POV: you’re boobs
It was the last decade of magic before the Chaos Lord drained all of it from the land.
Also, every video used a fisheye lense, it was the law of the land.
We were powerless to stop him. :(
Had I a First Born, I would trade them for those pants.
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.
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.
It’s weird but, without the sound track these gifs just look like a bunch of posers trying to look cool.
It’s all in the (fish)eye of the beholder.
Everybody is just trying to look cool. Everybody probably looks like a “poser” to someone else. And in a cruel twist of irony, the inventors and early adopters of some “cool” new thing, look derivative and boring years AFTER everyone else has done it. Kids don’t have a long memory for these kinds of things; they grew up in a world where it was already old news and boring, never having experienced a world without it. This shift in perception can happen sometimes even among people old enough to have been there at the beginning. So yeah, they are just a bunch of posers trying to look cool, but aren’t we all?
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but with the music it also looks that way to someone over twenty years old or so.
It was a remarkably stupid time, however even back then there were better music videos. E.g. stuff by Michel Gondry, Run Wrake, or Spike Jonze.
Late 90s in a nutshell, to be honest.
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:
waumph
waumphCould make home movies with one of those
Underappreciated comment.
Why not take the still with a fisheye?
that avril lavigne is taken with a fisheye lens
I think this is the biggest reason. But who am I? I know nothing.
Is this a copy/paste of when this meme was psoted a few weeks ago? This comment really looks familiar…
No. I typed it with my own thumbs, from my own mind.
I was confused about how you would type with only your thumbs on a PC keyboard. Then I remembered that there are phones too and that I type with my thumbs on them…
There’s also this kind of thing.
(I found a surprising number of unfamiliar kinds of input devices when searching for ‘thumb keyboard’ just now — some of which I wouldn’t mind trying like ten years ago.)
Is that a PC keyboard for people who learned to type on a phone?!
It’s more for sporadic use in games, with TVs and such, when having a full-size keyboard is inconvenient. Presumably it could also be used with a tablet, but more typically it’s a small on-desk keyboard, perhaps foldable.
I was thinking of buying something like this a bunch of years ago, when I was looking into sorta-ergonomic devices to diversify my time spent inputting stuff.
Some of these micro-keyboards have a touchpad, and on the ‘gamepad’ keyboard it’s apparently on the back.
Fair enough, then it’s on me for being too lazy to find what I thought I was referring to.
They were all proudly holding their new ϹƵɭǟɥվʭӀкɲNjǀлѕ, before it was erased from the timeline.
It was pioneered way before 2000
even though probably plagiarized
This is amazing.
yes, thanks for pointing that out. this little research made my morning. thanks everyone
Team Foucault all the way. Chomsky folded like a cheap chair. /s
Chomsky? Isn’t that the guy that has ties to an international pedo ring?
Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Epstein and the Politics of Betrayal by Chris Hedges
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.
Yeah they digital now
Underrated joke 🎖️
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.
This seems relevant: Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog.
I will be using that knowledge irresponsibly. Thankyou.
Coincidentally, women are pretty bad at straponning, because they lack the part of the dick that’s inside the gooch and thus provides support in the action.
We also all suddenly had phones in our pockets and those phones had cameras in them.
and those cameras had wafers in them
That’s when fingers began to fing
'They call 'em fingers, but I’ve never seen ‘em fing…’ -Otto
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.
I still remember Yeet Day fondly, the sandwiches afterwards were great
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!
I happen to have watched a pretty good film in which boobs were described as ‘very friendly and unpretentious’. Said boobs weren’t shown.
Same reason everyone started doing the stupid duck face shit in the 2010s then everyone started doing peace signs again.
The newest generation isn’t immune to stupid shit just like every other decade isn’t.
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.
Phone cameras weren’t a thing in the 90s or 00s
In the late mid to late 90’s they had cameras and video cameras on what we would now refer to as ‘Dumbphones’. I was born between the Summer of Love and the original Woodstock. Those were my 20’s and 30’s. They had cameras. Not great cameras. Not all of them but enough of them. BTW I worked in IT and studied WAP and online multimedia formats as part of my training.
And something else you are forgetting is the trend was on blog like sites before blogging was a thing. People didn’t expect high quality images because they took forever to download. Often people also used crappy pocket cams and videos from cheap video cameras. But most people think phones when you say selfies these days, but they often used digital snapshot cameras and then imported them to the PC and shunk them down to Internet size. However AIUI the movement were based on camera focused dumbphones.
You don’t want to believe it fine. No skin off my nose.
Yeah I absolutely know phone cameras actually existed, but also that no one at all posted phone camera pics online because the resolution was so poor. I was in my late teens and 20s during this time. Everyone had digital cameras and transferred pics to their computers to upload.
I think 2003 is when they started taking off.
Sure they existed around then, but go back and look at the photo quality. Phone cameras were a novelty in 2003, and anyone wanting to actually take a picture was still using a dedicated camera. No one was taking pictures like the ones we’re talking about here on their Nokia
One might even say it was virtually insane of them to do this.
The future is made of Virtual Insanity, so this checks out.
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.
is the guy at the 3rd image Limp Bizkit?
No, that’s Fred Durst. Limp Bizkt is the name of the doctor that created him.
ohh right
