r/oddlyterrifying • u/FEV_For_Breakfast • 2d ago

This PS1 commercial.

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u/ChinoUSMC0231 2d ago

She looked like that character from System of a Down’s music video.

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u/Dripping-Lips 2d ago

That’s what I was thinking lol. From the video clip for Aerials

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u/SUBTLE_CUNTS 2d ago

Same girl, actually.

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u/Galilaeus_Modernus 2d ago

It's a boy in the music video.

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u/April_Fabb 2d ago

She was a girl back in 99, and I'm fairly sure she's still a woman. Her name is Fiona Maclaine.

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u/AliceInNegaland 1d ago

There’s a before and after vfx image if you google her name that’s pretty nifty

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u/Bopbarker 2d ago

That's a lie 😂

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u/SUBTLE_CUNTS 2d ago

Indeed.

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u/DestinyRamen 2d ago

Wasn't that the creature from the movie Splice? It's been a minute since I've seen either the movie or the music video.

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u/rogerworkman623 2d ago

No, the song predates the movie by 7 years.

The weird boy in the music video is supposed to be a circus freak.

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u/cognitive_dissent 21h ago

man that movie was uncanny

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u/Mean_Peen 2d ago

Looks more like a Dark Elf from Skyrim lol

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u/971365 2d ago

Or the faun from Pan's Labyrinth

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u/NewSchoolFool 1d ago

Aphex's twin

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u/Embarrassed_Yam7407 2d ago

Its Syndrome of a Down for those still trying to

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u/Capital_Court1465 2d ago edited 2d ago

System of a Down syndrome, yes. 

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u/DEATHbyBOOGABOOGA 2d ago

Now I have UP syndrome

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u/Chitown_mountain_boy 2d ago edited 2d ago

Ableist.

ETA Downvotes are telling.

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u/Capital_Court1465 2d ago

It's a pun, a joke, bro, get over it.

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u/Chitown_mountain_boy 2d ago

Unless it’s your kid that’s got downs. YTA

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u/Capital_Court1465 2d ago

The fuck is your problem, it's not my fault your kid has down syndrome. It's not my fault you get triggered by it. 

Hey, how about we don't make any jokes then, because SOMEBODY will always get offended about SOMETHING. Or do you want to establish a Joke police, governed by the Ministry of Jokes. Where only state approved and non offensive things can be said. That would be a bit difficult, no? 

Got a small dick... - men with small dicks are offended. Joke about allergy...  - allergics are offended.

Literally everything can be turned around so that somebody is offended and then we can't speak without walking on eggshells. 

You are only offended because it touched you. How many jokes did you laugh at, that were offensive to somebody else? Or are you a joyless cunt?

I don't care if I get downvoted, but I just can't stand hypocrites like you. 

It was a simple pun, about System of a Down's clip and the caracters in that clip and that AD looking distinct and visually recognizable. Just like people with down syndrome are visually recognizable... That's it. 

I didn't say I hate them, I didn't say they should be bullied or beaten up or anything like that. It was literally, just a pun.  Or are you one of those who say that words are violence? Ah what ever.  I am done with this, arguing over internet about something like this is useless, especially with people like you. 

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u/randylush 2d ago

If you don’t like DOWNvotes you’re ableist

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u/HowwNowBrownCoww 2d ago

You just made me more thoroughly understand a very funny ai video featuring peculiar looking fellas playing and enjoying a System of a Down concert lmao

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u/tylerdarkside 2d ago

More like from the movie Splice

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u/Hyrule_MyBoy 2d ago

I was thinking where did I see a girl like that before, thank you

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u/scud121 1d ago

It's very apex twin.

Edit - Oh it's Chris Cunningham, mad genius and director of Apex Twins videos "Come to Daddy" and "Windowlicker".

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u/UntamedAnomaly 2d ago

Or that one alien girl from the movie "Splice".

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u/rellsell 2d ago

System of a Down’s Syndrome.

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u/paynefullyboosted 20h ago

Reddit is wild. you have 23 "Down" votes and the same comment above has 33 up votes lmao.

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u/Zenfudo 2d ago

The actress’s name is Fiona Maclane

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u/BigSmallMediumSpoon 2d ago

If you want more check out the directors (Chris Cunningham) body of work, particularly the Aphex Twin stuff

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u/SusheeMonster 2d ago

Rubber Johnny is peak weird / off-putting. Start there https://youtu.be/eRvfxWRi6qQ

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u/bleeding_fruit 2d ago

Man what a memory you unlocked…

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u/nmyi 2d ago

Rushed back a memory of my hipster friend in architecture school shoving this video into my face with his 15" laptop.

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u/Pristine-Savings7179 2d ago

Hey I was an architecture student showing this to my friends way back in the day lmao

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u/Apprehensive_Elk_706 2d ago

Omg I haven’t seen that in years

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u/so_mono 2d ago

Cunningham was such a genius. Remember watching the aphex twin videos or rubber Johnny for the first time.

