'Cursed Comments' is one of those niche subreddits that have become an integral part of internet culture. Even though the community is relatively young even by online standards, it has already attracted over 3 million members and has been featured in various media outlets. (Bored Panda has also covered it here, here, and here.)
It's difficult to pinpoint what a cursed comment actually is. There are just too many forms it can appear in. According to the subreddit's 'About' section, however, the best way of defining it is probably a statement that gets you to think along the lines of "What the f$k did I just read?" and leaves you speechless while also somehow makes sense.
But the best part is that the incomprehension of the comment you just read (or the blatant gruesomeness of it) is also enough to draw a smile on your face.
Pewdiepie said 'Cursed Comments' is the worst subreddit. But is it really? Can it simultaneously be the best one too? In a couple of days, on April 10th, the community will celebrate its 4th birthday, so we decided it's the perfect time to revisit it and show you some of its recent top posts.
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Cursed Bears
Racist bastards...that's just two bear friends seeing each other sharing a fist bump and then heading into the forest to get some grub.
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"You see what happened to Appendix? I'm not pissing this guy off"
We managed to get in touch with the moderators of 'Cursed Comments' and one of them agreed to tell us more about the inner workings of their subreddit.
"I think people like it because all throughout the internet, you run across some odd images or videos, and this content may provoke thoughts that you wouldn’t dare say—but someone else did say it," the mod told Bored Panda.
"It's one giant vault of the internet's best (worst?) cursed comments."
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Cursed_lapdance
Cursed_sleep
The person looking after the sub said the community is "a group of people who find amusement in seeing the wild and unspoken comments out in the vast depths of the internet that would probably go unnoticed and ignored" if it didn't exist.
They're the heroes we didn't know we need. Many of the gems you see in this list have gotten only a handful of likes on the platforms they were originally posted on and most likely would have perished if it wasn't for these folks.
"They aren't always the most sensible comments, but they are interesting nonetheless."
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Cursed_confusion
Fun fact: A zebra’s skin is not striped like its coat; it’s black. A shaved zebra is a black zebra. Giraffe skin is also an even color; light brown. A tiger bears its stripes on its skin, though. (I was in education at a zoo. This is a commonly asked question.)
Killing a zebra for no reason other than that it is rightly terrified of the police would risk an effective public response. Americans love every animal except the one that we are.
I hate when i lose my white friends in snow, i hate when i lose my black friends in the dark, lose my Asian friends in a explosion.
A male zebra is black with white stripes. A female zebra is white with black stripes. ;)
Is it a white horse with black strips, or BLACK HORSE WITH WHITE STRIPS? I guess the first or they would have shot it in the back 34 times for resisting arrest.
The black stripes were too narrow to hit without risking the white stripes.
They are actually brown and white when you are up close. Seriously. Still messes with my mind.
Sorry, I have to…Black people are actually brown when you are up close. Seriously.
Load More Replies...That would have been gasp inspiring if it weren't so effing possible.
This went from aww, lol, cute, funny e.t.c to WT*actual*F real fast and that's what is making everyone touchy IMHO.
Why didn't it go and stand on the 'zebra' crossing, then they wouldn't have been able to see it?
this is literally me with all my friends, mostly my white ones, just to make them uncomfy.
Don’t know if I’m allowed to laugh at that 😶 being the whitest person ever to exist-
Ok but like if it were Florida it would never die, here in Jacksonville I saw what looked like a shoot out but the closest any bullets anyone shot came from some random guy with a gun and it was probably like 5 feet from the criminal…
fun fact: zebras are black with white stripes, not the other way around
I also like that dark humor bus holy s**t thesemotherufckers are being real racist bitches
i am so sick of the racist comments whether be funny or not. it just fuels the flame and makes it worse
It would be funny except for the fact that a white man said it and it came out racist AF
Females are white with black stripes and the males are black with white stripes
At least the zebra has jail clothes on...might avoid the strip search at intake
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"Over the course of our history as a subreddit, we grew naturally for a long time and became a rather large community [on our own, but] then PewDiePie made his first video [about us], and we exploded in popularity," the mod recalled.
"It's been an amazing journey watching and helping grow a community like this, and having one of the largest YouTubers in the world make videos on it is pretty incredible."
