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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Maddy Mussen

Mewing: why London schoolboys as young as nine are obsessed with this incel facial expression

Teachers in London are reporting a new sort of epidemic infiltrating their classrooms. It only affects boys, it tends to occur in years five, six, and seven, and it is extremely, mind-numbingly annoying. It’s called mewing — the process by which a person places their tongue on the roof of their mouth in an effort to secure a sharper jawline, named after its orthodontist creator, Dr John Mew.

If it sounds familiar, that’s because it was adopted by incels as one of their pro-masculinity techniques a few years ago. Now, it’s made its way to young boys.

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