicable Me
So it’s not so much the image that is ‘blursing'' you, it's the way it reveals an aspect of reality you didn’t think existed before. Knowledge is dangerous, hence why this new data isn’t just some fun fact and why netizens turn to almost religious terminology like “blessed” and “cursed” to adequately describe how these things make them feel.
#28
Juan Something(downvotevictim) 2 years ago
🎶Your cheeks could pinch an inncchhh🎵
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#29
possessedcat101 (she/her) 2 years ago
Now this chunky babie's owner needs to put him under a hat and let him control his day
#30
Shelli Aderman 2 years ago
That’s kind of cool, actually. I just think you’d need a higher ceiling for the full effect, and lack of head bonking… 😉
Michael Largey 2 years ago
If I had this in my kitchen, I'd be playing the Ride of the Valkyries at breakfast and sniffing around for napalm.
Cheyanne Pavan 2 years ago
Does this remind anyone else of the video for "Danger Zone" by Kenny Login? (Not the same, but he visualizes little helicopters flying around the fan)
Some also create new combinations of ideas by taking two existing pictures and putting them side-by-side, a new set of emotions and ideas are unlocked. So as you scroll through, perhaps don’t think too hard and instead, let the visuals guide your emotions and see where it takes you. And if you want more “blursed” content, Bored Panda has got you covered, you can find our other collections here and here.
#31
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 2 years ago
🎵He sees you when you're sleeping 🎵He knows when you're awake 🎵
D.L. Birdski 2 years ago
Soon, Zuckerfukk will require one of these in each room of your home.
#32
Willem Reese 2 years ago
I'm not sure the "Give an Onion for Valentine's" thing is going to catch on.
Lady Kat 2 years ago
Because nothing screams romance more than stinky breath, tearing eyes and gas
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#33
Shelli Aderman 2 years ago (edited)
It’s Feathers McGraw!https://wizarddojo.f...1/feathers2.jpg
#34
#35
Christopher Bowers 2 years ago
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#36
Willem Reese 2 years ago
Interdimensional kennel. They'll take care of your dog while you're out of the universe.
Kevin the Manager 2 years ago
"After years of research, trials, testing and failure, I have done it! Now, to smell my own an*s!"
#37
the leopard gecko overlord 2 years ago
i have plates that look EXACTLY like that. not the cake, ya weirdos
#38
Nick (He/Him) 2 years ago
That katana is being worn backwards. Blade is down, will dull the blade and maybe even cut the saya. If you are ever wearing a katana, remember not to dull your blade!
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
I wonder if they are mimicking the kata kesagiri.
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LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
Hello catana! As a prior kendo and iado practitioner this is pretty darn hilarious. They do appear to have their iaito sword mounted incorrectly (the saiya or sheath should be facing downward), but perhaps they are mimicking the kata kesagiri (an uppercut)
Greg Baughman 2 years ago
Good grief... it looks as if a stormtrooper had s*x with Hello Kitty...
#39
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Oh hey! It's Super Dave Osborn! He was kind of a thing in the early to mid 90s. He was a comedy stuntman. All of his stunts went horribly wrong. He actually had his own TV show and Saturday morning cartoon show at one point. I thought he was hilarious.
Wesley Clifford 2 years ago
I remember him from the 80s Showtime TV series Bizarre, but his first appearance was in 1972(!)
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Mickipickie 2 years ago
I first saw him on David Letterman show! Too funny! I got the best laugh just seeing his face!
#40
Cricketgeeklol 2 years ago
Tbf this is just mildly annoying (that its out if place) not weird
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#41
Monday 2 years ago
When I go grow up I'm going to be just like you Mr Bunny!
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AxolotlViolet (they/them) 2 years ago
What’s with horror and murderous bunnies (spring Bonnie, that girl from dead by daylight) to name a few
OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago
Welcome to the Easter holidays in the Balkans circa 1990. Wait till you see the Santas
#43
Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
It's Minecraft food, there ISN'T an "uncensored" version...
