Number23 said:

It's too late for too much irony at these hours in Finland (I have no idea were you at all serious or not, but for a more serious answer: I think it just has more to do with being able to see the picture yourself with digital cameras and also the mirror somewhat blurring the image providing a more natural "softening" effect than what you can achieve with Photoshop). I'll just post these though and go to sleep:

These are basically the two prevailing standards:

The over-contrasted, "I'm hot as fuck" -thing:



... and the blurry stuff, preferably with the hair across the face:

I laugh when I see the 15 year old girls posting pictures like this, and say, "I just got out of the shower, teeheehee!" ... but they have on a full face of MAKEUP? And they always have to have it at a stupid angle.

Over-exposure, careless overuse of effects, slutty show of skin, weird angles, bit emo... old pics, best I could do

Fauxie said:

How could you be emo with short hair?

zaza said:

Because in the first one I'm hanging my head with my eyes closed, grasping at the bars over a window in a cheap Penang hotel room. I think that's pretty emo when you consider how staged it is, with my right arm off camera holding it in position as I strike the 'spontaneous', pseudo-deep countenance.

zaza said:

Because in the first one I'm hanging my head with my eyes closed, grasping at the bars over a window in a cheap Penang hotel room. I think that's pretty emo when you consider how staged it is, with my right arm off camera holding it in position as I strike the 'spontaneous', pseudo-deep countenance.

Fauxie said:

I thought you were looking at your peen.

I want to be censored too.