just a funny thought about teens and cameras today

They call it "duck face" and it is now widely mocked as ridiculous, a la Jersey Shore LMAO!!

I have noticed it too- its very lookitme!

Young girls do what other young girls do.

I blame alternative music not being alternative anymore.

They call it "duck face" and it is now widely mocked as ridiculous, a la Jersey Shore LMAO!!

I have noticed it too- its very lookitme!

HAHAHAH DUCKFACE!

According to OKCupid's data analysis, the "myspace angle" is dumb looking but extremely effective in pulling in interested suitors:

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-4-big-myths-of-profile-pictures/

I was JUST about to say the same thing.

It's so funny you posted this, I was thinking the very same thing today. I've even seen older women do it. Seems a little silly to me, but oh well, it's just funny to see it so often.

I think most girls feel that angle makes them look prettier and maybe not so chubby and unsymmetrical in the face. Sticking your lips out accentuates the cheekbones and thins the cheek and jawline. Just my guess! I did those awkard angles when I was in high school.

The original term is "myspace picture" because that's how it all started! I think girls just figured out quickly that was the most flattering angle. I must admit, I do it sometimes too, haha.

when guys do it, it creeps me out.

Illusion of big eyes, prominent cheekbones, general slimness, heart shaped faces, and big lips. Too bad it doesn't work

I love that there's a name for it. Now people will stop. Mullets were all the rage until people started calling them mullets. Same with tramp stamps.

i cant stand this either!! and i especially hate when girls take pictures of themselves in the mirror with their cell phones.. but they point the phone at the mirror and then stare at themselves in the phone screen instead of smiling into the mirror at the camera! it doesnt make sense

I have done the angle, just not the silly pout haha.

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Ahhhh the dreaded duck face. Soooooo annoying and un attractive!


It is hilarious when someone takes a gazillion pictures of themselves from ONE angle (the aforementioned camera overhead pointing down from one side angle) We get it, that is your good side. *eyeroll*

I wonder if the girls that go looking for love on the internet and do this realize that eventually dudes are going to see the big nose, not so big eyes and whatever else they are trying to hide by the "good" angle? :huh:


~Edited to put good in quotations. The internet seriously needs a sarcasm font!

It's the easiest way to take a photo of yourself and with digital cameras which we didn't have as kids, you can take a dozen of these until you look like your best self.

As a child/teen those 24 photos on my $5 roll of film + $6 developing was precious so I only tried this self-shot attempt maybe 5 times in my entire adolescence and it was usually a pic of me and a bf who happens to now be my hubby so they were soooooo worth it

EDIT: Ok I just googled "duck-face" and wow, that is f-ked up! I just thought you were talking about the angle but the lip thing, weird.... I must continue to google, i mean research

I'm so out of it. :laugh: I thought it was called trout pout, and that they were trying to look like the Olsen twins.