On an average day, most of us see hundreds of digital images, often without really paying attention. But every once in a while something will make us pause, something not immediately understood. The denizens of the internet have taken it upon themselves to gather these images the label “cursed”
The “Daily Cursed Images” Instagram account is a repository of images that might give you shivers, bad thoughts, and generally cursed energy, but will no doubt be an interesting ride. So turn down the lights, get comfortable, and remember to upvote your “favorites.” Be sure to also comment your thoughts in the comments below.
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Actually for the shirt to be an apples to apples comparison for what it’s mocking. It shouldn’t have the PC term of Caucasian. It should just say “whites”. I assume this is mocking a mascot shirt that would say Indians or redskins or chiefs, not Native Americans.
As a white woman, I think he's a handsome guy 😘
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Definitely not cursed. Colonisers would be a better slap back, too.
"Easily-sunburned genocidal wife-beating potato-eating dirt farmers."
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I need some educating because I genuinely don't see a problem either way
Just keep reading Marina, there will be helpful Pandas happy to explain
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The fact that a bunch of non-Indian people (because screw your political correctness) complained about this so much to get it changed, despite actual Indian people being totally cool with it, is very telling about the bîtchiness of society.
This feels like it has something to do with the reason the Washington Redskins changed their name recently.
This is a real question by a non-American. Is "Redskins" offensive?
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Literally no Caucasian person is offended by this. Yes, the old Chief Wahoo and Redskins logos/names were horribly racist, no argument. But this doesn't make the point they think it does. Nor does the Fighting Irish, or using "gyped" as a term for a ripoff, or saying someone "welshed" on a debt for refusing to pay up.
Oh god I’m roma and never even thought of the gyped one before - you just wowed me
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I'd have kept the name "Redskins" and changed the logo to a potato. Go Birds! LOL!
The term "squaw" which is much more offensive term for a First Nation woman or girl is hiding in plain sight. There is a whole lot of geographical places carry that name still in some form (Squaw Island, Squaw Mountain etc). Fortunately there is a fed movement to change those and strike the term from our language
"Mostly Blacks" would be more appropriate. (tongue-in-cheek, not a racial slam)
It's mocking the former Washington Redskins - the football team for Washington DC, which is now called the Commanders. Same colors and logo.
Here's a few, but there are so many more... Cracker, Honky*, White Trash, Wigger, Redneck, Casper, Pink Pig, Ghosty, Round Eye, Red Legs, Paleface, Mayonnaise Monkey, Peckerwood, White Interloper, and my favorite, given the context, is Land Thief. A Lakota slur for whites is Wasichu, "the one who takes the best meat for himself". *from the mispronunciation of "hunky", a slur for Hungarian workers.
Ya I totly did not get this. If you have to explain it, it ain't funny....or thought provoking
lol. I'm what you people call a half breed. half Blackfoot Indian and half Irish. Your looking pretty white with your cozy home and cell phone hypocrite
I always thought that Cracker Barrel was named that because of their clientele.
I get the point but the guy on the shirt vaguely looks like the guy wearing the shirt only with shorter hair.
I am white. And I’m British. And I’m sick to death of being told I must be a racist because of it. Underneath our skin we are all exactly the same. This T-shirt is just as racist as any other which refers to skin colour and this guy is just as racist as any other ignorant person for wearing it.
Oh Chez, let me play you the world’s tiniest violin 🎻 . I can almost hear the whoosh that this post made as it flew right over your head.
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I always felt respect for logos with natives in them. I grew up with 1 (very small school). He was so amazing at sports, we could count on him to get us through anything. The logo was something to aspire to.
I felt the same way back when. My high school teams were the Redskins and I thought it was a compliment to their bravery and toughness. But I can understand the negative connotation that could offend First Nation people.
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I am sorry but I am very politically incorrect. If you have no sense of humor go away.
why do i keep seeing these colonizer comments where they don’t need to be? help
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I actually saw a better one where it used the ridiculous caricature, similar to... what was it? the "chief" on that baseball team.... only made it a stereotypical white man.
That would have been the Cleveland Indians' deeply stereotypically offensive Chief Wahoo. The name was to have been in honor of Louis Sockalexis, a Native player, but the cartoon logo was simply offensive looking.
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Should say, “Crackers” for one to one comparison. It I appreciate that he didn’t want to “go low,” too. 💕
Fighting Irish isn’t the equivalent? “Redskins,” “chiefs,” “braves” etc all paint native Americans under a single stereotypical homogeneous brush - wouldn’t call all white people Irish or Viking s be the same thing?
