memes

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.

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…

Biggie did it before

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Jokes on them, I have all their fingerprints now

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.

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

Fisheye's became super popular because of skating is my uneducated guess

Casting spells, or maybe that was just me.

The photographer had a huge pair of beasts and they just couldn't help themselves but give em a little squeeze during thebphotoshoot

Nu-Metal Pose, meant to be a way of "connecting with the audience"

More like late 90's lol. Man I feel so old.

Fashion

Also the age of the super tall cameraman.

MDMA and DXM is my guess

At the time I was thinking that "they look fucking dumb," and it's still applicable. That's the answer.