In only 23 years, the 21st century has already pumped out dozens of revolutionary, life-changing inventions. If you love your smartphone, social media, cryptocurrency, GPS navigation, online streaming platforms and e-cigarettes, you can be thankful that you’re living in this day in age. Personally, I have to say that my favorite invention from this century is the air fryer (seriously, don’t knock it until you try it), but I have to say that another invention that has changed my life is the screenshot. You know it, you love it, and perhaps you fear it if you send your friends embarrassing, unflattering selfies via Snapchat or Instagram, but it’s likely that you use it too.

So in honor of the famous screenshot, we’ve taken a trip into the UUU Universe to visit the Useless, Unsuccessful, and/or Unpopular Screenshots Facebook group. This community has amassed an impressive 65k members for sharing exactly what their title states, so we’ve gathered some of their very best posts down below for your entertainment, pandas. Be sure to upvote all of the screenshots that you enjoy, despite how useless they may be, and then if you’re interested in checking out another Bored Panda article diving into the UUU Universe, you can find some useless yet hilarious signs right here!

#1 Bonk Of America Is Gonna Get Me!!!

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#2 Oh, That Was My Favorite In Dave Mirra!

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#3 The US Will Use Anything But The Metric System

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The Useless, Unsuccessful, and/or Unpopular Screenshots group is part of the UUU Universe, which encompasses a host of groups including UUU Ginko Trees, UUU Reruns, UUU Facts, UUU Philosophy, UUU Movies, UUU Memes, UUU Grocery Store, UUU Almost Dead Plants, and more. But today we’re focusing on the screenshots, so let me give you a little background information of this massive community. The group was launched on February 11, 2017 and is for posting all of “your ridiculous screenshots that don’t fit into any other groups.” There aren’t too many rules, aside from the general UUU tenets and that members must only post screenshots they’ve taken themselves.

No punching down or edgelord “humor” is tolerated in the group, and members are told to resist the urge to engage in “pointless online discourse”. “Seriously, why do you care so much? Take a deep breath. Get off Facebook for a bit. Maybe go outside if you can and look up at the sky. Read a book. Google ‘eel reproduction’. Find five things you can see, four things you can touch, three things you can hear, two things you can smell, and one thing you can taste,” the admin rules state.

#4 It Has Again Come Back To Haunt Me

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#5 I Have So Many Questions…. Is The Cat Part Of The Deal? What Is A Women’s Bread Size? Are You Selling Cats Loaves?

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#6 Instructions Unclear

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And although the group has been around for 5 years already, it continues to thrive. At the time I’m writing this, the group has already seen 107 new posts today and gained over 300 new members in the last week. So clearly, there is a huge audience for UUU screenshots. You never know exactly what you’re going to get when you take a scroll through this group. Will you find screenshots of bizarre items being listed on Facebook Marketplace and eBay? Maybe if you’re lucky, you’ll feast your eyes on extremely cringey content from social media or texting conversations that make you lose all faith in humanity? Regardless of what you find, you know it’ll qualify for at least one of the U’s.

Part of the fun of this group is participating in the sharing as well. We all have smartphones or computers if we’re using Facebook, so chances are, we all come across something bizarre that’s worth screenshotting every now and then. Whether it’s a terribly photoshopped ad, a hilarious post on another social media site, or a strange item being sold on Amazon, the possibilities for screenshot hilarity are endless. In fact, you probably have some photos that you could share on UUU screenshots just sitting in your camera roll right now, waiting for you to recognize their potential.  

#7 Ahh, It’s Good To See The Oldies Are Still Around

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#8 No And Not Sure Why This Ad Was Directed At Me

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#9 Umm…who’s Gonna Tell Them?

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According to Riccardo Coluccini at Vice News, the first smartphone to introduce the capability to screenshot was the beloved iPhone, in 2007, but the history of the screenshot itself actually goes back much further. In 1959, “The very first photo of a screen featured the image of a pin-up model, drawn by a computer programmer for fun on a 213 million euro Cathode-ray tube screen,” Coluccini writes. “The screen, which was owned by the American military (and usually used for detecting nuclear threats), was photographed using a polaroid camera, resulting in a rudimentary – and very expensive – first example of computer art, and the world’s first-known screenshot.”

#10 Um No Thank You

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#11 Unsuccessful Because I Did Not Go For A Swim. I Was Packing My Closet

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#12 Uhhh I Can Definitely See The Cracks

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Fast forward a few decades, and finally, in the 1990s, the “print screen” command became standard on computers. The general public was suddenly able to screenshot to their heart’s desire, as long as they owned a PC or had access to one. Today, however, screenshots are used for a variety of reasons, including to convey information and to hold private conversations unbeknownst to the individuals whose messages have been screenshotted. Screenshots can also be nefarious, as many Snapchat users unfortunately came to learn after sending NSFW photos. But for the most part, screenshots are, or should be, used just for fun.

