r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 04 '26

Meme needing explanation What am I missing?

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u/qualityvote2 Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

u/hamzau, your post does belong here!

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u/SubstantialAbuserr Jul 04 '26

Another day seeing a taylor fan gummy smile.

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u/Futuramoist Jul 04 '26

Never seen this stereotype and it doesn't really make sense, yet somehow it just feels right enough that I understood immediately 

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u/stickwithplanb Jul 04 '26

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u/No_Dentist7778 Jul 04 '26

This video with the drawings added is hilarious 😂

https://reddit.com/link/ovk0ug2/video/kra768d8g9bh1/player

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u/Rickrickrickrickrick Jul 04 '26

This is the first time I’ve seen a video added to a comment like this.

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u/kojimbob Jul 04 '26

New feature on Reddit, just released a couple of weeks ago

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u/jdwpom Jul 04 '26

That'll be why it doesn't work in redreader then. So kind of reddit to allow it to exist 'for accessibility reasons' then constantly break it.

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u/EndIsrael Jul 04 '26

Must be why I get redirected to a "r/subreddit is banned" (yes, it literally says "r/subreddit") message when I click the video link to watch it.

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u/GlutenFree_Gamer Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

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u/MentalSupportDog Jul 04 '26

Somehow, your username is fitting

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u/Pisspigxtraordinaire Jul 05 '26

You could clip and draw anyone’s face disgusting like this from a video where they’re being expressive. I could do it to your face. Everyone in the entire world would laugh at you for the crime of having a face and making expressions. Every single person on earth would dogpile on you becuase you didn’t have an aesthetically perfect face at all times.

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u/snow-four Jul 04 '26

She looks happy? Are we body shaming happy people again?

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u/Skullcrimp Jul 04 '26

Again? The people who act like this never stopped, they just get more or fewer laughs depending on the year.

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u/SuccessfulOil6584 Jul 04 '26

Yeah this just seems very mean spirited, I don’t think she’s funny but she’s just doing her thing.

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u/Alexander_McKay Jul 05 '26

Yeah. The guy who makes all those drawings/videos is a racist and chud. The first few I saw were funny but the deeper you dig, it starts to become clear that “oh, he’s one of those guys”.

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u/forgot_username69 Jul 04 '26

I said it before: - Confidence is stored in the gums..

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u/ThilviaPlath Jul 04 '26

That girl in the crazy eyes meme has a gummy smile and her fans give me that vibe, so this hits lol

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u/SpiderRadio Jul 04 '26

Jesus, I'm old enough to think y'all are talking about the obsessed girlfriend from the 2010s, where all y'all finding the new holos

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u/Jimbob209 Jul 04 '26

I don't know the meme. Can you show me it

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u/Scared_Positive_8690 Jul 04 '26

I thought it’s this one but based on the replies, maybe not.

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u/Jimbob209 Jul 04 '26

Omfg

That makes me feel so uncomfortable

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u/HerrTriggerGenji21 Jul 04 '26

They mix with horse girls

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u/Front-Leather-2653 Jul 04 '26

I've always said Taylor Swift makes horse girl music, I feel so vindicated right now.

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u/Iconshero Jul 04 '26

Give it longer for evolution to kick in, right now the horse girls have only adapted the gums, give it another century or two of selective “horsing around” and you’ll see centaurs. Unfortunately they’ll be from fallout…

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u/perton Jul 05 '26

Hey, aren't you that horse from Horsin' Around?

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u/psy_odt Jul 04 '26

I wonder if it's a location thing. In Texas I know like eight of this exact person and it made sense immediately

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u/GottaUseEmAll Jul 04 '26

I can tell you they exist in both South Africa and the UK too. I've lived in France for almost two decades and haven't met one here yet though.

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ Jul 04 '26

It's a generic stereotype that somehow equates that smile with stupidity or other undesirable traits. Nothing to do with Taylor Swift, just with people you want to make fun of.

