So to give you a well-rounded understanding of what’s out there, we’re introducing the Instagram account ‘Cursed Photographs.’ It’s pretty tough to define it and the words would be no match for the images it possesses, so just continue scrolling and see them yourselves. Who knows, it might be exactly your cup of tea. More info: Instagram “At the time, I had a voyeuristic hobby of searching the archives of Flickr to look at forgotten flash photography from years in the past,” the owner of cursedimages.tumblr.com, a female photography and film student from the American Northwest, told Moen. “Some of these forgotten photographs just had an eerie mood about them, like someone had captured a moment from a dream or another life. I was particularly interested in finding photos of dark and empty rooms, mannequins and costumes, all of which became common themes among cursed images.” “It’s the perfect cursed image to me because there’s nothing inherently unsettling about any part of it,” the owner of the blog said. “It’s a totally mundane moment transformed into something else by the camera and the new context I’ve given it.” The effect is visceral: a cocktail of dread, unease, disgust, and confusion washes over you, which is a common reaction to the content of this Instagram account feed, too. Or as Moen’s interviewee puts it, “they’re images of memories that never actually happened to you, but the moment you see them, it’s suddenly happening to you.” The professor pointed out that most of the time, memes resonate because they’re either funny or sentimental, but in the case of cursed images, they “resonate because they’re creepy, because they’re scary.” Ultimately, whether we’re creeped out, afraid, amused, or touched, all of these kinds of memes provoke “different emotions that make us feel something.” And we share what makes us feel something because it disrupts the status quo. “That balance … makes you raise your eyebrows, stuff that is striking and funny in a really kind of morbid way.” Which is probably why social media accounts like this one are so intriguing to scroll at work. Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Please use high-res photos without watermarks Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB.
