![]() Much like Kelly, personal experience is also what inspired Phil, the 24-year-old behind to create his cursed accounts. He's even published a book (Opens in a new tab). Now, more than 360,000 followers subscribe to see Kelly's curated timeline of stock photos that attempted to visually represent violence, addiction, depression, and a slew of other serious topics, but gravely missed the mark. "And so I decided to start collecting some of the weirdest, darkest, and most bewildering I found and posting them on Twitter." "In the depths of these sites, 30 pages into a search, I started noticing images that weren't like the others images that were darker and more disturbing, illustrating some really heavy subject matter, but still fundamentally absurd," Kelly explained. ![]() In June 2017, after years of finding amusement in the absurd collection of stock images on sites like Getty and Shutterstock, Kelly decided to create - a place where he could share the especially confounding stock images he stumbled upon with the rest of the world. While Sarah was busy posting photos of culinary abominations, nail art fails, creepy costumes, and NSFW optical illusions, a man named Andy Kelly (Opens in a new tab) was inspired to throw his hat in the cursed imagery ring. (opens in a new tab) (Opens in a new tab) So she set out to share her own cursed images, starting with cursed image 7285 - a girl and her doll. ![]() The images were weird and creepy and I loved the idea of the ‘cursed image’ being numbered, as if it'd been pulled from some deep, classified archive," Sarah said. "I was an instant fan of the original account. "It made me realize how much I looked forward to their posts… and after a while I decided to attempt to pick up where they left off." "After the 2016 election, my Twitter timeline was a depressing mess," Sarah the 39-year-old who created (Opens in a new tab), explained over email. A little over a month later, in hopes of regaining that small and strange, but bizarrely uplifting space online, one brave soul decided to take action. Shortly after the exhausting 2016 presidential election, fans of began to notice that the beloved account had gone dark. (opens in a new tab) (Opens in a new tab) The masters of cursed imagery on what inspired their craft ![]() 31, 2016 - with the exception of a single image tweeted in 2017 - they inspired the creation of other accounts that are dedicated to sharing cursed content, such as the photo of Ryan McFarland's DIY guacamole doll serving dish (Opens in a new tab) shown below. Over several months, exposed thousands of Twitter timelines to a fair share of visual nightmares, and though the creator stopped posting photographs on Oct. But after the original Twitter account was created in 2016, the concept of allowing oneself to be openly amused by cursed content started to become more widely embraced. Alpaca accounts are underrated social mediaĪs dedicated meme-lovers may know, cursed images (Opens in a new tab) began gaining attention on Tumblr (Opens in a new tab) back in 2015. ![]()
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