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Sure, crochet art and funny cats are wholesome, but there's a weird side to the internet, too. Take a click in another direction and you'll immediately end up diving into some obscure content about things you didn't even know existed.
So to give you a well-rounded understanding of what's out there, we're introducing the Instagram account 'Cursed Photographs.' It's pretty tough to define it and the words would be no match for the images it possesses, so just continue scrolling and see them yourselves. Who knows, it might be exactly your cup of tea.
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whaaaaaaaaaa 1 year ago
Ok no. I just said "I like this one" when I saw this photo, then I opened the comments and this is the first comment I see. What is happening. Who are you?
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Gluten Free Diet Water 1 year ago
ok... I refreshed my browser twice until realising it... seagulls are known to be little bstrds though... good one buddy!
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
It's not really through the roof if you're confused about this being real. (And I know there will be at least one person who is) They put a small tree up there and some material that resembles the roof texture. Absolutely brilliant!
You might remember us featuring similar social media projects, such as the X account 'Cursed Images' and the Instagram account 'Cursed Pic', but as writer Matt Moen, who has been interested in the subject, highlighted in Paper Magazine, the cursed image as a concept originated from a Tumblr blog in 2015.
"At the time, I had a voyeuristic hobby of searching the archives of Flickr to look at forgotten flash photography from years in the past," the owner of cursedimages.tumblr.com, a female photography and film student from the American Northwest, told Moen.
"Some of these forgotten photographs just had an eerie mood about them, like someone had captured a moment from a dream or another life. I was particularly interested in finding photos of dark and empty rooms, mannequins and costumes, all of which became common themes among cursed images."
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Upstaged75 1 year ago (edited)
There are ducks in my neighborhood who like to do this after it rains. They usually live over by the river but for some reason they think pot holes and puddles are really fun to float in. :)
tee-lena 1 year ago
Rory? Is that you? If so then come along Pond!😁 (Doctor who)
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Whoopdeedoo 1 year ago
Pretty much all of the ones before this were normal, and it just went like BOOM
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S. E. in Indiana 1 year ago
I swear officer, I only had one sippy cup full of Hi-C Fruit Punch.
Ms.GB 1 year ago (edited)
A likely story, now get in the back of my radio flyer while I pull you around and make whoo-whoo noises.
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The very first picture ever posted to cursedimages.tumblr.com was that of an old farmer surrounded by crates of red tomatoes in a wood-paneled basement, expressionlessly staring at the camera.
"It's the perfect cursed image to me because there's nothing inherently unsettling about any part of it," the owner of the blog said.
"It's a totally mundane moment transformed into something else by the camera and the new context I've given it."
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
Finally we know the source of the expression "Put your big girl panties on."
The image gives birth to a feeling that you've accidentally walked in on some strange produce-based ritual and witnessed something you were not supposed to.
The effect is visceral: a cocktail of dread, unease, disgust, and confusion washes over you, which is a common reaction to the content of this Instagram account feed, too.
Or as Moen's interviewee puts it, "they're images of memories that never actually happened to you, but the moment you see them, it's suddenly happening to you."
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
That was my mailbox number all 4 years of college. My friends called it Satan's mail and jokingly crossed themselves any time I opened it. :)
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whiterabbit 1 year ago
Funerals don't have to be sad. We had a party after my grandma's. Everyone drank her favorite kind of beer and danced all night, exactly the way she would have wanted it.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Grandma once announced she wanted the whole family to get together before she died. We called it her wake. Every year after that, we had her annual wake. She loved it.
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James Peek 1 year ago
We do "Celebration of Life" party's. Laugh, cry, tell stories, eat, drink, and of course party.
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Susan 1 year ago
Funny how there's so much cop hate out here but when someone needs their assistance they changed their tune....
RS 1 year ago
it's because police *should* help people in dangerous emergencies, but what people don't like is police brutality, and militarization, which are part of our current system.
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Imjust jim 1 year ago
They forgot they've never responded to a call, at midnight to the tenement of a woman screaming that she's about to be killed from behind a closed door. Sure is easy when you're out of the moment.
whiterabbit 1 year ago
Those people would sue if those cops came to their jobs and harassed them. But they probably don't have jobs so..
Donkey boi 1 year ago
Genuinely curious now; Would the cops be allowed to take and eat one (and not get in trouble)? Because I'm not sure I'd be able to stop myself.
Old Wardog 1 year ago
They could, but what if the doughnuts have been tampered with.
Load More Replies... Belle Miles 1 year ago
I could never be a cop or a teacher or bus driver. I would be their permanent trauma memory.
