While modeling jobs may be hard to secure, modeling for commercialized photography is a little different. However, it sure takes a lot of courage to pose for stock photos that may or may not ruin your career. If you've been online at all in the past decade, you've definitely seen people being mocked for their stock photo appearances, and it's become quite commonplace in viral humor.

Stock photos are truly an enigma. Some of them have concepts that no one should have ever come up with, and we're honestly pretty concerned for the people who made these actors pose like this and then willingly made these pictures available online forever. While some are harmless, it's the surreal nature of the images collected in the subreddit /r/WtfStockPhotos that make you wonder just how much these models and photographers are being paid for these jobs. Below are some of our favorite stock photos that really shouldn't have been made.