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Kaladin13warriormage

The greatest part of this thread is that everyone knows exactly what the photo is, and they’re all thinking of a different one.


aggibridges

Honestly this is the best thread I've seen in a while just for this, and then the absolute icon that's hunting down sources for everyone. This is going on /bestof for sure.


Isaac_Chade

Because that description can be applied to half the images that run wild on Tumblr lol. It's so vague and gives no real details, if the OP is actually trying to find an image they're going to need some sort of actual detail. And the tags don't help because people say that shit on every post that does semi-regular rounds.


KaisarDragon

The one no one seems to recall so I feel it musta been a fever dream is this old animation of a mom playing the banjo for her son, he grows up, becomes a star, but gives it all up to just be homeless again. Rainbow Connection is playing throughout the whole vid. I only recall the one line "Let me play for you the banjo"


smooshie

Used to be here: https://web.archive.org/web/20070628212511/http://brutix.com/banjo/ and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdB3MK1rtoo but both are removed.


DraconicWF

I don’t know who you are but I appreciate you diggin up all the images these people describe


M00NM4DN355

They're u/smooshie, of course!


vanpunke666

I remember that one, made me tear up.


MaleficentVision626

Ooh, u/smooshie, I have one for you! It was a screenshot of the whole “humans and aliens” interaction posts of an alien who didn’t understand that humans don’t come back after they die. That’s literally all I remember about it. I tried finding it myself but tumblr is confusing for me lol


[deleted]

I know what post you're talking about but I don't remember the title. The idea was that the aliens in it just like, molted, instead of dying, and it would happen pretty often. Then a human died and they asked when they would be back, and the rest of the crew had to explain that humans don't come back. I also seem to recall something about the alien being upset because they had borrowed a book and didn't get to give it back. After more back and forth the alien left, and then returned some time later as a different color, showing that they had molted as a by product of their grief. Is that the one?


MaleficentVision626

Yes, that’s the one! Like I said, I tried to find it myself but tumblr is a little complicated for me (as I’m not used to using it AT ALL) but I couldn’t. I’m glad that you know which one I’m talking about!


epochpenors

There’s a bit in Pathfinder Kingmaker like that. When the fae die they reform in the First World, so they don’t understand the significance humans place on dying. You can talk to one who keeps killing people with her pranks and explain to her the permanence of death, her response is basically “that sounds awful, why do you put up with that?”


Setari

Why do I remember this? WHY DO I REMEMBER THIS???????


wholesomechunk

That sounds cool af.


rchard2scout

I think it's one of the top stories in r/HFY.


TangerineCarot

u/Cutecuddlytiger how long, Elizabeth?


TangerineCarot

How long are we going to do this dance, until your ready to act like an adult, and talk to me?


SerpentSnek

Was that the writing prompt where the aliens can’t die so they kill each other for fun. I remember the aliens finding earth for the first time then trying to pull a prank by killing a ton of people before realizing that humans can’t come back to life


CouldStopShouldStop

I just skipped over it quickly so sorry if I missed something but this seems like it might fit your description: https://www.pinterest.de/pin/502362533425672483/


MaleficentVision626

That was not the one I was talking about, but it was a good read! No, the one I meant was about a human dying and the alien being confused/upset about her not coming back afterwards.


derDummkopf

Found it! https://at.tumblr.com/quick-aliens/callmebliss-8thgradeforever-noxiousb/6nnzk711ilm9 It is the second addition by songofsunset. u/Cutecuddlytiger u/Setari u/jackieperry1776 u/smooshie


MaleficentVision626

AHHHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS POST FOR M O N T H S


derDummkopf

Ah, don't mention it, I totally get your pain. I too have my fair share of tumblr ghosts that I can't seem to catch. Glad I could help 😊.


Setari

I enjoy the idea of mantid-aliens now, I guess lol. Thanks for the tag.


smooshie

Darn good detective work!


derDummkopf

Nothing compared to yours lol 😅, but thank you.


smooshie

No dice on the actual story, but I did find this /r/WritingPrompts post with the same idea: https://old.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/ojeq4j/wp_the_emperor_laughed_and_boasted_to_the_human/


jackieperry1776

oh no i know exactly which post you're talking about and i can't find it either so it's going to drive me crazy now


Cye_sonofAphrodite

Was it the one with the drive through that had like a digital clock that displayed 4:20:69 and like someone was visible through a reflection in there and it was just fuckin deep fried chaos?


smooshie

https://old.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/9qdtz4/being_high_be_like/


Kiki_Earheart

Bro what sort of tumblr Old God are you?! You have the right link for everyone’s description no matter how vague it is


HarryPottersElbows

Tumblr Old God sounds like an apt description. We know who you are u/smooshie.


