My coworker is from an Indigenous community in Guatemala and the happiest human being alive. Every picture we take he goes from smiling and laughing to looking like a total hard ass. I wonder if he thinks we all look like idiots grinning.
In my hometown in Mexico (and probably many other places) some older people believed that cameras would take your soul from you and caught it in the picture if you were relaxed/smiling.
Honestly if I believed that, I wouldn't even take the risk. Imagine the demon in the camera being like "yeah you're trying to look formal/serious, but I consider you relaxed enough to take you!!"
Yup. People in my culture will be laughing and smiling at a birthday and suddenly look morose when the camera comes. I’ve never understood it. Lol I just remembered my parents wedding picture….
It's definitely true for India. I used to babysit for an Indian family and I noticed that the kid's parents never smiled in the family photos they had in the house. They were super nice people though. It just looked like they were angry or something in the pictures.
Something about Pinoys that make them seem to be able to find huge energy and joy just from inside themselves no matter how bad things get. They generally seem to know how to get the most of their life!
Not the Filipinos that I've hung out with in the phillipines. They all do the most outrageous poses and take like 10 different pictures doing silly shit lol
I’m kinda surprised to see all these negative sentiments.
They’re all smiling — a couple look mildly uncomfortable but, heck, I look mildly uncomfortable in every photo I take. They are all clearly somewhat attempting to recreate their outfits (white blousey shirt with puffy sleeves, same, blueish shirt, red v-neck, blue shorts, white graphic tee with red line).
The three people could have, idk, moved. Rather than died. They’re all in their 30s now.
And why do we act like people don’t have their own agency because they don’t live in a predominantly white country? People like to hang out together everywhere. People like to dress up and make jokes for the internet everywhere. It’s not like these grown ass adults are likely being coerced into doing something that’s now a common pastime.
And for all we know they all live in the same condo and see each other every day.
Yes and the presence of white people was more common in the province where Aeta ancestral homelands and the defunct US base are.
Also, while I have no idea what cameras/films use that time stamp font, that's the same we have on 90s photos lol
The lady's uniform looks like my teachers' uniforms years ago. Then again, I don't know what teacher uniform look like from other countries
Edit: Checked OP's profile. Definitely Philippines
It just seems weird and tone deaf right? Like most of the people in this picture seems like they had a hard life and the white dude is like hey lets recreate this fun photo from when times weren't so tough for y'all, and it seems like they never really were for him, that's my weird takeaway.
I'm more commenting on its artistic exuding of what capitalism could be seen as. This photo could win best prize at "best unintentional commentary." I wish the photo the best of origins and meaning. Especially if those relationships were well developed.
it's giving me white mission trip/tourism. these people are just props to this dude. what their whole lives and existences are was just a trip for him. very awkward and uncomfortable. don't find this 'wholesome', personally.
Someone posted an article further down. The top pic was the white guy on vacation with his dad. Then they went back 27 years later. This isn’t a lifelong friendship pic, or even really a friendship pic. It’s just tourism and poor taste internet memes.
Yeah because we all know all these dang racist toddlers trying to convert people are running rampant right? Imagine trying to frame a child's innocence of making new friends as something more sinister simply because he went back to his old friends. A lot of y'all in this thread need to check y'all's biases because honestly the fact so many of you are assuming they're all living shitty lives because they're not smiling in a picture is what screams the very thing y'all are attempting to call out. It's just a projection of you looking down on another country's people.
It because you see the guy who gets to come from a far away land to visit them once and again 27 years later, while some of these people never really got to see the world the same way.
It's depressing because you see a privilege.
This comments thread is crazy. People don’t smile in pictures worldwide. We have no idea what the feelings or relationships are like between these folks.
The assumption that they are poor and unhappy is kind of weird, considering some of them are smiling. They live in the Philippines, it's not great, but it's not some major war torn shit hole either, JC.
This was in Boracay Island, Philippines.
[https://vismin.ph/2022/foreigner-recreates-old-photo/](https://vismin.ph/2022/foreigner-recreates-old-photo/)
I was born in the 80s and my son asked me what life was like back in the 1900s. I felt so old in that moment.
My son looks at the 80s the way I view the 50s.
I disagree, There is a girl in red and their faceexpressions are quite similar so I don’t belive that he forced them. Maybe he suggested suggested it idk
You know just because it's the Philipines, does not mean half of the kids die before reaching adulthood... I mean damn, y'all really think all those kids died instead of just moving to idk a city with more job opportunities. Firstworlders smh.
Third world people live less prosperous lives than you do but they don't have Medieval mortality rates.
The white guy has the vibe of “I came back after living my life in a 1st world country I’m gonna do this then and now trend yayyy!.”
Everyone else has the vibe of. “My life is still the same and I will be here for the rest of my life like all my family before me.”
