Skip to main content
  1. Home
  2. Social Media
  3. News

Give your duck face a rest with these equally horrible new selfie trends

By

give your duck face a rest with these equally annoying facial expressions selfie
Image used with permission by copyright holder
Selfies – as you all know – is like, an acceptable online artform now, and you know that it’s a legitimate trend when there’s a movement against it. Just face it – if you spend enough time on any social network, you will eventually run into a photo or two (or 10) of faces taken by their owners, and while some of them are actually pretty creative and cool, most of them are, well, horrible and inappropriate.

You’re all probably acquainted with the duck face, a photography pose that’s supposedly designed to make your pursed lips sexy and your eyes sultry.

duck face selfie
Image used with permission by copyright holder

Operative word: Supposedly. The Internet really needs to retire this MySpace-bred fad ASAP, but it seems like it’s still in full rotation among the selfie crowds – it’s even undergone slight modifications, in the form of these facial expressions.

Recommended Videos

1. Sparrow face

This Japan-born phenomenon has been gaining online traction as “the new duck lips” – to achieve the look, you’re supposed to “open your eyes as wide as possible, and then you make your mouth like a chirping sparrow.”

Please enable Javascript to view this content
Related

By the looks of it, sparrow face is a subtler version of the duck face. And if you check out Statigram, you’ll see Instagram is already totally nailing it.

2. Frog face

What is it about people naming faces after animals? Anyway, here’s what frog face is supposed to look like:

frog face
Image used with permission by copyright holder

I don’t know about you, but it sure does remind me of someone.

https://twitter.com/MileyCyrus/status/361552663097257986

I think it’s safe to AKA this expression as the “Miley Cyrus face”, which is obviously a more legitimate trend seeing as there are tons of celebrities sticking their tongues out, Miley-style.

3. Sexdolling face

Hey guys and gals. Duck face is sooooo 2000 and late! Sexdolling is the way to go! pic.twitter.com/v8CJMJfk

— Monkey D Kevin (@KevinToTheCruz) January 22, 2013

Words fail me for this one, guys. It’s just so wrong on so many levels. But alas, it seems to be a thing.

4. Horse face

The third animal-associated expression in our list – this one, we like.

horseface 2
Image used with permission by copyright holder
horseface 3
Image used with permission by copyright holder
horseface
Image used with permission by copyright holder

If you really have to try one of these out, let it be this one.

5. Fishlips

Remember that duck face move that requires you to suck in a little bit of your cheek? Well, this one expects you to completely suck it in, like you would like to swallow your face until it disappears.

fishlips
Image used with permission by copyright holder

The only time it may be cute is if you do it alongside an adorable kid.

6. Trout face

This is what an actual trout looks like.

trout face 1
trout face

This is what it looks like when a human tries to trout it up.

trout face 2

7. Snapchat face

Here’s one my editor and I had to have a conversation about:

Me: Is there an official name for that [facial expression] where you push your chin into your neck?

snapchat face 1
Image used with permission by copyright holder

Molly: Hahaha just ‘pretty girls making ugly faces.’

Molly: Snapchat face maybe.

So that’s what we’re calling it here! The popular Reddit thread has so many facial variants available, but we’d like to focus on one that basically makes your neck non-existent.

snapchat face 2 snapchat face 3

pretty girl ugly face meme fan

And really, you don’t have to be a pretty girl to do it, too! It’s comedian Ricky Gervais’ favorite selfie expression ever.

8. Invisible teacup face

This is what we’re calling it because we have no freaking idea what the deal is with this picture:

invisible teacup
Image used with permission by copyright holder

While it’s pegged as another variant of the duck face, it’s more like a modified “let’s all bend our knees in this group photo for no reason!”

not being able to stand up straight
Image used with permission by copyright holder

Editors’ Recommendations

Topics
Jam Kotenko
Jam Kotenko
Former Digital Trends Contributor
When she's not busy watching movies and TV shows or traveling to new places, Jam is probably on Facebook. Or Twitter. Or…
I paid Meta to ‘verify’ me — here’s what actually happened
An Instagram profile on an iPhone.

In the fall of 2023 I decided to do a little experiment in the height of the “blue check” hysteria. Twitter had shifted from verifying accounts based (more or less) on merit or importance and instead would let users pay for a blue checkmark. That obviously went (and still goes) badly. Meanwhile, Meta opened its own verification service earlier in the year, called Meta Verified.

Mostly aimed at “creators,” Meta Verified costs $15 a month and helps you “establish your account authenticity and help[s] your community know it’s the real us with a verified badge." It also gives you “proactive account protection” to help fight impersonation by (in part) requiring you to use two-factor authentication. You’ll also get direct account support “from a real person,” and exclusive features like stickers and stars.

Read more
Here’s how to delete your YouTube account on any device
How to delete your YouTube account

Wanting to get out of the YouTube business? If you want to delete your YouTube account, all you need to do is go to your YouTube Studio page, go to the Advanced Settings, and follow the section that will guide you to permanently delete your account. If you need help with these steps, or want to do so on a platform that isn't your computer, you can follow the steps below.

Note that the following steps will delete your YouTube channel, not your associated Google account.

Read more
How to download Instagram photos for free
Instagram app running on the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5.

Instagram is amazing, and many of us use it as a record of our lives — uploading the best bits of our trips, adventures, and notable moments. But sometimes you can lose the original files of those moments, leaving the Instagram copy as the only available one . While you may be happy to leave it up there, it's a lot more convenient to have another version of it downloaded onto your phone or computer. While downloading directly from Instagram can be tricky, there are ways around it. Here are a few easy ways to download Instagram photos.

Read more