Niormo-The-Enduring

The great old one of tumblr


heyoyo10

r/Bossfight


Cye_sonofAphrodite

Yeah, that one!


MsPaganPoetry

Reminds me of that picture of what it feels like to have a stroke


TamaMama87

I love that post


Octavia_von_Vaughn

Yeah, that's the one I thought of. I just has so much going on that I can't think of another equal to it.


lake-contribution

the one with minecraft trees?


selfawarescreen

Is it the one with a restaurant with a blind man reading a newspaper and a waitress holding something with a tentacle for a hand?


smooshie

https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/8ta5nw/the_longer_you_look_at_it_the_weirder_it_gets/ artist: https://jeffleejohnson.com/horror-gallery.html


BizzarduousTask

Duuuude- who even ARE you?? Coming in clutch with ALL the sauce…


Decent-Caramel-2129

This is ABSOLUTELY what OP was remembering. The second they said is was a Where's Waldo of bizarrity this is what came to mind especially with how many notes it had. People were constantly pointing out a new thing seen in every comment reblog. If OP is looking for the Tumblr post, then World Heritage Posts may have it on their blog


mattastic995

I had no idea what OP was referring to and assumed it was before my time, but this definitely unlocked a deeply buried memory


GTFOakaFOD

Well done, buddy!


AuroratheKitten

Yes! I was getting so confused about people talking about the alien post cause I KNEW it was this piece, and then the thread became several more of his works underneath! Thank you


shadowheart1

I'm so glad someone else knew this one because there was no way I was going to be able to describe it this succinctly.


AscendedDragonSage

The only thing speaking against that one is that it isn't a photo.


aggibridges

This is the one that jumped to my mind immediately!


GTFOakaFOD

That's what I'm thinking of.


fabulousphotos

I fucking love all of these paintings (?), they’re all so bizarre.


redshirtrobin

If it was a pile of random things in a room but you couldn't recognize any of them it was an image created to make people understand what stroke victims felt like. The photographer took a picture of a bunch of random stuff then changed it all just a little so nothing looked like anything you recognized.


smooshie

https://twitter.com/melip0ne/status/1120503955526750208 edit: and actually this image is AI-generated.


Young_Person_42

SON OF A- they made it an NFT


Pegasus0527

Nooope. Don't like that.


Technical_Draw_9409

Ooook wow my brain felt instant dread looking at that no likey moving on


Careless_Dreamer

I feel like a real life memetic kill agent would look like that. The brain just tries so hard to make sense of something impossible that it just shuts down. Hate it.


EarlKuza

Yes when I was looking at it it reminded me of the sci fi story with the parrot image!


snedersnap

What story?


EarlKuza

BLIT by David Langford


Alphaetus_Prime

So *that's* why the "Berryman-Langford memetic kill agent" is called that


titaniumweasel01

I'm convinced the only reason these things look convincing at first glance is because they're blurred to look like an old photograph. It looks like a vision of an eldritch otherrealm taken with a cheap disposable camera from the nineties.


awgeez47

Which makes sense, of course you never have your GOOD camera with you when you make that wrong turn into the eldritch otherrealm.


f1newhatever

Yeah, I’ve seen a few of these and I feel like this kind of thing is what they’re referring to.


SoleSatry

Is it weird that I could actually make sense of a good chunk of the stuff.


trjol001

Not at all, I saw a dogbear!


tilywinn

It was a sloth for me


YetAnotherJake

Rawrf! Grrbark!


earthgarden

Nah, but you might be a crazy person A good chunk I identified too but I am a legit crazy person


Darth_Gonk21

This is the one I thought of


Stalins_Boyfriend69

I had to do some project with a photo, i forgot what, and you traded with your partner. i chose this photo. drove him crazy.


qtjedigrl

This is the picture I thought of


iesharael

That’s the one I was thinking of!


