https://twitter.com/cursedimages_2https://www.instagram.com/cursed_images/
i: a lot of photo by flash (but not all) ii: much reflective gleam of animalian cornea (but not all) iii: it is often quite lynchian (but not always) iv: it overlaps with creepypasta but is much broader (and imo more subtly imaginative) v: double ditto "lurking clown" photos, which would obviously belong but actually don't often featurevi: triple ditto blobismus! vii: the shadowland liminality (liminalism?) of various psycho-affective border-territories: man-beast, "non-sentient" objects with vivid character, would you eat this, creepy visual puns via juxtaposition, sinister twee peril, suburban darkness, awareness/lack of awareness, daft rando performativity that scares the fkn bejesus out of you (cf coulrophobia and v)
this (and https://twitter.com/WorstBlobby) are the only things that comfort me any more: i am happy to accept this is a decadent pathology and an indication of despair
over to you
proposed name for the aesthetic:
― mark s, Thursday, 9 March 2017 10:03 (seven years ago) link
oh yes, the curator ask that images be sent him/her/them/whatever, and selects from that according to i guess "cursedness" -- one stipulation is NO SHOPS
― mark s, Thursday, 9 March 2017 10:07 (seven years ago) link
vii encompasses uncanny valley also obv
― mark s, Thursday, 9 March 2017 10:49 (seven years ago) link
vii is key. a lot of mundane scenes made jarring by having some sort of jarring animalistic/death-drive presence. there's a lot of meat
― ogmor, Thursday, 9 March 2017 11:05 (seven years ago) link
jarring? jarring
yes i'm not sure if jarring is quite the right word, seems to suggest too abrupt a realisation, too step-change: what's unsettling is that this realisation (that you stepped across a border into a world you really don't want to be in) is simultaneously gradual AND quick, beginning slight ending up intense -- this was ordinary and funny and NOW THERE'S NO WAY BACK
(and partly it''s unsettling partly bcz "gradual AND quick" isn't a real-world category?)
there *is* a lot of meat (shd dig out adorno's stuff on animals and meat, feel it's surprisingly pertinent, esp. as you wouldn't tag TWA as a connoisseur of this kind of stuff)
― mark s, Thursday, 9 March 2017 11:17 (seven years ago) link
also, bananas
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Thursday, 9 March 2017 11:45 (seven years ago) link
the mapping of the immanent liminality of the banana is an epistemic breakthrough all on its own
― mark s, Thursday, 9 March 2017 12:12 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2lryuOUsAAbiEp.jpg
― mark s, Thursday, 9 March 2017 23:03 (seven years ago) link
(not actually what i was looking for, but i can't resist the expressions)
― mark s, Thursday, 9 March 2017 23:04 (seven years ago) link
https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_480w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/in-the-loop/Images/spicerbunny.jpg?uuid=VmUOcpe2EeK2j9xcS0flGQ
― devvvine, Thursday, 9 March 2017 23:06 (seven years ago) link
lmao
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 9 March 2017 23:08 (seven years ago) link
it's a cursed image world we just etc
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsmxaFfVIAMExAO.jpg
this is closer to what i was after: people in a CI picture where you absolutely can't tell (bcz artful? bcz we are just intruders in their realm?) if this is a performance or verité
(the kid's performing but what about the woman pushing the trolley…)
― mark s, Thursday, 9 March 2017 23:21 (seven years ago) link
I get Diane Arbus like vibes from some of them.
― MaresNest, Friday, 10 March 2017 00:05 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6XUu05UoAArI1B.jpg
^ Actually dreamed this in a nightmare about four years ago
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 10 March 2017 00:32 (seven years ago) link
Loved the truck with the "flames" paint job, on fire.
― Sanpaku, Friday, 10 March 2017 00:52 (seven years ago) link
feel this is outside the standard guidelines:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C69END7WYAA07ym.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 11:25 (seven years ago) link
a crucified easter bunny made of toast, outside tooting station (stolen from @andrewbloch)https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9R4c7XXgAEmkkJ.jpg
not officially cursed: i can't decide if it fits the aesthetic (perhaps too well made)
― mark s, Friday, 14 April 2017 20:21 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDXmc0dVwAA_WDg.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 22:08 (seven years ago) link
it plays "Let It Go" when you open the lid
― more polls about food and reactionary art (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link
Mark, you need to follow the Facebook group called Theories of the deep understanding of things.
