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Look, I spend an embarrassing amount of my waking hours on the internet. I have seen things. I have seen many things. Cursed images, unhinged memes, videos that make you question the choices that led you to that exact moment. I consider myself, genuinely, a seasoned veteran of weird online content.
And then r/hmmm finds me.
Not funny, exactly. Not scary. Not gross. Just… hmmm. That’s the only word.
The subreddit isn’t even being clever with the name. It’s a completely accurate description of the only neurological response these images are capable of producing.
You open one, your brain loads it, spins for a second like a computer trying to run software it wasn’t built for, and then all it can output is a slow, quiet hmmm.
No follow-up thoughts. No explanation sought. Just the hmmm, and then you move on, somehow changed.
These are those pictures. I can’t explain them. I won’t try. Some of them I have looked at four or five times and understood less each viewing.
They are not from another planet — they are very much from this one, which is somehow the most unsettling part.
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Mike Primavera is a Chicago-based writer specializing in everything from humor to philosophy. Follow him on all social media at @primawesome
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