Mushroom Kingdom weirdness

I’m pretty curious, naturally, and I have some friends who (like myself) enjoy inflicting psychic distress on each other to generate a few laughs and demonstrate affection. So I’ve had a lot of links sent my way that are very disturbing: Rotten.com fare, videos of bones breaking, distressing Japanese porn, pictures from auto accidents, etc. I always click, even knowing I’m going to hate myself utterly the next moment.  And yet the image I will post below is still the most disturbing one I’ve seen on the Internet, I think– despite the absence of any blood and guts, broken bones, bizarre sex acts, scatalogical images, or the like. I couldn’t even say that this is really NSFW, although, you know, proceed with caution.