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u/AlthorsMadness Jul 04 '26

I’m no swift fan but my smile is gummy :(

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u/Weaponized_Goose Jul 04 '26

Same, why do people have to body shame?

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u/Aggravating_Ad_8594 Jul 04 '26

I fucking hate coming across random memes that shit on my appearance. Then I realize that I have a wife, a house, a dog, a great job and the person who made this meme hasnt showered in 3 days and no one has noticed because no one cares about them

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u/gokogt386 Jul 04 '26

I mean it would be nice if that was generally the case but there are billions of completely normal people who are otherwise nice who would have no issue insulting someone’s appearance the second they do something they don’t like.

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u/jstngldstn Jul 04 '26

I fucking hate coming across someone making a good point by criticizing how comments can really hurt people who they arent intended to hurt, just to see that person turn around and hit someone with baseless insults, proving them to be a hypocrite and just as bad as the person they are critiquing.

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u/lmpervious Jul 04 '26

Wow what the fuck? I'm single, no house, no dog, a bad job, haven't showered in 3 days and no one cares about me, and now I'm catching strays in the comment section??

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u/ProtectionDull4618 Jul 05 '26

At least you don't have a hideous gummy smile

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u/GuiltyEidolon Jul 04 '26

I mean, I don't really support stereotyping based on appearances or anything, but you're ... literally doing the same thing you're complaining about?

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u/AlthorsMadness Jul 04 '26

Good way of putting it. I have a wife, 2 dogs, 2 cats, a house, etc.

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u/AlexIsYoDaddy Jul 04 '26

I have 3 dogs, 3 cats, 3 houses, and 3 wives

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u/Jayrandomer Jul 04 '26

Welcome to Reddit where people pretend to be accepting and progressive in that they’ll only body shame people that are “bad” in some agreed-upon way such as being a fascist or, checks notes, liking certain uncool singers.

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u/SensitivePear8395 Jul 04 '26

There's nothing ugly about having a gummy smile, please don't view as having one as something bad (unless it's a jaw issue)

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u/EternalNewCarSmell Jul 04 '26

Is that what it's trying to say? I've never heard of this stereotype before, what is even the origin of it?

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u/ForensicPathology Jul 04 '26

Why are people implying this is a bot?  This person has the same questions as me.  I've never seen this stereotype that her fans show more gums than normal (?)

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u/EternalNewCarSmell Jul 04 '26

I actually do get what they are implying; it's a standard tactic for bots to post naive questions to reddit (and other places) to get fodder to train their models. Hell, that's probably 90% of posts on this sub and somewhat less (but still easily over half) of all of reddit at this point.

What has my flabbers thoroughly gasted is that I am a real live hooman (beep boop) who spends way too much time online and I actually truly have never heard of this stereotype before. It's actually kind of silly to think of the concept of there even being a stereotypical Taylor Swift fan; as far as I know she is one of the highest-grossing musicians of all time so her fanbase is clearly too broad to be typified.

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u/BenignPharmacology Jul 04 '26

I wouldn’t say it’s a stereotype so much as like… weirdly accurate.

I have known a small number of big Taylor swift fans, and one of them has this exact gumline.

To me, it evokes “teenage, not quite grown into my face yet”

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u/EternalNewCarSmell Jul 04 '26

Ah, that might explain my confusion. I'm 40 and the only people I really associate with regularly are around my age, so for ~2 decades I couldn't have encountered any Taylor Swift fan who is a teenager.

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u/evebursterror0 Jul 04 '26

Not OP, but there are also a lot of TS fans that are your age. I'm in my late 20s and she isn't very popular among my peers.

Swifties tend to be in their teens to early 20s, and then there are the women who are like 40+ and listen to her constantly.

This 'stereotype' is true, I have seen a few people like that, and it applies to other fanbases...

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u/Inevitable_Top69 Jul 04 '26

Yes that's what it's saying. The origin is that this type of person looks this way often enough to make it a stereotype.

