![]() ![]() On January 8th, 2018, Redditor ClydeMason1911 uploaded a similar montage above illustrations of the face to /r/CringeAnarchy, where it gathered more than 940 points (93% upvoted) and 130 comments over the next 24 hours (shown below, right). ![]() On December 28th, a thread titled "NuMale face epidemic" was submitted to 4chan's /pol/ board, which received upwards of 290 replies, many of which included a montage of photographs of the facial expression (shown below, left). ![]() As a reply, another user responded that the smile should be called a "cuckface" based off the duckface facial expression. On December 26th, an anonymous 4chan user submitted a post speculating that the open-mouthed smile was a signal of submission and being "lower in the social ladder" according to research on non-human primates. On November 12th, YouTuber SailorDeer uploaded a video discussing the "Nu-male mouth" phenomenon. In the comments section, Redditor brappablat submitted a comic in which a bearded man is shown posing with his mouth agape (shown below, right). On October 30th, 2017, Redditor sexy_mofo1 submitted a post titled "'Numale Mouth': Why is that everyone that seems to be against us smiles like this in photos?", followed by an MS Paint illustration of an open-mouthed man with a beard (shown below, left). On October 24th, 2017, a thread titled "The Nu-Male open mouth" was submitted to the /pol/ board on 4chan, which featured an illustration of two balding men with glasses posing for a selfie photograph with open mouths (shown below). On January 22nd, 2015, the news site Mashable published an article titled "Faux surprise is the new duckface," which featured selfie photographs of both men and women holding their mouths agape (shown below). ![]()
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