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"Honey? What happened to that cute little sheep that used to follow you around?"
#44
Dan Flo 2 years ago
Looks like if someone fed Gizmo between timezones so he got stuck between cute and Gremlin...
The Original Bruno 2 years ago (edited)
"Sick I have become, old and weak. When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not. Hmm?"
#45
Jeremy James 2 years ago
The most disturbing part for me is all the rot and mold. That house needs to be condemned.
Julie Harrison 2 years ago
May not be a house. Looks like it may be a garage.
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sturmwesen 2 years ago
at first I thought CPR dummy mask... then I remembered that the mask has no riffeled part behind it...So uhm his s3x doll might be missing a face here...
Jeremy James 2 years ago
If he prepares food with those dishes, I hope he washes them twice.
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LooseSeal's $10 Banana 2 years ago
I'm going to take this picture to my local plumbing supply store.
Gossameringue 2 years ago
Doing dishes in this house is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic
#46
whaaaaaaaaaa 2 years ago
I don't mind this at all. Finally they're not greedy with sesame anymore
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
I really hope those are seeds and not baby flies. *shudders uncontrollably* We do NOT talk about baby flies.
Auntriarch 2 years ago
There, there dear, it's not baby flies. It's only headlouse eggs
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Bill Swallow 2 years ago
Sesame seeds are evil things with absolutely no taste or food value and absolutely no function except to get caught between teeth. Change my mind.
#48
Masen Penland 2 years ago
Came into the ER sick and paranoid from neuro s**t and they broke out Digital Doc... SHOCKINGLY DID NOT HELP ME, LOL
Laura Williams 2 years ago
I hope this is a demonstration if it's not why hasn't anyone helped that person
#49
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
" I don't want to look like a weirdo. I'll just go with the muumuu." -Homer J. Simpson
TheOddPotater (she/her) 2 years ago
“The fingers you have used to dial are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your palm now.”
Kevin the Manager 2 years ago
"When brushing your teeth, instead of toothpaste, use milkshakes!"
Khavrinen 2 years ago
"If you're not sure about something, rub it against a piece of paper. If the paper turns clear, it's your window to weight gain!"
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Mermeow Overlord (they/them) 2 years ago (edited)
"Hello ms doesn't find me sexually attractive anymore, I just tripled my productivity"
Shelli Aderman 2 years ago
Is this one of those, “I live alone so I made a scarecrow kind of thing?” 😳
#50
Edward Monks 2 years ago
The free trial is over, but good news, we are extending the free trial period
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Monday 2 years ago
I still can't believe you can just....keep using it. I've been using it for 20 years. My free trial expired literal decades ago.
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imgonaarickrollyousohard 2 years ago
Can someone please explain this to Diana?
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OhnoI’vebeencensored 2 years ago
It has a lot more to it than initially appeared to be the case
#51
Christian Golden 2 years ago
"Obviously, you're not a golfer." - The Dude. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
KittyGaming 2 years ago
That will end in disaster (i use to play golf and i have bowled before)
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Satan 2 years ago
I like these ones! Please no more of those annoying "entitled person does x", they just make everyone sad.
Spikey Bunny 2 years ago
Interesting... Just got notified a comment of mine got a bunch of upvotes... but the link took me here??? I had to search through each story post to find my comment??? Why??? Bored Panda, WHY are you making things so complicated??? = /
Spikey Bunny 2 years ago
It used to take me right to my actual comment. I don't understand why it took me here???
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Satan 2 years ago
I like these ones! Please no more of those annoying "entitled person does x", they just make everyone sad.
Spikey Bunny 2 years ago
Interesting... Just got notified a comment of mine got a bunch of upvotes... but the link took me here??? I had to search through each story post to find my comment??? Why??? Bored Panda, WHY are you making things so complicated??? = /
Spikey Bunny 2 years ago
It used to take me right to my actual comment. I don't understand why it took me here???
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