50 Pics Without Context That Get Weirder And Weirder The Longer You Look At Them, As Shared On This Online Group (New Pics)
Weirder than weird. Stranger than strange. Fiction has nothing on reality when the latter looks like the stuff shared on the r/hmmm subreddit. Reality wins the bizarreness department, hands down. To show you exactly what we mean, we’ve collected some of the most powerful photos shared on the online community that have literally no context and get funnier and more peculiar the longer you look at them.
If you’ve ever wanted to take a casual stroll through The Twilight Zone and Alice’s Wonderland, this is your chance. Posts that make you ‘hmmm’ start off by bombarding your nervous system to create a mounting sense of confusion. Then comes the barely-containable giggling as you upvote your favorite pics and send them to your friends and coworkers.
In the mood for some more scrumptious and hmmm-tious content when you’re done devouring this delicious digital course? We’ve got you covered, Pandas! Our team here at Bored Panda has featured the subreddit in all of its glory a number of times before. Check out our previous articles about the community here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
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why is this something my uncle would do....Also if your that flexible at that age you ain't human.
Arnie is the terminator - excercise, split for breakfast, reintegrate.
I know… what I think is the mama bear lost her cub and someone gave her a teddy bear. 😢
Load More Replies...A whopping 1.92 million people follow the r/hmmm subreddit, and we can’t wait for that number to hit a solid, round 2 million soon. The online community puts deep absurdity first and raises contextless humor to an art form.
For instance, every single post has to have the word ‘hmmm’ in the title. And God forbid that you use an uppercase ‘H’ instead of a lowercase ‘h’! We can barely imagine the horror.
Ferb, I know what we're doing today! We're going to scare the bejesus out of clueless homosapiens!
Ooorrrrrrr "All you need is pixie dust!" "Pixie dust?" "yeah you just sprinkle some on you, and you go fly around the city in the dead of night. THen you die cuz you screwed up." -What really happened in Peter Pan.
Load More Replies...Imagine waking up and looking out the window to find this.
Where can I buy it? I'm the friend. She never told me.
Load More Replies...Before GPS there was Google Maps. Before Google Maps there were paper maps. Before paper maps we used the old carpet method and crossed our fingers.
YES I KNOW! And this is exactly what I did! Wait.ooooooh.....you mean the other right........
Load More Replies...My little brother used to have a rug like that in his room when we were kids
Load More Replies...When someone has just moved from the countryside to the city and doesn't understand how to use google maps or other directions apps...
“hmmms are textless images that make you think about the context, do a double take, invoke a deeper meaning, or just leave you thinking about how or why they exist. As long as they give you a good solid hmmm... why would that bear be in a cubicle… hmmms should be aesthetic and meaningful, avoid anything that is merely r/mildlyinteresting,” the moderator team running the show explains.
Meanwhile, if you plan on posting stuff on the subreddit, then you should probably read the full list of rules. Thankfully, r/hmmm has an incredibly detailed FAQ that deals with the nitty-gritty details of what’s expected from members, what’s (dis)allowed, and what type of humor is best shared on other subreddits.
The baby might be like how my son was. For the 1st 4-5 months after he was born, my son would scream nonstop if anyone but me were to hold him. However, I think my son would recognize that the voice and body were "off" if his dad were to try this picture hack.
My second daughter was the same. I couldn't even stand up without her screaming until she was 10 months old and started daycare. The teachers are magic!
Load More Replies...You didn't realize your dad was there all along. 🤣
Load More Replies...Why? No need to be judgmental. If the baby associates nursing with mommy or has spent most of its early life with her, this might help him/her focus on drinking. Also, babies get fed a million times a day so he doesn't need to stare at him/her lovingly EVERY time haha
Load More Replies...When I was getting ready to go to work, we tested out my (now ex) feeding my daughter a bottle. Little turd refused if I was in the house. I had to go outside before she would take the bottle. She knew when the milk machine was around.
It's fabulous and the absolute perfect height for both of them. They're adorable!
Load More Replies...Was legit considering these as an option for sectioning off a room, and wondering how long they'd hold up against the cats. Now I have my answer, and suspect that the two 40kg dogs would not improve the odds.
My cat would wazz on them. He’s got a thing about widdling on paper.
Load More Replies...that's definitely not what i saw lol
Load More Replies...If I see cats do this, I will sneak around their behind, scare their tiny butts and laugh like mad
And the next day, you will wake up with a slimy hairball in your shoe, lol.
