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This Instagram Account Collects Images That Are Worth Seeing At Least Once In Life (50 Posts)
There's a reason why photography contests require entrants to add descriptions to their submissions. Without knowing the circumstances around it, looking at a picture often raises more questions than answers.
However, that's precisely why we at Bored Panda covered the social media accounts 'Out Of Context Human Race' and '-1000 IQ.' The confusion they cause is just too darn entertaining.
Recently, we discovered another online, let's call it, community that also posts this kind of content. It's called 'Images Worth Seeing' and you can find it on the internet as an Instagram account and Facebook group.
From animals and nature to sports and fashion, 'Images Worth Seeing' provides a sneak-peek into virtually all corners of the earth, and ironically, the lack of information makes it even better.
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We contacted the main person behind 'Images Worth Seeing', Hannes, and he was kind enough to tell Bored Panda more about it.
"It all started when I was bored sometime around the first Covid lockdown," Hannes recalled. "I had built up such a huge collection of random weird images that I just needed to share it with the world."
"That's when I started the page, and I thought, 'Why not make a Facebook group attached to the page?' This way everyone can share their own 'weird images worth seeing'. And it kinda worked."
Unfortunately, this fun online project has had a fair share of setbacks too. "At some point, the group hit 100,000 members and we allowed a few posts per hour to keep the content quality and visibility high," Hannes said.
"But our friend Mark Zuckerberg didn't really seem to like some of those posts. The Facebook algorithm became very strict and things like a bare butt from 100 meters away eventually got us banned."
For the second installment of the group, Hannes and his team tried to be more strict when they were approving posts and at first, they were doing really well; the group ballooned to 120,000 members in no time. However, Facebook still thought it was too edgy for the platform.
"After three images were flagged (out of the hundreds of post requests we were receiving every day), our second group got deleted as well."
Hannes added that he has seen that a lot of other large Facebook groups suffer the same fate.
Finally, this roller coaster of a story brings us to the third version of the group. Only now it is running in tandem with an Instagram account.
"The core principle of our content is that it has to be worth seeing, and the weirder it is, the better," Hannes said. "There isn't really one category of images that stands out in popularity, [the submissions] just need a powerful aura, I guess."
In fact, the feed is so random that even now, Hannes can rarely predict how well a certain image is going to do.
I don't know about you, but at least to me, these images have a pretty similar vibe to all those weird stock photos. And that maybe the reason why they're so popular.
When Shutterstock had a chat with their contributors, the creators said that uniqueness in a photo can be more important than its technical quality—people who are buying photos have highly specific needs and will often opt for something that stands out from the crowd over one that is high quality, but otherwise standard.
I think the same applies to social media. With people sharing their day-to-day life more than ever before, authenticity reigns supreme.
We're becoming increasingly disengaged from generic images in advertisements, articles, and other posts that fill our feeds, so whenever something strange pops up, we notice.
They shouldn’t crop the top picture or we wouldn’t see the rat
Hannes ended our conversation with a call to arms: "Do you have a bunch of weird images worth seeing in various contexts too, dear pandas? Or are you just curious? Feel free to share them with our group!"
Definitely not Akron, or they would've just shot it like they did my friend's dog when it got loose and started barking at them.
Now adays they just shoot first. Read an article on how one cop tried to make the owner chop its head off so he can test it for rabies, didn’t bite anyone anyways.
This picture is literally photographic proof of the opposite
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I don't think this dog is interested in exercising his right to remain silent.
I am very worried for the dog's safety, because lots of dogs get killed this way, but I really want to know what the guy inside the car is doing... besides laughing his ass off, I bet.
It looks like the one cop is pleading with the dog: "Good doggie! Please let us get down! We won't file any charges; you'll be free to just go on you're way...we promise!"
"Yo cops! What are you doin' there just wanna say hi and report the cat that ate my food."
I love this pic! Good to see some cops that understand that dogs lives have meaning. So often you see cases where the go-to solution is just to shoot. Hell, it happened to my dad's puppy back in the day... in his own yard... while the pup was both chained and fenced. Not saying that it doesn't suck to be up on that roof, but what's a little bit of time when you can deescalate and save a dog? I have two of the sweetest APBTs in the world... they can sure put on a good SHOW of territorial behavior toward "outsiders" from inside their fenced yard, but wouldnt actually know what the heck to do if someone actually got in. I love them like they're my kids ...and one of my greatest fears in life is that some cop will end up in my yard or at my door and shoot them because of how their breed is stereotyped... One misunderstanding becomes a lifetime of pain and loss
I know little dogs and be a force to be reckoned with, but standing on the roof a the car behind the fence and probably yelling at the dog while guy in car hopes that the film crew for cops doesn't show up. He looks like he can't believe this himself. Throw him a steak or sit down on the roof sand settle down over a beer. He's probably just doing his job and willing to listen to your explanation your car is on one side of the fence and you are doing on the other. And how you got in there. Looks like breaking and entry to him.
Bro, you are scared of a little puppy wow I think these polices should be fired
"Day 27. Mrs. Lang has yet to notice my presence. No new information to report. But she recently was diagnosed with uncontrollable flatulence. Requesting emergency extraction."
I did that many times. Though only when I'm alone at home. When you tip the cup during drinking, sometimes it trickle down the side. I'm not gonna waste any of it.
Note: this post originally had 100 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
You'd think at this point BP would've added a filter for comments that start. "Google pay 97$" or "Cash generating"
Nah, the admins do literally nothing "community moderated"
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I'm glad to hear that! you should certainly check out the facebook page/group then :) Enough weird images to last you a lifetime. Greetings, the page owner
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Hello I just want to say Thank You for letting me see all these they are incredibly Great and Thank You to y'all for doing this Great!!😂
You'd think at this point BP would've added a filter for comments that start. "Google pay 97$" or "Cash generating"
Nah, the admins do literally nothing "community moderated"
Load More Replies... I'm glad to hear that! you should certainly check out the facebook page/group then :) Enough weird images to last you a lifetime. Greetings, the page owner
Load More Replies... Hello I just want to say Thank You for letting me see all these they are incredibly Great and Thank You to y'all for doing this Great!!😂
