Have you ever had one of those “OMG” cringeworthy “oops, I saw too much” moments that seem like they should be in a movie—but are 100 percent real? Yeah. We all have. Here’s mine: At my grandfather’s funeral—I swear this is a true story—my uncle was (nonchalantly) flipping through his phone, showing me pictures, catching me up. It was completely inappropriate to be flicking through his phone, but he did it anyway. On swipe number five, there it was — a picture of a penis, right in my face. I don’t know whose, but the whole situation was insane.
Apparently, I’m not the only one who has dealt with this sort of hellish nightmare experience. A scary number of people have their very own. As Redditor u/Tyler Duuureden asked, “What’s the most embarrassing/cringy thing you’ve accidentally shown someone or something they accidentally saw while using your phone or computer?”
Get ready to cringe:
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‘Oh god. My internet was down. Had to have the Bell Aliant guy come to fix it. When it was fixed he asked me to just check it was working properly, so I refreshed a tab and it instantly opened the porn I was watching before the internet died. As a 21-year-old woman that was the most horrifically embarrassing moment of my life. He then said, “Is there anything else you need?” And I became worried I was living in the plot to the world’s most cliché porn.”—dreyanova
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“I was kind of on the flip-side of this when my uncle was going through pictures of my baby cousin on his phone and swiped too far to show me a picture of my auntie standing completely naked in a doorway. The image is still burned into my mind…”—jamiedunne420
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“My fiancé was sending me some sexy nudes on Snapchat one day. She had a bit too much to drink by this time. I got all of them, but so so did one of her sisters and a few she accidentally posted to her story. Luckily one of her female friends saw it and told her so she could delete them before anyone else saw them. Her sister snapped her back a thumbs up that said Didn’t want to see that, but hey nice vag! Lol. She was incredibly embarrassed naturally and it took a while before I got saucy pics again.” — Dis4Wurk
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“Older man caught me looking at boobs on my phone during a bus ride home. I quickly scrolled up, realizing that I was in public. He leaned over and said “hey, we can share.” Got off three stops before my own.”—gyratepirate
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“During college, my girlfriend worked night shifts so I would sometimes crash at her place that way I’d be there when she got off in the mornings. one night her roommates had a few people over to drink and I, being alone, decided to crank one out. Spent about 3-5 mins watching some.. material wondering why the audio wouldn’t work on my phone. Then I hear an eruption of laughter from the kitchen (it was a small apartment). Turns out I was the last one that connected to the Bluetooth speaker they were using and was blasting my porn audio to an apartment full of people. I have never been so embarrassed in my life and I laid there for what felt like an eternity afterward listening to them all die laughing.”—thabender
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“Waaay back in the day I was using Netscape which had this feature of popping up the last site you were on (I believe this was default). Anyways I had legitimately been doing some research on hacking since I was the administrator for a small web hosting company so of course the sites I hit were chock full of pop up ads with porn. So on Monday my boss and another woman, I think she was basically the EA, wanted to look at something on my computer so I go sure, np. Fire up Netscape and bam, up pops like 8 chicks in a line all giving blowjobs. I was pissed. Luckily they believed my story (I think) but still, embarrassing.”—AztecWheels
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“A friend was showing us his holiday pictures and accidentally swiped too far and showed us all a selfie of his asshole then one of his balls when he tried to fix it.”—bfgjuju123
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“I was helping a man with some kind of intellectual impairment download a Bible app onto his phone. I had to go into his browser to search something for him, and it was all porn. About 50 tabs open, each showing what term he’d put into Google, and the search terms were the kind that a 10-year-old would use. I finished getting him the app and attempted to peace out, although not before having to tactfully decline giving him my phone number.”—LittleBitOdd
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“Had the minister of my church at my house. He wanted to upload music from his laptop onto my Zune (tells you when this was). He turns it on and the Zune immediately displays a topless picture of my fianceé, a girl he’s known since birth having been best friends with her parents. He just clears his throat and says, “I didn’t see that.” The rest of my time with him that day was incredibly awkward but he never brought it back up again. edit: To clear up any confusion the picture was on my Zune that I had taken. The pastor knew nothing about it prior to seeing it.”—gil_beard
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“My partner showed his friends some pictures from a vacation years ago and he scrolled too far back and he accidentally showed them my nudes. I was 5ft away and died.” — osmosisaturn