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SaneMinotaur 1 year ago
"Yes doctor, I've been spending 30 minutes on the treadmill every day."
"Memes spread well when they resonate," Ryan Milner, an assistant professor in communications at the College of Charleston and author of a book about the rise of meme culture, The World Made Meme, also told Moen.
The professor pointed out that most of the time, memes resonate because they're either funny or sentimental, but in the case of cursed images, they "resonate because they're creepy, because they're scary."
Ultimately, whether we're creeped out, afraid, amused, or touched, all of these kinds of memes provoke "different emotions that make us feel something." And we share what makes us feel something because it disrupts the status quo.
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Just-A-Black-Cat-Lover 1 year ago
and the 'sccccccccccccrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeccchhhhhhhhh' and the 'owsies'
Load More Replies... Lotekguy 1 year ago
Greasing the track was a lot more fun for the watchers than for the racers. This was the last year they booked the event on April 1st.
james stevenson 1 year ago
Expecting to go around corner, NNNNNNNEEEEOOOooowwww *dissapears into the distance*
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Hey! 1 year ago
This is how my neighbor died. He was on his motorcycle, going much lower than the speed limit as it was raining (in PA) and he slid in the corner. The car right behind him didn't have time to stop and passed over him, crushing his lungs. They had to fly his body over here in Canada.
Ryan Mercer 1 year ago
The white curb makes this photo work. It's like a Nike swish. It creates the appearance of motion.
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The Original Bruno 1 year ago
The worst part is all the pesky kids asking, "hey Mister... did you lose your nuts?"
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Donteatme666 1 year ago (edited)
??????????????!!!!!!?????????????I mean I don't like to kink shame but really people come on people
According to Milner, cursed images blur the lines between the genuinely-supposed-to-be-scary and the scary-but-also-funny-and-playful.
"That balance ... makes you raise your eyebrows, stuff that is striking and funny in a really kind of morbid way."
Which is probably why social media accounts like this one are so intriguing to scroll at work.
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Andy Frobig 1 year ago
You have the right to remain silent, any pika pika you say can be used against you
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D Wall 1 year ago
Zap!! The perfect comment! And I have a SCI FI license plate and have met all the Star Trek actors several times…
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Debby Keir 1 year ago
I wonder if the chemicals stayed in the toilet......
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Cuppa tea? 1 year ago
That looks like Czech metal festival Brutal Assault, held in old military fortress. The band in question is Glutalax, this is part of their performance. Check out their videos, they have the best lyrics around.
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2WheelTravlr 1 year ago (edited)
OMG, this was at Barber Motorsports Park this summer during Small Bore.
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iluvanimals 1 year ago
Of course this could be anywhere with snow, but for a few years it was a Minnesota thing that went viral. Who knew frozen pants made people happy!
Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago
If I lived in an area where it snows I would SO do stuff like this. But here in Winter all we get is a lot of frost and depressing grey skies.
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Harry (they/them) 1 year ago
during covid when people wanted to walk their pets so they could get out of the house
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
When I was getting close to release, I kept talking about getting pets. Someone asked what if I ended up in an apartment that didn't allow pets. I said I'd get a fish. The other person said you can't have a relationship with a fish. I said I'd even take my fish for walks, by putting the bowl on a skateboard and pulling it with a leash. I NEVER expected that someone had ever really done that, but here's the picture of it! I'm just shaking my head. I was just being weird old me, but here it is! I'm flabbergasted!
Hilary Mol 1 year ago
This has to be in France. Dali walked his pet anteater in Paris, so why not a fish on wheels?
Marie Clear 1 year ago
Or New York. You eventually see EVERYTHING weird in NYC.
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Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago
Ahh, the benefits of never having learned how to drive in the first place.
james stevenson 1 year ago
he's moving his car, cars can't ride in Ubers. They shed and get hair everywhere.
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Upstaged75 1 year ago (edited)
I wonder if he was collecting scooters than had been left around the city so they could be charged? People tend to leave them anywhere in my town but they always end up back at the charging station rack.
Cerise Hood 1 year ago
I think he's a Lime juicer, he is taking a stack of Lime scooters to the designated spot for charging.
allthatandaduck888 1 year ago
This reminds me of being a kid and sitting on a bunch of stacked chairs, feeling like royalty lol
Ashlie Dearest 1 year ago
Someone with a lot of extra money laying around, and too much time on their hands.
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CaptainFluffy 1 year ago
I thought there was a rat thing sitting on the front of that bucket. Just the tree! Need to get my eyes checked.