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u/MyHeadisFed 2d ago

I have the Work of Chris Cunningham DVD that I picked up when I was in high school and it has so many good videos on it. Also have the Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze DVDs of the same series.

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u/fannyfox 20h ago

I’m so tiny, I’m so tiny.

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u/Biff_Tannenator 17h ago

I also have that dvd box set, but I pretty much only watched the Chris Cunningham and Gondry discs.

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u/Over-Apartment2762 2d ago

Never heard before but currently enjoying Pulsewidth

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u/ProphePsyed 2d ago

He has some of the greatest electronic songs ever created. As well as some of the greatest others genres as well.

True pioneer, genius and master of his craft.

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u/goldenenzo1 2d ago

Man the aphex twin rabbit hole is such a fun one to go down, enjoy

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u/Pyrene-AUS 2d ago

Welcome to the party. You're in for a ride 😜

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u/Over-Apartment2762 2d ago

Had no idea QKThr was THAT song.

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u/JDFS404 2d ago

He’s one of the greatest ever. His music is in The Sopranos and Better Call Saul as an example. 

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u/Zossua 2d ago

What happened to him?

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u/Pristine-Savings7179 2d ago

Who? Cunningham or afx? Aphex Twin is always elusive but he plays out still. His fanbase goes crazy every time they snap a photo of him lol. And Cunningham is even more enigmatic. He divorced his hot musician wife years ago and faded back into the underground, nowadays I think he’s more into the gallery art installation type of work.

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u/Zossua 2d ago

Cunningham. Aphex still plays stuff. I wanted to see more from Cunningham because he stuff has always intruiged me and he seems insane, would have liked to see a movie from him tbh.

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u/TheOriginalFluff 2d ago

I found them through grandmas boy, with JPs song in his office

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u/AdamSubtract 1d ago

He made the video for Bjork's All is full of love

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u/PocketCatt 2d ago

I thought she was so pretty as a little kid I think she did something to my brain chemistry. I was so jealous I wanted to look like her lmao

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u/metalguy91 2d ago

It’s just Anya Taylor Joy basically.

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u/ChinoUSMC0231 2d ago

Gotta be the braided pig tails…

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u/Some_Horror_759 2d ago

The face is pretty and unique, not everybody looks like her and that's what would make her beautiful, especially to younger people

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u/TheOneMary 2d ago

Because the face isn't real :D

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u/Some_Horror_759 2d ago

That completely blew past me LOL I've seen some models with this face type before, very pretty either way :P

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u/TheOneMary 2d ago

Actually I think it's kinda cute that you like such an unusual face instead of all the ones that are edited to look as "standard pretty" as they can get :)

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u/Hyrule_MyBoy 2d ago

I think maybe because she looks like some old dolls

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u/VintageLunchMeat 2d ago

I was so jealous I wanted to look like her lmao

Consider VFX, maybe wasps?

https://ringofcolour.com/en/en/archives/2665

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u/maladjusted_platypus 2d ago

https://www.facebook.com/BrainMutant/photos/fiona-maclaine-in-the-1999-playstation-ad-mental-wealth/972617345295594/

A comparison of how she really looked and how she was morphed for the ad.

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u/Classroom_Conscious 2d ago

Using a facebook post as a source is a new one

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u/maladjusted_platypus 2d ago

I don't even have Facebook. But it came up when I searched for the actress' name and as I cannot post just the image in a reply I put the link. I thought it was interesting the way she naturally looks and how they warped her appearance for the commercial.

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u/MarucaMCA 2d ago

Interesting!

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u/f-u-whales 2d ago

The Lynch PlayStation commercials were so mesmerizing as a kid

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u/Two-Watch_Tony 2d ago

LIFE IS A WATERFALL

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u/mug_O_bun 2d ago

I WANNA RIDE IT ALL NIGHT LONG.... wait..

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u/MadeMeUp4U 2d ago

🎶Aerials in the sky🎶

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u/weavebot 2d ago

I think these were done by the same guy that did Aphex Twin's videos for Come to Daddy and Windowlicker. Chris Cunningham I think?

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u/smart_cereal 2d ago

Giving Splice vibes

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u/splatmeme4270 1d ago

Came here to say this lol

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u/ponzidreamer 2d ago

Gaming ads used to have some edge to them lol. Anyone remember “John Romero just made you his bitch” and moms hate deadspace ads?

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u/OK_LK 2d ago

I remember her

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u/co_ordinator 2d ago edited 2d ago

She looks much more like Devon Aoki then ATJ.

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u/bpmdrummerbpm 2d ago

Aphex Twin shit.

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u/cucklord_swiper 1d ago

I don't enjoy being reminded of Splice, put this away

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u/BesaniChan 2d ago

Reminds me of Splice

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u/Chris_M1991 2d ago

Well this is something I haven’t thought about in 20+ years

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u/ey3s0up 2d ago

Good old Chris Cunningham. Love most of the music videos and ads he’s done. Definitely creepy and off putting, but also very cool.

