This is an appealing idea - that there is something inherent to the subjects of the photographs that makes them “cursed” - but it doesn’t quite hold up to scrutiny. “There could be certain qualities, like someone looking directly at the camera or an orb floating in the background.” What makes an image “cursed”? “Cursed images, to me, leave you with a general uneasy feeling,” the account’s anonymous author told Gizmodo. “ Cursed image 31” shows four boys around a computer. The gimmick of the account is simple: It posts unattributed photos and labels each one a “cursed image.” “ Cursed image 3920” is a photo of a fiberglass-cow TV showing a news report about Saddam Hussein. Recently, a Twitter account called has garnered some media attention - including write-ups in Gizmodo and The New Yorker. Web detritus? Creepy, “cursed” images? Both? A man holding two hot dogs and crying as a dog’s eyes glow in the background. A bunch of spaghetti placed directly onto the glass of a photocopier.

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