[CDSlice]

I'm not really sure what's so "cursed" about this website? http://www.hytechshotz.com/default.asp

The website design is pretty bad but based off of the OP saying "most of them are really deep and demonstrate some sort of twisted brain that was behind each site" I'm not really sure why this one is on the list.

[bpierre]

I don’t see how any of these is cursed really. I think it is fair to assume that most of these websites are the product of work and passion from individuals having put some time and effort into it.

One can perceive them as ugly, outdated, funny, or even pointless (I don’t, but it’s not the point). But using a domain like cursed.lol and a vocabulary like “twisted brain” or “fucked up shit” (OP’s comment) is a bit too much on the side of the mockery / disrespect / immaturity and doesn’t belong here IMO.

[xook]

This is it. I was expecting something qyestionable, or even mildly awful. Instead, they are quaint, and full of life. They are outdated only because of current UI trends, not because they are objectively outdated.

I miss the soul and work that went into sites of the 1990s where it was dense information with a point, not thousands of pixels filled with nothing.

[JasonFruit]

Exactly my feeling: this is the opposite of the hacker-in-the-best-sense appreciation for things done out of passion and personal dedication, even when they're strange or seemingly useless. This tears down without offering anything better.

[kid-icarus]

Respectfully disagree. I take delight in observing these artifacts, it's unfortunate you cannot.

[bpierre]

Sorry if my comment wasn’t clear, I actually do enjoy browsing these websites. My concern is about the mocking tone I perceive from OP and the webring curator (not sure it’s the same person).

[kid-icarus]

I don't know how many of the cursed sites you've visited, but in addition to rudimentary styling, some of the sites contain some rather disturbing content.

Hence the "fucked up shit," and "twisted mind," comments. I don't think they are inappropriate or disrespectful.

I don't think tone policing is appropriate or beneficial.

[hc-taway]

I'd say that one gets in for having photos with "2019-2020", so clearly still being updated, but for feeling so very much like it's from 1999. Choosing to lead with an unremarkable aerial photography shot, and something about the saturation in the images, is so 1990s, not just the design. @aol.com contact email. The name is reminiscent of "icy hot stuntaz". The whole package is very special.

[hedora]

I think the “Buddy” and “sample” product images put it over the top.

[hinkley]

Overlooking the ol' bezel trick,

High saturation text on a black background does not cancel out the overuse of high saturation colors. This looks like a flyer for Hempfest 2021.

(Why do pot smokers enjoy higher saturation than the rest of us? Has anyone studied this?)

[tomcooks]

Blood in the eye area, and half-mast eyelids

[hinkley]

Do you think it's similar to fancy clothes in Kenya, where bold contrasts and high saturation seem to be the norm? Not because they're stoned, but because, as I learned as a child, if you spend all day in bright light and go inside you can't see shit because your photoreceptors aren't bouncing back quickly enough.

[mattnewton]

Some of these sites are just dope, like this 3d graphing software site https://cursed.llolo.lol/dpgraph.com/

But have hideous design :D

[tonyarkles]

As it turns out, these are real sites that got scraped. http://www.dpgraph.com/index.html works, and it looks like the software is free to download now. I’m too much of a chicken to try though...

[bwooster]

A lot of these sites don't support HTTPS, so they can't be iframed without being mirrored

[hinkley]

I can't recall the last time I made a noise opening a web page.

This one sounded somewhere between a hiccup and vomiting. Kind of a 'Hulp!'

[dookahku]

Maybe like finding a Prada store in the middle of nowhere near marfra Texas... Either it's a cover or an artwork, or possibly someone That twisted at Prada headquarters decide that it was a good location

[guerrilla]

Apparently that's just an art installation

https://inspiredimperfection.com/adventures/prada-marfa/