146 Times People Had Awful Taste But Executed Their Ideas Flawlessly (New Pics)

Some ideas are better left as ideas. Whatever your mom, dear friend, or significant other says, that bag you saw the other day on Etsy that looks like you’re carrying a knife, is bad, a very bad idea.

There’s an online group called Awful Taste But Great Execution dedicated entirely to the gaudy, tacky, tasteless, overdone, plain trashy side of product design. But there’s one but. The execution may be, in fact, pretty alright. “For everything that displays quality craftsmanship in the least elegant way possible,” states the subreddit’s description. And 1.4 million members seem to be totally up for it.

From painful-to-watch objects to questionable designs, these people should have put a break on their brainstorming, or put their efforts into something else. But hey, at least we have something to have a little cringe over! Psst! More daunting stuff awaits in part 1.

#1 Tree-Rex

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#2 Did A Double Take When I Saw This Rock In My Friend’s Yard. She Said It Came From The Tenants Before Her, But I Think It Is The Tenant

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#3 Hamburger Bed From 1972

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If coming up with good ideas was simple, we’d have so many great solutions to existing problems and incredible products. But producing something both efficient, functional, and aesthetically pleasing (often, it should tick even more boxes, e.g. be sustainable) is not a walk in the park.

Think of how many companies are investing their time, effort, and resources, yet coming up with generic, repetitive, and plain bad ideas. It makes you wonder whether it’s the limit of the human mind that isn’t capable of producing something ground-breaking that often, or whether there's something else to blame?

Well, the tricky question becomes even trickier when we try to determine what we call a "good idea" and a "bad" one. At that point, any inventor is dealing with the great inventor’s dilemma, which is that when you’re doing something new, you can’t tell the good ideas from the bad ones beforehand.

#4 I Want This Now

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#5 This Texan Sink

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#6 Why Buy Converses When You Can Just Paint Them On

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In many cases, deciding on some ideas that initially seem great will make you miss truly good ones and opt for the very bad ones.

On the other hand, we know now that a good idea should have some distinct features before turning into a product. For example, it should solve a specific problem and work on a specific opportunity. Coming up with an idea for a reason is a good sign you’re on the right path, but you probably will need many more "ideas" before you can pick up the right ones to work on further.

#7 Embroidery Toast

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#8 Does This Mask Belong Here

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#9 Chandelier Headlights

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#10 Really Tall Christmas Tree In Our Neighborhood...

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#11 My Friend Made 3D Printed Arms For His Chickens

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#12 Clipart, Paperclips On Paper, 2020

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#13 A Bear Statue I Found In Denver Colorado, Yes It's Looking Into The Building

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#14 Softest Pant

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#15 Bath/Toilet Design

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#16 Apartment Hunting When, Pebble River

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#17 Adult Knit Onesie

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#18 My Best Mate Made A [crappy] Cake For My Birthday

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#19 This Beard/Haircut

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#20 Bleeding Necklace

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#21 A Sacred Candlestand

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#22 My Sister Made "Feet Loaf" For Halloween

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#23 Yes, This Is A Spoon

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#24 Just A Cake Covered In White Chocolate Teeth

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#25 These Coffee Mugs

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#26 Admiral Ackbunny

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#27 I Found A Statue Of A Dog Doing Yoga At A Mall

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#28 Looks Better Than A Mask, And It Keeps Your Ears Toasty Too!

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#29 This Woodwork

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#30 It's Stupid, But Kinda Sick Ngl

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#31 Onesie

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#32 Ashtray

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#33 I Have A Real Pizza Epoxy Doorstop

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#34 First Year In A New Neighborhood. We’ll See How This Goes

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#35 Drove Nearly 2 Hours Out Of The Way On Our Road Trip To Get This Pic. Worth It

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#36 Finally, A Top To Cover Those Distracting Shoulders Of Girls

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#37 If 13 Year Old Me Became An Interior Designer

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#38 20 Foot Tall Graffiti Mural Of Kanye Kissing Himself

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#39 Blobfish Supra

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#40 Anti-Bill Gates/Covid Vaccine In Australia. Pretty Good Artwork, Though!

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#41 Brasilian Ad For Condoms...

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#42 Who Says Crown Molding Is Overdone?

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#43 Ww2 Mickey Mouse Gas Mask Intended To Make The Mask Look Less Scary For Children

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#44 The Leaning Tower Of Cheesa...

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#45 Someone Was Selling Dead Beetles Dressed Up As Jurassic Park Characters On Etsy

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#46 Teach A Man To Fish... Then Tattoo His Leg

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#47 This Optical Illusion Haircut

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#48 The Sub Name Says It All

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#49 Batstache

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#50 More Airflow = More Fast

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#51 This Curry Phonecase

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#52 I Guess They’d Rather Mop Than Vacuum

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#53 Additional Hair

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#54 Special Effect Artist Creates Mask Of Himself

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#55 Three-Legged Table That My Boss Found And Put In My Office

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#56 Unsure If Comically Great Or Horrendously Absurd, But They're Mine Now

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#57 My Wife Saw This And Said It Would Fit Perfectly Here

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#58 Was Told To Post This Here

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#59 Since Yall Enjoyed My Flea Bag Here's More Work By The Same Artist

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#60 This Bathroom Covered In Carpet

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#61 I'm Curious As To How It Actually Tastes...

