People Are Sharing The Most ‘WTF’ Stock Images They Find To This Online Group And Here Are 30 Of The Most Bizarre Ones
By definition, stock images are professional photos that are used for commercial purposes, like complementing publications, adverts, etc. But in reality, we know very well that many stock pics out there are just so weird, they've become somewhat of a household name for bizarre, pointless, and lousy photographs that make them particularly laughable.
It's this precise quality of the wacky and wondrous elements of stock photography that makes you instantly realize that what you’re seeing is a stock image and nothing else.
Thanks to this subreddit which has 333k members, we now have the most "seriously?", "are they kiddin’ me?" "do u see what I’m seeing?" compilation that poses way more questions than it answers.
Sit back and enjoy these carefully stacked stock monstrosities and after you’re done, be sure to check out Bored Panda's previous post with even more stock goodness that you won’t be able to unsee. Ever.
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This Makes Me Feel Uncomfortable
“It doesn’t make me uncomfortable”-person who scares me
Load More Replies...Oh Damn You Caught Me Keeping A Bowl Of Crackers In The Fridge
I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to understand what was wrong with this
Omg your doing it wrong! A midnight snack is cheese or left overs or cereal something to make you not hungry!!! Lol
WHO THE HELL KEEPS THEIR CRACKERS IN THE FRIDGE??!?!?!?!
Surfing The Web
See her face, the face of "why must i received this modelling offer from Shutterstock?"
Photographer: act like you are working, but also enjoying a day at the beach. Smile and evaluate your life choices. Look at the cámara but also look at the laptop screen.
... so you will end up confused as f*uck.❤️
Load More Replies...Why... Oh God, why does the laptop have a wallpaper of the exact beach?
While scrolling through this post, you are very likely to start wondering in what kind of context someone would need a stock image of a man with a meatloaf mask blended into his skin, or a shot of a woman pointing a baguette at a chef in what seems to be a carefully staged... bakery robbery.
It all has to do with the demand for very specialized imagery which happens when a subscriber browses through the peculiar stock archive. But the photographers have to already be ahead of the demand and anticipate people’s imagery needs before they start typing in the keywords.
Trying To Tell Your Wife Her Cooking Is Crap
This was a photoshop. https://www.boredpanda.com/photobomb-stock-photos-matt-vescovo/
How exactly react to see your dumbass husband takes poop in your kitchen set. I would too
If this was my situation, man, I'd be putting on gloves, picking up the crap, and frikin throwing it at him until I'm satisfied, then right after I'd be making him wash the pot and the mess I made with the poo. Satifying revenge I must say (≖u≖)
Load More Replies...That guy was featured on here before, he does amazing photoshop making fun of stock footage.
You're wrong. They're cooperating and he's trying very hard. She's just a little desperate at the moment and praying that he actually manage to give this crap they absolutely need as an essential ingredient for their meal.
This Stock Photo Illustrates The Dangers Of Shirt Hoarding
Google female bullying and you will find more of these pictures with the same girls.
I just did and I can confidently say I'm all for female bullying. Now if you'll excuse me for about 10 minutes...
Load More Replies...Looks like a still from a Lifetime movie of the week with a bad title 🤣 🤣
Ah yes. All of the images with these girls in them are so bizarre. What on earth were the people who took these photos thinking aaaa
It’s a bit kinky. And they look like adults, not ‘girls’. I’m going to take a punt and say the photographer was male.
An Italian Having A Conversation With A Giant Nacho
He looks like he's having a stern conversation with him like "I'm nacho friend, dude"
For some weird reason I'm hearing it in an Aussie accent "I'm nacho friend, mate" I have no idea why
Load More Replies..."It's just me or this nacho grown bigger? I believe last night it was not bigger than this Italian size"
According to The Atlantic, “Shutterstock's content team will do direct outreach to the site's top videographers, photographers, and illustrators 'to help fill specific content needs.'” However, the contributing photographers are the ones who figure out what the subscribers will be looking for.
These days, stock imagery has become kind of its own aesthetic category that’s posed and weird without any apparent reason. Incredibly, according to Shutterstocker Emily Goodwin, “it's the utilitarian content—the images that capture the banalities and absurdities of everyday life—that prove popular” on the website.
I Think I’ll Go Snow Skiing In A Bikini; Ya Know, Since I’m Pregnant And All
"Hey buddy,i think this horny pregnant single mom in your area ads in internet just a joke ! I mean,this snow resort. How come a pregnant single mom in this area? Will come with snowskiing?"
Kermit Sacrifices A Potato?
why are there so many songs about rainbows, and what's on the other side, rainbows are visions, but only illusions, to cover me so I don't get arrested, don't call the police
The Muppets recreate God being late telling Abraham it was just a prank.
