We didn’t have selfie-cameras, so the only way to do a selfie was to throw your camera with a little spin on a short timer and hope it all looked great when one of your 24 photos were developed on bits of paper some time later…
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In the 90's and 00's there was a photographic movement to take photographs with more depth using more hand and arm movement to make more dynamic images. Some say it came from comic book artists and others say it started as everyone doing the double thumb and index finger as a ergatz frame gide of what you were about to film, but this time you were the subject.
Anyways it got popular so people with cheap cameras and phone cameras started propping them up and trying to do some of it and most of the time they didn't have enough time to get their hands right. So they started to take all these pictures of themselves with weird hands and people started doing it on purpose, and then photographers picked up on the trend.
So there is precisely one photograph of me on the internet and you just helped me prove to my wife that it's actually me because I'm doing that pose. WHO ELSE WOULD BE THAT RIDICULOUS.
Yesssss I've been trying to win this argument since like May now I get to pick brunch today
Bonus points for doing the pose during brunch.
Congrats on the win! Pick something good.
Jokes on them, I have all their fingerprints now
Fisheye's became super popular because of skating is my uneducated guess
Nu-Metal Pose, meant to be a way of "connecting with the audience"
Wait is it a numetal thing? That would explain me
Skate videos popularized the use of the fish eye lens. Music videos had people waving their hands around in the face of the camera because it looks cool through that lens. The idea was applied to still images, and this is the result.
The photographer had a huge pair of beasts and they just couldn't help themselves but give em a little squeeze during thebphotoshoot
Those beasts must have been friendly if they were willing to be squeezed.
That was part of her marketing schtick: Get a load of these photo bombs!
Casting spells, or maybe that was just me.
More like late 90's lol. Man I feel so old.
Fashion
Also the age of the super tall cameraman.
At the time I was thinking that "they look fucking dumb," and it's still applicable. That's the answer.
MDMA and DXM is my guess
MDMA and DXM
I love those bands.
I liked MDMA with their crossover with dimethylphenethylamine. Their crossover with diacetylmorphine kind of left me yawning yet strangely craving for more.
You're not exactly right but you're not far off in my case. I have one of those photos
It’s like if you move your face between your hands you cross into a different dimension. Drugs are so silly sometimes
Hey, this guy knows how to party
WEWEWEWEWEW
I guess that’s the sound of huffing duster, I can’t remember the weird thing that always happened on dxm cos it’s been a while but yeah, I have abused the shit out of my body. Much, much less now though cos I can’t physically handle come downs anymore.
Things rapidly get larger then smaller, back and forth. For me, my vision would also sometimes do this thing where I'd have both eyes open, but it would look like I was winking one, then the other, back and forth really fast.
I also liked how even a little dxm would enhance weed like crazy.
It got to where I couldn't keep any liquid dxm down at all and I hated polystirex so robitussin in the blue bottle was the only thing that worked for me. Eventually I got tired of swallowing entire bottles of big, dry pills so I retired from it permanently.