This Wild Twitter Celebrates The World’s Most Fucked Up Stock Photos

Anyone who has spent even two seconds browsing a stock photo database will know that they are often overflowing with the world’s most baffling content. It seems the only way stock photo photographers can remain relevant is to stage and photograph literally every single scenario their brain can imagine, on the off-chance that one day some maniac will require that imagery.

That can result in some pretty demented stuff. A new Twitter account that has been gaining traction over the past few weeks is Dark Stock Photos – a truly wonderful archive of the most fucked up content stock photo databases have to offer.
And they are indeed weird. This one – deservedly the pinned post on the site – is perfect for when you need a photo of a toddler experiencing a moral crisis after murdering someone with a handgun.

The rest of it continues along similar lines: a chronicle of murder, horror and humankind’s darkest impulses, rendered beneath an iStock watermark.

This one to me runs particularly close to home – the logical and horrifying endgame of too many cold ones cracked open with the boys:

You can see the whole series over at @darkstockphotos, and I highly, highly encourage you do so.
Source: Twitter.

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