>>3341583Very much this. This is a severe case of trying to emulate the look of some semi famous instagram fuccboi while failing to realize that you just don't have the facial aesthetics to pull it off, while also being bad at posing for photos.
You just look goofy and it instantly becomes obvious that you practiced this look in the mirror, somehow convinced yourself that it looked "cool" or "gritty" or whatever, set up your phone against something, pulled the light to your face and looked into the camera thinking you were gonna look cool on the internet.
The point of a photograph is to say something without revealing the photographer and to convince the viewer that whatever they're seeing is just a moment frozen in time, not something that was set up for the sake of being photographed. Even studio portraits try to make it look like the model was in the middle of doing something. At no point do I feel like I'm looking at a photograph, I'm looking at a dumbass kid fucking around in his room. If I imagine being there when the photo was taken I don't see you expressing anything or going through anything, I see you holding a lamp to your head and making a goofy face at me for no reason.
