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80 Times People Had No Idea What They Were Looking At, So They Asked Online (New Pics)
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80 Times People Had No Idea What They Were Looking At, So They Asked Online (New Pics)

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You can liken the human brain to an intricate machine that is capable of anything. It can solve complex problems, regulate emotions, and enable us to create something amazing and noteworthy out of thin air. 
But sometimes we find ourselves in situations that defy logic. These moments can leave us utterly perplexed and prompt us to ask the internet for help. 
That’s what the subreddit aptly and simply named “What?” is there for: to provide a platform for befuddled folks to try to find answers to the confusing things they come across. Here are some of those posts that we’ve compiled for your entertainment today.

#41 What Is Wrong With My Perfume? Why Does It Contain Lead?

A small bottle with a warning label about cancer and reproductive harm, one of many baffling images.
dominus762:

California puts that label on everything, because it's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
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11points

#42 What?

A hand holding a package of Zesty Bites candy, with baffling images of the candy showing not actual size.
The packaging of this candy has a disclaimer that the image is not the actual size of the candy... but it is pretty much exactly the size of the candy!

Efficient_Bluebird_2:

It’s for future shrinkflation.
10points

#43 What Are These Blue Spots On The Bottom Of These Sprite Cans

Two aluminum cans with blue ink marks on their tops, placed on a dark surface, one of the baffling images.
wortinger:

It’s ink. Like a signature for the printing machines so that the quality control people can identify which machine printed the can.
10points

#44 What Happened Here Why Is It Labeled So Many Times?

An open McDonald's McNuggets box filled with chicken nuggets, featuring '10 McNUGGETS' printed multiple times, a baffling image.
ManufacturerCold2994
It might be for the McDonald’s staff. Maybe they tend to give 9 or 11 McNuggets.
9points

#45 What Is Going On Here ?

A baffling image of a small domino tile and a fly on a concrete ledge, sparking questions answered by the internet.
This Fly doing is doing something weird.

glitchygreymatter:

Maths... Is hard...

grmpastps:

Nothing going on here, just a fly photographed in front of a fake domino.
9points

#46 What Is This Green Thing In My Ruffles?

A baffling image showing a large green blob or piece of food in a potato chip bag with several ripple chips.
Working_Student_7048:

Spices clustered together. I would suggest you dispose it. I have friends who would crash it and consume like spices again.
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9points

#47 What Is This Fortune? Has Anyone Seen These In The Wild?

A baffling image showing two empty fortune cookies and a small wrapper with a toy inside.
Cybergurl:

Looks like it's an intrusive ad for people who ignore digital ads.
If it doesn't have a regular fortune on the flip side I would be upset at this. I definitely don't want advertising in my fortune cookies!
"Accept Cookies?"
"NO THANK YOU"
9points

#48 What Is This Ad???

A close-up of a woman with captivating blue eyes, her face dappled with water droplets, creating a baffling image.
MF-GOOSE:

Just casually living in an episode of black mirror these days

burnafter3ading:

Pop in that URL, and I imagine you'll be in for some strange spam.
8points

#49 What? How Did She Get It?

A baffling image of a green Shrek statue mistaken for a sacred idol, with a woman praying to it.
Bro this gotta be fake unless she's never seen Shrek. Or is trolling.

blessings-of-rathma:

How much of this looks real to you? It's a picture of a 3D printed Shrek, a different picture of a praying woman, and a caption that says something about both of them.
8points

#50 What Are These Messages I’ve Been Receiving ?

A baffling image of a text message from an unknown sender asking, Denise, Available at this moment? Chip Halbert.
I’ve been getting these weird text messages for months, always addressed to denise or chip. It’s always under different phone numbers, I have gotten at least 10 this past month. These screen shots are just some I’ve saved. At some point I was getting them a few times a day..

brycifer666:

Weird scam or just a wrong number. I've gotten a voicemail of two old guys arguing and trying to call a woman to settle their dispute. I still wonder if they figured it out...
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8points

#51 What Is This, Found It In My Sons Room?