As Coluccini writes for Vice, “Screenshots have become the faceless selfie, and a way to share what happens when we’re alone on the internet. And while they’re still important for archival reasons (like in the prolific work of the Internet Archive), they’ve evolved as vitally important evidence or ‘receipts’ of behavior people might have wanted to forget.”

#13 It Is So You Can Get Better At Arm Wrassling. Even Simulate Sweaty Palms

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#14 I Always Wanted To Find One Of Those Fake Listings Locally But I Haven’t Found One Until Now!

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#15 My Small Towns Yard Sale Pages Are Filled With Scammers. They’re Not Even Trying To Hide It

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While screenshots can be used for many purposes, I personally love to use them for sentimental reasons. When a friend or family member sends a particularly sweet or hilarious message, I love to screenshot it and keep it in an album on my phone for use in the future. When I’m in need of a kind word or I find myself missing them, I just look back on my screenshot archive, and I start smiling. If I see something on social media I’d like to share with a friend who doesn’t use that platform, I can simply screenshot it and pass it along. We all know that screenshots can be used for good or evil, but I have to say, using them for good just feels so right.  

#16 Walmart Brooch For Sure

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#17 Talk About Minimal Effort

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#18 It’s A Hard Knock Life. Keep Your Heads Up, Friends

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Screenshots, in general, are not useless, as we’re able to use them for a variety of practical purposes. At work, you might need to send a quick message to a colleague with a screenshot of a part of a document you’re discussing. Your landlord might try to change the terms of something you’ve previously agreed upon, but by sending a quick screenshot of your prior conversation, you can clear up any confusion. But there’s a big difference between keeping a screenshot between you and whomever you’ve had a conversation with and posting screenshots of private conversations online. That’s where screenshots can enter some ethical gray area.

#19 This Is How Someone Quit Where I Work

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#20 I Hate When My Computer Runs Out Of Ink, Too

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#21 These Are Very Strange Ads I Get About Some Fantasy Story…. The Pictures Or Video Clips With The Excerpt Make Absolutely No Sense

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Victoria Angelova wrote a piece last year for API Layer discussing how ethical screenshots are, and she mentions some of the times where it might be questionable to take screenshots. “First, if you are taking a screenshot of someone else’s work (e.g., a website or document), you should make sure you have their permission before doing so,” she writes. “Otherwise, you may be violating their copyright. Second, if you take a screenshot of confidential or sensitive information (e.g., a medical record), you should ensure you have the proper authorization to do so. Otherwise, you may be violating patient privacy laws.”

#22 Whoops!

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#23 I Bet You Do Need These Gone Asap. They Probably Tried To “Go Chucky” On You In Your Sleep

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#24 Was Looking At Reviews Of A Bathing Suit. This Was The Most Helpful

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“Just because you can easily take screenshots doesn’t mean that you should,” Victoria goes on to write. “More and more technologies are implementing methods to either block screenshots or alert other users when screenshots are taken. There could be many reasons someone would want to be alerted if you take a screenshot. For example, if you are taking a screenshot of a confidential document, the other person may want to know so they can take measures to protect the information. Or, if you are taking a screenshot of a conversation, the other person may want to know so they can continue the conversation offline.” So let’s keep our screenshotting harmless and useless, mainly for purposes of documentation, to help us remember things and to have something silly to post on UUU Screenshots.

#25 Me- Oh, That’s A Nice Vestaggggggghhhhh My God What Happened Here

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#26 Hmmm

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#27 Instantly Reverses Hair Bleaching And Applies Makeup Too!

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These screenshots might have been deemed useless, unsuccessful and/or unpopular by the people who shared them in this group, but at least they’re able to serve a purpose here: entertaining us pandas! We hope you’re enjoying this list, and please, remember to keep upvoting all of your favorite useless screenshots. Let us know in the comments down below what feelings these bizarre pics are bringing up in you, and then if you’re interested in checking out another Bored Panda article featuring a page from the Useless, Unsuccessful and/or Unpopular Universe, look no further than right here! 

#28 I Don’t Care How Silly This Looks. I Want It

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#29 Ah, Yes… Perfect For Winter

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#30 Is Anything On This Table Really On This Table?

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#31 Unsuccessful Translation

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#32 Why

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#33 Unpopular With Me Because I Feel Like It Would Bend On Impact

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#34 Ebay Beat Up Amazon This Time … This Is Horrendous

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#35 I’m Not Paying $25 For Anything That Looks At Me Like That

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#36 It Made Me Laugh So Much Because It Came Out Nowhere

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#37 Update On The Nelflix Situation

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#38 Whatcha Reading There, Belle?

