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In a way, animals are the world’s perfect photobombers: irrational eruptions of primal natural forces into our tightly organized and supposedly controlled picture plane. Animal photobombers are like the cosmic Freudian slips of the digital age. Two recent animals have been especially visible in this respect, but as Caveman Circus points out in their listicle [...]

Did you know that beloved Walt Disney character Donald Duck was “born” 75 years ago today? It’s true, apparently, and what better way to celebrate that truly unique quack than with a compilation of aborted, unsuccessful and ill-conceived alternates? For a 75 year-old you look great, Donald, much better than these 12 Creepy Versions of [...]

Like any great comic book character, Wolverine (whose origin story movie comes out today) is a costume party favorite. But with so many versions of Wolverine to work from (movies, comics, cartoons, etc.) there’s an incredible variety of costuming results, some of which are not so hot. Unreality chronicles some disasters in their listicle of [...]

Our colleagues at NextRound have, er, rounded up some terrifically candid photobombing shots. For the uninitiated, photobombing is the practice of clandestinely (sometimes unintentionally) inserting oneself into the backdrop of a photograph being taken by strangers. Our favorite entry from the listicle featuring 20 of the All-Time Greatest Photobombers illustrates the concept very well. Notice [...]