Woman Is Robbing Bakery With A Baguette
Ah yes. Logic. Let me rob a place that makes bread using some bread
This baker just suprise how baguette finally sold since he was open bakery a long time ago
Alligator Attacking Businesswoman In Office Cubicle
Sign on break room wall: It has been 0 days since the last alligator attack
Is it just me or does he look like he is at least 7 feet tall? Seems like his head is almost touching the ceiling.
Load More Replies...I think she's actually mind controlling that alligator to kill Sue from accounting!
I'm curious how someone came up with this... drugs? Nightmares? unsolved child trauma?
Forbidden Affair
Definitely worse than the time she saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus.
Load More Replies...the girl looks possesed and the boy looks like he accidently saw his dad naked
Apple
Aliens should really study human anatomy more carefully before they try to shapeshift into one of us to blend in.
I'll say it once, and i'll say it again: Reptilians do not use shapeshifting technology to blend in. They use it so they can make jokes about other species without getting bad looks.
Load More Replies...After Many Weeks Lurking, I Have Finally Found A Wtfstockphoto
If you want crackers, buy goldfish on the cracker isle, not the literal isle.
I Have No Idea What This Is Supposed To Represent
The potato represents potatoes, the coins represent the "Ireland As A Tax Haven" Wikipedia page, and the spoon balanced on the calculator represents the fact that whoever made this photo was drunk.
Load More Replies...I feel they are trying to illustrate "potato budget", which I think I've seen before, but I can't find evidence of it being an actual saying. Potato budget would mean "low budget", I think
She Doesn’t Have A Spine
Indeed. We are all thinking about the lack of labels on the graph.
Load More Replies...I'm pretty sure that's Zlata, a professional contortionist. Zlata could hold that pose easily, no photoshop required.
"Jenna,please make this meeting extraordinary. Make our important shareholders impressed with your presentation"
Learn how to smell your own farts and see how faster you progress over time if you practice wearing heels.
Dads When Gas Prices Go Up 1 Cent
"Sir,your gas tank port at your right. It's your first time fill gas?"
this meme is stolen from reddit link:https://www.reddit.com/r/wtfstockphotos/comments/fasqac/dads_when_gas_prices_go_up_1_cent/
I've never understood the heavy angst when gas prices go up. Up by 10 cents and it's still a crummy $1.20 more for a 12 gallon fill-up. Usually less, right? But you'll wait in line at CostCo for 30 minutes for that $1.20 savings. So your time is worth $2.40 an hour?
Yes Grandma I Want Some Ice-Cream
"I got some iiiice cream. You want a lick? Psych! I got some iiiiice cream."- Eddie Murphy
Please Nurse, Do Your Job
That's how they call the doctor in some countries. I know it's true because I read it on the internet.
It's Like I'm Really There!
Ironically, the program running right now is "Experience in the Emergency Room".
Makes sense to me. Some people like to pretend they're cycling through the countryside while they're on an exercise bike. Evidently, some people like to pretend they're in a gym, on an exercise bike, while they're cycling through the countryside!
Ok, Love You Too
I know they're supposed to be shorter than the other fingers, but rule of thumb clearly doesn't apply here.
It's to help with the heart shape, if you know what I mean.
Load More Replies...Bubble Wrap Fun
If they ever made love it would sound like fireworks going off...
When No One Shows Up To Your Victorian Themed Whoville Party
I don't know good people but this just might be the part theme we need.
Congratulations On Your New Husband!
Do you ever wonder if the people who model in stock photos look at the finished product and say "*bleep* my life?"
Man With A Meat Loaf Mask Blended Into His Skin Or Whatever This Is
no clue but i know for a fact it will take me several years of therapy to forgot it.
Load More Replies...looks more like someone bit a nose and eyes into a piece of bologna and then photoshopped the edges to blend it in with the face
Burger Baby
"Larry,how many times i have to say,you're just obesity. And you're a man,how the f**k man could be pregnant?"
"All right, I think I see the problem. You're not eating correctly."
The man looks relieved. Thk god its a burger he is expecting. Imagine the horror if it was a whole human.
So... I Came Across This Picture
can you imagine if you put a squeaker in one of those?
Load More Replies...Damn! You know you're having a bad day when you get rejected by a blowup doll.
When even your doll is going for the headache alibi, you should take a minute to think about your skills.
Load More Replies...How To Properly Censor A Dingdingdong
The ads always say "for relaxation and relieving stress and muscle tension" so no one knows why you're Really buying it.
Load More Replies...Man Poking A Gpu Card With A Soldering Iron
You’ve gotta love the fact that he’s clearly never held – or perhaps even seen – a soldering iron. In his entire life.
At least he is holding it by the handle... there was a photo with a woman holding it like a pen, by the iron part...
Hie eyes are not even looking at the right spot haha. Let along the soldering iron mess!