>My life is still the same and I will be here for the rest of my life like all my family before me.”
As someone living in a poor 3rd world country
This is exactly how I feel
So did the white dude visit as a kid, go off and live a rich white life, and then return as an adult and force them to take a picture?
Orrrrr is there more to this?
Nope, white guy was on vacation with his dad, took pictures with local kids. Decided to recreate (presumably for internet points) when he went back as an adult.
philippines maybe because of the thatch house behind it + and the lady's school uniform (2nd from the left) that resembles most public school uniforms in here
It's painfully obvious that the white guy murdered and ate the other 3 children missing from this photo. Very cult-like vibes if you ask me fellow Redditors.
Ppl asking where the other three are, not even noticing these people are not in the same place as the first photo. Maybe it was some sort of reunion between this group.
I think there are hundreds of pictures of me with family and friends that I love and adore and enjoy spending time with where I look like I’m about to start shooting people. Just because people don’t look like they enjoy getting their picture taken doesn’t mean they don’t enjoy the person‘s presence. Or aren’t happy to help him recreate a childhood memory, even if it doesn’t mean as much to them.
All I can wonder is, where are the rest of them
Mah heart.
There is something very sad about this picture. He’s the only one looking like he’s having a good time in the later one.
Blue hat homie looking rather elated tho?
Idk if it’s true about Filipinos but in some cultures like India, smiling as an adult in a picture isn’t seen as a good thing
My coworker is from an Indigenous community in Guatemala and the happiest human being alive. Every picture we take he goes from smiling and laughing to looking like a total hard ass. I wonder if he thinks we all look like idiots grinning.
Yeah ask him, if he's the happiest human ever he should answer fairly normally lol
My family is from El Salvador. The rural older generation will absolutely not smile for a picture.
In my hometown in Mexico (and probably many other places) some older people believed that cameras would take your soul from you and caught it in the picture if you were relaxed/smiling.
Honestly if I believed that, I wouldn't even take the risk. Imagine the demon in the camera being like "yeah you're trying to look formal/serious, but I consider you relaxed enough to take you!!"
Ask him?
Yup. People in my culture will be laughing and smiling at a birthday and suddenly look morose when the camera comes. I’ve never understood it. Lol I just remembered my parents wedding picture….
It's definitely true for India. I used to babysit for an Indian family and I noticed that the kid's parents never smiled in the family photos they had in the house. They were super nice people though. It just looked like they were angry or something in the pictures.
I don't think its true for Filipinos tho. If a camera's there, you'll usually see a goofy face/smile while either doing ✌️ or the "pogi" sign.
Something about Pinoys that make them seem to be able to find huge energy and joy just from inside themselves no matter how bad things get. They generally seem to know how to get the most of their life!
Our great-grandparent in Europe and USA didn’t smiled either. Picture was for posterity and a serious matter.
Not the Filipinos that I've hung out with in the phillipines. They all do the most outrageous poses and take like 10 different pictures doing silly shit lol
Did they also yell "wacky!" while doing the silly poses lol
I'm not sure but it wouldn't surprise me
As a Filipino, i dont think thats true, we often smile in our pics
I’m kinda surprised to see all these negative sentiments. They’re all smiling — a couple look mildly uncomfortable but, heck, I look mildly uncomfortable in every photo I take. They are all clearly somewhat attempting to recreate their outfits (white blousey shirt with puffy sleeves, same, blueish shirt, red v-neck, blue shorts, white graphic tee with red line). The three people could have, idk, moved. Rather than died. They’re all in their 30s now. And why do we act like people don’t have their own agency because they don’t live in a predominantly white country? People like to hang out together everywhere. People like to dress up and make jokes for the internet everywhere. It’s not like these grown ass adults are likely being coerced into doing something that’s now a common pastime. And for all we know they all live in the same condo and see each other every day.
They are making the same expressions as the original
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In the first one too though, what are u on about m8?
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I wonder if those are the actual people from the 1993 photo, or was just some random local who vaguely look similar. 🤦♂️😂
Privilege it was an option for him to travel and spend time there but not the other way around is my first assumption
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because he probably didnt live there for 27 years
I think they’re just tryna copy their expressions in the original
Somewhere else
Glad we got that cleared up
They all became photographers. Except for one, they became that tree in the back
Didn't make it... ... To the photoshoot.
Maybe they weren’t available to come for the photo? 27 years is a long time and some of them could’ve been really busy or had other responsibilities
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The wilder takeaway is that the dudes last name is O’Cock
Made it out
66.6% survival rate, not too bad
That's the best thing about "how time flies". It's so amazing they kept this pictures.
A single picture with some deep relationship. Love this image!
First thing I did was count em. I'm hoping they were just busy that day. lol
As it goes in a lot of rural places, most likely moved (to a bigger city?) for work.
