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Charlie_c67

#60
July 09, 2026, 12:36:24 PM
Quote from: kerick on July 09, 2026, 11:06:15 AMPeople who take selfies all the time are a total mystery to me. Are they that egotistical? People who have to take a picture of their plate of food at a restaurant and put it on the internet are also a complete puzzle to me. And I'm trying to be nice.

Then whinge that it's gone cold whilst they've tried to get the "perfect" picture.
"If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid."

kerick

#61
July 09, 2026, 08:34:53 PM
Quote from: Charlie_c67 on July 09, 2026, 12:36:24 PM
Quote from: kerick on July 09, 2026, 11:06:15 AMPeople who take selfies all the time are a total mystery to me. Are they that egotistical? People who have to take a picture of their plate of food at a restaurant and put it on the internet are also a complete puzzle to me. And I'm trying to be nice.

Then whinge that it's gone cold whilst they've tried to get the "perfect" picture.

Could this be a diorama subject for the accomplished figure painters out there? Trying to get the thread back on track.
" Somewhere, between half true, and completely crazy, is a rainbow of nice colours "
Tophe the Wise

Weaver

#62
July 10, 2026, 03:31:27 AM
Quote from: Charlie_c67 on July 07, 2026, 03:33:54 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on July 07, 2026, 01:50:13 AM
Quote from: Rick Lowe on July 06, 2026, 10:01:33 PMMuch like the search for the perfect 'Selfie', which causes people to step off cliffs...  :banghead:  :banghead:


Which reminds me, why DO people take 'selfies' with the phone (no-one ever uses a proper camera for one I've noticed....) held up at a silly angle to they're straining their necks looking up at the sky?

To hide their double/triple/multiple chins...

Essentially, yes. It's become an article of faith amongst vloggers and influencers that "up angles" are more flattering, so, monkey see, monkey do, the masses copy them. It's probably correct as well, although that doesn't support the common assumption that if up-is-good, then upper-is-better, of course.

Ricky Gervais does a fine line is taking the proverbial out of this trend by posting hilariously unflattering "down angle" selfies, with the camera on his belly and his chin tucked down as far as possible (sometimes in the bath), to make him look as close as humanly possible to a blobfish.

I actually saw somebody walking through Stockport the other day vlogging with a phone on a selfie stick! Haven't seen one of those in action since forever (that's "forever" in the modern sense, i.e. the last five years...). That little camera I bring to shows sometimes has a wide-angle lens as well as the regular one, specifically so that you don't have to use a selfie stick to get some background in around you and whoever you're talking to.
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

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 - Indiana Jones

Weaver

#63
July 10, 2026, 03:38:37 AM Last Edit: July 10, 2026, 04:38:37 AM by Weaver
Quote from: kerick on July 09, 2026, 11:06:15 AMPeople who take selfies all the time are a total mystery to me. Are they that egotistical? People who have to take a picture of their plate of food at a restaurant and put it on the internet are also a complete puzzle to me. And I'm trying to be nice.

It's more about validation and the gamification of social media. If you've got a bit of a following, then posting a pic of your nice meal will get a mindless, two-seconds-of-thought "like" from hundreds of people, each giving you a little dopamine hit, which a) validates your life choices and b) gets you a little bit more addicted to social media. If lots of people are approving of what you're doing, where you are, what you're wearing and what you're eating, then you must be doing life right, right?

No mystery that more women than men indulge in this behaviour, since women are more sensitive to social approval and acceptance (the multi-billion dollar fashion & beauty industries exist purely due to this simple observation...).
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

zenrat

#64
July 10, 2026, 04:15:06 AM
Quote from: Weaver on July 10, 2026, 03:38:37 AM
Quote from: kerick on July 09, 2026, 11:06:15 AMPeople who take selfies all the time are a total mystery to me. Are they that egotistical? People who have to take a picture of their plate of food at a restaurant and put it on the internet are also a complete puzzle to me. And I'm trying to be nice.

It's more about validation and the gamification of social media. If you've got a bit of a following, then posting a pic of your a nice meal will get a mindless, two-seconds-of-thought "like" from hundreds of people, each giving you a little dopamine hit, which a) validates your life choices and b) gets you a little bit more addicted to social media. If lots of people are approving of what you're doing, where you are, what you're wearing and what you're eating, then you must be doing life right, right?

No mystery that more women than men indulge in this behaviour, since women are more sensitive to social approval and acceptance (the multi-billion dollar fashion & beauty industries exist purely due to this simple observation...).

 :thumbsup:
Fred

- Can't be bothered to do the proper research and get it right.  Revelling in numptytism.

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed, badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry.

zenrat industries:  We're everywhere, for your convenience.

zenrat

#65
July 10, 2026, 04:15:28 AM
Did you see what I did there?   ;)
Fred

- Can't be bothered to do the proper research and get it right.  Revelling in numptytism.

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed, badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry.

zenrat industries:  We're everywhere, for your convenience.

kerick

#66
July 10, 2026, 04:41:21 AM
You gave weaver a "like".
 :thumbsup:
 ;D
" Somewhere, between half true, and completely crazy, is a rainbow of nice colours "
Tophe the Wise

Weaver

#67
July 10, 2026, 04:44:25 AM
Quote from: zenrat on July 10, 2026, 04:15:28 AMDid you see what I did there?  ;)


:thumbsup:
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

Rick Lowe

#68
Yesterday at 07:45:25 PM

Rick Lowe

#69
Yesterday at 07:47:37 PM
Quote from: Old Wombat on July 09, 2026, 09:55:36 AM
Quote from: Rick Lowe on July 08, 2026, 10:47:02 PMWRT the phone footage thing, do you notice it's always Portrait format, and they blur the edges on the TV?
Never Landscape, which would give more of the picture...  :rolleyes:

But that would take the focus off of the only thing they are interested in ... Themselves!  :rolleyes:

True; but I was more referring to any event (pointing away from themselves) they deem as 'newsworthy', to sell to the tv/online media...
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