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Maybe I am not at that MTV age anymore, not hip, nor in the know about all things cool and awesome, but what the hell is going on with the stroke face expression? I see it in everyone’s (girl’s) photos, mostly on myspace (my only passage to the hip world). Now I don’t want to make fun of specific people, or post their photos here without their permission, but I was lucky enough, a few months ago, to have Rosie Sullivan depict this phenomenon on a painting of me.

I had started noticing this last winter and freaked out about it then, but after a while I wrote it off as a passing fad. Then, today, browsing through a friend of a friend’s myspace photos I came upon it again! Why?! Why do they take pictures of themselves making pouty faces and pursing their lips to the side as if one side of their face has gone limp from a stoke? Oh, poor stroke faced girls. It’s an epidemic.

Has anyone else seen this ridiculousness?

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4 Responses to “the stroke face”

Kelsea Says:


Hahahahahahaha… what a good illustration. And soooo true! I don’t know what is more odd these days- the stroke face or white suburban teen girls flashing gang symbols in photos-Another epidemic. The stroke must affect their hands as well as their faces. Poor things.

June 5th, 2007 at 3:25 pm




Alina Says:


LOL U do a great portrait!

June 6th, 2007 at 7:47 pm




yanee Says:


watta face haha

July 5th, 2008 at 5:19 am




Anonymous Says:


what the hell

December 9th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

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