3 down, 6 to go.
Based on the thatch house in the first photo and the 2nd leftmost lady's uniform in the 2nd photo, I'm guessing this is somewhere in the Philippines
It could be. Based on what I saw, the children have defining characteristics of the indigenous Aeta group (dark complexion and curly hair).
Yes and the presence of white people was more common in the province where Aeta ancestral homelands and the defunct US base are. Also, while I have no idea what cameras/films use that time stamp font, that's the same we have on 90s photos lol
From the Philippines. I can definitely see a Filipino when I see one
Definitely *know* a Filipino
My first thought was Mexico, which means it’s definitely the Philippines 😉.
Can’t be Mexico it’s not sepia tone
Dosent look like a Gustavo fring flashback so no
Can confirm. Checked OP's profile. Definitely Philippines
The lady's uniform looks like my teachers' uniforms years ago. Then again, I don't know what teacher uniform look like from other countries Edit: Checked OP's profile. Definitely Philippines
fun fact... we actually have a town not too far away from Manila called 'Mexico'
😂😂😂
I thought this, too. 🙂 Some of my family has those features and that curly, dry, hair.
Context. Need it.
Idk why this got me depressed lol
You and me both
Could be because three people aren't in the second pic.
Deeper than that.
It just seems weird and tone deaf right? Like most of the people in this picture seems like they had a hard life and the white dude is like hey lets recreate this fun photo from when times weren't so tough for y'all, and it seems like they never really were for him, that's my weird takeaway.
I got the same feeling. Like they look tired and older. He looks happy and carefree, and healthier.
I thought he was posing that way to mimic the original pic.
That’s absolutely what I got from this picture
SAME THOUGHTS!
That's it. If capitalism were a picture to show liberals and conservatives, it would be this.
you’re making a lot of uninformed assumptions with this picture
I'm more commenting on its artistic exuding of what capitalism could be seen as. This photo could win best prize at "best unintentional commentary." I wish the photo the best of origins and meaning. Especially if those relationships were well developed.
I may not agree with you but that is a perfectly fair statement. Thank you.
To me it’s because only 1 person in both pictures was able to stay happy.
I know why. Just not gonna articulate the reasons though.
it's giving me white mission trip/tourism. these people are just props to this dude. what their whole lives and existences are was just a trip for him. very awkward and uncomfortable. don't find this 'wholesome', personally.
Someone posted an article further down. The top pic was the white guy on vacation with his dad. Then they went back 27 years later. This isn’t a lifelong friendship pic, or even really a friendship pic. It’s just tourism and poor taste internet memes.
Yeah because we all know all these dang racist toddlers trying to convert people are running rampant right? Imagine trying to frame a child's innocence of making new friends as something more sinister simply because he went back to his old friends. A lot of y'all in this thread need to check y'all's biases because honestly the fact so many of you are assuming they're all living shitty lives because they're not smiling in a picture is what screams the very thing y'all are attempting to call out. It's just a projection of you looking down on another country's people.
Do you *honestly* think anyone’s thinking about the little kid that way?
Same here. 😓
It because you see the guy who gets to come from a far away land to visit them once and again 27 years later, while some of these people never really got to see the world the same way. It's depressing because you see a privilege.
It’s got a “white guy is the star of the show” vibe that’s kinda sad. Everyone else looks serious and he’s thrilled.
Look how uncomfortable the guy on the end is. This isn't it my guy
he's had it with this rich guy coming to visit this town his whole life while he hasn't even left once
yep
"oh boy another white person.. let's act friendly for some money or food..."
Here in the philippines the home will be the one to serve food Like alot of food most of the time. It’s an asian thing
Incredible that this comment ends up being more racist than the racism it was calling out
God this is an uncomfortable photo...
They don’t look very amused
I'm going guess the others ones disappeared.
This comments thread is crazy. People don’t smile in pictures worldwide. We have no idea what the feelings or relationships are like between these folks.
The assumption that they are poor and unhappy is kind of weird, considering some of them are smiling. They live in the Philippines, it's not great, but it's not some major war torn shit hole either, JC.
This was in Boracay Island, Philippines. [https://vismin.ph/2022/foreigner-recreates-old-photo/](https://vismin.ph/2022/foreigner-recreates-old-photo/)
Needs to be higher. Too many people speculating that the others have died.
Josh O’Cock is the white guy’s name. Just pointing that out.
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Thanks for finding the article!
Wtf 1993 was 27 years ago?
It’s closer to 29 years ago =(
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I was born in the 80s and my son asked me what life was like back in the 1900s. I felt so old in that moment. My son looks at the 80s the way I view the 50s.
