Beauty might be a 511 billion-dollar industry, but there’s no putting a price tag on goofing off in front of the camera. The internet can’t be all about professional photoshoots, top-tier model pics, and carefully edited images—it needs to be about fun and humor, too! That’s exactly what the members of the r/PrettyGirlsUglyFaces subreddit understand. The online community, founded way back in 2012, has nearly 90k members who know that the incredible photos you see while scrolling through social media are well-curated and represent an edited version of reality. The fact is that the beautiful women you see featured online can make you laugh with their incredibly funny expressions in a heartbeat if they choose to look derpy and use an unflattering camera angle. And they’re competing to see who can make the ‘ugliest’ faces.
In an in-depth interview with the founder of r/PrettyGirlsUglyFaces, redditor Sinkingfast, Bored Panda learned all about the friendly and diligent community, how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the entirely communit-driven subreddit, as well as why we tend to focus so much on appearances in the modern world.
“The community itself has stayed consistent and loyal. We get a lot of users who see positive reception to their posts and come back as repeat posters. Creating a safe and fun environment to post weird pics in judgment-free was always the goal and I’d like to think we’ve maintained it, especially with the help of our loyal user base. Our community is great. I want people to be comfortable enough to share and have fun. The subreddit really belongs to the users and wouldn’t exist without them.” Read on for their other insights, as well as for our follow-up interview about beauty with historian Dr. Jane Nicholas from St. Jerome’s University at the University of Waterloo.
As you scroll down, upvote the photos that got a smile and a giggle from you. When you’re done, check out Bored Panda’s previous articles about the subreddit here, here, and here. And a small heads-up before you ask: there’s a male version of the subreddit called r/HandsomeGuysUglyFaces right here.
#1 Muppet Vibes
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#2 Never Even Imagined My Chin Could Recede Like This
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#3 Shaved My Head So I Could Go Full Thumb
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#4 My Monday, Wednesday, And Friday Face
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#5 Get You A Girl Who Can Do Both
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#6 I Love You
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#7 It’s A Skill
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#8 Ya Ever Wanted To Get Down N’ Dirty With Winston Churchill
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#9 In Light Of All The Recent Coronavirus Hysteria, I Thought Now Would Be An Excellent Time To Share My Sneeze Collage
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#10 My Boyfriend Says This Is The Only Face Of Mine That Truly Scares Him
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#11 Good Morning From Sweden
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#12 Slayer In The Streets, Slug In The Sheets
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#13 Trying To Take A Cute Selfie vs. Accidentally Opening The Front Camera
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#14 Me And My Redneck Brother
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#15 Taken The Same Day. I’ve Found My People!
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#16 They Say Beauty Knows No Pain. Apparently Ugly Does Because I Gave Myself A Serious Headache Taking The Second Pic
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#17 Me On Instagram vs. Me Scrolling Reddit In Bed
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#18 Having A Flat Face Has Its Perks
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#19 I Was Unaware Until Now That I Could Retract Into Myself. Nice Seeing You
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#20 What I Look Like With A Full Face Of Make Up, Wig And Lashes vs. What I Send My Sister. Enjoy
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#21 I’ll Just Leave This Here
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#22 What I Post On My Story vs. My Private Story
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#23 I Was Born For Social Distancing
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#24 A Fine Selection
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#25 When You Tickle My Neck
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#26 Present, Faces My Boyfriend Hates
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#27 Taken A Few Minutes Apart
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#28 At Work vs. Relaxing At Home With Pets. He Peed On Me When I Took This Picture
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#29 Always Surprised When I Look Back On This Halloween Pic…
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#30 I Feel At Home In This Sub
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#31 Me Thinkin Bout The Global Pandemic V. Me Thinkin Bout My Dystopian Alter Ego
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#32 Do I Win?
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#33 The Thumb Strikes Again…
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#34 Howdy Doody
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#35 The Duality Of (Wo)man
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#36 Can’t Believe I’m Putting This On The Internet, But Here Ya Go
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#37 I’ve Peaked
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#38 Master Of Disguise
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#39 Left Is The Way I Usually Roll
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#40 New Phone Who Dis?
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