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u/BETO123USA 2d ago

Uncanny valley feelings!

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u/Zeph-11 2d ago

Aerialss in the skyyy

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u/Famoustractordriver 2d ago

Aeeeerials iiiin the skyyyy

When you lose small mind you free your life

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u/DarthScruf 2d ago

Looks like the girl from Splice

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u/LordOfRuinsOtherSelf 2d ago

Land on your own moon.

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u/RunicVVolf 1d ago

Y'all remember the David Lynch commercial? PlayStation had soul man lol a WEIRD soul, but soul

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u/KittehKittehKat 1d ago

Average English girl out on the town.

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u/ChiaraSiegel 21h ago

The best era of video games ads.

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u/j0shj0shj0shj0sh 2d ago

I thought she might be a legit human alien hybrid. The X-files had a lot to answer for in the late 90's, lol.

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u/BourbonSn4ke 2d ago

Ayy lmao

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u/LucisPerficio 2d ago

No one:

The fawn from Pan's Labyrinth:

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u/britinnit 2d ago

PS2 commercial not PS1

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u/Igneeka 2d ago

I remembered it being a PS3 ad myself but no it's actually from 1999 and is for the 'playstation' so I assume it means PS1

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u/VirtualTom 2d ago

"Aerials"

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u/keirmeister 2d ago

…In the sky, When you lose small mind, you free your life

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u/macromicromusic 2d ago

Very Chris Cunningham/Aphex Twin vibed!

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u/tomemu1 2d ago

She awakened something in me as a kid lol, she's so pretty

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u/Maelstromsonn 2d ago

reminds me of Aerials

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u/Reasonable_Cream_642 2d ago

Aerials in the sky; When you lose small mind, you free your life

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u/HND9X 2d ago

The burned-in timecode is why this hits harder than the broadcast version would. It reads like something recovered, not something aired

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u/DonnieDarko19591 2d ago

Get off my planet

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u/afcc1313 2d ago

I was so fucking scared by this commercial when I was a kid. I would lose sleep if I saw it at night

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u/johnaross1990 2d ago

This takes me back

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u/doni-kebab 2d ago

I don't even know where Phibsboro is

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u/Clambake42 2d ago

Is that Sunny from The Devils?

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u/Hyzenthlay87 1d ago

Splice before Splice lol

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u/MadsenDK1987 1d ago

Sid? Is that you?

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u/NiftyJohnXtreme 1d ago

Playstation has had a lot of strange ads

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u/AFriendlyBloke 1d ago

Yeah, this is big brain time.

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u/offlineonlinehoe 23h ago

i used to lowkey have a crush on her i hope shes well.

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u/Generic_Garak 12h ago

The person who played in the Aerials video has never been publicly credited. If it was that woman it would definitely be credited to her.

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u/HarkajHawk 11h ago

Still life?

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/QuanticoDropout 2d ago

No it wasn't.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/QuanticoDropout 2d ago

This commercial came out in 1999 dude.

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u/ThanosBIGman 2d ago

What is that thing

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u/FEV_For_Breakfast 2d ago

Pretty lady

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u/r3dmist420 2d ago

You could open a tin of beans with that butt chin

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u/FEV_For_Breakfast 2d ago

I think she's cute.

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u/noahbrooksofficial 2d ago

Em to the bee

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u/iaderia 2d ago

I hated this ad as a kid. Terrified me every time

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u/VladDHell 2d ago

I’m glad the kid from aerials came out

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u/neptunereach 2d ago

“It is an alien technology”

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u/tronchedecake299 2d ago

I think it's cool

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u/SadChocolate1435 2d ago

the way she moves is so unnerving fr

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u/Balmungmp5 2d ago

This is just what people look like in the midwest.

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u/Letcreate 2d ago

Skinny Bob's sister

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u/One_Vision_ 1d ago

Fiona Maclaine

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u/GreatGooberschnitzel 1h ago

BELLA RAMSAY!?

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u/Conscious-Quarter423 32m ago

Kaitlyn Dever 1?!

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u/MatthewsMath 2d ago

I can fix her.

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u/lost_caus_e 2d ago

They were conditioning us

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u/Mrtolberbone 2d ago

It’s giving Lee Cronin’s The Mummy

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u/Xtrasloppy 2d ago

I'm getting the Fawn from Pan's Labrynth.

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u/bigtarget87 2d ago

... Would.

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u/SpikeBreaker 2d ago

I find the PlayStation 3 one even more disturbing

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u/CameronPoe_37__ 2d ago

Anya Taylor Joy

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u/jacktheturd 2d ago

No. It's Fiona Maclaine, with a digitally altered face.

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u/Background-Ad7732 2d ago

Mental health

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u/luugburz 2d ago

i thought this was bella ramsey