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There are pages dedicated to wholesome pictures. There are pages dedicated to funny pictures and memes. And then there are those who explore the world of cursed images. They're for pictures that have something unsettling in them, but they're still funny enough to get a chuckle or two out of you.
So, today, we're dedicating a post to the Cursed Memes Instagram page. A little bit mysterious, a tad funny, but 100% cursed – that's what this page aims for. If you're familiar with the concept, you'll probably avoid these during mealtime or before sleep. But morbid curiosity will probably get the best of you, so scroll away and check out what people on the other side of the Internet are doing.
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Remember Where You Parked The House
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Of all the pictures in this post, this one wins by a landslide
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Merry Christmas
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That will so be me if I'm still alive
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The Elements
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Funny the gay is on top of the redneck....
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Cursed images are not downright gross and scary. They only have a hint of the disturbing or the unsettling. To each their own, of course: some people love the movie Terrifier and its follow-up for the graphic and gross-out violence. Others are terrified (wink, wink) at the thought of seeing blood, even if on screen. Experts say that we respond more strongly to disgusting or gross stimuli than to something emotionally neutral. Some argue that it's an evolutionary response: we avoid things that we're scared of or that disgust us. That's why it captures our attention: for safety reasons.
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Sleep Tight Sweet Prince
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I want this
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He Do The Peek
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When you finally find out the advantage of your height
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I Bring You A New Religion
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It would be a miracle if it was real cheddar
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But since cursed images aren't outright disgusting and scary, they're more of a "constrained risk." That's a term used to describe things like rollercoasters or spicy food. Things people can enjoy without actually being in physical danger. At least, that's what psychologist Nina Strohminger suggests. ADVERTIsem*nT "Any negative feeling has the potential to be enjoyable when it is stripped of the belief that what is happening is actually bad," she writes. "Leaving behind physiological arousal that is, in itself, exhilarating or interesting." When we look at cursed images, we know that none of the subjects in them are in any danger. More often than not, they're manufactured for the Internet and other netizens to enjoy.
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Hold On For Dear Life
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That's quite an airbag system...
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There Is No Gravity Anymore
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Jerome Lenovo Jerome Lenovo Community Member Follow
Spider cat, spider cat, does whatever the f he wants
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How To Skip Zoom Calls
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TheGoodBoi TheGoodBoi Community Member Follow
Ah Benjamin, good morning. Lettuce continue…
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The more interesting question is why we can't look away when we see a cursed image or want to see even more. The popularity of the infamous 50/50 subreddit in the 2010s can be one extreme example of our morbid curiosity. Cursed images are a tamer version of that. A creator of a cursed images page on Instagram explained the phenomena to Paper: "We love that tolerable forbidden zone, not too disgusting to turn around, but weird enough to keep us looking."
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Me And My Future Wife
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Best baby ever!
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Pic Of Me In My Room
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TheGoodBoi TheGoodBoi Community Member Follow
If it makes you happy, I see no problems here.
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You Have Been Detained
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TheGoodBoi TheGoodBoi Community Member Follow
“You guys can duck off! Yeah we did it, we’ll do it again!”
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Ryan Milner, an assistant professor in communications at the College of Charleston and author of The World Made Meme, has another theory. He says we like them because they're scary and creepy. Ultimately, they make us feel something, and that's their main appeal. "[They provoke] different emotions that make us feel something. And we share what makes us feel something."
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Tuck Your Homies In
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I see nothing wrong here
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Oh Damn He Thicc
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If I'm reading his little armband right, then this fellow is Italian, and all of their police uniforms look like they just stepped out of a pride parade.
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He Be A Lil Too Baked
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TheGoodBoi TheGoodBoi Community Member Follow
There there little gingerbread bro. You’ve been through a lot..
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Milner traces the origins to cursed images to Creepypastas. "The thing around Creepypasta stuff is that sometimes it blurs the lines between genuinely, earnestly supposed to be scary and something that's scary but also playful and funny. You can get that with cursed images as well, that balance between stuff that's supposed to be scary, that's supposed to make you raise your eyebrows, stuff that is striking and funny in a really kind of morbid way." ADVERTIsem*nT
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Stealth 100
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This is SushiRamenRiku, who has a youtube channel where he does stuff like this to mess with his grandparents, among other very random and comical things.
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Just Me And The Boys
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not gonna talk about the reflection....?
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I Want A Beard Like Him
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TheGoodBoi TheGoodBoi Community Member Follow
I…uh…how?
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Food is often involved in cursed images. Már Másson Maack writes that the purpose of food in cursed pictures is to remind us of our mortality and solidify our lack of agency in this world. "Food crosses the boundaries of our bodies and we're sickeningly dependent on it, reminding us we're never fully in control of our surroundings or an independent force in this world."
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Who Lives In A In A In A In A
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Who lives in a pineapple under a pineapple, under a pineapple, under a pineapple, under a pineapple...
