Nu-Metal Pose, meant to be a way of "connecting with the audience"
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Wait is it a numetal thing? That would explain me
Fisheye's became super popular because of skating is my uneducated guess
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MDMA and DXM is my guess
I witnessed this in the 90s and 2000s. AFAIK, it started in rave culture. People would lace their fingers around glow sticks and wave them in front of a friend's face. I was told that the effect is really cool if your rolling on MDMA. However, I also saw Mormon kids doing it stone sober, because they're always imitating things they see without understanding the drug component (e.g. a Mormon kid at a local high school who wore a pacifier on a necklace -- an MDMA raver accessory to give something to chew on -- despite zero awareness of drugs).
Personally, I think these photos are a combination of raver culture seeping into the mainstream, along with a trend of "reversing subject and photographer".
an MDMA raver accessory to give something to chew on
Remarkable how I finally learn after all these years what those baffling things were for. At least I hope that your explanation is correct.
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Everyone wasn't? But also, you ever heard of this thing called a "fad"? You best start believing in fads, you're in one.
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Jokes on them, I have all their fingerprints now
More like late 90's lol. Man I feel so old.
It's just a trend, in the early nineties (maybe late eighties) every metal band with a new album had a black and white photo of the band, each member wearing sunglasses and a doofus smile.
rawr irl
Clean hands are cool
Also the age of the super tall cameraman.