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Selfies Look Distorted After Staring Too Long

This meme features an uncanny, fuzzy light pink pig-like creature with googly wide blue eyes, a plastic button pig nose, and an unsettling human-like smiling mouth with visible teeth, sitting upright on a plain brown wooden surface facing directly at the viewer. White text with black outline overlaid on the lower part of the image reads "How my selfies start to look if I stare at them too long". The meme jokes about the common relatable experience where over-examining photos of your own face for an extended period makes your features appear distorted, strange, or uncanny, matching the off-putting appearance of the creature in the photo.
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How my selfies start to look if I stare at them too long

Overview

This meme features an uncanny, fuzzy light pink pig-like creature with googly wide blue eyes, a plastic button pig nose, and an unsettling human-like smiling mouth with visible teeth, sitting upright on a plain brown wooden surface facing directly at the viewer. White text with black outline overlaid on the lower part of the image reads "How my selfies start to look if I stare at them too long". The meme jokes about the common relatable experience where over-examining photos of your own face for an extended period makes your features appear distorted, strange, or uncanny, matching the off-putting appearance of the creature in the photo.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the X.com (formerly Twitter) account @meme.jpg. It uses the uncanny valley effect of the weird edited pig creature to illustrate a widely relatable experience with taking and reviewing personal selfies, and is a common format of relatable humor shared across social media platforms.

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