I am so unbelievably sick of looking at photos where people refuse to smile…All of a sudden everybody thinks they’re James Dean and are too cool to smile when they pose for pictures…These people give the camara their best tough guy face but instead of intimidating me, they make me want to punch them…Whatever happened to “Smile and say cheeeeeeese?”
Now everyone has to pout or frown or look angry “Grrrr, I hate life and I hate getting my picture taken, but not enough to stop posing or move out of eye-shot of said camara, but I’m still bad-ass and everyone needs to know that….Where’s my cigarette and Bud heavy? Grrrr”
I completely understand if the picture was taken without Debbie or Dennis Downer knowing, or if he legit didn’t want to take a picture at the moment…But most people who don’t smile in one picture follow a pissy-pants pattern and don’t smile for any picture…It’s too much of a waste of time for this generation, what with tweets and facebook statuses to update and god knows how many texts they have to send…It’s a wonder they were available for the picture as it is…Or that they even found time to hang out without their ipod/laptop/playstation accompanying them.
This has always bothered me, but it came to a head when I saw the cover of a recent (possibly current) Rolling Stone magazine…It had all three Jonas Brothers on there and they all had a face that mixed teen anger with pouty sadness yet also a hint of a bad-ass snarl…I’m not buying for one second that any of the JoBros are bad-ass tough guys…I mean, as tweens go, I think Miley Cyrus could kick their asses collectively…And I assume they have nothing to be sad about because they are millionaires who can get more pie than I’ll ever be able to fathom, all before they can even drink alcohol…I know it was just for the shoot, but it still gets under my skin.
And it’s not just celebrities…Go to any friend on facebook or myspace or whatever and look at their pics…Chances are they have atleast one photo where some douche is refusing to smile…Actually, I bet there’s a few…It’s fun when you find someone who has like a hundred pics where he’s acting like a tough guy, you can make the same comment on all of them…I use “Having another bad day there fella? What’s the matter, life gotcha down, kiddo? Keep your head up, brighter days are right around the corner”
And why are these people so sad or pissed? What has life done to them to make smiling a chore? I mean, I pretty much hate everything if I can’t eat it, drink it or have sex with it but I smile in every picture I take…Hell, in most pics I’m grinning like a mental patient whose meds just kicked in…That’s the point of pictures correct? To keep a photo memory of something that was fun or made you happy…Not to have these tools pouting and trying to look tough while you’re memorializing your good times…Sure they’ll be holding their beer up high enough for the camara to see or holding their chain out or pointing at their watch, or the best, throwing up signs with their hands, but if you expect these spoiled brats to smile, well then, you got another thing coming.
Thanks,
The Angry Fat Guy