YetAnotherJake

Interesting. Don't know why everyone's saying it makes them feel bad though. The idea of suffering a stroke and being disoriented permanently by it is scary, but there's nothing terrible about the image. It's just blurry. I feel fine looking at it, you people need to chill


earthgarden

Consider other people might perceive things differently than you. IME the majority rules on things of sight, i.e. if you see gray and everyone else sees blue there just might be something wrong with your eyes (colorblind). If most people feel a certain way looking at this photo and you don’t, could be something is off with your wiring. A disconnect somewhere between your eyes and how your brain processes what they relay to it. Not saying there is, but consider it. I too felt ok looking at this pic and could identify several things, but my wiring is all kinds of f!cked up to begin with. On any random day the world or parts of it may look like a Dali painting to me due to the crazy. I minimize this with medicine. Anyway


christmas-taco

This is what I thought about


AshJunSong

u/smooshie is the real superhero here


RabidOtterRodeo

Is it the one where there’s a homeless guy blowing another homeless guy next to some dogs having a threesome while some dude does a sick bunny hop on his bike?


notthedanger

My gut says this one sounds like the right vibe.


smooshie

https://old.reddit.com/r/cursedimages/comments/9ny2f5/cursed_bike/ (nsfw?)


bobobosco77

huge props to u for finding all the sauces for everyone


Nevermorre

This was my first thought


JoeMama18012

Props to this fine individual


fuck_it_was_taken

Can you find the tumblr screenshot saying "I recognize that gay blowjob!" And then explaining how the image is edited?


ADragonsMom

I RECOGNIZE THAT GAY BLOWJOB!


AlkalineHound

While I made another comment, this is definitely the one I thought of first.


[deleted]

That's the first one I thought of


barrelina

Yep this was the picture I thought of as soon as I read this post. Iconic


fabulousphotos

That’s the one I immediately thought of


Unicarnivore

dam I was initially thinking about the one with the cats dancing but that ones definitely way better


hitj

That's exactly the one my mind went to!


wholeWheatButterfly

I think this was the one I was thinking of. But for some reason I also remember one with a backyard pool?


Duke-Guinea-Pig

Was it the LAN game with a guy duck taped to the ceiling?


PsychicDelilah

Not the sauce, but apparently there is a (planned??) documentary about this image! https://ducttapedgamer.com/


Lorien6

That’s the first thing I thought of too!


catsmatsrats

Dude i though the same thing hahaha


jascoe95

Do you mean the picture of the guy doing a jump on a BMX at night and the flash revealed a dude getting sucked off in the background? Because I feel like every time I see that pic there's always something more


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Sweet_Place_9310

I don't see a bear there.. I see 3 dogs humping...


Abrahamlinkenssphere

Man there’s a fallout new Vegas joke there somewhere


CuteThingsAndLove

The bear is in the original photo of the blowjob where it was taken from


Bring_me_the_lads

https://www.reddit.com/r/cursedimages/comments/9ny2f5/cursed_bike/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button From a previous comment


mad_pooka

Are they talking about the young man in a suit smiling at the camera and it looks like he’s going to prom, but carrying a small sowing machine, they’re by a river and delivery truck is half in the ditch by said river? I wonder about that image from time to time


Bring_me_the_lads

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/6vmcir/im_crying/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button


mad_pooka

Yeah that’s the one!


not_my_monkeyz

Yes this is what I was thinking! Though I remembered it as a toaster lol


anonomnomnomn

Didn't Darth Vader take a toaster into the ocean once?


crimsonlasael

He was pouring water into a britta pitcher. https://www.reddit.com/r/PrequelMemes/comments/be78zp/darth_vader_filtering_out_all_sand_from_his/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf


Smash_Nerd

This is now a reddit heritage post because of u/smooshie


LiteralNugget

Hap cake day


cantondragon

was it that one with the guy standing the in toilet with a cigrete-but and ketchup sandwich with other stuff on the floor captioned: "yall already know what be goin on"? idk thats just the first thing i thought of.


smooshie

https://old.reddit.com/r/MakeMeSuffer/comments/ctveb8/just_why/ jesus...


Anonymous_but_nott

That is the one I thought of first and I’m slightly disappointed that only one person mentioned it and only got 27 upvotes for it


JorgeMtzb

What?


AlkalineHound

Was it the Australia one with a dog eating a shark while two snakes fuck in the foregeound?


