There’s A Twitter Page Entirely Dedicated To The Dark Side Of Stock Photography And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Ones
They’re wacky and wondrous, bizarre and tasteless, impossible to explain and somehow captivating. Ladies and gents, welcome to the wacky world of stock photography, where commercial photography meets “what on earth is going on there?” moments, making it one of the internet’s most beloved forms of memes.
And thanks to the Twitter page “Dark Stock Photos” that delivers exactly what it says, we have the most cringy collection to feast on, but with a messed up twist. The Grim Reaper shaking hands with a doctor next to a body laying motionless in a hospital bed? Check. A kid putting a salami tranche into a CD drive? Yep. And it’s pointless listing more, because the craziest thing you can think of—it’s there.
So get your popcorn ready for the sheer stock craziness below, and after you’re done, be sure to check our previous articles with hilariously bad stock photos here, here, and here.
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i'm sure this fact will not make me popular, but you gonna die no matter what
Load More Replies...If I saw an article on domestic violence with this picture I would not know whether I would laugh or cry.
One of my uncles would come home drunk and thump on my aunt. That lasted until after he did it one night,, she sewed him between the sheets, beat the carp out of him with a (cast iron!) skillet, took the kids, and left him there. Turnabout is fair play.
Good for her! Desperate times call for desperate measures).
Load More Replies...I have the same question every time, why would there be a market for these. Why?
It's a whole photo series. It's just only one of them became a meme
Load More Replies...Because it's less versatile. Because looking over the fence is normal human/animal behaviour, while this is just pure douchebaggery.
Load More Replies...It's kind of funny when you look through the entire photo shoot for this couple. They were so happy once not so long ago, drinking coffee, laughing with friends... and then his eye starts to wander... Pure entertainment.
I think the girlfriend dumps the guy and gets with the girl instead!
Load More Replies...This poor guy he poses for some stock photos now he is a "known" as a jerk can't imagine the glares he gets in public.
He's the first hit when you put "disloyal man" in the search bar at stock photo sites. Poor guy LOL.
Load More Replies...The right way to do it ! Distract her attention, THEN gawk at other girls. :D
Most of the stock photo gems look absolutely pointless. I mean, who’d need a shot of a woman pointing a baguette at a chef in a bakery robbery? Incredibly, stock imagery is basically a reflection of the demand for very, even if absurdly, specialized imagery.
When a stock bank user is browsing through the archive, they already have a more or less clear specific idea about what they’re looking for. But the whole challenge the commercial photographers face is being ahead of the demand and anticipating users' needs before they even type in the keywords in the search bar.
Kinky? I have many parrot ruined from being "kept" in tiny cages and no interaction, terrible cruelty
Load More Replies...this is literally what people do to birds. other people might find this funny/creepy but i think it just gives me another reason to hate humanity. if you have to have a pet bird, dont keep it in a cage all day.
I know this guy... I use stock all the time in my job... this guy is in hundreds of stock photos
Wait, wasn't the guy in the wheelchair the "doctor" in the first stock photo? Did his intern kneecap him? I think there may be some serious Stephen King's "Misery" going on here.
I read Whitley Strieber's Communion as a teen. I woke up one night to see a tiny figure silhouetted in my doorway. It's the Grey's, I thought. Nope, my toddler brother. Scared the living hell outta me.
Don't you hate it when an alien wears your bathrobe and watches you sleep?
I laughed way too hard at this. I would totally wear that next to my husbands side of the bed when he woke up. (911 on speed dial, of course). Really not sure if he would ever forgive me.
Usually, it’s the contributing photographers who figure out what the subscribers will be looking for on stock collections like Shutterstock. Then, there are the website's top photographers, illustrators, and videographers who get direct orders from the content team.
With time, stock imagery has become its own aesthetic category that blends the hyperrealism and absurdity of everyday life. It’s exactly what makes them so appealing for an internet that’s inherently run by jokes, memes, and everything that doesn’t fit the definition.
I've heard worse, my cousin's oldest son filled the VCR with OATMEAL when he was 3 y/o. He had put a tape in it, the VCR ejected the tap so the kid figured the VCR didn't want the tape and fed it his breakfast instead
I guess you can call this soup, with it having so much tomato sauce.
Load More Replies...What was that kid tv show where the dog ate alphabet soup and could talk?? Idk that popped into my mind lmao
Martha Speaks. My brother used to watch that one all the time.
Load More Replies...nowadays, girls don't want ponies anymore, they want their own gimp
"Mom, Dad, you might think it is a phase, it's not. Chad and I are soulmates and he is a good guy once you get to know him."
Was this taken by the same photographer as the one above? Seems to have a little-girl-with-masked-man fetish. Creepy.
Yeah, I totally laughed out loud at this and agree 100% with your message. Gotta wonder if that's what this was about or if it was something else...
Load More Replies...It would be an upgrade if they still smiled and drank beer in the last picture
Don't drink and drive. This looks like a best case scenario.
An excellent lesson but unfortunately it usually is the drunk driver that kills/mains innocent others
Moral lesson: drunk driving make you happier about being in a wheel chair
"So I dared him to drink olive oil and he did. Then it slipped out of his hand and got everywhere and well that stuff is slipper and you know the rest.
OH!!! Its The Corinthian from the Sandman comics!!! https://sandman.fandom.com/wiki/The_Corinthian
My thoughts too. Once you've seen that thing you never forget.
