Of all the many ways in which the internet can be funny, there are few trends more disturbing and interesting than ‘cursed memes’. Cursed memes exist in an ideal setting, one where the unpleasant and the weird and the funny reside and evoke laughter and disgust at the same time from viewers. It could be a weird angled image of an object, a disturbing facial expression drawn as an emoji, or a random situation that feels off, cursed memes are raging trends in the internet that garners a certain level of gut reaction.
Cursed memes began as a meme subculture known for its grisly, dark or uncanny nature but these memes about the curses have grown to encompass more themes including from less known subjects such as curses used in ancient Egypt to normal events that have taken a humorous twist. Although these memes are grossly funny at first, there is more about them than that. As a matter of fact, countless us based websites centered on squirting memes and its variants have also come out and created spaces for sharing, generating, discussing and even marketing such atrocious meme culture.
The Different Types of Cursed Memes
Cursed Images Meme
Cursed images meme is one of the most basic concepts in cursed memes. These types of images are blurry, grotesque, or odd and generate a feeling of discomfort among the viewers for reasons that cannot be articulated easily. It could be a pic of a bizarrely twisted cat, a horrifying doll, or a poorly photo-shopped image, all of these consist of ‘cursed imagery’. Cursed images rely on things that are familiar yet at the same time oddly unsettling. Such images fascinate audiences as they are illusionistic yet truthful. Websites such as Twitter, Reddit and cursed-memes.com contain larger sections of these photos, with each one being more bizarre than the other.
Cursed Emoji Meme
The meme genre known as cursed emojis takes the universally understood symbols of emojis and makes them something uncomfortable to look at. Most often, this transformation of an emoji into a cursed one will entail changes in the appearance, color, or shape of the emoji’s face to create something that is at once familiar and grotesque. For instance, a grinning emoticon can be tilted in such a way as to reveal the inner workings of the eyes or the mouth, resulting in a rendition that is disturbing in its realism. This type of a cursed meme, as one might call it, deals with the love of the ugly, which, as one can tell, is also one of the inspirations of cursed memes.
Cursed Roblox Memes
In recent years, cursed Roblox memes have emerged out of the very popular gaming platform Roblox. Famous for its uncomfortable blocky and pixelated look, it gives uncouth meme creators far more than enough materials to work with. Whether it’s from avatars frozen in bizarre and twisted positions, or strange occurrences within the game, these memes about Roblox draw the line at insanity with the contents of the game and tend to entertain people by making fun of how ridiculous the game is. Moreover, thanks to its much younger audience, the growing interest in similar meme manifestations was not limited to academic studies. This, alongside cursed-memes.com, is one of their widespread inclusion in social media.
Exploring Specific Cursed Memes
Curse You Bayle Meme
Of course, it must be noted that, in favor of all the funny crap we tend to overlook, this immature “Curse You Bayle” meme can be out of context for many. A typical “Curse you Bayle” meme consists of an exclamation that is most likely directed humorously at an angry looking person with the name, Bayle. In this sense, the outlandishness is a factor for the lost emotions: why did it have to be out of nowhere directed to an ordinary name. It is funny because it is random, because it provokes a response which is deeply embedded not only in the curse but also complete lack of clarity about who “Bayle” is. After all, the Curse You Bayle meme has more or less evolved over the years perhaps to the most extremes in the context of plagued meme culture generally with distortions and dark humor.
Curse of Ra Meme & Pharaoh’s Curse Meme
For many years now, the curse of the pharaoh is a myth that people have been intrigued with, and, of course, the meme culture has dealt with this too. The Curse of Ra meme and the Pharaoh’s Curse meme both belong to the category of suggesting an ancient curse, most often accompanied by some Egyptian gods, pyramids, or even over the top horror effects. These memes rely on the mystery and the terror that Egyptian history holds, combining realism and its polar opposite – black humor, giving rise to a phenomenon known as – cursed memes. While cursed memes are rage comics, and appealing back to eating ceramics, the theme of ancient curses fits quite well, because these two pertain to something that is seemingly more than us.