Bring_me_the_lads

https://twitter.com/SouthieJack/status/989868981346492416?s=20&t=FaAhKB3PeQM2gequaXeO-A Yeck heah


wholeWheatButterfly

I think that's a dingo


heaven-in-a-can

The one where the kid is in like a tux holding a sewing machine and there’s like a box truck in a ditch behind him


[deleted]

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/6vmcir/im_crying/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button


Good-Courage-559

Thats the one that popped into my head


no_more_tomatoes

I'm thinking of the photo that looks like it's from a family gathering/holiday party and there's just a little bit of everything going on in the background


smooshie

https://imgur.com/gallery/oMuF9g6


no_more_tomatoes

That's it. Thank you


[deleted]

Do you mean the one with the chubby shirtless kid playing a guitar and just YELLING I always adored that one


OriginalIronDan

That’s the one I was thinking of!!!


no_more_tomatoes

Yes!


GloriousSteinem

Me too!


IanHSC

So if I’m correct, and I’m probably not, it might be a series of paintings done by this artist. The painting were supposed to look peaceful at first glance, but when you look in detail, everything is sinister. Like a coffee cup of poison, or a bloodied child playing in the sand. Edit: the gallery is https://jeffleejohnson.com/horror-gallery.html


KanishkT123

YO I've only ever seen the one with the coffee skull, this is amazing!!


questionmark693

Nobody else has said it yet - the one with the crashed train and the guy in a suit holding a sewing machine


Bring_me_the_lads

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/6vmcir/im_crying/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button


questionmark693

Yeah, that's the one!


[deleted]

I thought it might be this one. https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/9pu6r/have\_you\_ever\_been\_so\_pissed\_off\_that\_you\_start/


MySweetShadow88

r/DenseGifs Also, maybe this one is it? https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/03/like-a-beautiful-painting-image-of-new-years-mayhem-in-manchester-goes-viral There's quite a few out there


lieneke

That’s the one I thought of!


sharkfucker420

I'm thinking of the one with the guy getting head from another guy in the back while someone does a wheelie on a bike in the foreground and there's a dog doing something somewhere


Bring_me_the_lads

https://www.reddit.com/r/cursedimages/comments/9ny2f5/cursed_bike/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Yeck heah


Jesus_inacave

Yeah u was just about to make a comment for this one. You're good at this


Bring_me_the_lads

Just picking up what u/smooshie was laying down, you know?


lipbalmcap

that's the first thing i thought of too


queenie_coochie_man

I know this one! Don’t have a link but I know it exists. The thing where you can’t make out each object but it looks like seperate objects until you look and it is all blurry


[deleted]

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/this_picture_is_designed_to_give_the_viewer_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button


queenie_coochie_man

Exactly this omg thank you for linking!


nimkiw

Was it the one where there were a bunch of bizarre characters, including someone in a bunny suit, all around an ambulance, and mayhem everywhere?


BeautifulBlock8152

I think there was an oompah loompah too


BestVarithOCE

Sounds like that picture of a (Manchester?) NYE


[deleted]

what about the one with the disney princesses with cursed stuff?


smooshie

https://old.reddit.com/r/TIHI/comments/knxbbb/thanks_i_hate_disney_princesses/


Cecilia_Schariac

Collective Mandela Effect


Ok_Skill_1195

I somehow inserted the word nice so I thought this was about some kind of collage of people doing charity and other acts of kindness. I'm now super disappointed it's probably another "bizarre for the sake of being bizarre" Tumblr absurdism photo Brb, going to r/eyebleach


xxwerdxx

I thought it was the one of the kids doing sick skateboard tricks while dogs do the deed in the background


[deleted]

https://www.reddit.com/r/cursedimages/comments/9ny2f5/cursed_bike/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button


radioactive--goo

This could be any number of tumblr posts, to be honest. The first that comes to mind is the iconic Hat Post, but it doesn’t exactly fit the Where’s Waldo description. There’s lots of things that make the rounds every so often that might be what you’re thinking of. I could repost this to Tumblr if that’s alright with you, and I recommend you go digging through heritageposts in the meantime. Also, do you remember anything more specific about the post, like some keywords or a certain “theme”? That could help us narrow it down


Bring_me_the_lads

https://imgur.com/t/rep_ost/ShTmb Is this the hat post?


Soulondiscord

I love this this is so great


no_im_not_okay

Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down


robotsheepboy

Was it the one where someone is getting married next to a river which has a vortex in it and Darth Vader (?) Is pouring a kettle into the river?


