Here we have a simple Shutterstock image — two stubbly men, lips ready to lock in a wholly unconvincing, totally dispassionate stock-photo kiss.
Related: 8 Ridiculous Sexy Male Bunny Stock Photos
Nothing out of the ordinary there. We found the image searching for “two men kissing,” because we are very romantic.
Nevertheless, we’re pretty confused regarding the “Similar Images” lumped in with the photograph.
How about we take this to the next level?
Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
Take a look and tell us what it’s all about:
Color palette aside, any theories? Sound off in the comments below.
oregonduckbrad
Seriously? This is how you’re spending your time? Slow news day???
Ksb1978
If there’s no straight guy to thirst after, there’s no news.
strix1
Were you searching on “FarmersOnly.com” – that might be your issue!!
mhoffman953
Such journalism, wow, much amaze
imaqt2
Don’t like the articles here? Don’t read them but don’t criticize someone’s job or work. I found this interesting. Ppl just love to complain.
stevetalbert
In all seriousness. Maybe the guys are scruffy pigs.
stevetalbert
And into fisting. Sometimes google and autocorrect know more than they should.
phallictomato
I know the writer wants me to exclude it, but I think it’s just basing the images off the colour palette. The similar skin-tone colours were the first thing I noticed. Also, to be fair, there’s a guy smoking a cigarette among a bunch of animal pictures. That’s pretty random.
It’s like all my ‘suggestions’ for iTunes music – they can never quite figure out my taste of music because it’s so unique and I like many different genres of music. I mean, 90% of the time I go to a music store, they don’t have the music I’m after, because it’s not one of those mainstream clip-clop happy-dappy bullshit pop songs.
I think if I had to come up with a percentage of how many times the songs I bought were from ones ‘suggested’ to me, I’d say it only happens maybe 2 or 3% of the time. That’s not a very good statistic. Like all these kinds of websites, they should just give up trying to suggest similar images, songs, etc. because they do such a bad job at it.
Mmmrrrggglll
Seriously, who thinks this is a news site?
Jack Meoff
I’ve seriously got to stop clicking on these articles.
Malcontent
I feel like I lose IQ points when I read this stuff
DCguy
Ok, can I make a rare defense of Queerty here.
People bitch when an article isn’t about something lgbt (and I’ve been one of them) and now people are bitching because, maybe on a slow news day, they pulled up the fact that if you search for something related to homosexuality on a photo site you are getting shots of animals?
Considering that one of the big right wing attacks on lgbts is comparing it to bestiality, I don’t see the major problem with a post showing how a major photo site seems to be agreeing and filing anything lgbt in that section.
Sheesh, tough room here! 😉
oregonduckbrad
Here’s an idea: instead of trumping up some random, useless article, reach back into our history and do a feature story on people in our LGBT past. I’d much rather learn about people who actually moved our cause forward and Queerty would be in the position to educate, not just inform. Just a thought!
ChrisD
Really? I use this service and anyone who has used it for more than 10 minutes knows that the “similar images” function is useless unless you are in a broad category. It also uses the keywords the photographer has entered. It will find something, no matter how obtuse the connection. In this case, a Brazilian, photographer entered such specific keywords and “two” and “man” and “Tongue”. The pigs came up because the photo is “two pigs in pen”, Some of the many dogs and come up because of tongue and many come up because of the “man” tag. So “Mans hands with clay” is a match. Have you never used a stock photo service before?
bear.tony
I don’t know what search engine or drugs you’re on, when I typed two men kissing I got 100s of pics of 2 men kissing, no pigs.