Spend enough time scrolling through social media and you’ll find one: A photo that’s too strange to just be “creepy,” too puzzling to just be “mysterious,” too sinister to just be “weird.” That, my ...

Cursed images have a way of grabbing your attention and making you wonder how—and why—they even exist. They’re the perfect mix of funny and unsettling, capturing moments that feel just a little off in ...

Some images bless your feed… and some curse it forever. This post is full of the latter. These cursed pictures range from delightfully weird to deeply unsettling, and because we had to see them during ...

When you think of the word “cursed,” what comes to mind? Do you imagine a witch from your favorite childhood fairy tale putting a spell on innocent children that wandered into her garden? Or how about ...

Sometimes, while scrolling through adorable cat and dog memes, you might stumble upon content that’s a bit… strange. Or downright cursed. Yes, we’re diving into the internet’s most bizarre and ...

Emma Grey Ellis covers memes, trolls, and other elements of internet culture for WIRED. Shocking images are classic internet entertainment: Before they get to social media, many cursed images start ...

Everyone has a guilty internet pleasure. Some spice up their time online by watching porn in an incognito browser, others find solace in binge-scrolling through pages and pages of their co-workers ...

This past July, an account called Cursed Images began posting a series of numbered photos, without commentary, on Twitter. An outstretched foot with lit cigarettes tucked between each toe was “cursed ...

This week was Upvote Everything Day on Imgur (the procrastination black hole I spend way too much time on). So instead of the usual feel good fluff and pandering cute pet pics, the front page was ...

A puppy surrounded by two large snails. A bunch of spaghetti placed directly onto the glass of a photocopier. A man holding two hot dogs and crying as a dog’s eyes glow in the background. Web detritus ...

Three years ago, I interviewed the proprietor of the Twitter account Cursed Images, which had amassed more than eighty thousand followers in just a few months with its steady stream of creepy, uncanny ...