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Nanananananananana
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Fatman
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Oh God, Batons Got Worse
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when you find that high level armour but not the weapon
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By featuring food, cursed pics remind us of the invisible truth that we consciously try to think about as rarely as possible. We're just a glob of flesh full of millions of parasitic organisms floating through time and space. "They poke a hole in the lie we constantly tell ourselves that we're completely cerebral beings, above the filthiness surrounding the lives of animals," Maack writes. ADVERTIsem*nT
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On His Way To Shreks Adventure In London
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Shewhomustnotbenamed Shewhomustnotbenamed Community Member Follow
on his way to watch shrek fight it out w ralph
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People On The Train Be Like Weeeeeee
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But really, whats it for?
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The Pez Dispenser
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Now make it a gun. RANGED JESUS ARTILLERY
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But 'cursed' doesn't necessarily mean gross. It can just be slightly disturbing. As Jenny Odell, the author of How to Do Nothing, told The New Yorker, "'Cursed' brings to mind a sort of unholy juxtaposition—things that shouldn't be together, in a way that makes the whole thing feel senseless." This can mean two things together that just feel deeply wrong when they are together. Because of its tamed nature when compared to other gross things that exist on the Internet, she calls cursed pics 'normcore horror.'
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Preach To The Preacher
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TheGoodBoi TheGoodBoi Community Member Follow
Amen
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I Caught A Karen
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She's only looking happy because now she's got another thing to complain about
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One Of Us
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He Whøre!
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Cursed images put us off. As Már Másson Maack goes on in his piece about cursed pictures, they're about presenting familiar things in an unfamiliar light. Sometimes even literally: flash photography is a big part of the cursed image aesthetic, giving it even more of a DIY feel. The point of it is to enhance our perception of the familiar, Maack explains.
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Whats This Called?
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A standwich.
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The Game Of The Century
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Sara Frazer Sara Frazer Community Member Follow
...Shrek it Ralph??
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He Got That Thang
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got that burnt swag
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If you're a fan of cursed energy, we here at Bored Panda might have more things to your taste. There are pages dedicated to cursed foods. Even comments can be cursed, too. If you like venturing into the uncanny valley, cursed toys might be for you. And if you want to cleanse your palette after this possibly disturbing list, you can do so while looking at blursed images. They're pics that give off a blessed and cursed energy at the same time.
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Feeding The Danger Noodle The Regular Noodle
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Do not feed the noodles to the nope rope..
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He Got That Drip
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I hate sandy feet
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The Walk Of Destiny
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TheGoodBoi TheGoodBoi Community Member Follow
Amplifies all the…noise, as an added bonus I’m sure.
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Love A Bit Of Battery Acid
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) Community Member Follow
There was an alcoholic energy drink back when I was in college called Sparks. It looked like a battery and tasted like Flintstone vitamins.
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Cheese
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TheGoodBoi TheGoodBoi Community Member Follow
Plastic wrap and all? What monster…
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#36
This New Yolk Remover Works Marvels
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Erm... That's not a yolk remover.
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He Is Trying To Escape Being Eaten
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Kirby is nearly finished digesting his (its?) latest victim.
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Always Watching
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Add that to the nightmare fuel. It’s currently 1:55 for me, let’s see what else we can add
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Rate My Silver Surfer Cosplay
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My rating: OUCH
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Leg
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The dog was overjoyed....
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Hi there, fellow pandas! As a person (over)educated both in social sciences and literature, I'm most interested in how we connect and behave online (and sometimes in real life too.) The human experience is weird, so I try my best to put its peculiarities in writing. As a person who grew up chronically online, I now try to marry two sides of myself: the one who knows too much about MySpace, and the one who can't settle and needs to see every corner of the world.
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Kornelija Viečaitė
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Hi there, fellow pandas! As a person (over)educated both in social sciences and literature, I'm most interested in how we connect and behave online (and sometimes in real life too.) The human experience is weird, so I try my best to put its peculiarities in writing. As a person who grew up chronically online, I now try to marry two sides of myself: the one who knows too much about MySpace, and the one who can't settle and needs to see every corner of the world.
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As a Visual Editor at Bored Panda, my favorite part of the job involves browsing the web for the cutest cat pics, the funniest memes and eye-catching illustrations to brighten up your day!
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Rugilė Žemaitytė
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As a Visual Editor at Bored Panda, my favorite part of the job involves browsing the web for the cutest cat pics, the funniest memes and eye-catching illustrations to brighten up your day!
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Just say pictures not memes. How hard is it to get stuff right when youre a "writer"
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ElfVibratorGlitter ElfVibratorGlitter Community Member Follow
Hahaha. That's a good point. I like to think I write in relatively coherent English 70% of the time. But by no means am I even adjacent to a professional writer. You'd think they'd write better, not worse.
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Trev Fontaine Trev Fontaine Community Member Follow
Just say pictures not memes. How hard is it to get stuff right when youre a "writer"
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ElfVibratorGlitter ElfVibratorGlitter Community Member Follow
Hahaha. That's a good point. I like to think I write in relatively coherent English 70% of the time. But by no means am I even adjacent to a professional writer. You'd think they'd write better, not worse.
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