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#39 Excuse Me What Are You Selling Me For Two Dollars

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#40 I’m Concerned About This Lady. Does She Have Legs? Is The Bathing Suit Flossing Straight Up Between Her Lady Bits? Someone Help Her!

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#41 I Don’t Think That Reclines

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#42 Dude Knows What He’s Got. He’s Got Gold

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#43 Hmmm

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#44 Thank You, Instagram, For Letting Me Know That Ozzy Osborne Is False Information. He Almost Got Me

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#45 When Your Dopamine Levels Are So Low You’d Do Anything To Feel Alive

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#46 Leave Me Alone, Trivago

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#47 Ahhh Yess Hot Dogs.. Perfect Christmas Decor

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#48 I’m Cracking Up, People Always Talk About How Hard It Is To Sell A Mirror Because The Fear Of The Accidental Mirror Selfie.. Well… They Solved That One

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#49 Idk Who Would Put These 2 Concepts Together

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#50 Sometimes You Find Cockroaches In The Food But The Food Is Excellent Though

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#51 I Love It

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#52 Times Are Tough Out Here

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#53 I Watch Ads For Rewards In Some Games I Play And I Had To Laugh At The “It’s Definitely Not A Scam But It’s A Pain In The A**” Part

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#54 For Just A $150 Christ Will Walk With You, Seems Legit

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#55 I Think I Was Just Fat Shamed For Loving Sugar And Carbs And Banana Muffins

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#56 Pikachu Has Seen Some Things

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#57 Did I Miss That Day In Geography Class?

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#58 Valentines Day Gift

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#59 Those Toenails Look Like Little Pieces Of Paper Glued To Her Toes

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#60 Oh The Horror Of Pennywise Virtually Touching Your Food!

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#61 How Can I Pass On Such An Amazing Deal

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#62 I Don’t Have A Cart At IKEA And I Definitely Don’t Know Which This Object Is

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#63 Can Someone Please Tell Me What It Is That I’m Looking At

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#64 Come On Now If I Put A Soda Can On My Heel I’d Look Like A Crazy Crackhead But When Dolce And Gabbana Does It It’s “Fashion”

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#65 Fishing For Cats?

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#66 I Would Need To Buy A Life Alert Before Visiting A Shower Like This

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#67 Ummmmm

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#68 The Cake, Or The Price?

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#69 Say What Now? Checked My Energy App

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#70 Because Work Is Killing Us All Anyway

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#71 New Pineapple Flavour Just Dropped

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#72 Swing And A Miss

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#73 The Caption

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#74 A Shirt For People Who Want To Show Pikachu’s “Pika Pika” To The World

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#75 One Of These Is Not Like The Other

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#76 No, Thank You

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#77 Just…no

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#78 I Think We Can All Understand Why This Is Unpopular

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#79 This Came Up On A Search For Tea Bags

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#80 Help! I Drank A Bottle Of Vinegar And A Half Cup Of Baking Soda And I Can’t Get It Back Down No Matter What I Do!

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#81 Just Sharing Because Of The Bonkers Stock Photo

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#82 When The Mothballs Didn’t Work

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#83 It’s Something Alright

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#84 Hmmm

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#85 No, Bonds. Just No

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#86 Looks Like It’s In Almost Mint Condition

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#87 Every Picture Had The Ring Posed On A Banana

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#88 If You Look Really Close There Is A Girl Kissing His Cheek

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#89 Shakespeare Was Clearly A Time Traveler And Discovered Ai To Write His Plays Way Before Any Other Person

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#90 Hhmmmmm

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#91 Gandalf What Happened To You

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#92 Ookayyy

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#93 Anyone Up For Some Whipped Ranch In A Can

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#94 Always Wanted To Look Like A Baggy Bedskirt

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#95 What Even Is Going On Here?

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#96 Lmao

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#97 Yeah, No Thanks

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#98 Ummm….. That’s Definitely A Special Salt And Pepper Shaker Holder

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#99 What Do People Even Do If They Buy These?

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#100 Unpopular Because Who Wants To Feel Like There Being Eaten By A Anaconda

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#101 You Can Now Order Ugly, Off-Centered Earrings That Match Your Grandma’s Old Dishes

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#102 All Official Texts About Missing Packages Contain The World “Pls”

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#103 Made Me Laugh

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#104 These Imitations Are Killing Me

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#105 Decisions…. Decisions

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#106 They Come In Multiple Colors!

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#107 I Dont Own Any Cats…and I Really Don’t Want To

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#108 Ah. Must Be Italian Yogurt

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#109 Raisin Bran Is A Delicious Drink

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#110 Unpopular With Me Because It’s Terrifying

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#111 Lobster Slippers

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#112 Freddy Krueger Crabs

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#113 They Have Clearly Never Done A Puzzle (Correctly)

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Source: boredpanda.com