Do you believe in physiognomy?

[Hypercop]

Physiognomy is the belief that you can know every significant thing about a person's personality / nature / actions from their appearance (especially the face) and body language. In modern times it's considered ascientific (yeah no shit) but it's been revived by terminally online people as an insult. So now instead of pointing out someone's flaw and saying they just look like shit, you say they have "peasant physiognomy" or "slave physiognomy" or some shit.

I thought physiognomy was bullshit at first but one of the idubbz segments on MATI kinda changed my mind. Null pointed out that idubbz used to look normal and decent but nowadays he looks fucking weird, like an Easter Island head He has these squinty beady little eyes and his skin is all shitty too. Is this our proof that physiognomy is real?

 

[Otterly]

I feel like I've always been better at this stuff than most people. When I watch big streamers sometimes my brain just automatically goes, that guy's a sociopath. Humans are for the most part really easy to stereotype, it's like an RPG, there are only a dozen or two different types of person

Try your next work Teams meeting, if you’re accursed with such a thing. Blow up the thumbnails and watch peoples faces. It’s fascinating. I suspect because they’re such small thumbnails people don’t realise how much their expressions give away.

 

[Xenia]

Well, physiognomy might be true...