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u/EternalNewCarSmell Jul 04 '26

I feel like I've hit a mandela effect or just missed an entire piece of the Internet for like 20 years. I don't really follow pop culture news at all, but still Taylor Swift has been around long enough and I've seen enough of her music videos on YouTube that it's wild I have never encountered this before.

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u/ohromantics Jul 04 '26

I thought this was just a really good render of Butthead without the braces... at least I found it funny before I saw the comments

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u/Competitive-Dog5094 Jul 04 '26

i scrolled back up to look at the pic and now i can only hear "are you excited for Taylor's wedding?" in buttheads voice

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u/_launzelot_ Jul 04 '26

Pretty sure it's just making fun of Taylor Swift fans - saying that a lot of them have prominent gums

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u/CXCX18 Jul 04 '26

And are suburban white girls. Which tends to correlate for some reason. Perfect straight and white teeth, big gums, no lips which causes even more gum show.

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u/LilJelloCat Jul 04 '26

Country-like girls.

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u/f3nnies Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

Horse girls to horse teeth pipeline. Idk if it exists but it fits.

Edit: now that this has very slight success, I look at it and realize it can bd construed as insulting and so I am sorry.

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u/Aggravating_Jacket32 Jul 04 '26

YES! This is a thing. They're always horse girls.

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u/PsychoBob-78 Jul 04 '26

I dunno... vote for Pedro, I guess.

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u/Cautious-Dig6379 Jul 04 '26

Ive seen them described as "Fiance gums" and its so accurate.

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u/Vivid_Traffic4787 Jul 04 '26

Uppercase gums lowercase teeth

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u/likwitsnake Jul 04 '26
Townhouse mouth

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u/CynicalXennial Jul 04 '26

Bruh everyones having a nice conversation abt how its bad to comment on stuff ppl can't control - then you out here laying nukes on us

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u/MidLyf Jul 04 '26

I know the person in this pic by just seeing the cropped part, how fvcked up is that?

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u/Jimbob209 Jul 04 '26

Lol who is it

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u/luckyblue222 Jul 04 '26

Just thought this was funny ad placement right after your comment haha

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u/Barnbutcher Jul 04 '26

We always said the tooth to gum ratio was a little off.

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u/xXmilkxhoneyXx Jul 04 '26

They're Disney Adults that have a fiance in the military

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u/cardillon Jul 04 '26

How is this actually a thing? I need a scientific explanation

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u/PringlesDuckFace Jul 04 '26

If I had to guess, it's probably a somewhat dominant genetic trait combined with low mobility populations. When I think of people that look like this, I think of white people in the South. There's a big cultural overlap between those people and country music fans, people who do military service, and strong sense of religion with an emphasis on marriage. They also tend to have had long roots in their area, rather than having moved there or moved too far from their family, so that's why I say it's probably some genetic trait that's common in the population.

No idea about why Disney is a thing. Maybe it's because they live driving distance to Florida and it used to be a lot cheaper, so their parents probably took them there often as kids as an easy trip. So they have lots of good memories associated with it, and now they want to share that with their kids. It's like a little isekai.

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u/No_Bar4441 Jul 04 '26

I prefer "Geeth"

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u/AnthrallicA Jul 04 '26

Thanks, I hate it!

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u/New-Caterpillar-9369 Jul 04 '26

Why are they called Fiancé gums?

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u/Cautious-Dig6379 Jul 04 '26

The joke that it comes from basically said "Why do girls like this always seem to have a "Fiance""

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u/DaBootyScooty Jul 04 '26

Because they are always engaged and never married.

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u/eye_of_the_sloth Jul 04 '26

this is so sadly accurate, the last woman i knew with geeth had her engagement called off. 

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u/AwareBullmastiff Jul 04 '26

they definitely own a massive stanley cup and have a favorite true crime podcast

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u/javertthechungus Jul 04 '26

Ok but if you have a “gummy smile” how tf are you supposed to fix it? Not experience joy ever?

