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From terrifying photoshops to ill-advised marketing campaigns, here's a big batch of pics that will either give you the heebie jeebies or make you wonder WTF you're looking at these cursed images in the first place. If there's something terribly wrong with you and you want to see even more just wrong images, don't blame us when you can't sleep. 

Sometimes we have to separate ourselves from our symbiotic relationship with the internet at remind ourselves: g*ddamn this place is messed up, and yet still wildly entertaining. Twitter user @Mikaela_wild helped us revisit this notion on President's Day. The Minnesotan called a very special niche of TikTok to our attention. The divorce and breakup videos. We thought that TikTok was cringey to begin with, but this Twitter thraed has opened our minds to levels of corniness and cringe that we really didn't think was possible. 

If you're looking to lose weight and curb your appetite, boy do we have the Twitter thread for you! User @kyry5 shared his weird habit of buttering pop tarts late last week, and asked his followers to share their bizarro food rituals. He, and we, got way more than he bargained for. 

Context is important in many situations. Particularly in the area of communication. But sometimes things are just so much more fun without it. We think that goes for these bizarre, uncomfortable and totally insane cursed images. Sometimes a little WTF is just what the doctor ordered.

If your passion for cursed images is not quenched, we hear you.

Nothing says "cringey" quite like the insane fanfic that lurks in the deep dark corners of the internet. Whether the fanfiction been written by horny teenagers that don't really know anything about sex, or people who are *ahem* a bit overly creative  - we cannot get enough of these Tumblr tidbits! 

Sometimes we get pretty complacent about the data we share with our "friends" on the internet. We get sucked into this share culture and forget to check ourselves. This Twitter thread from Dylan Curran is an incredible (and incredibly educational) reminder that we need to watch our internet backs.

The "I Want a Baby" prank began with a Twitter user challenging women to troll their significant others by texting them out of the blue about their fake desire to have a baby. As you can probably expect, the responses have been a mix of sheer terror, trolling back and (surprisingly) straight-up excitement!

If you're feeling down on yourself or like you're going nowhere in life, these pics are for you. From incels to furries, from creeps to the incredibly slow, these people are in need of some serious help, or at the very least, in need of having their internet cards revoked. In short: these people will make you feel a hell of a lot better about yourself. 

If we took the internet seriously, we'd all believe that women are out to get all the "nice guys" of the world. We're happy to be smarter than that. What these guys really need to do is get a grip. 

These photos are the opposite of wholesome memes or anything that feels-good. But we still get a kick out of 'em.

And here's some even-more-horrible cursed images and one's that are even worse and more cursed.

Whether you're a wear parent yourself, or someone looking for more reasons to avoid procreation, these stories will make you cringe and maybe chuckle.

Feeling down? This mega-dose of cringe is all it will take to make you feel like a normal, well-adjusted human being. The world is a scary, scary, place.