A baffling image of a black and white bottle with a metal nozzle, a perplexing object seeking internet answers.
IrishReaper2040:

Definitely a butane container, for refilling mini torches and lighters.
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8points

#52 What Is Causing The Color Of This Blue Crab Meat? Is It Safe To Eat?

A baffling image of a metal plate with leftover crab claws and shells, covered in sauce and remnants.
Is this crab safe to eat? We have left the restaurant now, but I am trying to see if I was overreacting by telling the restaurant manager that the crab was bad. This was blue crab, I have read that the claw meat can be darker, but I'm not familiar enough to speak from experience. Does this look rancid or just typical blue crab?
I thought the crab smelled like ammonia, but the manager didnt want to admit that it smelled. She said it smelled 'fishy' but was normal. I am pregnant, so I started second guessing my nose and thinking that I was just being over sensitive.


Particular-Jury-3251:

I wouldn’t eat it, anytime you smell ammonia in seafood throw it out.
Source: My grandfather was a commercial fisherman, and I grew up in a small fishing town.
8points

#53 What Do You Think This Expiration Date Means Exactly?

A baffling image of a product label showing a lot number and an unusual expiration date.
B00dreaux:

Ugh. As a regulatory labeling person, this is the worst technically compliant date format they could choose. One of the most important focuses of the work is patient safety, which is best served by plain language and straightforward formatting. Whoever did this has terrible professional judgement.
I do think it's either Julian date formatting or their Quality team doesn't do good work either and a digit is missing. Booooo.
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7points

#54 What The Hell?

A YouTube channel page showing long video durations like 1,234,567 hours, one of the baffling images.
How’s that possible?? Any devs here that could have an idea?

SM1334:

They must have modified the video in a way that its just the same image but for 1.2 million hours. So the file size is probably like <1mb.
7points

#55 What Is This? Found In Baghdad (2008)

A baffling image of a digital caliper measuring a bone-like object, showing a reading of 71.6 mm.
NoHeight6815:

Pestle is what I am thinking.
7points

#56 What Is This Art Style Called?

A baffling image of a disturbing, lanky creature standing over a sleeping person in a vintage drawing.
Monkeynutz_Johnson:

It's something between a Gothic style and an edwardian style vaguely reminiscent of Edward Gorey. It's a nice piece, didn't notice if you named the artist but it's a great original piece. Well, is it the original or a print?
7points

#57 Eh What? Either I'm About To Have A Great Time Or A Bad Time

A baffling image of chocolate brownies in a display case with a misspelled sign that reads Bronies.
Sorry-Climate-7982:


Oooh, crunchie crust brownies.
Not for the ordinary palate but delicious in their own right particularly if dark strong chocolate.
7points

#58 What?

A baffling image of a badly translated orange warning sticker about appliance power consumption.
HumbleGhandi:

Is this something that heats or cools? I think its saying if you switch it off overnight, it'll run full cycle to make up for the lost cooling/heating overnight.
7points

#59 What Do You Want Me To Do Then???

A baffling image of a sign in a waiting room that says Please don't wait in our waiting room, prompting questions.
heffred:

And no parking in the parking lot.

MyUsernameGoes_Here_:

So, what's the first sign say?
I'd bet money it says something like, "if you are coughing, sneezing, running a fever/showing signs of flu/COVID" and the second one says "please don't wait in our waiting room". It's to keep well-visits separated from the sick-visits at clinics/doctors so they don't get the not-already-sick people sick.
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7points

#60 What Is This Trying To Say?

A hand holding a small black gift box with the brand name VQYSKO and the text 'pecinlly for you,' one of the baffling images.
Made in china this is the box for my son’s gold plated bracelet. Still no idea what they mean.

guzzijason:

“Personally for you” is my guess.
6points
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