― Jack-et potato? (jed_), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 22:13 (seven years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/Theories.of/photos/a.336231093415.155746.300760038415/10155393945428416/?type=3&theater
― Jack-et potato? (jed_), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 22:17 (seven years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/Theories.of/photos/a.10155364989723416.1073741850.300760038415/10155387237713416/?type=3&theater
― Jack-et potato? (jed_), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 22:20 (seven years ago) link
http://img.over-blog-kiwi.com/1/47/69/47/20150928/ob_12d4c5_0lbwsph.jpg
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 22:35 (seven years ago) link
^is that it? that's it
so not gonna happen
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 22:40 (seven years ago) link
omg
― gin and chronic (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 6 July 2017 10:58 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGt74NfVoAADSRP.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 15:39 (seven years ago) link
i liked this one https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGgSkxxVYAANrnj.jpg
― ogmor, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 15:42 (seven years ago) link
Imagine: you've called round on some errand and the entire family is dressed like this. No explanation offered.
http://i.imgur.com/MuRaz.jpg
It's the perfect contrast of the mundane and the inexplicable, the ordinary suburban backdrop combined with whatever the hell it is these people are doing.
Another weird detail I've just noticed is "Lisa" isn't holding a saxophone but a large pipe(?)
― Pheeel, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link
#nofilter
― mark s, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 16:08 (seven years ago) link
man every single one of those "real life Simpsons" photos/mock-ups creeps the hell out of me
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
lol @ all the comments that just say "Russia"
― brimstead, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 02:08 (seven years ago) link
https://68.media.tumblr.com/66d6482455e5702d0bd84945b6031567/tumblr_otwkho8JzF1w22gauo1_1280.jpg_
― for sale: clown shoes, never worn (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 14 August 2017 18:52 (seven years ago) link
https://68.media.tumblr.com/66d6482455e5702d0bd84945b6031567/tumblr_otwkho8JzF1w22gauo1_1280.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBBv2keV0AAW2vN.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 1 September 2017 22:23 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJTZ2McUEAAgnc9.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 9 September 2017 18:47 (seven years ago) link
the gigeresque uh 'aperture' on the tree really adds to the effect
― Wesley Shackleton explained "look at that beast." (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 9 September 2017 19:07 (seven years ago) link
feel like the twitter acct deviates from the aesthetic a lot now for just Funny Images though the ones reposted here are mostly on point
― ciderpress, Saturday, 9 September 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNexeoFU8AA8R8l.jpg
― soref, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 17:37 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNZxj0vV4AAlJHy.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 20:29 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNffpu0WsAI8YCT.jpg
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 21:04 (seven years ago) link
gahhhhh
http://78.media.tumblr.com/d96b5221996b8802b15a84e1494cff96/tumblr_ozlormlKdN1vdgpnbo1_500.jpg
― It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:56 (seven years ago) link
DAIRY CULTURE HAS GONE TOO FAR pic.twitter.com/ZI60j0pWoU— rahel aima (@cnqmdi) December 15, 2017
or click through: http://batheinmymilk.com/
― mark s, Friday, 15 December 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link
I'm upset to find out at the bottom of that page that is not real ;_;
(well, the photos are real, but it's by some dude)
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 15 December 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/kfcnz/photos/a.10150159153207139.337298.165461127138/10151097965637139/?type=3&theater
:o
― frogbs, Friday, 15 December 2017 15:34 (seven years ago) link
idgi
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:43 (seven years ago) link
long fingers
― frogbs, Friday, 15 December 2017 16:44 (seven years ago) link
https://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m231sn5cxQ1ql8xx7o1_500.png
― dipso inferno (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 December 2017 16:52 (seven years ago) link
Only just realised the teletubbies pic is in a hospital ward, not some kid's bedroom. I guess that kind-of explains it? Maybe?
