Gettyimages.com Is the Best Website on the Internet Right Now

Every four years, we all get a reminder of why photography is an extremely important art that must be protected at any cost: the high-effort Olympic figure skater face, which can always be enjoyed by clicking through to the Getty Images site.

You, the person reading this, are an idiot who can’t do what these athletes are doing or even imagine how they use their weak, breakable human bodies to do it. Equally unimaginable is the idea of ​​doing this in front of an audience, a table of judges, and an army of photographers, chronicling your beauty or clumsiness, success or failure, and everything beautiful or – as the case may be – disgusting about your face and body, all while engaged in this famously competitive sport.

But look at them ahahahaha! They go “Yerg!!” Like “Hunnhhh!” Hahahahaha.

And look, in America we were all shocked by Ilya Malinin’s dramatically poor performance, and there’s nothing to laugh about. Luckily, thanks to the quick reflexes and finely honed professional instincts of international sports photographers, there’s no shortage of comedy coming from these Winter Olympics. Just when you think you’ve seen the last funny movie, there are hundreds more, often hilarious and surprising, coming along at the same time.

Of course, it costs money to access Getty Photos without watermarks, but the site itself gives the casual Internet user seamless access to its essentially scroll-able watermarked library. Searching “figure skating” (I personally use quotation marks for searching), clicking on “Editorial” and sorting by “Latest” rather than “Best Match” gets you an unfiltered feed of photos for sale to media organizations.

You may have to click through a few results pages of unrelated speed skating photos (ugh!), but you’ll know when you’ve hit a vein of good stuff, and that’s when the fun begins. This is what the Internet used to be, remember?

If Getty Images loved money it could probably pay for access to figure skating photos, but fortunately it hasn’t, which means you get to enjoy the fruits of the men’s singles events that have already taken place, and see photos of the pairs competition today and all of the women’s events this coming week, for free.

And if you see a sports photographer today, don’t forget to thank them for their service.