One might even say it was virtually insane of them to do this.
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Well that big ass asteroid was coming in 2012 so we had to make sure and be ready to catch it. But since it's really big everybody had to work together to do so. Then we just yeeted that thing up like a volleyball and it went away. And that's why we're still alive today.
Everyone wasn't? But also, you ever heard of this thing called a "fad"? You best start believing in fads, you're in one.
Thanks Captain Barbossa
Look, it's the same every time a new gadget comes out and takes the world by storm only for it to become boring after a few years. If you weren't around in the late nineties it's hard to explain just how exciting fingers were.
We had to do our finging manually before that. It was hell.
And the there were only 4 fingers. Kids these days with their 6 or 7 fingers don't know what it was like
Remember trying to use an ATM with your dick? I know women used to complain about having to use strap-ons, but I actually think they might have had it better. Those Braille bumps hurt
STRAP ON spelled backwards is NO PARTS
You're welcome.
We also all suddenly had phones in our pockets and those phones had cameras in them.
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.
Hype Williams directed the music videos in the 90s-2000s with lots of contrast, bright colors, bright lights, and the fisheye lens.
If you look up some Busta Rhymes music videos you will see plenty of examples.
I jumped in slow motion / off the curb.
Without a skateboard / that should look absurd!
But with my fisheye lens / hey, haven't ya heard?
I got the moves so smooth / to make ya mom say:
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Why not take the still with a fisheye?
that avril lavigne is taken with a fisheye lens
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They had to prove they weren't ai
Now I'm wondering if there's some heavily inbred guy out there constantly being accused of using AI for their selfies.
There was that cat recently who holds the record for a crazy amount of toes. :3
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…
I broke so many cameras this way...
You joke but you can actually get some neat photos doing this, assuming you are competent enough to catch your camera. Especially with a fast auto shutter.
Clean hands are cool
Even Limp Bizkit’s “Significant Other” album art did it.
I loved the art for this album and styling on their name. Loved the album too as a kid, though most didn't age particularly well. Wes Borland is still awesome though.
To show they were not AI generated. At that time AI usually got the number of fingers wrong. 😉
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.
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!
It's just a trend, in the early nineties (maybe late eighties) every metal band with a new album had a black and white photo of the band, each member wearing sunglasses and a doofus smile.
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.
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Fisheye's became super popular because of skating is my uneducated guess
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Nu-Metal Pose, meant to be a way of "connecting with the audience"
Wait is it a numetal thing? That would explain me
Creating wood glue "keys" from photos wasn't a thing back then.
rawr irl
Jokes on them, I have all their fingerprints now
More like late 90's lol. Man I feel so old.
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