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ID: Sammy Nickalls @sammynickalls tweets:

ladies: the day after Halloween, don't forget to buy all the discounted blood capsules to keep in your mouth when men tell you to smile

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[โ€“] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I'm a dude, I've definitely been told to smile before in public by total strangers.

What does this mean. Internet tell me what to feel.

[โ€“] ThatKomputerKat@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

It means they have main character syndrome.

[โ€“] lurch@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

It has different meanings.

  • Some people assume you don't mind and are just interested in how you would look smiling.

  • Some people think you're sad and by forcing a smile it would lighten your mood.

  • Others think it looks better and everyone should smile all the time to highten the overall mood.

  • Some think smiling helps people being successful and they are not entirely wrong. It can influence people you're dealing with.

... but of course they are giving it very little though how that fits with your current situation and maybe they can't even know it. So yeah, it's kinda creepy, lacking self-awareness and may be annoying, but at least most of them don't mean any harm.

[โ€“] Darohan@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

It means they're trying to take a nice photo and you're spoiling the mood /s