TBF not all Vikings were white, although the majority were. There were Vikings of African and Asian descent who assimilated into the culture.
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The Alt right : We hate anyone that isn’t a straight, white Christian nationalist!
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Because they aren’t familiar with a U.S. hockey team?
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It was never a “slur” 🙄 just like “Asian” isn’t a slur for people from Asia. Also the “Caucasus” region isn’t 100% white FYI.
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While in some images the source of the “horror” is pretty clear, a few might make you uneasy without any immediately discernible reason. Like that feeling of being watched, then wheeling around to see a random cat up on a balcony following your every move, sometimes our thoughts and body react faster than our conscious thoughts can keep up.
Part of the explanation may lie in our evolutionary past, where, understandably, we needed the ability to quickly discern danger to avoid it. It’s not just lions and tigers, rot, disease, and poison were equally dangerous to our ancestors, which is probably why things we feel are disgusting capture and hold our attention so effectively, compared to “neutral” images.
As strange as it might seem, we have adapted to being okay with many of these “negative” stimuli, as long as we can control them to some degree. Spicy food would be one example, although that is most likely a result of creative cooking, then a search for adrenaline. However, horror movies and thrillers easily fall into this category, as do enjoy being creeped out and scared to some degree.
Oh no. Someone save that turtle! Edit: tortoise, definitely a tortoise!
Before smartphones became so widely available, images required film, which is costly and takes time and energy to develop. So it would be pretty rare for it to be used for mundane, yet strange occurrences like the ones here. So by making the means of capturing an image more common, it also unlocked the possibilities of people interested in making compositions or things that give off a cursed energy.
Even if one isn’t an adrenaline junkie, which already is a pretty pejorative term, there is still something pretty interesting about these pictures. In many cases, they cause significantly more questions than they answer, but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It can be an interesting journey to try and assemble a story out of the elements in these images, whether staged or completely real.
This comes from the tendency our brain has to assemble information into a story, even where there is none. Certainly, most things don’t just happen, there is something or someone that causes it. If a can of beans is upended into a shoe, one can quickly surmise that a living being had to take the can, open it, position the shoe, and then dump it.
It’s very human to take random pieces of data and very quickly assemble a narrative. Take the previous example of the beans and a shoe, an old-fashioned example of a cursed image. What if the tale I presented was completely incorrect, and the beans were poured into the shoes and then transported that way to wherever they were photographed? There is no way I can disprove this theory, yet it already deviates from the previous one.
The same exercise can be applied to any and all of the images featured in this post. Like what was the thinking behind the name and logo of “Shrek’s Pizza?” Was the owner a fan? Were there in-depth discussions about the copyright risks or if any menu items could be “themed” to the intellectual property? We will never know, but as a thought experiment, it’s entertaining.
Imagine being in the bathroom and you hear someone playing "Careless Whisper" on their saxophone.
It’s also interesting to consider the fact that many, if not most of these images were not taken with the intention to bestow a “cursed” feeling upon the reader, rather, the photographer just wanted to capture a moment. This raises the curious possibility that certain compositions are “cursed” regardless of the author's intent.
It’s also interesting to consider the fact that many, if not most of these images were not taken with the intention to bestow a “cursed” feeling upon the reader, rather, the photographer just wanted to capture a moment. This raises the curious possibility that certain compositions are “cursed” regardless of the author's intent.
An absolute nightmare for anyone with Trypophobia. Fear of small holes. Yeah real thing and I have a friend who has it.
Intentional or not, there are now tens of thousands, if not millions of images out there, whether gathered and curated or sitting in some dusty internal folder in an old phone, just waiting to be unleashed upon the world. So if you are in the mood for more creepy, unsettling, and, yes, cursed content, Bored Panda has got you covered, You can find our other articles, here, here, here, and here.
Gotta watch out for that fair food. Especially in the Mid West.
My best guess is he tried to (cheaply) photoshop himself taller but didn't consider any collateral damage.
That looks like the pee to water ratio has severely shifted the wrong way
Note: this post originally had 73 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
I gotta say: Some truly excellent comments in this article. Laughed a lot and made me smile.
Quite a few good ones, even if some are repeats
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Right? I was grossed out and freaked out all at once. And people cry about BP censors. Nah. Keep it PG-13.
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I gotta say: Some truly excellent comments in this article. Laughed a lot and made me smile.
Quite a few good ones, even if some are repeats
Load More Replies... Right? I was grossed out and freaked out all at once. And people cry about BP censors. Nah. Keep it PG-13.
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