Stock photography is a strange concept. Typically, stock images are used to create commercial and business pictures, so stock photos get specific since they are made to represent and show off certain situations. There are stock images out there for just about everything at this point, and it gets pretty weird. Everyone has seen questionable stock images before, but they get even more strange than that. Some of them are unexplainable, some of them are kind of offensive, and others are just plain wrong. It's hard to say why exactly many of these stock images were created, but maybe someone out there had a productive use for them.

Reddit's /r/w--stockphotos is a subreddit where users share the most unhinged stock images they find from all around the web. These images are the best of the best when it comes to odd photos. Here are just 21 of those bizarre yet intriguing stock images that no one really knows the reasoning behind.