25 Unexplainably Bizarre Stock Photos For Your Next Project

Stock photos are images that are made and used for commercial purposes. The photos are needed to portray and describe many very specific situations and settings. This means that from time to time stock photos can get super weird. Someone might need a stock photo for just about anything. Anything from an ad to a business pitch could use a stock photo, so it's no surprise that there are so many of them out there. What is surprising though is the nature of some stock photos. They are well known for their crude imagery and bizarre contents. It is difficult to even give a range of content that may be seen in stock photos because it is just that huge. Quite literally anything goes.

It also raises the question of who is using some of these photos though. Like some are truly so bizarre that it is almost impossible to even think of a situation where it would be needed. Regardless though, they are out there, just in case. Reddit's /r/w**stockphotos contains hundreds of the strangest and most unexplainable stock images out there. Ones that anyone can purchase and use, for whatever reason, no judgment. Here are 25 strange stock photos that raise more questions than they answer.