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

I am starting to suspect Old Lunch of having an elaborate studio and a team of prop crews and extras to create those. Meantime the rest of us are like

https://i.imgur.com/w2HTCmX.jpeg

thanks old lunch for pulling us through these trying times

some absolutely breathtaking high points of cursed therein.

hard to choose favorites when the consistency is so high.

do i favor the bone-deep cringe that rusted bathtub shots always elicit in me, or the powerful and intriguing aftertaste of the cucumbers in the movie theater

and what of the mannequins in the meat fridge next to the child holding flowers, a super group of cursed elements together that must have been staged in some way and yet is no less powerful because of it?

re "staged"

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 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

naturally the picture attached to this observation has since vanished: it was of a woman pushing an ordinary shopping trolley with a child lying on its bottom shelf (if that's what you call it), his head and legs sticking out deliberately stiffly

the one with the sofa in the bathroom and the flowers in the urinal has stuck with me

amazing thread here, worth a few embeds

trained my tiktok algorithm to show videos that are so surreal you feel like you’re dreaming. here’s a thread of my favorites pic.twitter.com/rL1dneP8Rb

— drew coffman 𝕚𝕤 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖 🟢 (@drewcoffman) November 10, 2022

eggs? pic.twitter.com/HuznJASytt

— drew coffman 𝕚𝕤 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖 🟢 (@drewcoffman) November 10, 2022

“my house 😞” pic.twitter.com/wEMr8B9GuR

— drew coffman 𝕚𝕤 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖 🟢 (@drewcoffman) November 10, 2022

hospital room’s assets are still loading in pic.twitter.com/I7U6AU1hgx

— drew coffman 𝕚𝕤 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖 🟢 (@drewcoffman) November 10, 2022

extremely normal restaurant experience pic.twitter.com/KoSy6fSN5F

— drew coffman 𝕚𝕤 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖 🟢 (@drewcoffman) November 10, 2022

just getting something from the garage pic.twitter.com/avh0XKMBYD

— drew coffman 𝕚𝕤 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖 🟢 (@drewcoffman) November 10, 2022

when the plug pull up ‼️‼️ pic.twitter.com/f1FRtdOJmN

— drew coffman 𝕚𝕤 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖 🟢 (@drewcoffman) November 10, 2022

I mean pic.twitter.com/U38xUkWOib

— Smithe (@smitheone) November 10, 2022

I just learned about that guy somewhere. He's in Red Hook and going viral.

Hmmm. Is it cheating to use an algorithm? Do we need to ask Old Lunch to pee in a cup to ensure he's not using suspect methods to gather the horrors above?

what if old lunch is "creating the news" by making these cursed things happen

like "get in there and toss some lettuce over the glass panel to the worker"

"go fill your garage with bubbles and then search through it with a tiki torch"

I don't care if OL staging these or not, you try dragging a couch and flowers into a public urinal.

lord knows i've tried, the government red tape preventing a normal good time from happening is just unbelievable

https://i.imgur.com/Paq0I6T.jpg

ouch

https://i.imgur.com/ygD7NIT.png

the painting. only one painting.

subtly cursed isn't any less cursed

needs more lamps

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fj1uIk2XgAExA4A?format=jpg&name=medium

my favorites are definitely the non-euclidean geometry ones where you have no ides what you are looking at or what direction is up. Unsettling, to me at least.

yeah that's a good one

like the image is cursed but you are even more cursed for trying to decipher it

sorry for political but 'cursed' was the first thing that came to mind

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkIYTrBWYBcsr_3?format=jpg&name=large

love 2 eat while massive gandhi stares at me

I thought Obama was Humphrey Bogart for a second there. Can I add Margaret Thatcher to the 'which American obsession is the worst?' thread?

I'm very concerned about the ladies whose butts are on fire. Hope they're ok!

At first Obama looked like Lee Harvey Oswald to me

Jár pic.twitter.com/McXnTh1IRq

— Joe Whitt (@joeobligations) December 19, 2022

The Last House on Holland Island pic.twitter.com/cv93c8QaFz

— Evil Buildings (@EvilsBuildings) December 21, 2022

Sorry for bringing moving images to the cursed image thread but I found this random thing saved to one of my YT playlists and was like 'what is this and why did I save it' and, oh, I saved it because it's intensely cursed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqDL5b3vuXM

(The thing has almost no views so I have no idea how I initially found it and have no recollection of saving it so it might be legitimately cursed.)

That's Jollibee.

yeah, not too strange just bad audio

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/viktor-ivanovs-turkey-bear-most-2953431

i thought the images weren't showing in that because of bad reception but i think there's a bigger problem, so another link https://www.reddit.com/r/ATBGE/comments/9rn2hj/teddy_bear_made_of_turkey_designed_for_christmas/

warning: these are not cursed. not quite. but i love these images, some of them are in the same cursed universe, and there are SO MANY, and they're all low-resolution. that very last photo, after the dozens and dozens that precede is, almost poignant

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/everything-you-can-buy-at-the-way-out-club-estate-sale-photos/Slideshow/39183219/39183571

worth exploring
https://www.instagram.com/chaoticfoods/

https://www.tiktok.com/@mellinext/video/7183956269366086954

Rapidly closed the tab!

I'm completely ignorant of bird anatomy but so like...they're hiding an entire actual mouth inside their beak-mouth? Is that's what's happening there? Because I don't like that. I don't like that at all.

A mild sidestep from that video is anything that shows the close-up inner working of an elephant's mouth. Once you see it, prepare to be dead immediately afterwards. It will make you dead.

one thing i don't like to think about is what my eyeballs look like without the skin layers in front of it. we are all revolting creatures

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnBC12CX0AE9eSj?format=jpg&name=large

https://i.imgur.com/M5fLkEX.png

omg, weird at first but after giving it a second, looks delicious.

Yeah, I would eat the shit out of that

If the egg's a little jammy all the better.

And salt and pepper or good but how about some paprika or tajin.

I like to think those eggs are deviled, not cursed.

cursed be these bedeviled eggs

now i'm hungry

cursed........... with hunger

Snake was stuck in the ceiling and then this happened 😳👀 pic.twitter.com/RdfhWOlxki

— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) February 13, 2023

Fucking hell!