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Yes, that striking soul-piercing blue lake in Siberia that Instagram influencers are migrating towards in the chase for the next great selfie, is actually a toxic waste dump. The company that uses the lake to dump waste for the Heating and Electric Station No. 5 was forced to release a statement amidst the aggressive, mindless stupidity. The statement reads at one point, "you can not swim in the ash dump." 

Buzzfeed even reports that one dedicated influencer described the water as "warm and tastes sweet-ish." You can't make this level of stupid up. It's as if it walked off the script of a post apocalyptic movie itself. 

Are these the end times? A bunch of influencers blinded by their own lust for social media viral fame that they disregard viable statements from concerned officials; and proceed to swim around in toxic waste dumps? We sincerely hope that everyone ends up being alright. 

Get your eyes ready for a painful dosage of cringe! Yes, the cringe is strong and through the roof with these bizarre Russian dating pics. 

The world and Seth Rogen wasn't ready for this trend...

Burger King apologized for a promo offering money and a lifetime of free burgers to any woman who could manage to become impregnated by a World Cup star. The idea of the now scrapped ad was for Russia to collect good football playing genes and ensure wins in the future. Needless to say, people didn't think it was as great an idea as the Burger King marketing department may have thought.

"You certainly don't see that every day."

WHY do they exist? WHO are these people? We'll never know but here are some more peculiar cursed images to really shock your socks off! 

They are so much like us!

These absurd and hilarious moments could only happen in Russia.

It all makes sense now!

These photos are something you don't see every day, unless you live in Russia. 

Damn nature, you scary! Fisherman Roman Fedortsov shares photos of all the creatures he sees working on a fishing trawler in Murmansk. 

We've learned a lot in the past year about how Russia has been attempting to use social media manipulation to its advantage in order to shape the opinions and beliefs of those in the western world. 

This twitter user used some impressive investigative techniques to uncover one particularly large Russian account that is posing as a British national.