cursed images: let's get together and pin down the aesthetic!

Well, yeah.

it's more creepypasta than cursed but don't care

pic.twitter.com/TZuXo71QUy

— 𝕌𝕃𝕋ℝ𝔸 (@ADXUltra) July 21, 2020

https://i.imgur.com/kATN9Nj.jpg

bear say bye to me

https://i.imgur.com/vfOBnnr.jpg

Melania?

I was thinking Taylor Swift, a pop tart.

I see Ariel Pink

Stretching the definition somewhat, but…

https://i.imgur.com/Rw9ih5g.jpg

nice of them to provide cutlery

lol

I mean, it does coagulate at a point.

Mosquito wouldn't turn down a blood sausage.

pip pip

looks arterial

http://i.imgur.com/RMYzKDA.png

*removed image*

^ that one took a considerable amount of time to set up. I blame covid-19.

I like how Homestar Runner incorporated bad fan costumes into it's universe, but some of them really are the epitome of cursed

https://i.imgur.com/nUtG1Yw.jpg

So not gonna happen

ugh, pom!

pomenitul is really ruining this fucking thread

Sorry, but you gotta hand it to the makeup artists.

i don't really think of gross out images as cursed any more than i think of tubgirl as thought provoking

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

— wint (@dril) February 15, 2017

Ulysses OTM

But this one isn't just guts 'n' gore, there's an uncanninness to it as well due to the unexpected shape, which I and many others would argue qualifies as cursed.

I mean:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cursedimages/comments/itacmi/cursed_ginger/

I'm not using an unorthodox definition here.

"I and many other arseholes on reddit"

Eh, suit yourself. The other stuff is kinda boring and déjà vu tbh, at least this one feels like a genuine curse when you're looking at it, which I thought was the point all along.

Seeing as this thread doesn't meet your lofty standards maybe you can fuck off out of it

No need to be an ass about it. I didn't think these particular takes on the cursed aesthetic would be so controversial here.

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So you just ignored people's objections to your last edgelord image

removes bookmark

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, October 18, 2019 9:11 PM (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink

that's not cured that's just gross

― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, October 18, 2019 9:12 PM (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink

more like upchuck taylors

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Friday, October 18, 2019 9:14 PM (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Finally something that'll compete against Air Jesuses.

― pplains, Friday, October 18, 2019 9:32 PM (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink

That image wins in terms of accursedness if only because we all lose in terms of looking at it.

― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Friday, October 18, 2019 10:09 PM (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Forgive me.

― pomenitul, Friday, October 18, 2019 10:10 PM (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink

No

― solos that go widdly widdly widdly (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, October 18, 2019 10:44 PM (ten months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I assumed those were humorous responses?

Anyway, I'll refrain from posting such material in the future if it clearly upsets you and others itt.

And mods, feel free to delete these if you think they're off limits.

I wasn't bothered inasmuch at is was clearly fake (clearly to me anyway), but perhaps we could at least hide more potentially-upsetting images now that that functionality exists.

Here, I hope this puts us back on track

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3f/e5/d4/3fe5d4624d225d8e481963d8542e0f62.jpg

And how!

It's supposed to be a photograph that is incidentally creepy, imo. NOT THAT HARD Y'ALL

Gore-free (really):

https://imgur.com/bb38d40a-c04b-499e-95ca-4ee66124bb00

Second attempt:

blob:https://imgur.com/448db9c1-05dd-4658-9009-d93ceafa5ae3" class="noborder">

Third attempt (this is part of the curse):

https://i.imgur.com/zyG1xQi.jpg

looks to me like the eyes on the rising figure were blanked out purposely. not necessarily via software because there are plenty of ways to do that in a darkroom. but when images have (apparently) been manipulated I'd disqualify them.

Some background:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Evans_(medium)

of all the things to fake in this image, why would it be his closed eyes

Honorable mention: the pop abominations of Open AI.

of all the things to fake in this image, why would it be his closed eyes

I was thinking in terms of the 'cursed' aesthetic of the photo, not its supposed purpose as evidence for levitation (which purpose I didn't know when I posted that). The eyes in the image pom posted don't look to me simply like closed eyelids, but more like eerie white holes in his face. I couldn't explain why, if not manipulation.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/50/90/9b/50909b57f4f4b2b80807da1fe3e78f72.jpg

https://memolition.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/rare-vintage-creepy-photos-84529.jpg

The eyes in the image pom posted don't look to me simply like closed eyelids, but more like eerie white holes in his face. I couldn't explain why, if not manipulation.

The requisite flash may be the explanation you're looking for:

Evans would routinely host seances in large halls and request that the room be completely dark. As his believers gathered around him and chanted, there would suddenly be a flash. In the instant of blinding light, Colin Evans could supposedly be seen levitating.

…

Evans would hold his seances in complete darkness, and as soon as his followers were getting into it, he would jump, straight into the air. The cord was a trigger for a camera placed in the ceiling.

From: https://allthatsinteresting.com/famous-fake-photos/3