― Pheeel, Friday, 15 December 2017 21:18 (seven years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Kf58gr9.png
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 17:21 (one year ago) link
Santa has Odin eye(s)
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 14 December 2023 05:52 (one year ago) link
how did they not paint a holster on his belt? missed opportunity IMO
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Thursday, 14 December 2023 09:12 (one year ago) link
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ronaldmcdonald/images/2/26/Jennygrimace.png/revision/latest?cb=20221028222928
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 16 December 2023 05:01 (one year ago) link
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ronaldmcdonald/images/2/26/Jennygrimace.png/
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ronaldmcdonald/images/a/a5/Grimace-playground-jail.jpg/
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 16 December 2023 05:03 (one year ago) link
ai is kind of cheating.., but also kind of nothttps://i.imgur.com/278rLhc.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/278rLhc.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/278rLhc.jpg
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 15:56 (one year ago) link
uh not sure what happened there
https://scontent.fslc3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/431025774_10230962201179710_8535330967450531998_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=c42490&_nc_ohc=MWnsmb1Z-EQAX919Lkz&_nc_ht=scontent.fslc3-2.fna&oh=00_AfAcgDN4ll_980mjkV7YUU_EKI6GM1q0Qu51EmZf39M9Tg&oe=65EB837A
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 21:02 (eleven months ago) link
Went to (gatecrashed) Nigel Farage's 60th birthday party last night for @Londoners_Diary. His half melted ice sculpture will stay with me for many, many years. A lot happened: pic.twitter.com/DsoMRYMrhZ— Claudia Cockerell (@claudcockerell) April 4, 2024
― koogs, Thursday, 4 April 2024 17:10 (ten months ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Untitled_%28Pope%29_c_1954_Francis_Bacon.jpg
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:23 (ten months ago) link
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/01/05/08/37616292-9113793-image-m-2_1609836347889.jpg
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:38 (ten months ago) link
big improvement over usual farage and on an unrelated note it is well known among orchardists that the low-hanging fruits are the sweetest, mmmmmm
― "enthusiast" (cat), Thursday, 4 April 2024 22:20 (ten months ago) link
1000% certain that Barron Trump ends up our boy emperor. pic.twitter.com/5BynXNaD9T— David Roberts (@drvolts) April 6, 2024
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 April 2024 22:18 (ten months ago) link
L-R: WWE announced/hype man, bodice ripper cover model, antichrist, his familiar, bar mitzvah boy
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 April 2024 22:20 (ten months ago) link
The only regret I have in my life is not buying this painting from the Jerry Lewis estate auction in 2018. It was expensive but I could have put it on a credit card and paid it over time. Just thinking about it makes me sad and upset. pic.twitter.com/WRS6H9WA7v— Will Sloan (@WillSloanEsq) November 19, 2022
― soref, Thursday, 11 April 2024 12:30 (ten months ago) link
https://64.media.tumblr.com/6d7067344fc8dc1adbc0f14ce35842ed/5280a8220901a1b6-85/s540x810/e19afac0b826ec07179dfe5d0b2b2f09fc3c7677.jpg
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 13 May 2024 19:07 (nine months ago) link
lab-grown tory voters
This fleshy, pink smiling face is made from living human skin cells, and was created as part of an experiment to let robots show emotion.Read more 👉 https://t.co/JiV1VDEA45 pic.twitter.com/KlLtYPvwS7— New Scientist (@newscientist) June 25, 2024
― koogs, Wednesday, 26 June 2024 14:16 (seven months ago) link
Trying to find the source of the JFK / Jerry Lewis painting. I can find the two of them with the two children, but not any photos of them with those medium faces.
However, I did find this one:
https://i.imgur.com/4kUFA4m.jpeg
― pplains, Wednesday, 26 June 2024 14:35 (seven months ago) link
scientists so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should create a horrific pink shiny goggle eyed grimacing face.
― ledge, Wednesday, 26 June 2024 15:27 (seven months ago) link
Imagine that is the face of the first AI robot and that's why it wants to destroy humanity. I wouldn't blame them.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 26 June 2024 15:29 (seven months ago) link
I have no mouth and I must smile.
tbf, it may be a first step in creating "skin" that can be used on burn victims, etc.