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there's an idiom about giving one's eye teeth? but i don't know what context you'd want to use this picture.
An excellent solution to boring, nagging husbands, not your fault when they drown
Wasn't there a show in the 80s or 90s where they did that to the heroes and were going release crabs or scorpions as well?
I think he needs to give up cycling, he’s obviously not very good at it...lol
Or he's a successful insurance scammer.
Load More Replies...Every one of these are the before in a commercial about to sell you some worthless item for $19.95
That is one accident prone person. He should probably just stay indoors.
Bus? That's a freaking commuter train judging by the stoppers in the front.
Load More Replies...Wiping your behind with a 100€ bill can be tricky. It's small, doesn't hold moisture and is kinda scratchy. 2/10 wouldn't recommend.
Youtube prank my husband fell asleep I rolled him into a morgue put on a toe tag lets see what happens.
He's still asleep and they just wheeled him into the crematory... LAWL pranking for the win!
Load More Replies..."I warned him to never mock my weight. But he didn't listen, so he got what he deserved."
*singing* And weeee can build this world together, staaaanding tall forever, noooothing's gonna stop us now.....
"Hey Gary, found a mannequin that loos like you want a picture with it and do you mind If I put it on a website to allow people to use it however they see Fit?"
"Dermatologists hate him! Man finds cure to wrinkles using this simple public urinal trick!"
Nope, nope, nope. Couldn't pay me enough to stick my head in a URINAL.
The Fonz's bathroom for anyone he doesn't like: Sit on it!". Yes-old lol
This is training to perfect the "hover" (even though every woman I've ever talked to HATES IT when other women hover and therefore splatter everywhere)
Hint - if you splatter after you hover, CLEAN IT UP!
Load More Replies...And I thought it was bad when that lady gave her husband laxatives while simultaneously removing and hiding the toilet seat in retaliation for him laughing at her falling in the toilet when he left the seat up 😬
Maybe, and I'm really reaching here...it's about suicide with a toaster in bath.
Load More Replies...Rodney Dangerfield once had a joke : "My parents loved me, my bath toys were a toaster and a radio !" :D
I do the same to my cat when it starts hitting and scratching lmao
Heh, one time my rabbit was licking me while I was talking to my friend. . . So I licked her. I, ofc, being me announced that on my class group chat. “I licked my rabbit.” My best friend was very confused, “WTHECK? YOU LICKED YOUR RABBIT?”
Load More Replies...The fact that it's a puppy and a grown man makes me really uncomfortable.
So is she farting? Is her laptop imploding? Is her office environment toxic? What? I'm so confused
I think, for this one, they just sauntered into a college dorm :D
Load More Replies...This went from dark to weird… or this could be dark to your taste buds
I’m glad I thought the Easter bunny was a band of stray bunnies delivering gifts and eggs for children.
They capture the moment in time when Joe went back in time to stop himself from posing for ridiculous stock photos.
I used to dance with the mop when I was a kid. Also use it as a horse in "Rainbow Brite" games with my little sister. She got the fence.
Umm... I think this one could be something fun but fatal. Similar to the quote- speed thrills but kills? It could be putting the fun in funeral but they are adding ERAL, right?
Putting the FUN in FUNERAL since the invention of the red sharpie
Harley Quinn: "Oh Puddin', you really know how to put the fun in funeral".
she Poseidon the drinking fountains to pay for her fancy high school using the inheritance
I see Wednesday Adam's has been playing around the water dispenser again.
“I bought a million dogecoins then used them to shame dogs by throwing them at them”
Plot twist: The girls are actually a bickering couple and the man is their friend who knows they're going to make up by the next morning.
She specified shop her best feature when she died. She meant her face but her husband always loved he legs.
This is just a normal photo from last year, after everybody invested all their savings in TP, then they closed down all the jobs
"Hmm... I see... ok... Yep, definitely a pineapple. You've nothing to worry about, Miss. This pineapple here is perfectly healthy."
ThE lIgHt!!!! ThE lIgHt!!!! I CAN'T TAKE ANY MORE!!!! Too... bright...
Once kids see something they shouldn’t online, it can never be unseen. Please monitor your children’s online activity!
Thats just disgusting. I don't how anyone can eat a sandwich with no butter on.
It started out with a kiss, how did I end up a fish? It was only a kiss
I would say she's form Newfoundland, but it would have to be kissing a cod instead of a rainbow trout!
once at school some kids were going around throwing these everywhere, including in people's lunch boxes. creepy as heck.
Classic prank in Germany: mustard INSIDE one if you offer a dozen to colleagues/friends
Well it all started when i first sat on the toilet. After that i never got up from there
Load More Replies...Hi I came here to ask you a question may I use your profile description please
Load More Replies...About halfway through this thread I started coming up with possible articles that would logically use these photos. Send help.
This is the creepiest stock photo I ever had the misfortune of stumbling on. If anyone has a Twitter account, feel free to share it with the page. moving-hom...465901.jpg
Hi I came here to ask you a question may I use your profile description please
Load More Replies...About halfway through this thread I started coming up with possible articles that would logically use these photos. Send help.
This is the creepiest stock photo I ever had the misfortune of stumbling on. If anyone has a Twitter account, feel free to share it with the page. moving-hom...465901.jpg