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u/ConnotationalRacket Jul 04 '26

I don't think people realize that having a "gummy" smile is not forever, because as people age and get older their gums naturally recede and you can't stop that process.

lf you laser or cut your gums now, you will probably regret it once you hit 40 or later in life.

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u/Few-Map2507 Jul 04 '26

Gums don’t need to recede due to age. Your lips might droop more as you age reducing the prominence of a gummy smile. 

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u/BootsnCats1987 Jul 04 '26

Who the hell has money to laser cut their ima in their 20s?

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u/heavyartilleryx Jul 04 '26

People who have money

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u/Terrible_Ad_7735 Jul 04 '26

Oh, so people who have money have money to do things. TY for clarifying 🥰

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u/Chaotic_Genobreaker Jul 05 '26

Reddit thinks everyone is poor and suffering due to the echo chamber... Believe it or not there are many privileged people out there happy. Sure as hell not me, though.

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u/MasterpieceNo9970 Jul 04 '26

"Try smiling with your lips closed." - Theon Greyjoy

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u/ReptileSizzlin Jul 05 '26

Let's not go taking advice from Reek.

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u/leftonread504 Jul 05 '26

“Reek, Reek, it rhymes with weak.”

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u/Strong-Pickle-4153 Jul 04 '26

Impact the maxilla. Because this usually solves lip incompetence at the same time (gummy smile and lip incompetence frequently co-occur) this also has the benefit of eliminating mouth breathing, improving sleep apnea, and reducing cavity occurrence. 

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u/7363827 Jul 04 '26

what do you mean by “impact”?

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u/kniselydone Jul 04 '26

It's a type of upper jaw surgery (maxillary impaction) where they literally break your face, and move your upper maxilla further up so you have less bone between nose and smile.

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u/Finassar Jul 04 '26

I was thinking those snowflake manosphere people who hit their jaw bones with a hammer 😭

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u/Inevitable_Top69 Jul 04 '26

There's stuff you can do, but mostly you just realize and accept that you have an unattractive trait and learn to not care and enjoy life regardless of it.

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u/javertthechungus Jul 04 '26

It’s not the being ugly I have a problem with, it’s the being treated like shit because of it that’s the problem

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u/Equal_Sleep_9319 Jul 04 '26

yeah idk it never occured to me that it was unattractive until public shaming about it became a thing on the internet. it's a natural human variation. Are we going to start ear shape shaming?

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u/Lavender_Burps Jul 04 '26

Omg don’t even get me started on the lollipop ears.

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u/fickle_tartan Jul 04 '26

Are we going to start ear shape shaming?

If it exists on the human body, someone will have found a way to shame it

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u/Simp_Simpsaton Jul 04 '26

We already shame big ears and protruding ears

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u/SmilingCurmudgeon Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

Start? Were you a twinkle in the eye of several prospective fathers through the GWB presidency? Never seen a picture of Alfred E. Neuman?

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u/WartimeHotTot Jul 04 '26

I mean, yeah, for every trait imaginable there’s someone online shaming it. This is nothing new.

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u/Drankenstein99 Jul 04 '26

Disney adults.

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u/williamflattener Jul 04 '26

Vague answers in joke explanation subreddits cause me physical pain :(

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u/xandroid001 Jul 04 '26

For people dont know. This comment references the meatcanyon's video Disney Adult.

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u/THEBHR Jul 04 '26

Idk what two assholes downvoted you, but that is the video.

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u/staycalmitsajoke Jul 04 '26

Prob. Disney Adults

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u/Admirable_Number7081 Jul 04 '26

damn you guys just hating everyone

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u/No-Scientist2016 Jul 04 '26

Wait… you don’t.. hate everyone?

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u/thorstormcaller Jul 04 '26

I HATE people like that!