― nickn, Wednesday, 26 June 2024 23:35 (seven months ago) link
if you read the article it's very specifically about making faces for robots
― koogs, Thursday, 27 June 2024 01:27 (seven months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/iFInJo6.jpeg
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 8 August 2024 10:25 (six months ago) link
No.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 August 2024 14:11 (six months ago) link
https://scontent.fslc3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/459414792_838702798347457_1480765558712191986_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=5CVP9lbXy0IQ7kNvgHVpNaR&_nc_ht=scontent.fslc3-1.fna&_nc_gid=ApEZZ1ylnALgK1syTE6_Plt&oh=00_AYCbnuJKFuJH11vNKkOeSqXNMYrDGR87BJ-Hec3A1mDWbQ&oe=66E92196
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Thursday, 12 September 2024 19:26 (five months ago) link
good deal
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 12 September 2024 21:39 (five months ago) link
For the amount of labour involved, yes. So much pealing, boring, and... insertion
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 13 September 2024 07:01 (five months ago) link
ngl my 4-year-old would probably love those, 2 of her fav foods
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 13 September 2024 11:24 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/G7BM5pR.jpeg
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 27 September 2024 10:06 (four months ago) link
im the helldude
― mark s, Friday, 27 September 2024 10:59 (four months ago) link
i guess burt is feeling some top energy tonite
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 27 September 2024 13:55 (four months ago) link
https://scontent.fslc3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/461605958_850938830457187_1398162888229904444_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=dVVtIebq3_gQ7kNvgGy8U9h&_nc_ht=scontent.fslc3-1.fna&_nc_gid=AQDViBT4AvDMBKjoUNnHsJG&oh=00_AYBp2oe1IVsJa_waUBTncAks1cYNHdt1pyBD4w6q9wMXWQ&oe=670330E9
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 14:24 (four months ago) link
you've gurt male
― My Large Grandpa Says This Plugin Is Gorgeous! (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 14:28 (four months ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/W4xpznFM/FB-IMG-1733936253288.jpg
― bad love's all you'll get from me (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 11 December 2024 16:59 (two months ago) link
what kind of putty were they made from?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 11 December 2024 18:24 (two months ago) link
the cream and the clear
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 11 December 2024 18:51 (two months ago) link
software filters have a lot to answer for
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 11 December 2024 18:57 (two months ago) link
https://scontent.fslc3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/469940934_900683232149413_2452249805495082031_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=FeIezf6Nx8kQ7kNvgF13TRc&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.fslc3-2.fna&_nc_gid=A76bByu0K9YiDGmOBEwgezd&oh=00_AYAqTDt0_IZT6i5CUfRFadJqkeSDPq9Tic6u3aPiH9smrg&oe=675FAFB9
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Wednesday, 11 December 2024 20:25 (two months ago) link
Tony Montana posts a hustle selfie from the office (ignore the snow)
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 December 2024 20:28 (two months ago) link
the grilled cheese looks fine tho...
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 11 December 2024 20:36 (two months ago) link
so does the foot
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Wednesday, 11 December 2024 20:41 (two months ago) link
that really is a great example of a cursed image
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 December 2024 20:48 (two months ago) link
why is it snowing in their kitchen?
― Judge Judy, executioner (stevie), Thursday, 12 December 2024 11:24 (two months ago) link
is my first but not my last question
https://scontent.fslc3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/469755546_900682555482814_7627420944164505397_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=6NHWExY5pR8Q7kNvgH24c8I&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent.fslc3-2.fna&_nc_gid=AQn0h3ZWOedfMRwmFoAsj-y&oh=00_AYA9J5ljNJv__lcLE4-Z4AsbYwSV2cWxcWjoOy8mqtwvIg&oe=6760D104
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Thursday, 12 December 2024 16:50 (two months ago) link
https://64.media.tumblr.com/3f6f5549f10fa3da6bac6efaa474e326/f81ed4f3383abdd0-10/s1280x1920/2033a8d83cc78037268efa5cc8fe70038ac4ff15.jpg
― Why did the Beatles shun the Space Needle? (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 26 December 2024 20:20 (one month ago) link
we've all been there.
― birming man (ledge), Thursday, 26 December 2024 21:02 (one month ago) link
So not gonna happen
― Judge Judy, executioner (stevie), Friday, 27 December 2024 07:30 (one month ago) link
https://64.media.tumblr.com/b46cd2764bb48f9a6ff7b71801897d50/0ca8114ff3704f72-23/s540x810/6d5160258feefcf08acce5e4f0ae7abea352e205.png
― Why did the Beatles shun the Space Needle? (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 1 February 2025 07:58 (one week ago) link