SleepSycho 1 year ago
I was gonna point that out till I saw your comment 🙃
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Gwynne Greene 1 year ago
Well this looks like it could be D***S-functional and HANS SOLO lol 😆
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Rostit.. . 1 year ago
how is anyone going to be hurt by water spraying on a sealed weather rated cabinet?
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Marie Clear 1 year ago
Well, maybe it would have been safe if the same guy who installed the sprinkler hadn't also installed the cabinet!
Raymond Smith 1 year ago
Rain and spray test. We do something similar in the aerospace industry to check for waterproofness. RTCA DO-160 standard specifications.
John Powers 1 year ago
Weather wouldn't really effect this, but still not smart, in an event something was wrong internally
Rostit.. . 1 year ago
Ill say this again. There is nothing wrong here. the cabinet is weather rated. you can spray it all you want. This is just posted by someone who has no clue how electricity works.
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Just-A-Black-Cat-Lover 1 year ago
*clickity clack click* WHY DOES THIS CHAIR SOUND LIKE KEYS??? *click clickity clack click* oh.
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wayne whitson 7 months ago (edited)
Screw "The Teddy Bears Picnic". It's "The Teddy Bears O*gy".
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Bettye McKee 1 year ago
There were no fatalities from the fire, but 106 people were transported to the hospital with injuries.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
You go down the slide and as you come out you quickly grab the pole and finish sliding down the pole.
Ryan Mercer 1 year ago
You might be right. I think I see a monkey on the left. Behind the flower pot.
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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Makes sense. Santa has to visit war torn areas too, he can't always rely on the UN peacekeeping force to protect him
ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago (edited)
Santa Team 6 training to deal with those on the very naughty list
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Ranger Kanootsen 1 year ago
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MurderMittens 1 year ago
Looks like a bomb shelter at a school i saw once. I'd rather be dead than trapped down there with hundreds of hungry scared kids.
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Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 1 year ago
Ah, an SUV giving birth in the wild, with a little help from a passing motorist. Isn't nature awesome? The little tike looks just like mom.
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SaneMinotaur 1 year ago
-Blinks rapidly to signal intense distress and needing an adult despite being an adult-
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Boris Long-Johnson 1 year ago
Call - 0118 999 881 999 119 725 … [long pause] 3
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Ali H M Salehuddin 1 year ago
Someone just put a flammable liquid on top and lit it up for some internet points?
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Imagine the Amazon review. This extinguisher is fire!
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Ozymandias73 1 year ago
I think that was the first roll. from back in 1927.
Load More Replies... Hilary Mol 1 year ago
Good and bad. Good, if they get to play with it. Bad if they get sent there when it tips over on them...
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Hannah Hudson-Lee 1 year ago
Around Sheffield and Derbyshire UK, you see a lot of old grindstones lying around. They look just like this. They probably rank about the same on the Mohs scale too.
Allison Hayre 1 year ago
They said they’re gonna need a bigger roll, so they got themselves a bigger roll, the biggest roll that ever sailed..
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StretcherBearer 1 year ago
I remember a certain Beetlejuice groping person running around construction sites filming bricks . It was a leftist plot. It's always a leftist plot. 🥱
Natty Tempest 1 year ago
"mob supplies, git'cher mob supplies here. Off licence around the corner, pitchforks extra"
Knitting Panda 1 year ago
When I was a kid I had a brick collection. I would have taken one. I had one from Loretta Lynn's house that was being built in Mexico.
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Kevin the Manager 1 year ago
Oh great! Now they've seen me, and have begun moving towards me in a horrifyingly jerky fashion! Thanks a lot!
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
What? So we had some soup. We left you tons of broth
Load More Replies... Hannah Hudson-Lee 1 year ago
You may remember me from such films as Fifty Shades of Ray and Last Tadpole in Paris (co starring Marlin Brando).
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Jaya 1 year ago
Good on them, for choosing a wedding that fits their personalities instead of doing something standard just because that's what other people expect.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
I agree. I wouldn't want to be married there, but it's their wedding.
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RavenCroft 1 year ago
Do you Bubba....take your sister Sharleen, to be your lawfully wedded wife? Bubba: Yuuup *belch*
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Well, he's definitely not going to get anyone pregnant.
Chez2202 1 year ago
True. You can’t get someone pregnant if you have zero possibility of getting laid.
