goddamn smirky eyebrow-raised badass poochie cartoons nowadays

frog you're a fox

great revive

well thanks but imagine if my nose were smaller. it would be game over for all of you

xp
sounds like someone needs an eyebrow raise and a little light smirkening around the mouth

The article rob posted above was interesting. People are not just trying to look “hotter” — younger, slimmer, smoother — they are turning themselves into human cartoons with cartoon facial expressions and sound effects. The ideal is not even realistic for anyone — not even the most conventional looking person around — it isn’t meant to be on our plane of reality. This is about virtual representations of the self supplanting the real self, probably causing weird kinds of dysmorphia.

Not even dysmorphia. A more general or fundamental alienation from the body. I think this is why it seems so dystopian.

I guess digital foot-binding and skull shaping is preferable to IRL foot-binding

Yeah that is true. But people are getting real-life surgery to approximate anime body proportions.

https://www.statesman.com/storyimage/TX/20161012/NEWS/310112497/EP/1/3/EP-310112497.jpg

this is the terrifying sequel to 28 days later I really needed

Alex Jones is not yet 50

14 years on...

https://images.mymovies.net/images/film/cin/350x522/fid21007.jpg

maximum Poochie

The original Legion of Super-Pets is v much not a smirky eyebrow-raised badass Poochie comic strip

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Legion_of_Super-Pets_%28Earth-One%29

https://i.imgur.com/R4JmXDx.jpg

Excellent.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNWEyYzc2YjItYzY4Ni00ZTY2LWJjYTItMjJiYTE1MWNkZTU4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyODUwMzI1NTI@._V1_.jpg

http://www.impawards.com/2023/posters/ruby_gillman_teenage_kraken_ver6_xlg.jpg

Dreamworks, it is time for you to learn to draw faces

There is a large slice of society for which smirk=WINNER and a smaller slice to whom smirk=sociopath, we must choose a side

Well going by the trailer for that movie, the filmmakers are in the latter slice since she’s the baddie lol

del Toro just a few days ago:

The 58-year-old filmmaker spent a good portion of his Annecy master class deriding what he sees as destructive tendencies in much commercial animation where characters and emotions are “codified into a sort of teenage rom-com, almost emoji-style behavior. (If) I see a character raising his fucking eyebrow, or crossing his arms, having a sassy pose — oh, I hate that shit. (Why) does everything act as if they’re in a sitcom? I think it's emotional pornography. All the families are happy and sassy and quick, everyone has a one-liner. Well, my dad was boring. I was boring. Everybody in my family was boring. We had no one-liners. We’re all fucked up. That’s what I want to see animated. I would love to see real life in animation. I actually think it’s urgent. think it’s urgent to see real life in animation.”

Guillermo del Toro, welcome to the resistance

"Well, that just happened."

already noted upthread but

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/lego/images/6/6e/LEGO-Smiley-001.png/revision/latest?cb=20131127180524

to

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ca/9b/fa/ca9bfa14ff7384c85dde033ab28290ca.jpg

http://https%3A//media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/230504113629-01-what-are-zillennials-olarte-wellness.jpg%3Fc%3D16x9%26q%3Dh_540%2Cw_960%2Cc_fill/f_webp

from: "Zillennials: The newest micro-generation has a name" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/10/health/what-are-zillennials-wellness/index.html

Apparently this is the smirking generation. No generation has suffered more. "“They attended college during the pandemic, and missed out on important social markers.” So they must smirk.

goddamit

well just click the link to get your dose of smirk

http://https%3A//media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/230504113629-01-what-are-zillennials-olarte-wellness.jpg

i give up.

https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/230504113629-01-what-are-zillennials-olarte-wellness.jpg

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNzk4ODdiOTEtMTk3YS00MzZmLTgyOWMtYzc1NjgxYWE2MmMyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUzMTg2ODkz._V1_.jpg

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/garfield/images/2/22/Garfield1980.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width/360?cb=20231128184048

Garfield was kind of a pioneer when it comes to smirky cartoon characters