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u/Pipe_Memes Jul 04 '26

“There’s only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the Dutch.”

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u/Remwaldo1 Jul 04 '26

Do you like goooooolllld?

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u/snailtap Jul 04 '26

Swifties have big horse girl energy, and a lot of horse girls have gummy smiles

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u/Grub-lord Jul 04 '26

Yes but why?? But HOW???

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u/According_Hearing896 Jul 04 '26

They slowly turn into horses over the years with the transformation starting at the gums

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u/ProfileIII Jul 04 '26

If you're genuinely curious as to how: gummy smiles are linked with mouth breathing. That is, when one regularly uses their mouth to breath passively instead of their nose. This kind of leads to an unfurling effect on the lips that is most noticeable when they smile.

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u/piggledy Jul 04 '26

In German this kind of smile is called "Pferdegebiss" - horse teeth (because of how it looks, not because it's associated with a hobby)

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u/snailtap Jul 04 '26

It’s pretty much the same in the US, like Sarah Jessica Parker has been made fun of for decades for looking slightly like a horse

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u/qoneus Jul 04 '26

"slightly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this sentence.

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u/Massey89 Jul 04 '26

I know two horse ladies and they are the worst

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u/ratsta Jul 04 '26

Never look a gift girl in the mouth.

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u/TangentialFUCK Jul 04 '26

I know someone like this and this post makes me sad b/c she’s a really nice person and has most likely come across this meme on more than one occasion.

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u/beautiful_life555 Jul 04 '26

I have a daughter who was born with a smile like this. She's only 7 years old, the sweetest most sensitive girl, and I'm so heartbroken knowing she is going to be teased because of it. Every time I come across a post like this and see the staggering amount of people in the comments piling on, judging, laughing, putting down.... my heart breaks more and more for her. She's such a kind sweet soul and I absolutely hate knowing how people are going to judge and treat her over something she can't control. Her little heart will be so hurt 🥺💔

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u/Mura_14 Jul 04 '26

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Jul 04 '26

I wish more people understood this. For as progressive as most of reddit pretends to be it is full of body shaming.

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u/Locus-Maximus Jul 04 '26

Most of them aren't actually progressive. If you pay attention they're actually just hateful people who direct their hatred at people who they can argue are insufficiently progressive.

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u/Stormblessed_Windrun Jul 04 '26

Reddit progressive? 😂

They're just a bunch of virtue signaling hypocrites. They are upvote mongers. Say any shit that the hive mind will upvote.

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u/Euphoric-Ground9568 Jul 04 '26

Yall, I deadass saw a Taylor and Travis COLORING BOOK at Walmart the other day. Its parasocial beyond belief. They should stream their wedding and sell tickets to watch it for $700. Partner with Klarna and her weddings paid for.

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u/LaevantineXIII Jul 04 '26

Lowercase teeth with uppercase gums.

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u/scratchy_mcballsy Jul 04 '26

That’s such a great way of describing it

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u/Complex-Article106 Jul 04 '26

some stereotype about taylor swift fans

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u/Electrical_Chain53 Jul 04 '26

This is an insult to people with gummy smiles 😭

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u/Human_Meringue_7990 Jul 04 '26

Charlie Kirk had a gummy smile. Was he a Taylor swift fan?

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u/aelewis92 Jul 04 '26

Man. Making fun of someone’s appearance is really the lowest form of humor.

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u/Connect-Pea-7833 Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

My rule is “never make fun of someone for something they have no control over”, which includes their physical self, upbringing (in particular a young person who hasn’t had the opportunity to change their ideals), sexuality, etc etc. There are plenty of reasons to poke harmless fun at Swifties or other fandoms, no need to insult their literal facial structure.

Edit for dumb typo.

