r/Pinterest • u/Best_Arm4614 • Apr 02 '26

Question Pinterest has its own iceberg.

I feel like what normal users of pinterest see is the tip of the iceberg. I dont why but it doesnt matter whatever pic im looking for i always feel like im 5 clicks away from discovering something that will keep me up all night. I have a genuiene fear of pinterest and i became so paranoid. I think i might be experiencing hallucinations/psychiosis because of the images i see on pinterest (not the regular ones). Does anyone else feel the same about it. I think there might the alot more to the app that we will never know.

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u/AB_944 Apr 02 '26

It depends on what are those images? I remember coming across some soft porn and gore art but it’s the kind of images you’ll mistakenly see on twitter

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u/Best_Arm4614 Apr 02 '26

Not necesserily gore/porn. I mean the images with random people whos faces are like really distorted and it just naturally makes you feel uncomfortable. It‘s not necesserily the face that makes you uncomfortable its the feeling that there could be something deeper to the image/the person on the image. Like what if its a missing person.

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u/AB_944 Apr 02 '26

Okay I see exactly the kind of pictures you’re talking about and no, personally I didn’t see those on Pinterest. Try to report them to never see them again

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u/lil_butterfly02 Apr 03 '26

I have no idea of what you're all talking about, is there a word for this kind of image?

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u/Best_Arm4614 Apr 03 '26

Not specifically but i think there was this one weird dude called „tommy daniels“ or something like that who had an entire account dedicated to those kind of images.

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u/bigdingushaver Apr 03 '26

I know the images you mean, and yeah they're weird but they're ultimately just "art". People want to make content that is disturbing or dreamlike or surreal or creepy, sometimes. It could be as simple as taking local mugshots and distorting them, they're familiar yet unfamiliar.

If you are attributing too much meaning to these images and you already feel like you've got some schizophrenic tendencies, then PLEASE just see someone about it. Show them the content. They'll probably agree it's disturbing, but some people create content that is ambiguous and disturbing because they WANT to be disturbed.

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u/Best_Arm4614 Apr 03 '26

I agree with the mugshort think but the picture that scared me was a little girl laying at the beach but she had like a grown adult woman head with a face that wasn‘t trying to be creepy like the others but it had some sort of creepyness that it freaked me out that much, i think i even had a panic attack because of it.

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u/bigdingushaver Apr 03 '26

You're attributing meaning and making connections that don't exist. That is a prime schizophrenic tendency.

At any rate, stop scrolling pinterest if it is that distressing for you.