Stock images can get super weird sometimes. Stock photos are images that are used for commercial and business purposes, generally. They are images depicting different scenarios and situations with different emotions and kinds of people, which may be needed for someone's project. Usually, they are fairly generic but sometimes they get pretty unusual and specific which raises the question of why. Some stock images are just insane, who would ever need that photo? Especially in the professional sense.

While these questions may never be answered the photos do provide some entertainment for those who come across them in the wild, unprepared for the wonders they hold. Reddit has a subreddit dedicated to sharing the most obscure stock images people come across online. Over the years some of these kinds of photos have even become the center of memes. Some of them get really weird, and others are downright dark. Here are 25 interesting stock photos that were made for questionable reasons.