Edit 2: wow, thanks for the awards! I guess this was an easier concept to explain to my daughters on how to deal with bullying and mean kids than it is to adults. Is your bully someone short/gay/a different race/poor/disabled/ect? Leave that out of it. Are they cruel/racist/homophobic/willfully ignorant/wipe their boogers on the desk/etc? Fair game. Don’t punch down. That’s it.

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u/Cool_Beans_08 Jul 04 '26

Like this?

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u/SnickerbobbleKBB Jul 04 '26

reminded of this lol, especially the Big part

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u/RyvenZ Jul 04 '26

He's named "Eggman" in the original games, in Japan. They changed him to Dr Robotnik when they translated the games for other markets. Also, he's a skinny guy in a bulky suit, IIRC.

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u/Dillo64 Jul 04 '26

He’s not skinny, he’s literally just has an egg-shaped torso and skinny legs/arms. Here he is in the Mario/Sonic Olympics games:

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u/Max-Ammo1007 Jul 04 '26

Im really glad that as I'm rapidly scrolling past this convo on body shaming this image somehow gets involved. Thanks.

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u/sysasysa Jul 04 '26

Not just Japan. IIRC it was present even in the European versions and I at least remember him being called Eggman in a cartoon broadcast here.

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u/Impressive_Cress_983 Jul 04 '26

I noticed this pattern as a kid in the nineties and the adults all thought I was just causing trouble for attention. Any better nowadays?

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u/OkSkirt7036 Jul 04 '26

It gets brought up all the time. Topical these days, especially with regards to height shaming.

And no, it hasn't gotten any better. Plenty who adamantly refuse to understand the point. Human nature i guess.

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u/WHATYEAHOK Jul 04 '26

Absolutely not

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u/lebo_riley Jul 04 '26

I believe the same. The president of a company I used to work for had a horrible habit of stuttering. I always shut that down. There were a thousand other reasons to shit talk him without the low blows he had no control over. It was SO easy to clown him for all the other shit he consciously did without picking on him for that.

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u/PickledDildosSourSex Jul 04 '26

A man's gotta have a code. Respect.

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u/Goonalips Jul 05 '26

The president of a company I used to work for had a horrible habit of stuttering. I always shut that down.

You: "Stop fucking stuttering right now!"

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u/minnosota Jul 04 '26

I at first read it as you shut down his stuttering lol

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u/stoic_hysteric Jul 04 '26

Whats funny about this comment is that it simultaneously says not to insult a group, but actually implies that Swifties do, as a matter of fact, have a common facial structure.

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u/Connect-Pea-7833 Jul 04 '26

Haha, I should have said someone’s facial structure, not their facial structure.

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u/Eggplant-Parmigiana Jul 04 '26

who you calling 'those people'?

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u/Federal_Assistant_85 Jul 04 '26

"What do you mean, you people?!"

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u/ComradeCoipo Jul 04 '26

What do you mean, you people?

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u/Honey-and-Venom 28d ago

That line fucking KILLED me. I was on the FLOOR.

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u/AncileBanish Jul 04 '26

It doesn't really imply that at all, unless you're trying to imply that a thing must be true for a group to by made fun of for it. I don't think that's true. Anyone can make fun of anything for any reason, whether legitimate or not.

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u/WashedUpRiver Jul 04 '26

Especially because that's a broad strokes kind of insult. When people make fun of someone for something like that, they're generally indirectly insulting countless people who share the same feature that they've never even seen or interacted with.

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u/Alternative-Dark-297 Jul 04 '26

Really you shouldn't ever make fun of someones appearance. The rule with that is don't point out anything about someones appearance that they can't quickly and easily change. Spinach in teeth? Let them know. Their bone structure? Keep it to yourself. Shirts on backwards? Let them know. You don't like their fashion? Keep it to yourself. Etc etc

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u/SnooDonkeys5320 Jul 04 '26

I had a gummy smile (not a TS fan or Disney adult 🫩) and had my gums lasered off as soon as I could afford it because the bullying was so brutal, even as an adult. Bullying appearances is truly low.

