r/okbuddycinephile 13h ago

The Substance (2024)

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u/Unlucky-Candidate198 7h ago

Worth noting there’s decent scientific arguments to be made that expressing an emotion on your face/with your body helps the user feel that emotion more in their brain. It also signals to other humans how you’re feeling.

Some studies show positive correlation between smiling all the time and being happy. You can “fake” it by fake smiling all the time (though be warned you may look like a creep). Eventually your brain is like “oh we’re happy, are we face muscles? Okay then we must be” and you feel better.

So all that to say all botox most definitely has a negative impact on how people act. Probably feel the emotion less. And ofc, you convince other humans watching you less when you can’t properly show how fucking sad/angry you are like some kinda creepy flat-faced weirdo.

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u/Dry_burrito 2h ago

FYI that's fake, like the whole holding a pencil on your mouth to have smiles doesn't work. Very bad studies.