"The core principle of our content is that it has to be worth seeing, and the weirder it is, the better," Hannes explained back then. "There isn't really one category of images that stands out in popularity, [the submissions] just need a powerful aura, I guess."
The history of weird, cursed images on the internet is quite old. Some date it back to Tumblr, when, in 2015, a picture of a man standing in a room of tomatoes in boxes was posted on cursedimages.tumblr.com.
"It's the perfect cursed image to me because there's nothing inherently unsettling about any part of it," the blogger explained back then. "It's a totally mundane moment transformed into something else by the camera and the new context I've given it."
As you scroll through the pics from the "Weird Images Worth Seeing" group, you might notice a similar pattern. They're usually in mundane and everyday environments, but there's one element out of place that seems so nonsensical that it makes us laugh. It's what the internet is best at: juxtaposing what's simple and familiar and giving it a bizarre, nonsense twist.
Which of the pics from the "Weird Images Worth Seeing In Various Contexts" community left the biggest impression on you, Pandas? Upvote your favorites so that they make it to the top and more folks can see them! And if you want to see more weird stuff, head over here for an article we did about the "Weird Images Worth Seeing" Instagram page a couple of years ago!