I Don't Even Know What To Say
Idk. Pineapples have thorns and the leaves are sharp. At least the watermelon has a smooth surface.
Load More Replies...hey hey, put your mask back on...and please put a blanket over the women
THAT'S where the pineapple came from on How I met your mother!
Warning Sign
I feel a man in an unironic Hawaiian shirt really has no grounds to gatekeep anyone.
It says "No Gay R*tards." All Gays allowed in my house, though. (I don't have a house, but you're welcome to storm my apartment.) Spread the rainbow! 🏳️🌈
Shut up you bad haired, Hawaiian shirt wearing, red door opening, stock photo modeling homophobe
It's one of those right-wing Christian B&B/small m/hotel owners who don't like same-sex couples sharing a room, because goodness knows what they might get up to in there!?! The kind of place where no one should choose to stay...
Hold up. Could you not associate Christians with this photo? Lot's of Christians don't care who people love or who their partner is.
Load More Replies...So When’s The Wedding?
My New Favorite Account- Humans Of Stock Photography
It's like ultra hot sauce. Once you become totally numb, it's all the same.
Load More Replies...M’lady
We Deliver Pizza To Literally Anywhere
how do you think the turtles get the pizzas?? someone's gotta deliver them!
Load More Replies...Ma'am, was this before or after you blew into a shell at the hospital?
"What? You say i have to deliver this pizza to sewer ?? Who the f**k make this order? Turtles ?? Joey,i think you must learn about prank calls. "
When You Be Robbing Someone's House But The Beat Is Fire
I’m just imagining this person doing the Rick Astley “Never Gonna Give You Up” music video intro thingy lmao
Is that a blackberry and corded headphones from 1950? And a dress from 1960?
What If We Smelled The Same Shoe... Haha, Just Kidding... Unless?
ahh smelling a shoe together, how romantic (btw am I the only one who thinks the dude lowkey looks like a younger Brad Pitt?)
What's strange about this? Romance has been known to blossom thanks to a shared unusual hobby.
Lol Omg Don't Come To School Tomorrow
It's an older reference, sir, but it checks out.
Load More Replies...I Am The Umbrella Now
What spf you suppose that umbrella provides on that overcast day?
Load More Replies...What Situation Is This Supposed To Describe?
lmaooo I was concentrated on the dude's creepy smile then I noticed his beard/mustache
My Absolute Favourite - "Concept Of Abstract Pain And Despair"
I'm thinking it might be part of some ad for knee pain meds. Although it is pretty obscure at first without more context.
Load More Replies...There are times when my knees argue about which one hates me more.
It’s The Thought That Counts
my friend is convinced that rats lay eggs, when ever i see her she rants about it for about 10 minutes
Load More Replies...True Love
So Much Love
How People Outside The Us Picture American Children
Hey Dad, I Found My New Kink!
They're going to be waiting a long time for their (singular) steak if the grill has no coals in it...
I lowkey want to punch the father on the nose. He has the kind of punchable face that just begs for some proper violence
Bradley's First Legal Dose Of Cannabis Excited Him More Than It Should've
This is what I am gonna look like when I get my covid vaccine, then I am gonna look round, grab my head and scream 'omg I can feel the chip working it's way to my brain' just to see everyone's faces :-P
Please, PLEASE do that and have someone take photos
Load More Replies...Christmas Banana Murder
I Guess You Could Say, He's "Hung"
Japanese Dragon Nurse Helps Apple With A Wheel Chair
the apple needed help, so it went to the hospital. I see no problem here.
thats why the say*an apple a day keeps the doctor away* they only want the nurses O.o
What The Heel?
Oh I need to stop looking at these photos but I can't
Trust Nobody... Not Even Yourself
Just Swimming!
I like this one. It’s creative, but more importantly, not scarring to look at.
That Guy Seems Happy
Dude looks bendy. Finally all that yoga is paying off.
Load More Replies...I would be too, if I found two legs in the field. What a great find!
I Believe I Can Fly
Burger Nightmare
This is a picture of me struggling with the idea of ordering from McDonalds for the second time this week...
I can't be the only one who was thinking about that one song from VeggieTales
They used this image on an episode of Game Changer- a College Humor show- and it was... weird. I enjoyed it though.
I Have Several Questions
Monkey On Phone And Woman In Bath
I've Always Wanted The Ability To Summon Raptors
The Search Phrase Was “Working Together”
Dylan Got So Frustrated Hanging His Clock, He Accidentally Hung Himself
There is a much more famous painting called Saturn Eating His Son. Saturn is the (Roman or Greek, I can't remember) God that represents time. So it's a painting about how time is eating us all.
The Carrot Lady
It bothers me because carrots grow with the pointy end in the soil. So these are technically backwards.
