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Scrolling mindlessly through social media has become a favorite pastime for many. It can be a great go-to for the procrastinators among us. And it’s particularly enticing if the content we come across is funny. Even if it has no context whatsoever. If you’re looking for something to do, other than that thing you’re meant to be doing, keep scrolling.
Bored Panda happened upon an Insta account called F Advertisements. “Not advertisements but not not advertisements”, reads the bio. If you think that’s confusing and a bit random, wait until you see some of the posts. There are more than 9,000 of them. Some are hilarious. Some are weird. And others are a bit of both. The page is clearly doing something right… It’s clocked up 1.7 million followers since its launch. Prepare yourself for an epic journey of laughter through a concoction of posts from the page. And don't forget to upvote your favorites.
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TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 year ago
this looks like such a meme image. gonna have to think of something to put on the banner
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Panda McPandaface 1 year ago
Don't Ron, I've been waiting for the chance to have a go at this one.
Did you have to give some of the pictures featured a second glance to figure out what’s going on? That’s possibly because many of them have no context whatsoever. Meaning, we don’t know the backstory behind them, or we don’t have enough information to understand what we are looking at.
“Context shapes our understanding and interpretation of all the visual material we encounter," reads the JSTOR Daily post on the topic. "Context for images can take many forms, including accompanying text, other images of the same subject, and even cultural knowledge of the audience.”
Even when you think you understand the image, you might actually have it totally wrong if you don't know the context. But that’s not to say you can’t find it funny. Right? 'Not always,' say the experts.
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the phantom 1 year ago
thats what everyone says to me after buying a 2L soda from 7/11
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David Paterson 1 year ago
I saw one in real life with the destination saying "somewhere nice".
Janissary35680 1 year ago
"Handbasket Express". Got past me before I could get my phone out to take a picture.
Pamela Christie 1 year ago
If you look really hard, you can see Ratty, Toad and Mole inside, driven by Cyril, the horse.
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Tobias Reaper 1 year ago
archaeologists discovered what is believed to be the first ever dad joke
In the case of deliberately random, meant-to-be-funny posts, a lack of context could be harmless. But, there are times when no context is downright dangerous. As JSTOR explains it: “when context is missing, obscured, lost, or forgotten, meaning becomes skewed and difficult to discern.” So what do we often do? We come to our own conclusions. And this can lead to misinformation, especially when it comes to current affairs or history.
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Pamela Christie 1 year ago
Didn't the girl in the middle also have a role on "Virtual Strangers"?
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René Sauer 1 year ago
Or maybe it´s just a joke, for some reason. I find it funny.
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Rosecrucian Roeth 1 year ago
Yup, makes a lot of sense, probably a lot more if you happened to know her.................
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David 1 year ago
Photoshop. Ostriches do not have Marty Feldman eyes. (Graves' ophthalmopathy)
A bunch of research has been done on what’s become known as “context collapse” in the age of social media. Experts say the vast array of content out there, and our endless need to scroll and share, encourages us to consume information “without taking the necessary time to examine a story and comprehend its context.”
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Pamela Christie 1 year ago
As humans, we can't possibly see the joke. It's strictly toilet humor.
Images are a powerful tool when it comes to communication. As PBS reported in this op-ed, “Psychological research has shown that people are more likely to believe true and false trivia statements, such as ‘turtles are deaf’, when they’re presented alongside an image."
The site added that people are more likely to claim they’ve previously seen freshly made-up headlines when they’re accompanied by a photograph. And that posts with photos receive more likes and shares that those with just text.
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Grey Beard 1 year ago
Windows phones were actually pretty good, but destined to fail because of all the resentment towards Microsoft and the decades of their desktop OS monopoly pain.
David Beaulieu 1 year ago
This screams 'cringe idea' from executives that no person with 1/2 a brain agreed to help with.
Rebecca McManus 1 year ago
The Windows phone was a bloody good phone, it was a Nokia with the Windows OS and didn't have any issues, unlike the rubbish android I'm forced to use now. Sadly mine fell once too often and they were withdrawing from the market so refused to fix it otherwise I'd probably still be using it.
zims 1 year ago
No, there's a difference between blackface/brownface (coloring yourself to mimic another race) and just facepainting (likely to mimic ashes for mourning.)
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Ozymandias73 1 year ago
Oh yeah. The artist knew what they were doing. Hell, I'm pretty sure the entire marketing team knew what they were doing.
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Nicky Shrimps 1 year ago
Not sure what that 100% incorrect comment is based on...
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 1 year ago
I used to play Black Sabbath on my little sister's Teddy Ruxpin (ask your mom)
Toujin C'Thlu 1 year ago
I chuckled at this. Now I have an image in my head of Teddy Ruxpin singing 'Iron Man'
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General Stukov 1 year ago
My sister had that boom box and i had that cd... I've done this literal thing when i was younger
As per PBS, a common, deliberate technique of spreading misinformation involves “recycling legitimate old photographs and videos and presenting them as evidence of recent events.” It cites an example of a photo shared on Facebook of what appeared to be a ransacked grocery store with the caption “YUP! #SocialismSucks.” But the photo was actually taken in Japan after the 2011 earthquake.
