cursed image
unsettling, inexplicable
the one-line answer
A specific type of image that is disturbing or wrong in a way you cannot explain.
Cursed images are a genre. They are slightly off. Something is wrong but not definitively wrong. The cat is sitting wrong. The food looks almost right but not. You feel unsettled and cannot say why.
mainstream
Your coworker might use this word.
01 / in the wild
hear it move.
description
r/cursedimages is just people sharing things that made them feel wrong.
That subreddit collects images that cause an inexplicable feeling of wrongness.