Sticking tongue out in photos.

It's playful childlike fun I'm told. We used to do daft things too. Just didn't have selfie phones then

It's awful, I can never see the point of it. The other one that is becoming more common is women pouting in photos -- just why??

I fully agree about this habit. I have 6 teenage granddaughters and am fed up with getting photos on my phone of them and their friends sticking their tongues out or pouting. They are all pretty girls, just smile. The celebrities do it, apparently.

Our local ‘trash nothing’ website had a request from a young couple, worded in a very cocky way, saying that they had just got a flat and needed ‘everything’.
My first thought was, “Are either of them working?” My second was that the picture they had added, both smirking and pulling tongues, would probably ensure that they would receive few, if any, donations.

Two typos in that - wee should of course be were, and " which were a come-on sign" should have been " which ARE a come-on sign"

Hellsbelles

If it's teenage / young adult people doing it , it has sexual connotations .
Likewise , the pumped up pouty lips. They apparently are to signify ,swollen aroused labia lips. Who knew !

Hellsbelles Even wearing lipstick is symbolic - prostitutes in ancient Rome used to redden their lips to indicate that they wee willing to give oral sex (which the better-class ones refused to do)

And, of course, reddened lips were/are also reminiscent of the swollen scarlet labia of female chimpanzees in oestrus, which were a come-on sign to the male chimps. Homo sapiens is not very far removed from the other great apes.

some of these are pretty obvious, but not something i want to think about.

It’s a mystery!

There's one that teenage boys do that I don't understand.pose wearing a top and say needed to change.

It's the same with young girls pouting and posing at camera at all angles. Still, if I was still 15 I would be doing it too

Good grief.

Hellsbelles

If it's teenage / young adult people doing it , it has sexual connotations .
Likewise , the pumped up pouty lips. They apparently are to signify ,swollen aroused labia lips. Who knew !

Oh, how yucky!

It's all over Facebook, isn't it? Truly annoying. I have seen photos of 70 year olds doing it, so I don't think it's a generational thing at all. The horned fingers or pointing at the top of someone's head is also annoying. I also hate it when someone being filmed suddenly does a big grin and points a finger at someone else out of shot, as if to say 'Oh, hi, you're here, too!' I've even seen Obama do that. Gosh, what a good rant I am having this afternoon.

I also hate the habit, mostly with young women, of opening their mouths as wide as possible in an exaggerated laugh.

It's ignorant when kids do it and when an adult does that - well how immature!

It’s tedious, annoying and pointless

I have never seen a photo where anyone was sticking their tongue out.

We were taught it was rude, although I never remember any grown-up telling us why it was rude.

Am I still missing a sexual connotation when I wonder why it is rude, or why cocking a snoot, also called flypeing your nose is rude?

If it's teenage / young adult people doing it , it has sexual connotations .
Likewise , the pumped up pouty lips. They apparently are to signify ,swollen aroused labia lips. Who knew !

I detest having my photo taken and if someone persists after I have asked them not too I pull faces, stick tongues out anything to ruin the photo, yes it’s childish but it’s damn rude to take a snap after been told no

I seem to see a lot of photos with wide open mouths too. Not flattering to view the tonsils in my opinion.
Sil takes a really nice photo, DD like me hates then so just scowls.

I really dislike it too. It’s silly and childish. What happened to the days when we all said “Cheese!” and smiled? That was much nicer

I dont associate it with that porn reference at all either

Porn reference? Good grief. I'm like you, Musicgirl

No porn. Just a silly habit that's been going on for years.

Not much to see here

welbeck

i think it has got indecent connotations that young children may not, probably not be aware of.
they see the big girls doing it, and think that's the thing to do, without understanding the porn reference.

I never knew that there was a porn reference until now. I must be very innocent. I always thought it was a rude, childish way of saying “so there.”

That, and duckface, and making horns behind the head of the person next to you...