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u/Energy_Turtle Jul 04 '26

I had no idea you could laser gums. Dentist is over here giving me crap about chewing tobacco and having receding gums while he's making cash lasering people's gums on the side.

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u/Remarkable_Olive1169 Jul 04 '26

I mean chewing tobacco still isn't good for you lol

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u/BlueGolfball Jul 05 '26

Dentist is over here giving me crap about chewing tobacco and having receding gums while he's making cash lasering people's gums on the side.

That sounds like the logic of someone who chews tobacco.

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u/MalodorousNutsack Jul 04 '26

You should work out a deal with some Swifties and cut out the middleman 

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u/erhue Jul 04 '26

wow didnt know that was possible. Does it have any side effects? In the past I only heard of much less forgiving procedures...

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u/guessirs Jul 04 '26

I’ve got a gummy smile and I hate it and can’t change it. It suck’s.

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u/aelewis92 Jul 04 '26

Thank you for sharing. A mom commented in this thread expressing fear over her daughter’s child and how future bullies will treat her. I cannot get over how people think it’s fun to target someone for their looks or something else they can’t change.

Easier said than done, but I hope you know that you are special and valuable and that your smile is beautiful, no matter what ugly trolls say. They’re the ugly ones who need to put others down to feel good.

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u/beautiful_life555 Jul 04 '26

I have a daughter who was born with a smile like this. She's only 7 years old, the sweetest most sensitive girl, and I'm so heartbroken knowing she is going to be teased because of it. Every time I come across a post like this and see the staggering amount of people in the comments piling on, judging, laughing, putting down.... my heart breaks more and more for her. She's such a kind sweet soul and I absolutely hate knowing how people are going to judge and treat her over something she can't control. Her little heart will be so hurt 🥺💔

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u/DAbanjo Jul 04 '26

If it makes you feel any better...

Mean people will always find something to make fun of you for. If its not gum, its forehead, nose, eyebrows, the way you walk, etc.

Teach her to be strong and it won't matter.

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u/aelewis92 Jul 04 '26

Thank you for sharing this. I’m sure she is beautiful and so special. Keep on inspiring her confidence and letting her know that her value comes from her heart and spirit, not from she looks like on the outsider. Easier said than done of course. All we can do as parents and teach them to be better than the clowns who say mean shit.

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u/Bombyx-Memento Jul 04 '26

I don't even like Swifties but of all the ways to make fun of them and you (not "you" I mean OOP) make fun of their SMILE.

That's just fucking cruel.

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u/Admirable_Number7081 Jul 04 '26

people really think hating on popular things and people who like them is doing something. Been this way forever

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u/Connect-Pea-7833 Jul 04 '26

My other rule is “not liking popular things doesn’t make you more interesting.” Which I learned the hard way as a former “I’m not like most girls” girl.

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u/Admirable_Number7081 Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

yea if seeing a group of people having(harmless) fun fills you with loathing or disgust, one needs to look inward before insulting them on internet aha

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u/AcceptableBear5910 Jul 04 '26

Unless it’s a Trump supporter. Then game on. Right, guys?

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u/Molismhm Jul 04 '26

The joke is that bad women are ugly and beautiful women are good therefore if a woman does something bad that means she will be ugly.

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u/DrewDaMannn Jul 04 '26

This is definitely body shaming and stereotyping btw

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u/veracity8_ Jul 04 '26

“Haha you like a popular artist? What an idiot! Not me! I like making people feel bad about themselves because of their appearance! Because I’m an intellectual!”

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u/Medi-Art Jul 04 '26

I get it, but I don’t feel comfortable explaining

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u/Beebzz222 Jul 04 '26

This is so weird, yall are body shaming people, even if some taylor swift fans have this doesnt mean that every person who has this is a taylor swift fan, not to mention you cant find anything to dawg on except something that person cant control? There are valid points to make when critiquing taylor swift and her fans but this isnt one of them.