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#62 Gamehair

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#63 This Mural On The Side Of A Restaurant In Lithuania Depicting Donald Trump Kissing Vladimir Putin

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#64 The Taste Is Not That Awful, But It Fits Here

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#65 This Lamp In My Hotel Room

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#66 This Can Of Boxer Shorts I Found In My Local Gift Shop

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#67 Painting I Found In A Shop. Should Have Bought It

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#68 Low Rider Batmobile

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#69 When You’re A [crap] Body Mechanic But An Awesome Roofer

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#70 This Lenin Jesus And Mickey Statue

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#71 Oh No Nicholas, What Is You Doing??

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#72 Kylie Jenner’s Birthday Party For Stormi

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#73 This Is Just Awful

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#74 Holy Ppe

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#75 This Horrible Toilet-Seat...

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#76 This Is A Terrible Idea

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#77 The Pattern Gave Him A Booty, So We Gave Him A Thong

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#78 Cat Butthole Cookie Cutter. Might Taste Good Though

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#79 Ice Cold Drip

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#80 Earrings Made From Raccoon Penis Bones...

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#81 This Face Mask Makes Me Extremely Anxious

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#82 This Loooong Furby Someone At My Work Made. It Even Has A "Spine" In It So It Can Sit Up And Stare At You... Always Watching... Waiting...

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#83 The Technical Skill Is There...

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#84 It Wouldn't Be Complete Without It

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#85 Never Get Caught In A Rainstorm Unprepared

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#86 It's 2020, Why Not?

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#87 Strawberry Skull

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#88 A Skeleton Arm Tattoo With The Wrong Anatomy

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#89 Dr Phil’s Mansion

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#90 Remember That One Episode Of Winne The Pooh Where He Gets Stuck In A Hole And Rabbit Turns His Butt Into A Decoration? Well

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#91 For All Those Times You Wanna Wear A Clog But Your Outfit Goes Better With Sandals

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#92 So I Have These Two Doloreans...

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#93 This Hyperrealistic, 36-Inch Mcnugget Body Pillow From The Travis Scott X Mcdonald’s Collaboration. Costs USD90

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#94 Brick Car

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#95 This Car That’s Actually A Boat..?

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#96 Yikes

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#97 Razor Blade Advertisement

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#98 Nyet

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#99 "Get Away From Her You B****!"

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#100 Crocs Campsite Classic Clog, These Were Actually Made

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#101 A Lot To Unpack Here

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#102 I Wonder What This Would Look Like Without Maintenance

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#103 This Hair Design

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#104 This Is How Olivier Is Served In Fashionable Restaurants In The Capital Today

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#105 My Old Phone Disassembled And Framed

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#106 Just Finished Up A Few Custom Wooden Rings Using Dyed Maple Skateboard Veneer

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#107 How To Get Killed By Police 101

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#108 Doritos Crusted Mountain Dew Cheesecake With Mountain Dew Jello Topping

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#109 Was Told To Post My Tramp Stamp For Tuesday

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#110 New Kitchen Style

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#111 How To Spend Millions To Ruin The London Skyline

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#112 Most Depressing Pinata Ever

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#113 Sick Underglow

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#114 This Is Objectively The Best Tattoo

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#115 Mike Wazowski

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#116 Connection Neck Hair To The Beard

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#117 Doily Hubcaps

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#118 J E E E E P

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#119 But Why Though?

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#120 Does This Count?

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#121 Crocs With Socks Built Into Them

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#122 Cheese Crocs

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#123 What A Riggity Riggity Wreck Son!

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#124 Pretty Crappy Design For A Slide

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#125 Nice Paint Job On The Cabinets But Why Purple

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#126 These Shoes Make Me Sad

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#127 This Kraken Hairdo

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#128 This Impala On Craigslist With A "One Of A Kind Perpetual Paint Job"

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#129 Apparently I Have Awful Taste Cause I Would Love To Own This

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#130 In The Dictionary Next To “Wasted Talent”

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#131 The Hearsche

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#132 This Damn Cake!

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#133 I Feel Like This Belongs Here

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#134 Our Bus Stop

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#135 Condom Corsage

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#136 Got This In The Mail Today

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#137 Forget Roses...

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#138 Richard Nixon Fighting A Saber Tooth Tiger...

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#139 Too Permanent For My Taste

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#140 Surf Rock

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#141 Painting In The Art Commons Commemorating My College’s Bathroom

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#142 This Tattoo

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#143 This Tattoo Of Saweetie On A Fan's Chest

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#144 A Cat With A Headpiece Made From Its Own Shed Hair

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#145 Sometimes Awful Taste May Taste Great?

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#146 Advertisement For Imodium

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