Load More Replies...During a friendly earlier interview, Bored Panda had a chat about the sub with the head moderator of r/hmmm, u/CosmicKeys. They told us about the history of the community and the changes that came along throughout the years.
"The idea for /r/hmmm was to create a highly curated subreddit with a quality bar where all the pictures are interesting, meaningful, aesthetic, and shine a light on how random image culture on the internet had become its own genre of art. I think we are popular because we maintain this quality bar," the head mod shared with us.
This is a gloster canary. My dad bred canaries, and us kids would call these ones the beatles birds.
THANK YOU!!! WAY funny and BIG ?? until you named it! *grateful hug*
Load More Replies...OH CRAZY HAIR DAY AT SCHOOLL! Anyone else remember that? Also that's very creative I love that
Yeah, they still do that now. I'm too old but most of my friends' kids have done it. Very cute.
Load More Replies...Do you think her collections complete? I think she might be the girl, the girl who has everything.
Load More Replies...ah yes, even though this might not be troom troom, their idea is very interesting to say the least lol
Load More Replies..."The titles are all 'hmmm' because it means you can experience the image without someone forcing their personal interpretation onto it in the form of a title. Whether it's funny or sad is up to you to determine. It is also about purity. In order for your post to go through, you need to submit to a rigid tradition. People willing to do that generally care enough to post excellent content,” they explained to Bored Panda.
That was the last time the cat ever thought about itself.
Load More Replies...Looks like a funhouse. I was going to say cathouse but that won't work.
This is me every day after school realizing I walked around looking like a trainwreck.
Upvote for cute Bernese Mountain Dog (I think, I could be wrong, there are other breeds that have similar tricolour markings), not so much the unsafe driving to pet it.
I've done this on a motorcycle a bunch of times, never even considered it was an option in the car.
You always gotta pet the doggo, even if it means going out of your way to do it.
"/r/hmmm was founded in 2016 by users from snoonet irc. It was technically created in 2008, but had no activity up until that point, so 2016 is the real creation date," they said that, technically, the subreddit’s founding date is very different from the one we can see online.
Mankind is creating its own doom. Honestly, I wouldn’t be mad if cats took over
Load More Replies...It was bad spacing on the instruction. It said "Penis required for voting" when it should have said "Pen is required for voting"
This was in Belgium ^^ The guy made the news. His statement was "politicians 'drop their pants' for votes, so I guess I can drop mine while voting". In French, the idiomatic expression "baisser son pantalon" roughly means doing whatever is necessary to get what you want, even if it's humiliating. (To be precise it was in Flanders, but the expression is the same in Flemish "zijn broek laten zakken").
"I would post daily pictures while chat was going for people to laugh at oddities from different corners of the internet. That grew into a large collection, so /r/hmmm was born. The name comes from a thread that would appear occasionally on 4chan, and the content was inspired by a website called spaceghetto," u/CosmicKeys said.
"The subreddit is about obscure and strange images, so over time as certain types of images have gone from obscure to popular we've made rules to exclude them," they hinted that, as internet culture changes, so does the sub.
When you realise, how difficult this masonry ist, you are even more impressed.
Wish this would be my Nope-Rope! 😍 Even bringing the banana for scale, I'm melting 🫠
Load More Replies...Check it! Don't be stealin' my catalytic converter.
Load More Replies...So do you like my new wheels? I have a chauffeur.... of course it's mine I peed on all the wheels didn't I? That makes it mine.
Meanwhile, comedy writer Ariane Sherine also shared her thoughts with Bored Panda about bizarre internet content. “The weirder and more surprising the photo, the more likely it is to make us laugh,” she told us.
“I tend to laugh the most at animals pulling human expressions while doing crazy things!” she shared what gets her giggling the hardest.
Lolz, Amber Heard has been in Johny Depps room pooping in the bed again.
His eyes! Whatever happened that left those brown bits was not what he expected. That is a very traumatized pirate.
I good caption could be: “When your browsing through memes, then the one about being depressed all the time feels to relatable”
Load More Replies...Ahaha, indeed. Hm. No, i never went on- Ah s**t.
Load More Replies...Cat mom two days later, “Why is there a $2000 charge on my card from chewy.com?”
Cuz they taped it back together. Can't you see? Tsk
Load More Replies...As the daughter of a geologist, this is one of the tamer things I've seen in regards to large chunks of active rock.
"I'm not sure the 'Giant's Butt" landmark is all it's cracked up to be..."
According to the comedy expert, humor is instantaneous. Meanwhile, context is essential only if there’s a total lack of it and if that limits the audience’s ability to ‘get’ the joke. As such, if you can’t relate to a joke, meme, or image, you might end up asking for someone to explain them to you. And that kills a lot of the comedic effect.
