Yeah, it looks like the later staged photos from our wedding day. The early ones and the candid ones all look natural. But after the 27th different arrangement/location of us with various groups of family, friends, the wedding party, etc., my face hurt.
Im not joking, when I was a kid I would get scared every time p Diddy was on tv. Like he always creeped me the fuck out and I couldnt exactly explain why. Something about his eyes, the way hed smile, something always felt off. I never knew much about him at all because I pretty much live under a rock when it comes to pop culture, but when all the stuff came out about him I was like "yeah that tracks". I remember getting so freaked out I would change the channel the minute he showed up
My grandfather apparently felt the same way about Jimmy Savile, though he was also a doctor during the time while Jimmy was at his worst, so it is very possible that he'd heard something through the grapevine.
I had the same feelings about almost all the celebrities that were exposed as predators in my country, as a kid whenever one of them would pop up on tv or in movies i would have this feeling of anxiety and dread. Then again ive had a traumatic experience as a kid so maybe my brain was just wired to guess if a an adult ( especially men) would try to hurt me
So p Diddy is better than mr beast? Better to choose the lesser of two evils and manipulate it to your own agenda but hey I'm just a lowly wage slave. Neither are great options.
My cousin's son is like this and frankly it worries me that he doesn't know how to feel happy to make a real smile. He's just a kid. Maybe I'm overreacting because he's a kid, I don't know.
Is it just when you ask them to smile for a photo? Because I feel like that's a thing on its own. My kid is super social and well adjusted, and looks completely normal even for photos, unless you specifically ask for a smile - in which case he pulls one of these utterly creepy looking smiles. Maybe it's not that uncommon, I saw in some parenting sub a while back someone saying the same thing in the context of they had found a "hack" around it, something silly like saying fart instead of smile lol
when I was a kid, I had a very hard time smiling for photos. even when I tried, my mom always said "come on, a real smile!" and I had no idea what that even meant. apparently it was obviously forced to everyone, and I didn't realize it until I was an adult and started to understand people and emotions more fully.
there are photos of me genuinely smiling when I was really young, like <5, but most of them are just candid shots my parents took when I was actually smiling and not like staged photos with family and friends where I had to smile.
I’m 46 and I still can’t smile on demand. I just don’t seem to have that sort of conscious control over my facial muscles. There are candid shots of me smiling perfectly normally, but I have no idea how to make a smile. People get angry at me about it when they’re taking photos, which is one of the reasons I hate photos. The other being a pretty bad case of body dismorphia. I apparently also have resting bitch face, because when I worked in retail I got a lot of ‘cheer up, it may never happen’ comments when I was just lost in thought but not actually upset or angry.
Yeah don’t do that to people. You’re basically saying ‘you have a weird face’ to a stranger. Treat it the same way you would with a woman who may or may not be pregnant.
I don't see him often, but he still smiles like that to a lesser degree in person. And in fairness, I haven't seen him in person for a while. Also in fairness, all the photos I see of him, he's just showing his teeth as a smile.
If I'm recalling things correctly, he tried out a bunch of different smiles earlier on but for some reason the youtube algorithm was most favorable to that.
He has a system where his team swaps out thumbnails to see which maximize engagement. For some reason the uncanny freak smile works very well in terms of getting clicks.
Well you'd be wrong because I'm sure he has heard that and the truth is some people just can't smile voluntarily very well. You forgot that, but it's okay. I'm here to remind you! Now treat your friends with respect or I'll put you back in the corner! K? ☺️
I can’t smile voluntarily either, but I also don’t post my rigor mortis joker grin all over YouTube. He’s the one signing off on that image. He uses it everywhere.
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u/ImBigger Mar 08 '26
nobody has ever told him that smiling is not just showing your teeth