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If you spend a lot of time on the internet, there's a good chance you've noticed some cursed, out-of-context images and memes of a terrifying animatronic bear in a top hat. That would be Freddy Fazbear. If you're unfamiliar with Five Nights at Freddy's , there's a lot of lore to catch you up on. Five Nights at Freddy's is a popular survival horror video game series that was first released in 2014, and features the sort of animatronic characters designed to entertain children at a pizza restaura…

The internet can be a strange and dark place, and nowhere is this more evident than deep within the weird world of online gaming . At first glance, a game like Roblox looks like a cute, harmless kids game where you get to be a Lego man. And while Roblox is a popular and beloved platform, like many other online communities, it can also be a place where gamers do a little trolling. This type of behavior is often referred to as "griefing" and can take many forms, from verbal harassment to sabotagi…

Cursed content for band geeks

This is not your average meme list. One might say this meme list is a bit random . The posts included in the list are not related to each other in any way. They are simply brought together and placed in an order with no rhyme or reason to it. Isn't that a bit silly? Quite whimsical, if you ask me. Listicles of random memes are, as Lady Gaga so eloquently put it, "talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, showstopper, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done bef…

Decades ago, the more optimistic futurists probably thought that we'd eventually be living on space settlements in a scarcity-free utopia where robots do all the work for us and no one wants for anything. Few predicted that the future would look more like accepting “terms and conditions” before ordering a cheeseburger at the drive-thru, or internet-connected “ smart ” license plates that require a paid subscription in order to function properly. Yup, the future is now, and it's dumber than ever…

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Any self-respecting meme enthusiast is well aware of their incredible versatility. It really feels like there is a meme out there for every kind of person from every walk of life. Facebook moms go absolutely bonkers for corny and cringey minion memes. Those basic white girls who live for pumpkin spice season? They go absolutely wild for a meme about wine or the crinkle of fall leaves under their Ugg boots. Angry “Kyles” liken themselves to the frustrated incels in Wojak comics . There's somethi…

Living and working on the internet can lead to a sort of jadedness that makes everything a little less interesting and also a little less enjoyable. While I can't pretend to be the world's leading expert on internet culture, I can tell you for sure that I've seen my fair share of memes and weird internet pictures. And, of course, a crap ton of cutesy animal content. The latter of which does not want to die. And honestly, the world is a pretty depressing place, so we understand the demand, even…

This may surprise some of you, but Facebook used to be a glimmering utopia for meme lovers, especially meme enthusiasts with an affection for strange humor. We called it “Weird Facebook,” and for years the meme communities were thriving. Then Instagram took off and the boomers took over, leaving many of the prolific and niche Facebook meme groups collecting dust. While the convenience of scrolling through (and the joy of running) Instagram shitposting accounts is nothing to be scoffed at, we ki…

Not everyone can be a renaissance man, woman, or person. In fact, it's straight-up unrealistic to think everyone in the world will have diverse set of interests and hobbies. For much of my sad little life, I've felt like a boring person. It's not because I'm feeling constant tedium, and, surprisingly, not because I have zero talents. The feeling of dullness I feel about my personality is due to the fact that all I really care about (besides my loved ones) is food. Cooking it. Eating it. Looking…

Do you remember your first experience with memes ? I fondly remember surfing through image macro websites as a kid, finding the best Bad Luck Brian and Unhelpful High School Teacher memes the internet had to offer. These days, memes move quickly. It's common for a meme to have one day of glory before it falls back into obscurity, unlikely to be circulated again. However, the memes of yore lasted. It was common for singular meme formats to spread for years without dipping in relevancy. It's inte…

Alexa, come pick me up, I want to go home

The internet has been buzzing about cursed images since the dedicated Tumblr went live in 2015, but we just recently became aware of their slightly more positive brethren, the blessed image and the blursed image. The idea of a blessed image is pretty straightforward: an image that is sweet or wholesome, and leaves one feeling happy. Blursed images are a bit harder to pin down. They're generally photos with the same mystique as a cursed image, but not quite as sinister. The r/blursedimages subre…

By now, everyone's seen some of the hilariously cursed images generated through OpenAI's infamous AI system, DALL-E. Memelords and regular internet users alike have had a hell of a time testing the system's limits and possibilities, and we've gotten some pretty dank memes out of it. One redditor recently posted a series of fake movie posters that look like DALL-E vomited its closest approximations to some of Hollywood's most famous titles. While most of these are pretty obvious, we've included…

Good ol' nostalgia has a pretty big place on the internet. It may have something to do with the fact that the bulk of its most prolific users are aging millennials. Aging millennials who remember the highs and the horror of the nineties. Some of the most prevalent and cursed nostalgic memes have to do with furbies, the terrifying electronic robot toys that everyone seemed to have but me. The thing is, almost all of my friends have stories of furbies saying creepy things. Sometimes they were abo…