>>19169734>>19169801It's the result of feminized culture. No one used to walk around grinning like an idiot 100 years ago, and definitely not for pictures, and not JUST because people didn't want to "hold a smile" for as long as it took to get a picture taken. Mark Twain wrote that no one wanted to look like an idiot for all posterity with a big tard grin.
>>19169736>>19169762>>19169809>>19169820It's extremely gay and demoralizing. Imagine pushing things a bit further: imagine someone coming up to a video camera or just a microphone and saying
>GIMME A NICE BIG LAUGH, OK? NO, NOT LIKE THAT, A REALLY BIG LAUGH OK?Everyone would understand this to be creepy and that complying with such a demand would be to accept a 1984 tier fake society.
>>19169866Chimps smile to signal submissiveness. This comes through in humans too along with "nervous laughter".