“Context is important only if we’re unlikely to get a joke otherwise, as I think the sooner we get a joke, the funnier we find it. If it takes us a while then that initial shock and surprise is delayed and so we’re less likely to laugh and more likely to go ‘oh, I get it now!’” Ariane said.
When I was a kid, my older brother dated a girl that had a Duck and a Bulldog as pets. They were the best of pals.
Might need more of a rock song to go with this vehicle.
Load More Replies...“Some people are born with funny bones, but those who aren’t so lucky could watch a lot of great standup comedy and try to emulate the timing and pace. There are also some excellent comedy courses available online,” the comedy writer noted that everyone can improve their comedic timing with a bit of research and practice.
More, aren’t you gonna do anything about this?!!
Load More Replies...I hope it's just temporarily, because of aquarium cleaning or some such.
Load More Replies...Right?! It’s perfect, I can’t stop laughing 😂
Load More Replies...I wish Crazy Hair Day was around when I was a kid.....so cool. Crazy-Hair...42-png.jpg
trust me... all it does is create an oppurtunity to be bullied :( learned that the hard way
Load More Replies...OK, Dad... you got your picture AND I'll bug Mom with it from now on.
you are more likely to get struck by lightning than killed by a shark
Load More Replies...you gotta have balls to be watching a shark movie at NIGHT in the OCEAN!
What would really be evil is to swim under the audience and yank at random legs.
Load More Replies...I would also add a scuba diver who would randomly grab people ankles :>
Hehe they should have a shark fin on their backs to terrify the entire crowd
Load More Replies...Wait but…that usually only happens to statues from thousands of people running or patting a specific part of a statue over a ton of years…
Better not look at the front and see what else people have been touching...
This also works as a fur ball and a stress ball. A limited-edition product that chooses its owner.
Load More Replies...Pretty sure if you hit those old Nokias with a rock, the rock would break. This is probably the strongest wall in existence
“Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!”
Load More Replies...Here we have found a Nokia fossil from the Jurassic era. It still has 75% battery
75%?!?! How did it get so low?!?! Wouldn’t 89% be more acceptable?
Load More Replies...100 years from now there will just be a pile of pebbles and a still-working Nokia. Future Archeologists will assume this was the first SmartHome.
We gonna talk about the stroke I had trying to understand this picture?
That's a good question, but more importantly, will it run Crysis?
Load More Replies...Ok...the 'notice me senpai' scenario lol...what an adorable shark....until it's not lol
It was my cats’ birthday in September, I spent $30 on a huge beautiful fancy wild salmon filet for them and cooked it perfectly - and they made this exact face at it 😂 left it out for a bit and they didn’t touch it at all so I fed them their regular cat food instead and that’s all they wanted. Ungrateful children 😂
Load More Replies...Cat: "Sigh. Another year and I'm still alive.." Dog: "Sooo you're not gonna eat that?"
That cat looks so done...the fun was in the chasing and making-humans-freak-and-clean-up-broken-glass...now, when it has its life work in front of it...what is there to do?
I saw this video on Ridiculousness. His fart is SO loud through the speaker and freaks him out. He leaps out of bed like he is on fire. One of the funniest things I've even seen!
pleasedontletmykidseethispleasedontletmykidseethisplease... seriously, please.
Masks should not be worn by children under 2! It can cause difficulties with breathing and she could suffocate!
I don't know why you were downvoted. This is widely known. Source: I had an infant during peak COVID time.
Load More Replies..."Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A baby knight."
Me as 5: mommy mommy! can i scratch that car? Mom: N- oh sure!
Of course Germans have humor. They bought it at a reasonable price from a Greek and keep it in a box under their bed.
Load More Replies...The sign in the top photo says to look out for bears. Great place to take a photo with a red circle around some dark shadows behind you. ^_^
@censorshipsucks. I gotchu beh! Sometimes those clickbait articles will be like, "they didn't realize how close they were to death until they developed the vacation photos..." and the photo will have a red circle around something so vague that you click on the article to satisfy your curiosity. This dude just takes photos with a red circle attached to his backpack.
Load More Replies...Ok I'm gonna shame myself and admit I had to look at this a loooong time to realize he put his read THRU the hole. I thought he had some bizarre dental contraption on his head!!
If a robber comes in brandishing a gun and one of the tellers hits the button to drop the shields, this guy is in for a bit of a shock.
Six Flags newest ride, the Scrapeanator! Time to Embrace the Abrasions!
