Cursed images have a way of grabbing your attention and making you wonder how—and why—they even exist. They’re the perfect mix of funny and unsettling, capturing moments that feel just a little off in ...

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 start ...

From the classics to the obscure to the more niche trends, memes are always a great way to react to things online. But while most of these reaction images are harmless, there’s a small contingent of ...

This meme is a version of a “cursed image,” or a rendering of a popular character, object, or location made to seem creepy, uncanny, or off-putting in some way. The identification of an image as such ...

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 ...

Three years ago, I interviewed the proprietor of the Twitter account Cursed Images, which had amassed more than eighty thousand followers in just a few months with its steady stream of creepy, uncanny ...