take a picture of the mirror, dumbass

You're used to seeing your mirror image. You aren't perfectly symmetrical, so your reflection looks slightly different than your image in a camera.

This mirrored/asymmetrical stuff is mostly wrong. It can definitely cause an "uncanny" vibe but doesn't explain why you're a 7/10 in the mirror and a 3/10 in a photo.

You look different in the mirror versus photos because of the different focal length, different depth of field, and different angle.

I look pretty good to my own eye in the mirror but look like an absolute blumpkin in photos. However, you can take a pretty good selfie that looks like what you see in the mirror by placing the camera about 4 feet away from you and at a slightly elevated angle.

Just take a picture of the mirror bro

A mirror is a lot easier to use than a camera

The part of yourself that's looking good is your vampire descent (everyone's 1/1000th vampire after all as vampires were landlords that fucked everything that moved back in the 13th century) and that's not visible on photo.

It's probably just an old low resolution mirror. Anon's ugliness is in the fine grain detail that the camera can better pick up

Lmaoa, I remember reading about this.

If I recall correctly, a picture shows how you appear to others whereas the mirror shows you a 'mirrored' image of yourself (e.g., your left side is the reflection's right side).

We are used to seeing our reflection, which then makes pictures of ourselves look strange.

I think selfie cameras intentionally take a mirrored image to avoid this effect. But I've never taken one because I hate looking at myself.

There's a similar phenomenon with hearing ourselves in recordings vs. as we speak.

Edit: as @ch00f@lemmy.world already explained!

The amount of people in the comments who don't immediately know this is because our faces are slightly asymmetrical and we're used to seeing them in the mirror is concerning.

Other people get the same effect when they see your face mirrored.

The solution is to talk to women in person while you're a 7 instead of over the internet where you're a 3

I love eating tofu and beef.

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