Load More Replies...And it's apparently on its last leg judging by that crack. I'm guessing the water slide wasn't engineered to hold the weight of an entire concrete stairway.
Load More Replies...My first thought was the stability, then I can see it’s been reinforced with concrete, I’ll still found another way around though
Is the person who took this picture alive? Also is that a crocodile or an alligator?
Oh, thanks for checking on us Steve. This flood is manageable. We're all fine!
Had to look up "uwu". Never seen it before. In case anyone else is confused, it means a cuteness overload
You grossly underestimate the power of the Internet.
Load More Replies...those my friends!!! omg i have that pic. my friend sent it to me. But is she lying?! Is that not her!!!! Someone TELL ME!
That person in the picture makes videos of her pink pyramid head and pink ghostface from scream. if thats not your friend, then i think she may be lying. Or i could be thinking of someone else. Nice gacha pfp btw!
Load More Replies...She's driving a John Deere, as in "Deere Lord, someone just ran over the neighbors with a tractor!"
Load More Replies...I wonder if she needed the platform boots to reach the pedals and just decided to go all-in on the look.
Oh Jeez I thought we're over joking about woman aren't human
Load More Replies...I only saw the green one at first then wondered why the odd pasta had eyes
"Tonight we have green frog basil pesto, or the Sun dried tomatoe toad pesto".
Really? Cuz at the time I'm looking through this list its only 58 on a list of 111 🤷🏻
Load More Replies...He heard "Jesus take the wheel" and figured why not take the whole darned truck.
I'd make a pun about a cat scan, but I can't quite figure out how to work a microscope into it. Plus, the cat isn't actually "looking" through it, so it wouldn't really be that funny anyway.
Something cat scan something meowcroscope? There’s a joke in there somewhere dammit
Load More Replies...You know…. I um…. I don’t think I want any more information about this picture….
Oh no I'm having flashbacks to that manga about the people-shaped holes in the side of a mountain...
Yup, I was looking for the obligatory "Enigma of Amigara Fault" reference. Wasn't disappointed.
Load More Replies...For a second I thought it was a paper cut out of a person in a cookie cutter...
Yes, I have seen this one as well on another post. Said the landlord was starting to charge more for the apartments with a water view.
Load More Replies...When you’re a kid and a friend tells you they’re going on a fun holiday, “take me with you!”
Kid? Sheeeeyit, I'm a 42 year old adult, and I'm always asking friends if I can stow away in their luggage when they go on vacation, LMAO!!
Load More Replies...He's imitating the popsicle that's been in the freezer since June.
From Compton? You know, there are black people outside of "da hood".
Load More Replies...Great for Halloween, probably not socially acceptable the rest of the year.
Anything is socially acceptable if people give up on questioning you.
Load More Replies...So... to make this more disturbing to most, but funnier to me, formaldehyde, which is used in embalming the dead and autopsy, has the effect of making you feel hungry. Please, do not mix up the "bodies" xD
Redneck level 100,000,000 unlocked: comes with this monstrosity
Not funny when you actually know someone who died because of a poor decision. Friend's husband went up ladder he put in the bucket of tractor to paint quick small section of barn. Tractor slipped, as wheels weren't chocked and he dies several days later of head injury.
"Hey, go grab a 10mm wrench. No, wait a minute, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!"
That appears to be a Sinclair C5 with an impressive body kit giving it a roof, for the non-UK parts of the world this vehicle was a joke back in the 80s but was one of the world's first mass produced electric vehicles. Big up Sir Clive for his eco credentials! Way ahead of his time...
There were electric cars in small-scale production in the 1880s. Larger scale production in the early 1900s. Even one of Walt Disney's cartoon characters had her antique little old electric.
Load More Replies...It's adorable! Reminds me of Cousin Itt's car in The Addams Family. A Messerschmitt KR175 according to Fandom. I don't know what kind of car this is, but I like it. Shame it's not blue though. I don't care for red. Cousin-Itt...e1c32f.jpg
if you want to see a much darker version, go onto youtube and search for winnie the pooh horror movie. it's disturbing.
I thought the guy was standing on the cat and that his chin was... You know
Looking at that picture and where it's from, I strongly doubt those men have any choice what they're doing, nor access to their passports...
Load More Replies...Darwin Award candidate for sure. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
It looks like we are peering out of a giant mouth. Like teeth on the very top. Just me? Ya probably just me.
The Backrooms Waterpark - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AFeNrtGk2M
Action Park found that out the hard way, with the Cannonball Loop.
