Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

Bored Panda

Lifestyle

Evelina Šiukšterytė

51 Internet Moments So Bizarre, Screenshots Were Basically Mandatory (New Pics)

Internet Statista Facebook

The screenshot function is one of the coolest things ever invented for computers and phones. In fact, we’d wager that the world would be far less interesting without it. How else would you instantly capture all the interesting, weird, and confusing things you stumble upon online?

The aptly named ‘Screenshots’ community is a great place to see the best, worst, and most bizarrely funny things ever posted online. We have curated the images that we think are most worth your attention, and your coffee break is about to get much more interesting.

#1 Satan On It Again

#2 Now It's Even

#3 Gets My Seal Of Approval

Screenshots and screen grabs seem like common-sense functions. It’s hard to imagine a time when they weren’t widely accessible.

And yet, the iPhone was the very first mobile phone to integrate this function, back in 2007. It took Android 4 years to follow suit, Vice reports.

#4 The Like Button Of Youtube Pops Up As A Cat When The Video Is Cat Related

#5 No One Knows

#6 The Way Men Switch Up After Rejection Needs To Be Studied

Originally, screenshots were very simple and involved using a camera to take a photo of a screen. They were popular not just in the programming and science world, but were later also a way for video gamers to share their scores and achievements.

Eventually, the ‘print screen’ command appeared on computers in the 1990s, doing away with the need for a physical camera.

#7 Yearly Reminder In The Sibling Chat That My Sister Once Threw My Then Brother In The Trash Can

#8 What A Coincidence

#9 I Guess Even Wasps Use AI These Days

The internet and social media are essential parts of modern life. And their use is spreading.

Statista stresses that social media “consistently expands, advances and grows around the world.”

For instance, in 2024, social media reached a whopping 62% in terms of global reach, with most users in Northern and Western Europe, followed by Eastern Asia and Southern Europe.

By 2028, the world is expected to be home to a jaw-dropping 6.05 billion social media users.

#10 I’d Go On The Tour Just For The Otters

#11 This Guy Is 100% Right. What Is America Really Gaining Here When Trump Is Busy Building A Ufc Ring On The Wh Lawn? How's That Going To Help The American Economy?

#12 Did I Finally Get One?

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, reported a whopping $133 billion in annual revenue, almost double that in 2018. In early 2024, Facebook reported more than 3 billion monthly active users.

Across various platforms, short-form videos have allowed some influencers and content creators to get billions of views. And yet, the competition is fierce. The majority of creators are nowhere near as successful as a super-minority of influencers.

For example, Statista reports that as of 2022, more than two-thirds of TikTok creators had between 1k and 10k followers, and fewer than 1% had over 1 million followers.

#13 I Told Her That Her Husband Cheated On Her And She Sent Me This

#14 The Comeback Though

#15 Either Megyn Is Being Normal And Boring Or She's Pretty Edgy

According to Statista, online video and entertainment are hugely popular among all generations. However, young people consume digital content much more widely than older generations.

Based on data from 2023, the average person worldwide spent more than 28 hours per month engaging with the YouTube mobile app. In South Korea, this number stood at 44.5 hours per month.

#16 Elvis Is A Twat At The Moment

#17 “Been Smoking For Four Years, Still No Lung Cancer, Shocker!”

#18 Youtube's First Video Is Old Enough To Legally Drink

Music videos are an incredibly popular niche. They were the type of content that viewers spent the most time on back in 2023. Other popular video content includes news, sports, and video game live streams.

By the end of that year, online videos reached a whopping 92% of the global digital population.

#19 My Dad Walked In Wearing A Cat Mask While I Was Recording A Video

#20 In Need For Some Sweet Succulent Context

#21 I’m What

The ‘Screenshots’ online group has been amusing and confusing netizens for close to two decades. It was originally created in April 2008, and its members continue sharing the most intriguing moments they’ve seen online to this day.

According to the moderators who run the group, they define screenshots as screen grabs. “This means images of screens, pictures of screens taken with a different device, images that have been partially or fully generated by a computer, or pictures of printed out screenshots.”

#22 Are Some People Okay Mentally?

#23 How My Friend Becomes After Learning Strange English Words

#24 Genuinely Wtf

‘Screenshots’ is a community that greatly values originality when it comes to content. The mods emphasize that you can and should only ever post screenshots that you have personally taken. Meanwhile, you can’t repost content from other users or sources without properly attributing it.

Before you post a cool screenshot, add a clear and relevant title that explains what everyone’s looking at and why it’s interesting. You have to put in a bit more effort than writing “funny” or “look.”

#25 Son Just Died, What Do You Say?

#26 The Game "I Am Jesus Christ" Has Exactly 666 Steam Reviews

#27 There It Is. The Dumbest Thing Thing I'll See Today

In the meantime, make sure that in your massive enthusiasm to share interesting internet content, you don’t actually share anyone’s private information. Things like names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, workplaces, and schools should not be visible in the screen grabs. The only exceptions are public figures whose info is widely available.

The mods add that you should avoid sharing unedited screenshots of basic desktop backgrounds, as well as duplicate posts of the same or similar content. In short, scroll a bit, do a tiny bit of research, and try to add value, instead of copying others.

You are actually allowed to share photos that you’ve taken of screens, so long as the image is reasonably clear.

In other words, you can go all old-school here and rewind the clock to where screenshots started.

#28 Mj?

#29 Today I Checked My Screen Time To See How Many Hours I Spent On Each App This Week… And I Saw This

#30 Thanks I Guess

What’s your take, Pandas? Which of these internet moments do you think definitely deserved to be preserved, and which ones would you rather everyone forgot?

How often would you say that you use the screenshot function on your computer or phone every day? What’s the oddest or most hilarious thing you took a screenshot of today? Share your insights, opinions, and images in the comments at the very bottom of our list.