We see hundreds if not thousands of pictures online frequently. Most of them are so “normal” that we hardly internalize what’s going on. It really takes something to produce a picture strange enough to make our brains hesitate.
So we’ve gathered some of the most unhinged and hard to explain images from this dedicated internet group. Get comfortable as you wade through this list of strangeness, upvote your favorites and if you think you can make an attempt at explaining what the heck is going on, be sure to share it in the comments below.
That collective guessing game turns a single confusing photo into a small shared experience, which is part of why these posts tend to rack up comments far out of proportion to how simple the actual image is.
#22 Cereal Prizes Have Gotten Weird. Stay Safe. Scan Before You Scarf
So I went to the grocery store hungry late last night and made some exponentially poor decisions. Had an itch for garbage cereal and grabbed some Great Value brand (because I'm broke) Frosted Flakes. On my 7th bite, I pulled up arguably the worst cereal prize imagineable. No, it wasn't in my house/cabinet/bowl already. Why am I certain? Because I AM, for one, but because it's leg was stuck in a flake. PSA: best practice is to at least glance at your utensil during its travels from dish to mouth. It at least saved me from knowing what wasp tastes like.
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#23 Thought I Had A Broken Knuckle For The Last 2.5 Years, Last Night This Splinter Popped Out
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There's also a strong current of pure absurdism running through it, the same impulse that makes people laugh at things that refuse to make sense, because sometimes the funniest and most memorable thing in the world is a picture that looks completely normal and completely impossible at the exact same time. So as you scroll through this list, don't feel pressured to solve every single one. Half the pleasure is in staring, squinting, and letting your brain spin its wheels for a moment before giving up and just enjoying the chaos.
#25 Motel 6 Really Said ‘We’ll Leave The Holes On For You”
Pretty sure my hotel room doubled as a crime scene at some point.
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#26 Just Saw A “The Last Of Us” Post And Thought This May Fit Here
Entered a room to check the sensor and saw walls like this. Slowly backed away and closed the door behind me.
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#30 Saw This In My Facebook Feed In One Of My Groups. I Had No Idea This Was Even Possible?!
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#31 Oversized And Overheight Load Destroys Overpass. Bridge Cannot Be Repaired And Has To Be Demolished. This Was On I-90 In Washington State
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#33 Maybe “The Last Of Us” Isn’t So Far Fetched
Foreclosure unit I just walked into this afternoon.
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#38 Bunnings “Will You Be Needing A Courtesy Trailer? It’s Free.” Old Mate “Absolutely Not, Sod Off”
Adelaide, South Australia. You can borrow a Bunnings trailer for free for two hours, but why bother when you are this crafty!
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#39 Guys, This House Still Doesn't Look Right
In Rising City, NE. Talking to the someone from the town it sounds like they were jacking up the house to redo the basement and something failed and the house fell in.
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