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Leah Wilson-Walls 1 year ago
Can we all take a moment to appreciate that he at the very least put on the cutoff jeans bcuz I'm sure they weren't originally part of his outfit 🙈
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Robert T 1 year ago
Self-driving paused whilst Windows installs updates. Would you like to crash now or later?
james stevenson 1 year ago
Update required, restart now? "no! I'm on the freeway!" restarting "NOOO--"
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Jack Quinn 1 year ago
Just passed an ATM in Mc Ds fashing the Windows "not geniune" nag screen
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ninjaTrashPandaBoom 1 year ago
"It's log, it's log, it's big, it's heavy, it's wood, it's log, it's log, it effed up the toilet..."
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AnnaB 1 year ago
It's Rhett McLaughlin from 'Rhett & Link' on Good Mythical Morning! They're great!
DefinitelyNotTheDuolingoOwl 1 year ago (edited)
I love Good Mythical Morning! This is actually one of the more normal pictures of Rhett.
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Brenard 1 year ago
There was this one physicist/web cartoonist who said it's possible to make a jet pack out of machine guns. It's called xkcd
Oliver younger 1 year ago
Its actually the book written by the guy who makes the comics What if by Randall Munroe
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Tim Douglass 1 year ago
Ninety pounds of pressure on a 2 1/2 inch line will lift you off the ground. There's a reason they normally put 2-3 guys on the end of a hose.
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S. E. in Indiana 1 year ago
I knew I should have taken that short cut through the Panama Canal.
Rostit.. . 1 year ago (edited)
This is in LasVegas. They tried to sell this to the pa w n star people many years ago.
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Rostit.. . 1 year ago
Vladismeer Poopins chess table. There should be half million dead pawns on the ground next to it.
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Montanavanna 1 year ago
I once saw one of those 4 ft tall frames with multiple pics at goodwill..of some couple's wedding and exotic honeymoon. Things happened for it to end up there and make me laugh
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Sooploosh MacSchnibble 1 year ago
I had to make sure I was really seeing what i was seeing
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Some Random Person 1 year ago (edited)
There's a full photoshoot with this dude https://memepedia.ru/shkolnik-v-bolote/ sorry for the link, I don't know how to attach pictures here.
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Verena 1 year ago
At least broken fingers, and this is how many people end up as quadriplegic. As this one is planned, I hope his idea is to do a roll forward.
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S. E. in Indiana 1 year ago
Border patrol with another boat full trying to sneak in our country.
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Bisha Moten 1 year ago
This one has been here before, and no, it's not meant to be used. It's part of an art piece.
René Sauer 1 year ago
should rotate the field 90 degrees and let the guests always play on the lower half.
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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Well, it wouldn't fit in a taxi and he does have an uprising to go to...
Radosław Podgórski 1 year ago
Going to police office? https://tvn24.pl/tvnwarszawa/najnowsze/wybuch-w-komendzie-glownej-policji-jak-dziala-granatnik-rgw-90-hh-st6509386 (PL version)
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
He wants that vehicle bright and shiny for when it delivers those coals to New Castle.
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Peter's wife 1 year ago
No need to climb up there when there's a perfectly good tree or 2 around 🤷🏻♀️
S. E. in Indiana 1 year ago
From the looks of that ladder, I would have already done it in my pants trying to climb up there. And you know once you got up there the toilet paper dispenser would be empty.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
Lookin' for adventure and whatever comes our way.
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Idgafwyt AllDat'N'ABagOfChips 1 year ago
They forgot to put the playing cards in the spokes, now everyone going to know it's not a real motorcycle.
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Idgafwyt AllDat'N'ABagOfChips 1 year ago
If it works and it's a great way to make sure people don't come into your bubble.
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Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
I’m not offended by the lack of fence either side of the gate, but the narrowness of the gate on that path is doing my head in!
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Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
And there was me, thinking this was a joke photo. Blimey.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
I just noticed that the phrase "Bear with us" can be either calming or terrifying.
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Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 1 year ago
You KNOW he's not using that rig out in the sunlight. That old CRT... you aint never gonna see s**t outside
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S. E. in Indiana 1 year ago
Like anyone would want kids with this person to begin with.
Load More Replies... Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago
Bro watched teen titans and wanted to be cyborg a tad too much
M O'Connell 1 year ago
I'm a tad confused since the HD isn't plugged in. Also, classic Pentium II rig there.
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xWILTED_ROSEx 1 year ago
Title seems like a contradiction? '50 Cursed Images That Get Weirder The More You Scroll' isn't the point that the weirder, more fitting pictures will be at the top??
xWILTED_ROSEx 1 year ago
Title seems like a contradiction? '50 Cursed Images That Get Weirder The More You Scroll' isn't the point that the weirder, more fitting pictures will be at the top??
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