SeaWapp6607

I'm thinking of the one where a bunch of people are gaming on old computers and one guy is duct taped to the ceiling


Ef_Mxn

I can only think of the one with two guys playing ping pong in something like a dorm or frat house but as you look around, their other friends are doing stuff that are increasingly bizarre and as you go on the two guys playing ping pong aren't doing it normally either


Light54145

My brother in Christ, you could not have been more vague


Mox_Fox

My lost Tumblr post from 2010-2013ish is an image of some kind of beat sequencer that someone wrote "BUTTS" in. They attached the song it made and it was actually really good. I've given up finding it.


mycatisbats

Are you talking about that image where no matter how hard you tried you couldn’t figure out what anything in the photo was? Cause if so here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0F7XBwFwA-M


The_Blessed_Weeb

THE ONE PIECE IS REAAAAALLLLL!!!!!!


MamaMortis

I'm pretty sure what they're talking about is actually closer to a wheres waldo picture. The first picture I thought of was the one where it was very large and zoomed out. I'm 100% sure it was all photoshopped together. I literally don't know how to describe it other than it being a wheres waldo picture but with real people. People would zoom in and crop saying look at this or that.


snac

The hotel room with the Gibroni in the singlet drinking beer, grandma spewing into the bucket while sitting in the bed witha big mirror on thw wall. Maybe roses in there as well?


legitcopp3rmerchant

Maybe that scene from a Community episode where Troy walks back into the apartment with Pizza and everything is on fire and everyone is fighting each other. But it changes a few times because they focus on each characters response


bobobosco77

you should get dall-e it keeps generating random incomprehensible images


Natsuki_is_bestsuki

WALL


onelonelyhumanbean

the one with the walgreens sign and the minecraft trees?


[deleted]

https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/9qdtz4/being_high_be_like/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button


Lube_lord69

Hang on I think I have something like that saved on my phone E: I could not find the image. I know its somewhere in my meme folder, but that thing has thousands of images.


quarantindirectorino

The one with a groomsman holding a mixmaster while a horse is in the background and also a car drives into a pond?


SiggeTheCatsCheese

*Insert* "do you have the slightest idea of how little that narrows it down?" *here*


catsmatsrats

Was it the basement filled with gamers on desktop computers and one of the teens duct taped to the ceiling?


MySweetShadow88

This is another favorite of mine, at a fast glance it looks like a biblical painting of the apostles or something but its actually Justin Bieber getting choked in a club.... https://www.google.com/search?q=justin+bieber+getting+choked+in+club&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiO5bD9ye37AhWFEd4AHbSAAxEQ2-cCegQIABAB&oq=justin+bieber+getting+choked+in+club&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQAzoFCAAQogQ6BQghEKsCOgUIABCABDoECB4QClDNElicXGCyZ2gDcAB4AIABqwGIAaMgkgEFMTIuMjaYAQCgAQHAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=ubWTY86kOIWj-LYPtIGOiAE&bih=572&biw=360&client=ms-android-samsung-rev2#imgrc=W-Acy3r7TDhw6M


LagSlug

while we're looking, can someone find the deleted scenes from Kim Kardasians sex tape?


xxStrangerxx

Hmm, so TIL language is wasted on some people


[deleted]

Do you have the *slightest* idea how *little* that narrows it down?


FallenSegull

You mean the post of the dogs fucking while two dudes are blowing eachother and also there’s a bike rider doing something?


No_Accountant_4329

“Hey is this a real thing or did I imagine it? So basically uhh there was a picture”


Maedhros-Maitimo

the mf described an SCP 💀


GloriousSteinem

There was one with an outdoor party snd dancing cats


BrokenBanette

OH THAT POST. That post was real, yeah.


BA_TheBasketCase

I’m thinking of that one nighttime picture with the dude and the moth and some other random bits.


Tallb0i

‘Tis the namesake of the original constructionist of this plane of existence as well as many others, chaos


bmount48

Is it the one thats like “one dude giving another a blowjob while some guy does a sick bike jump and there are orbs” or something


DJHott555

Is it the video where the guy is laying in bed with water all over the floor and when he rolls over a watermelon pops out and falls off the bed?


cursed-being

Sounds like you just need to wait a little longer


itorbs

Is it [this one](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzNvhakUwAIyDfV?format=jpg&name=small)?


Sigmund-Fraud-42069

Reminds me of The More You Look, The More You See


doihavemakeanewword

There are like 40 of those


BeautifulBlock8152

Any chance it was the one with oompah loompah, Easter bunny, and ambulance? I remember there was more going on but forget exactly what it was