Load More Replies...They are on their way to build Ikea amusement part. Stage 1: get a friend and tools...
Garth Algar : [wearing Reebok wardrobe] It's like people only do these things because they can get paid. And that's just really sad.
“If it’s stupid but it works, it ain’t stupid” :)
Load More Replies...After falling into the abyss, Davey Jones sought new forms of employment.
This actually works out for me, since I never align my pots exactly anyways
It took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to work out what was wrong with the picture
No embarrassment. The two continents do look a lot alike. Its the desert area that immediately jumped out to me.
Load More Replies...I'm embarrassed that it took me a solid minute to figure out was wrong here....and I live on one of those continents!
Yup. I feel many think like this. I'm from the US and whenever I say my family lives in South America the typical response is "oh. I didn't know you were African because you're so white" 🤦♂️🤦🏻♀️
Maybe they are going to a hockey game in Seattle, where it used to be a tradition to throw a fish on the ice.
That one in the middle is unique, her teardrop (or whatever it is) is under her left eye, everyone else has it under their right.
Load More Replies...The girl in the center has her facial mark on the opposite cheek to everyone else.
It's an Alpha Legion spy infiltrating the Sororitas!
Load More Replies...I love that one guy smiling and getting involved in the picture, even though he's not dressed up!
It's tyre baby from Impractical Jokers. My friend worked on the show and made these!
punishment defeats the purpose of rehabilitation
Load More Replies...I knew someone with an ankle monitor once. They couldn't even step off their front porch! I wonder how this girl is able to go to the pool? But the person I knew was on house arrest. And also, they could shower with the ankle bracelet on. Maybe this chick is only being tracked, and maybe they can be splashed, but not soaked? Idk.
I know where I live.. some sentences can be punished via ankle monitor but it is extremely expensive. Over 100$ a day.
Holy hell that made me laugh like a maniac and scare my cat
Load More Replies...with a slight adjustment, this would make one helluva dutch oven device.
German tradition for carnival. You got 30 of these, one or two are filled with mustard. Whoever gets one like that just had bad luck and is laughed at. Some bakeries made this, you can order them.
Load More Replies...1. Krapfen!!!! 2. Not only Silvester, Fasching too...
Load More Replies...Tbh I ate one on purpose because people make such a big deal out of it like it's the worst thing in the world that could happen and it's not that awful. Tastes like a roll with sweet mustard. Which is well come on you guys there is sweet sweet mustard that can be bought off the shelf here. Nothing I would eat on purpose again but also the deal people make out of this is just waaaay to big. Calm down folks.
Maybe this was there way of saying, "F you, I quit!" Wait til it's just you and your manager working. Pour the coffee in there, shut it gently, and dip the f out. Next time the manager makes a cash sale, the drawer's gonna *pop* open, and SPLOOSH! Plus, they now have to clean off all the quarters! Works best if you make the coffee with something like caramel syrup, made with real sugar, for extra stickiness! I'm definitely NOT storing this idea away in my brain, for possible future use... 😈😂
PLEASE NOTE: I am not actually advocating that anyone really do this. If it got in the tracks of the cash drawer, the thing would never work right again. And if it got in the actual register... We,ll let's just say those things can be FIVE FIGURES expensive. Literally. I wouldn't be surprised if a company went after an employee, or even pressed charges, if they did something like that. Please don't get yourself in trouble, lol.
Load More Replies...Gross, Bill (meaning the creepy way he's looking at Ariana versus the way he looks bored about the other woman - I don't know who she is). Just in case we forgot you were icky?
You not knowing who she is ads another meaning to it too though. I too would be more excited looking at Ariana versus the second lady purely because I actually know who Ariana is and thus seeing her live has a greater impact.
Load More Replies...I dunno he's probably a very low maintenance customer and he's wearing headphones so likely not bothering anyone.
Load More Replies...When you want a standing desk but have no money... but you have panelled floors!
If it's a computer centre he might be sussing out problems with the under-floor wiring.
Based on the gear ratio, if you could keep pedalling that at a decent rate, you'd have some serious speed!
This kids book of yokai/ japanese monsters has absolutely terrifying illustrations! I’ll see if i can add some more
Theyre really creepy 😅 http://pinktentacle.com/2010/07/macabre-kids-book-art-by-gojin-ishihara/
Load More Replies...i lOve these. always my favorite articles, make me laugh so hard
Danger: Poland is being invaded by a duck. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s9RuJK0Hnz0
i lOve these. always my favorite articles, make me laugh so hard
Danger: Poland is being invaded by a duck. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s9RuJK0Hnz0
