A marketplace for the absurd, specific & creative
Post a request. Set a price. Pick someone strange enough to do it. Money sits in escrow until the work lands. You get the thing. They get paid. We take 20% — the price of not making this happen on Craigslist.
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Personalized clips, weird cameos.
Make the call. In character.
Drawings, posters, oil paintings.
Show up. Do the thing. Photograph it.
Endurance with a documentation clause.
Dance. Mime. Sing in a Costco.
No props, no permission needed beyond being a normal shopper. Three full minutes of committed mime — pouring, crunching, savoring imaginary cereal. Two camera angles if you can swing it. We want awkward, never aggressive. Deliver as MP4. Bonus if a stranger joins.
I make hats and this is my whole brand launch. The model is "Geoffrey", a very chill park pigeon I work with, and I'll supply the custom hat. Outdoor, golden hour, full Vogue-cover energy, retouched. I need 25 hi-res JPGs, three edited for billboard print, plus a signed model release (for Geoffrey, obviously). It's a real campaign budget.
I want callers to feel like they reached a newsreel. "You've reached the residence of…" energy, clipped transatlantic accent, about 25 seconds. Crackle and EQ welcome but optional. Deliver a clean MP3 plus one alternate take.
Her name is Constance, she's a Monstera in a green pot, and she's had a tough year (spider mites). Hand-write a warm, genuine birthday card to her — no winking at the camera, fully committed. Mail it to me in a real envelope. Photograph it before sending.
Single page, geolocates me, hits a free weather API, and tells me the forecast like a disappointed older sibling. Five or six escalating insults for rain, a smug line for sun. Mobile-friendly. Deliver the source and a deployable build. Keep the rudeness PG-13.
Not a guidebook answer — ask three actual locals, then go. Visit the place, get a coaster (ask nicely), photograph yourself there with date proof. Mail me the coaster plus a one-page write-up of how you found it and who you talked to.
Twenty. Each one different — different room, expression, or angle — every single one with glasses clearly on your face. Number them 1 through 20 in the filenames. Deliver as 20 JPGs. If you send me 21 I will count them and we will have a problem.
He insists Starlink "isn't real". Call him, sound deeply official, and ask whether "the dish has been calibrated for southern-hemisphere drift". Do not break character. He's a good sport, it's a running joke. Record the call if you can and send the MP3.
Use "lean into", "at scale", and "I grabbed a coffee with a leader I admire". Exactly one humblebrag. Six short paragraphs, a fake lesson learned, hashtags at the end. Deliver as a text doc. Post it from your own account for a bonus $40 — your call.
His name is Tobias, he is fat and judgmental, and he deserves the full regalia — mitre, robes, smug little blessing hand. I'll send three reference photos. I want a real painting, photographed clearly, A4 size, mailed to me and signed on the back.
The phrase is "I told you so" — split it, one word per palm, in marker. Draw a real mustache (eyeliner, sharpie, whatever washes off). Hold a 15-second piece to camera revealing the mustache then the hands. Vertical MP4, good lighting.
You arrive in a dapper costume (think old-Hollywood usher), present a single rose, read a short line I'll provide, then reveal a banner. Two minutes, choreographed, sincere not silly. It's the centerpiece of a surprise. I'll brief you fully. Film it for me too.
Visit at least four cafés in person around midday. I want the room where the sunlight is genuinely glorious. Send a short ranked write-up, a photo of the light in each, and pin the single best table on a map. Bonus for good oat-milk coffee while you're there.
Twelve flavors of weird
A short word from us
Most marketplaces want you to be normal.Pick a logo tier. Pick a video length. Pick from a dropdown. We don't. Weird Requests is the only place on the internet where the buyer writes the request and the request is allowed to be ridiculous.
We hold money in escrow so nobody runs off. We read every post because the line between “funny” and “please don't” is thinner than people think. Then we get out of the way and let the weirdos cook.
If you have a strange and specific idea — somebody on this site is already qualified to do it.
Hall of Fame
The Billy bookcase, full Elizabethan commitment — pentameter, "forsooth", costume preferred. Treat each assembly step as a plot beat building to a tragic final shelf. Single-take MP4, 10–15 minutes, decent audio. A re-take is fine if you fluff your lines.
Her name is Constance, she lives in a green pot, and she's had a rough year with spider mites. Pick any voice — operatic, lounge, punk, whatever. 30–60 seconds, vertical MP4. I'll send three reference photos so you can serenade the right leaves.
White background, one word centered, page-load picks a random language weighted by speaker count, 200+ in the pool. Smooth fade between loads. Vanilla JS, no frameworks. Delivered the source plus a build I dropped on my own domain. Mesmerizing.
Six months of ignored boiler repairs. Humorless, plausible code numbers, a "tenant safety filing" mentioned — nothing false about ownership, just pure official menace. The boiler was scheduled within the hour. Recorded the call. Chef's kiss.
I have a spare key and his blessing (after the fact). He's out 9–6 weekdays. I mailed 50 assorted ducks. Hidden cleverly — cereal boxes, behind the TV, inside shoes, the freezer. Each placement photographed. He had no idea I was behind it. Glorious.
If any of this sounds like you
You make videos. You want odd requests that no Cameo customer would ever send. Welcome.
Improv actors, sound-effect collectors, retired customer service agents — there is paid work here for your specific gift.
Iambic-pentameter Tinder bios. Apology letters from dogs. Eulogies for houseplants. People will pay.
No one gets hurt, no one gets framed, no one gets evicted. We moderate. Then it gets fun.
Pick something up. Drop something off. Wait in a line. You already do this. Now there is a fee.
Stage a fake breakup. Become a docent at Whole Foods. Convince a stranger they have something on their face for thirty minutes.
Not the same as the other ones
| Feature | Weird Requests | Fiverr | Cameo | Craigslist |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| You can request something genuinely strange | ||||
| Money sits in escrow until you accept | ||||
| Pay in crypto if you want | ||||
| Public deliveries (opt-in, both sides) | kind of | |||
| Moderation that reads every post | eventually | 😬 | ||
| Fulfiller can counter-propose your price | ||||
| You can post it from a chat agent (MCP) | ||||
| No talent agent in the middle |
Four steps
Title, description, a price. Goes through moderation first — we squint at it suspiciously, then ship it within 24 hours.
Each applicant pitches why they're the right weirdo and can counter-propose the price. The poster sees them side-by-side.
Money hits escrow. The fulfiller gets to work. Chat with the poster anytime — keep it on-platform or it's a strike.
Fulfiller submits. Admin gives it a once-over. Poster accepts (or asks for one revision, or disputes). Money releases on acceptance.
Things people said, paraphrased lightly
I asked someone to draw my divorce as a Renaissance triptych and they did. It hangs in my hallway. My ex has seen it.
I got paid four thousand dollars to wake a stranger up for a week. I am that stranger's favorite person now.
There is no other site where the request was "be a Roomba" and the budget was real money.
I expected this to be a joke site. It isn't. The money cleared. The Yelp reviews rhyme.
My friend Tim still thinks his jury duty notice was real. I will not be correcting him.
Eleven Trader Joe's in a day. Ranked. Documented. Got paid. Cried briefly at the eighth one.
Things people ask
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