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

i'm glad i could play a small part in this

a badger for karl
http://i.imgur.com/efCfgHv.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKspOCSagAADQgu?format=png&name=small

oh laugh it up all you like professor von funnyboy but i guarantee you this is 1000% some elder gods shit. this is the idol tongued by rapist frat boys that gets them into skull and bones. this is the thing in your childhood closet that made those wet suckling noises you were too scared to investigate. when you die and all illusion is torn from from the bare wire of your consciousness this, this abomination, this horror beyond conception is what will be staring back at you. really, i can’t praise it enough. thanks map!

now you're just encouraging me, bad idea, don't think i can ever top smiling dolphin. i got it from 70s dinner party twitter account btw.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKw0q-4XIAgxAy4?format=jpg&name=large

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/272210383_466562198401687_3920882797690225209_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=4O7Zd6dJPPEAX-jnhXX&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=00_AT8gCZ44NoIHKK8UO7ASdVa1VSBPI-N-V3tIPeUpkD5LqQ&oe=6207228F

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/272254182_466562225068351_4719295459399352952_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=8uy2QNql1tsAX-uA3aL&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=00_AT_eJRf_H14ollEOoFZIsv2t2KdHoW-4dnDl3Cm94Ab44g&oe=6206B407

Taxidermy dollhouse by Brooke Weston

Nononononononononononononono

Brooke Weston ... thank you

GET IN THE DEER

"Our house ... is a very, very, very deer house..."

our house

in the middle of our deer

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLL9z-3WYAE3tGT?format=jpg&name=large

Yeah, could they have found a less charming site for that ramp?

aw, the shots of athletes upside down in front of the cooling towers are wonderful though, two of my favourite things together at last

https://netgalley-covers.s3.amazonaws.com/cover247688-medium.png
Fine use of the aesthetic here

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMYiNQlXMAA4ba_?format=jpg&name=900x900

i realize i'm coloring way outside the lines here but is there not something vaguely menacing about this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FM0Fig5XIAA-bS2?format=jpg&name=medium

We need a separate thread for creepy liminal eighties office photos tbh

Also feel like stuff like the Sedaris cover don't really fit the aesthetic, to be properly cursed there needs to be a quality of low-key horror which is almost accidental and not too obviously posed, maybe?

those plants have really got that guy cornered huh

i like that image

There we go

ITT: The liminality of 80s office spaces

dildos: pretty much automatically cursed

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMsX5PRWQAM5pc5?format=jpg&name=large

this loaded giant on my laptop and i thought it was a new gas album at first

*gas joke*

what if the dog has gone mad because it can hear that really high-frequency pitch on every other beat on Der Lange Marsch

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNHxtDMXIAY_ucQ?format=jpg&name=medium

that’s the stuff

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNFYrzmVUAIcUbq?format=jpg&name=small

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNIjdUFVgAEw5Dj?format=jpg&name=medium

https://i.redd.it/685jozcfh2w11.jpg

I'm torn because I'm certain that the last three can't possibly be real, and yet I'm simultaneously certain that they are

There is a difference, though, between the r/cursedimages aesthetic and the r/theyknew aesthetic. The last three look more like r/theyknew.

Like I really can't possibly apologize enough for this but I didn't feel that it was fair for me to bogart this curse I've just been afflicted with.

Don't know what you're trying to get me to download, but I'll pass.

I started soaking my feet in my own urine and WOW! It cleared up the callouses and thickened soles as well as the toe nail fungus. Just thought you would want to know.

i sure did want to know!

sometimes i idly spy on friends of friends on fb. i'm scrolling through this guy's feed, there's some vaguely spiritual namaste stuff, and then blammo - an anti-vax post and a urine therapy post back-to-back.

https://inhabitat.com/files/2010/01/phonehead-sheep-3.jpg

https://sadanduseless.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/frog-butts15.jpg

I have questions, and also nightmares

My heart beats hard
My memory has just been scarred
Na na na na na na
Froggy in the VCR

okay pretty good pretty good

Initially thought that was the back half of a roast chicken.

"He put his frog in the VCR. Slid it right in!"

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

When actual photos are absolute nightmares pic.twitter.com/lR9QG0YOyB

— Baby Boy Monaghan (@babyboymonaghan) March 24, 2022

https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/5fc4c3903910d_04s9fv4126n31__700.jpg

another theyknew but feel like frequenters of this thread may appreciate

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQFg3d6XEAgtXNy?format=jpg&name=small

Nicep

good god

Found this Thom Yorke nipple tattoo
and it’s very upsetting pic.twitter.com/OKL3hrIOAt

— Leah Tiscione (@LeahTiscione) May 4, 2022

tut tut at tom york tit tat