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Strahd Ivarius 1 year ago
MAGA doesn't specify how you are supposed to reach the goal, socialism is not worse than their current system
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Mary Kelly 1 year ago
convinced this is a photo shop...mcdonald's would never let him work in a shirt or hat that was not part of its official uniform....plus, the hat is way too big
David Martin 1 year ago
This would be pretty funny if McDonald's employees could just wear whatever hat they want to, and if I wasn't strongly suspecting this is a fully staged photo
pfeils wife 1 year ago
An example of how trump won. Also an example of the look on their faces when all of trumps promises (that they all said he was 'just kidding' about) start coming true. Which will be met only with "go f*ck yourself"
Alexandra Nara 1 year ago
America vote in a nutshell..just offer cheap unhealthy solutions that rise the blood pressure
Another sinister example involved protesters being blamed for trashing London's Hyde Park after a global warming protest in 2019. Photos of the mess did the rounds on social media. Only for the truth to emerge later: some photos were taken in Mumbai, India, and others were snapped after a completely different event in the park.
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Stephanie A Mutti 1 year ago
LOVE IT!!!!! And I'd have stocked that spot up with Moxie [the WORST cola brand EVER]
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The spooky explanation 1 year ago
Yo be fair it was better than my Pokémon yearbook quote "I'll use my trusty frying pan as a trusty drying pan"-Brock, caught in the rain
The brains behind the Insta account featured here says they're not uploading their posts with malicious intent. It's purely for fun. “I wanted to create a Tumblr-style page about nostalgic consumerism with the word advertisements in it,” the creator explained in a previous interview with Bored Panda. “Over the years, it may have changed a little, but that's how the internet works. It’s always evolving, so does the content.”
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The creator also told Bored Panda that they source most of the photos online. And add a few of their own. “Some photos just have a certain vibe that fits, can’t really explain it,” they said.
It seems they're onto something because the crazy mix of confusing and out of context images seems to appeal to the masses. The account has attracted over 1.7million followers since it was started back in 2015.
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Crissy Newbury 1 year ago
Great Yarmouth in England once boasted the worst wax museum ever. Unfortunately, I it closed down…
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Emma London 1 year ago
"Hit yourself at 3rd floor, you will thank us 3 months from now." Still doesn't explain the "hit yourself" thing...
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George S Gurchinoff III 1 year ago
This is a d**g sale. That is the only thing I understand about this photo.
Imjust jim 1 year ago (edited)
"We saw the woman stuff a hefty bag inside the cup of her bra."
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MotherofGuineaPigs 1 year ago
ooo - ring binder. Fancy! Closest i got to one of those was a spiral bound notebook and 2 pocket folders
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Otto Katz 1 year ago
she does have a bra on, here is the lower edge to it. Screenshot...a1-png.jpg 
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
So thats what happens if you lie too long at the beach in France
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MotherofGuineaPigs 1 year ago
I'd have paid to see that - Platform boots and a lot of spandex stocking shelves
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Tobias Reaper 1 year ago
yeah right im not stupid markers weren't invented back then otherwise this could be legit
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Certainly not Dan 1 year ago
Fugazi! One of the best things to come out of America :) Brilliant band. Check out ’Margin Walker’ if you haven’t heard them before
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Megan Fair 1 year ago
It's from the set of a TV show called The Haunting of Hill House! The little girl plays the younger version of the girl in the coffin. :)
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Yellow dot 1 year ago (edited)
Isnt this part of a larger photo that shows around 4 more kids? I have a faint memory seeing it in a 90's Memories article here on BP
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Karl der Große 1 year ago
There used to be canned orange juice that was SUPER SOUR. This is how I reacted when somebody slipped me one of those. Especially painful after a cupcake.
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David 1 year ago
I've done sign language interpreting for a "Helen Keller". The lady was both deaf and blind and she would very lightly hover her hands over my hands as I signed. It was kind of a weird experience. However I don't know/recall if she was blind and deaf from birth. I was just interpreting at a public event and it's kind of rude to ask personal questions.
Mary Kelly 1 year ago
i think she may have been able to do some of the things she allegedly did, but not all...she lost her sight and hearing to be as good a writer as she allegedly was...and for her to master nuances in speech that would have eluded a child...also the fact that she essentially had one person to interpret for her for her entire life...
Karl der Große 1 year ago
Was denying Helen Keller a phenomenon a few years ago? I had a teenage student who insisted that she couldn't have existed. I couldn't tell how sincere he was.
Karl der Große 1 year ago
Years ago, I taught a senior-education class and had a student who met Helen Keller in 1952 in Israel. I told the denier this fact, and he said, "The fact that YOU didn't meet her proves that she didn't exist."
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pfeils wife 1 year ago
I'd even be willing to pay double that.. for piece mixed with a biscuit
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Yellow dot 1 year ago (edited)
Sandy Cheeks?? Edit: no, folks, i actually think this is a screenshot from a scene of SpongeBob showing a realistic Sandy Cheeks in her home state of Texas, USA. "I miss my 20 acres.."
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Highfalutin Heron 1 year ago
For those who may not be familiar, the Dells is a regional tourist attraction in Wisconsin, built around sandstone canyons and water parks.. And since it's Wisconsin, cheese, of course
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George S Gurchinoff III 1 year ago
These are usually in small highway towns in the desert here in the US
axle f 1 year ago
...no, no....let corporate america do whatever they want. it'll be fine. de-regulate *everything* and wallow in the resulting free-market utopia that just naturally follows...
Alyce 1 year ago
Yes, because people have zero self-control or responsibility for self and require a nanny-state government to make decisions for them - at their own expense, of course...
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Trista JW 1 year ago (edited)
I have no damn idea what this "lean" bull$h1t they speak of is, but that's definitely Purple Drank.
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