Load More Replies...When Your Knees' Hands Have Lots Of Pills
You have tonsil stones in your vagina knee. That's something I never thought I'd say.
I Have No Title Just Enjoy
How Was Your Day Hun?
Skffffff
It's bad enough externally, but can you imagine a cat panicking and tearing up your sinus cavity?
Teenager Snorting Cocaine, That Has Been Positioned To Spell Out Lenin
Finally, An Accurate Representation Of Fishing
"Thanks. Now could you get lost? You're scaring off all the fish."
Woman Wearing Gas Mask Vacuuming Lawn
He Will Legit Shoot Off His Fingers At That Angle
Now, tell me the secret of capturing people’s minds while simultaniously killing them
Yes the fingers will be gone but no one will hear anything but the screaming because of the huge silencer
the silencer is gonna be pointless once he starts screaming about his hand, and his leg.
Yup. This Exists
No, that's just a background they painted white to trick you.
Load More Replies...That man‘s lucky the cat has gloves on, or he could’ve been ripped to shreds
Pleeease Can I Keep Him?
I actually find the lawn and the couple creepier. Has that plastic stepford vibe.
You're Either The Hunter Or The Hunted
Note that the apple is the ringleader. Don't be fooled by all that "an apple a day" propaganda spewed by the Apple Marketing Board.
Titled "Making Cookies During A Gas Raid"
So we can just type in a random description, and there is a photo stock of it? Huh.
Can Someone Explain?
"We've already served your food in an antique chamber pot instead of on a plate, surely you didn't expect an actual cup?"
Load More Replies..."Anything Is A Dildo If You're Brave Enough" Or "I Want It To Be Extra Loud"
It's "Talking out of your ass with a bull horn to drown out your inner voice telling you facts."
Load More Replies...Pizza Thieves Are Really Stepping Up Their Game
Beauty
I've seen this one before on another stock photo. I call it "Cat-Serpent Cooks Stew in a Pumpkin."
I'm already printing this so I can frame it and hang it up in my room
A Woman Hugging A Penis Body Pillow While Reading A Book Called "Huge Penis"
Ironman
And that was the last time Paul was allowed to do the ironing unsupervised
From An Article About Teenagers Becoming Radicalized Online
Pill That's Actually Hard To Swallow
This nurse is insane. Delivering pizzas, blowing into a shell, and escorting food in a wheelchair..
Man In Gas Mask Getting Ready To Shave
He wants to look pretty for when he finds his mummy (Dr. Who reference)
Lol yes, I watched that episode when I was little and it scared the living s**t out of me for weeks
Load More Replies...Italian Baby
how the hell is this racist? its a pizza...
Load More Replies...I See Your Satan With Chocolates And I Raise You Jesus With A Laptop
You made me look at his hand. *facepakm*
Load More Replies...This reminds me of a joke: Jesus and Satan were having an on-going argument about who was better on the computer. They had been going at it for days, and frankly God was tired of hearing all the bickering. Finally fed up, God said, — THAT'S IT! I have had enough. I am going to set up a test that will run for two hours, and from those results, I will judge who does the better job. So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away. They moused. They faxed. They e-mailed. They downloaded. They did every job known to man.
Continued from above: Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency and Satan was faster than hell. Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and, of course, the power went off. Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld. Jesus just sighed. Finally the electricity came back on, and each of them restarted their computers. Satan started searching frantically, screaming: — It's gone! It's all GONE! I lost everything when the power wentout! Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files from the past two hours of work. Satan observed this and became irate. — Wait! — he screamed. — That's not fair! He cheated! How come he has all his work and I don't have any? God just shrugged and said: — Jesus saves.
Load More Replies...I Too Found This Image In My Textbook, But A Physical Copy
This Image Costs $499 For A Large Size
I Hope This Doesn't Happen To My PC
Get Outta My Way!
Let’s Just Take The Moment To Investigate What’s Going On Here
This one actually makes sense as a photo if you understand what a bear means in gay culture.
A Mug As Long As That Neck
Man vs. Food
a younger raw onion man. . yes, i think you're right! that guy is weird!
Load More Replies...Was Referred To A Stock Photo Database When I Was Younger, Where I Participated In This Gem
A Single Copy Of This Was $200
A colleague told me recently - unsolicited, barely know him - that he likes to eat raw onions like an apple. And if this wasn't more than enough, he said he does this every time before he visits his girlfriend because she doesn't like that he smokes. WTFF?! I'm rarely really disgusted or speechless, but here I was.
So now he smells like onions and smoke.I hope your desk is not next to his.
Load More Replies...I think this was the funniest / best comments thread I've seen on here
What a strange place I just went to, to listen to my own comments
I think this was the funniest / best comments thread I've seen on here
What a strange place I just went to, to listen to my own comments
