X Doesn't Change Facial Expressions (2005)

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X Doesn’t Change Facial Expressions is the name of an animated GIF meme that involves compiling a series of individual’s stillshots (or celebrity photos) and producing a montage in loop sequence. Much like Noah Kalina’s Photo-a-Day project, the resulting artwork reveals a surprisingly consistent facial expression for each subject depicted.

Origins

The meme initially began as an epic group prank in the notorious SomethingAwful forums. In January 2003, a SA forum user known as “Pitbull” created a thread called Solve the Mystery of the Internet Whore, Win a Fabulous Prize.
Recounting his midnight encounter with a flirtatious stranger “KSwizzle” on Instant Messenger, Pitbull called for a group investigation to reveal the true identity of “KSwizzle.” To make the long story short, SA users dug up an impressive collection of KSwizzle’s photos, which was then compiled into a GIF animation.

Aptly titled Another Girl Who Doesn’t Change Facial Expressions, it was eventually uploaded as a YTMND site in October 2005.

Lindsay Lohan Version & Interweb Feud

In October 2005, a YTMND user SpliceVW created “Lindsay Lohan doesn’t change facial expressions,” which remains one of the most popular “Facial Expression” montages to this day. In January 2006, Lohan’s version became the subject of interweb feud when eBaum’s World hosted and watermarked the Lindsay Lohan GIF file without crediting either SpliceVW or YTMND. Somewhat inevitably, this action led to an online feud between the two communities, allegedly through posting spams and launching denial of service attacks.


Lohan GIF: thiz is teh poker face?

Derivatives

Since becoming a notable fad in the YTMND community, spinoff versions of “X Doesn’t Change Facial Expressions” have been also created as flash animations and YouTube videos. Eric Prydz’ Call on Me is frequently used as the background music.

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18 Comments

Jamie Dubs
Sep 29, 2009 at 05:14PM UTC , Jamie Dubs wrote:

Serious meme here. Started as a mighty YTMND fad, led to the great YTMND/eBaums war, then the new Obama one is just great!

Maera
Sep 30, 2009 at 05:00PM UTC , Maera wrote:

More on the origin of facial expressions, it’s intro to YTMND, and the eBaum/YTMND wars at the following links so you can beef up the entry a little bit:

http://wiki.ytmnd.com/Facial_Expressions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YTMND

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBaum%27s_World

Jamie Dubs
Oct 09, 2009 at 05:30PM UTC , Jamie Dubs wrote:

This article + Safety Not Guaranteed need some serious work, but both are definitely confirmable

Brad Kim
Nov 04, 2009 at 12:09AM UTC , Brad Kim wrote:

this article has been cleaned up, updated & confirmed. still looking for a better cover img though.

Nickoliavich
Nov 04, 2009 at 01:05AM UTC , Nickoliavich wrote:

I put up the Han Solo one, might work as a cover image.

Deuxieme_en_pie
Nov 04, 2009 at 01:06AM UTC , Deuxieme_en_pie wrote:

Reminds me of the Gillette hair sculptor commercial http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gilette+commercial+hair&search_type=&aq=f

Xippy Xippo
Nov 04, 2009 at 01:20AM UTC , Xippy Xippo wrote:

JOKER LOL

Brad Kim
Nov 04, 2009 at 02:12AM UTC , Brad Kim wrote:

@nickoliavich

han solo is probably my favorite out of all, but it’s kind of an “inside joke” so i put obama instead. sculpture-status..

Frketson
Nov 04, 2009 at 06:15AM UTC , Frketson wrote:

haha brad nice zoolander gif!

Rush Nerd
Nov 04, 2009 at 08:32AM UTC , Rush Nerd wrote:

Ha, I didn’t know this came from SA, but it’s confirmed from years of YTMND use.

http://puckerupandpose.ytmnd.com/
^^ Just insane.

doctormario
Nov 07, 2009 at 05:03AM UTC , doctormario wrote:

While I’m sure Eric Prydz is pleased with this catching on, the OG track is Steve Winwood’s ‘Valerie’.

Check it.

Radien
Nov 10, 2009 at 10:01AM UTC , Radien wrote:

While Lindsay Lohan’s version may have been the source of an internet feud, the blond girl Brad Kim posted was the one that popularized the fad on YTMND.

There was yet another “girl doesn’t change facial expressions” before that, with a different girl, but it was creepier and didn’t sport a catchy, repetitive 80’s theme with which to associate it.

4 letters, guess.
Nov 11, 2009 at 08:01PM UTC , 4 letters, guess. wrote:

Gah, I know a perfect image for this meme.
I JUST CAN’T FIND IT. rage

Smurfy
Nov 29, 2009 at 06:59PM UTC , Smurfy wrote:

My favourite is the Idiots of Garry’s Mod 2 version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GSBK4QgjRU

kikinak
Dec 02, 2009 at 05:33PM UTC , kikinak wrote:

here is one of garfield
http://garfielddcfe.ytmnd.com/

allanmartins
Jan 01, 2010 at 02:32PM UTC , allanmartins wrote:

that brazilian girl named Paula Oliveira took several pictures on her birthday party and her face is exactly the same http://public.fotki.com/meninadeplastico/fotos/ – and also, a video with that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNPB7PBAo7c – creepy…

Fenurian
Jan 29, 2010 at 01:39AM UTC , Fenurian wrote:

www.fiveminute.net was making similar jokes about Chakotay (from Star Trek Voyager) actor Robert Beltran’s “wooden” acting in the early 2000’s. It even used alleged pictures of him in exactly the same position in two different scenes. See here for example:

http://www.fiveminute.net/thisjustin/14.html

DancingOrangeMan
Jan 30, 2010 at 02:02PM UTC , DancingOrangeMan wrote:

http://dbzfacial.ytmnd.com/

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