Vice explicates the epidemic of posing which has "swelled into a grotesque titan of pouting, winking and the faux salute" thanks to Facebook.
The “from above” As Jonathan Swift taught us, everyone looks better from above. Fewer chins, less coke nostril, bigger eyes. And so it is that every single photo has a weirdly truncated arm going off the side of the frame as the poser holds their camera a good three feet above their upturned faces, like a chick waiting for their mother to vomit down their gullets.
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