It’s been a while since one specific pose dominated the internet. Unlike fashion trends, which currently have a life cycle shorter than a mayfly, facial poses actually tend to stick around for a while.
If passing through a moratorium of selfie poses circa 2000 onwards, you would see ‘Here lies Duckface, 2007 to 2013,’ followed by ‘RIP Peace Fingers, 2013 to 2020’ and that would be about it. There are obviously fleeting phases which don’t quite permeate the trend cycle — boys posing with their thumb and forefinger in a V shape around the chin area really posed a threat in 2009 — but they need some proper staying power to last multiple years. And since peace fingers moved from sincere to ironic around 2019, we’ve all been at a bit of a loss when it comes to selfie poses.
