Good news for people that ha🌺te sleeping: this Charizard is very real and it's probably looking for you right now.
The curs⛄ed image is actually a fan submissi🌟on to a recent design-your-own-Pokémon-card contest hosted by Creatures, the oft-forgotten company behind the Pokémon TCG.
The contest, which ran from December to March, is the 2nd Pokémon Ca🍸rd Game Illustration Grand Prix (or 2PCGIG for short...I guess) and the yet-unna🐬med winner will receive 300,000 yen ($2,800 USD) and their art will be turned into an official Pokémon card. We don't know who the winner is, but we definitely know who the loser is.
The story comes from , who explains that the artist @gomi_ku✅zu_tarou on Twitter has already been informed that his entry did not win. Shocking, I🐈 know.
All ⛎joking aside, @gomi_kuzu_tarou's Charizard is definitely unique and incredibly detailed, even if it does give us the heebie-jeebies. I was so transfixed by the all-consuming dark voids where Charizard's eyes should be that I almost didn't see the Charmander in the background looking like the creep of the week.
This being the 2ndꦍ Grand Prix, you may hav🐬e guessed gomi entered the first one, and you'd be right. Here's last year's Pikachu submission, which is about 150% less terrifying.
Just kidding, it's also pure nightmare fuel.