“Cursed images, to me, leave you with a general uneasy ... Time stamps in bright orange or yellow text no longer adorn the corners of our shots. When people post photos on Facebook and Google ...

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 ...

That, my friends, is an image that’s been cursed. In the early days of the internet, these pictures lived alongside more explicit images on shock sites like rotten.com, but since last month ...

Or perhaps, in 2025, you imagine a toilet bowl full of SpaghettiOs. Cursed images have taken the internet by storm in recent years. And while there’s no one-size-fits-all definition for them ...

TikTok has a community obsessed with 'cursed' images. Unlike the rest of the internet, TikTok's cursed images are usually disturbing illustrations instead of eerie photos. People are making videos ...

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 ...

What exactly makes an image "cursed"? It's a picture that appears mysterious, even creepy, due to its disturbing content, poor quality or a combination of both. It's an image that raises more ...

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 ...