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Cursed_family
S**t got crazier and crazier with each progressing word
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HAHAHAHAHAJAHHAHAHAHAJAHSBHABDGDHDVZJEJSBXBBDKSNZNDNEBNEJD S SHELP IM HAVING A STROKE
But more members also mean more problems. "It's become more difficult to moderate a sub of such scale, and we deal with a lot of mod harassment/abuse, people who want to disrupt the flow of things and make our lives harder."
"Often, the people who decide to verbally abuse us are just angry because we removed their post/comment or banned them," the mod explained.
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Cursed Mri
Cursed_meal
"We once even had a user who manually DMed every single moderator of our team individually with a message purely consisting of the n-word and no more."
The moderator said that every Reddit community has at least a few bad apples, but "due to the nature of our subreddit, it tends to be worse than some others."
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Cursed_family
Cursed Hit And Run
For better or worse, the internet has become the last place where you can make such comments as few risk saying these things to people in public.
Even before the infamous incident between Will Smith and Chris Rock at the Oscars, the most dangerous thing that a comedian has to face today is offending political correctness.
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Cursed Slightly
Cursed Di*k Flap
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Last year, Jennifer Saunders' take on the matter made headlines in the likes of Mail Online (“Jennifer Saunders says Absolutely Fabulous wouldn't be commissioned today in Britain's 'woke' culture").
The closest Saunders had come to saying that was the vague assertion that people "talk themselves out of stuff now because everything is sensitive."
But in the past, she was more direct. "People are so politically correct now," she said in 2017. "You can’t even get away [with playing] a politically incorrect character, because that is seen as being politically incorrect."
"Everyone's down on everyone for everything."
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Cursed Rolex Advice
Comedy gives us a break from everyday challenges. So if cursed comments help you to escape existential dread, who cares if you're laughing at them or not?
They're just someone's random thoughts that escaped through their fingers into the ocean of the internet without any harmful intentions. (At least I hope so.)
Cursed Dad
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Cursed Vagina
Cursed_fish
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Cursed_neighbor
Cursed Eau De Toilette
This made me laugh...can you imagine having to get this outfit off to pee?
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Cursed Birthday Party
Cursed_world_tour
Cursed Fightclub
Cursed_vegetative State
Cursed_breath
Cursed_andy
Cursed Oral
Cursed_s**t
spicy jesus yesss i laughed edit: as opposed to sweet jesus, salty and umami. i saw it on another boredpanda post
Cursed_win
Cursed Porn
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Cursed Cup .
For those too young (or innocent) to understand: DO NOT GOOGLE THAT FOR YOUR OWN SANITY! Trust me on that! EDIT for those who stumble upon this and don´t know what it is about: Two girls, making out, looks hot, then they share a poop-cup. No, literally, excrement in a cup.
Cursed Fox
I created an account just to up vote your comment. :D
Load More Replies...After reading these posts I don't know whether to facepalm or cry into my hands... lol
And this is why I am here - for the comments. This one was a particularly rich seam of comedic gold. Thank you fellow Pandas
Came for the post, stayed for everyone's comments. This is why I love BP, everyone here is awesome! I needed an ambulance at least 3 times though.
This is why I absolutely love Reddit: everyone lets their personality shine, will crack a world-class joke, offer supportive advice, and give you something to think about.
Bruh was re reading cause dark humor is fun and the cut over half the stuff here
Not dark humor. I hate to see what junk was on here. I looked at 3 o4 and quit. Yes, I'm old and biased against bad language & bad stories. Sue me!!
I created an account just to up vote your comment. :D
Load More Replies...After reading these posts I don't know whether to facepalm or cry into my hands... lol
And this is why I am here - for the comments. This one was a particularly rich seam of comedic gold. Thank you fellow Pandas
Came for the post, stayed for everyone's comments. This is why I love BP, everyone here is awesome! I needed an ambulance at least 3 times though.
This is why I absolutely love Reddit: everyone lets their personality shine, will crack a world-class joke, offer supportive advice, and give you something to think about.
Bruh was re reading cause dark humor is fun and the cut over half the stuff here
Not dark humor. I hate to see what junk was on here. I looked at 3 o4 and quit. Yes, I'm old and biased against bad language & bad stories. Sue me!!