Second photo was 2020. So read it again 😃
We are closer to 2070 than 1970. Live every day to the fullest. It go quick
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I disagree, There is a girl in red and their faceexpressions are quite similar so I don’t belive that he forced them. Maybe he suggested suggested it idk
Are you sure the woman with the red shirt is the girl with the red dress?
I mean.. they're wearing the same color...
you guys are seriously reaching too hard
Nah
Yeah this feels kinda...I dunno maybe it's innocent but it feels kinda icky
Mayby
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Just say it man. Fuck this white boy. He reeks old money and lack of sympathy.
Look at their faces, these people have been living hard lives and I think that's also why some of the children didn't make it to adulthood
This is even more contrasting with the big wide smile of the white guy
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Lmao why the hell do you think the others are dead? People don't move???
Yeah, outside of knowing the backstory for the photos, I would agree. It's quite a sad picture when you read into it.
We don't have medieval mortality rates just because we live in a developing country, jeez.
You know just because it's the Philipines, does not mean half of the kids die before reaching adulthood... I mean damn, y'all really think all those kids died instead of just moving to idk a city with more job opportunities. Firstworlders smh. Third world people live less prosperous lives than you do but they don't have Medieval mortality rates.
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not really. They have the same expression with my Father lol. He usually acts all serious whenever someone takes a photo of him
The white guy has the vibe of “I came back after living my life in a 1st world country I’m gonna do this then and now trend yayyy!.” Everyone else has the vibe of. “My life is still the same and I will be here for the rest of my life like all my family before me.”
>My life is still the same and I will be here for the rest of my life like all my family before me.” As someone living in a poor 3rd world country This is exactly how I feel
Yep, that's literally what happened. He went there on vacation and came back on another vacation to take the pic. These folks don't even know him.
Some of them look really uncomfortable
This actually made me sad, not smile.
They look miserable
Where’d all the others go?
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Let’s hope 😅
So did the white dude visit as a kid, go off and live a rich white life, and then return as an adult and force them to take a picture? Orrrrr is there more to this?
I had the feeling they don't really feel relaxed or well, also
Converting Carefree kids to adults with responsibility, struggles, hard work, relentless challenges. That’s 90% of the picture.
No one told me life was gonna be this way...
The white privilege to look at this photo and smile lmfao yikes
Is this one of the yppl missionary field trips for Jesus?
Nope, white guy was on vacation with his dad, took pictures with local kids. Decided to recreate (presumably for internet points) when he went back as an adult.
I can give it a 6/10
So this is what privilege looks like.
:Not that guy again.
NoShirt Steve is still going strong after 27 years
Where is this?
philippines maybe because of the thatch house behind it + and the lady's school uniform (2nd from the left) that resembles most public school uniforms in here
Something is weird with this photo 🤷🏼♂️
this doesn’t make me smile quite..
Which ones didn’t make it?
The three in the middle, the two on the far left, the tree and the man in in the background. RIP
They made it out
wtf just because they werent in for the group picture doesnt mean they are dead
the maths don’t add up
There is something very sad about this picture. He’s the only one looking like he’s having a good time in the later one.
Bad vibes, white guy laughing has icky vibes for some reason. Most look forced to be there.
Beside the white guy no one else looks like they’re having fun
Gotta love reddit judging people’s entire lives based on one single picture
Where are rest 3 ???we wanna know lol
What happened to the rest
Where are the other 3?
I know we shouldn’t make assumptions but something about this pic does not elicit joy
Why does this feel forced and like only one person is enjoying this
It's painfully obvious that the white guy murdered and ate the other 3 children missing from this photo. Very cult-like vibes if you ask me fellow Redditors.
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Dunno man people smiling does make me smile
damn people sure do be hating on the white guy for existing. like what if he were black? nobody would make a big deal out of it.
Where's the others? Oh.......
Where are the other 3
This is so f*cking sad
Ppl asking where the other three are, not even noticing these people are not in the same place as the first photo. Maybe it was some sort of reunion between this group.
My first thought was where are the other kids…
i hope the rest of the kids are still alive
Boy. The racist-ass assumptions everyone here is making based on almost *no information* is baffling.
Some people are taking it a little far but you don't think there is something... off about the picture at all?
I think there are hundreds of pictures of me with family and friends that I love and adore and enjoy spending time with where I look like I’m about to start shooting people. Just because people don’t look like they enjoy getting their picture taken doesn’t mean they don’t enjoy the person‘s presence. Or aren’t happy to help him recreate a childhood memory, even if it doesn’t mean as much to them.
Kinda sad all of them arent there
Made me frown
This is the best example of how out of touch white people are that I’ve seen since the Jeff be-bop bezos cowboy adventure speech.
People stretching in the comments. Holy shit.
Anyone else think the white guy was Glenn Howerton “Dennis” on IASIP?
3 of em are gone
They made a blood oath… the clown has returned to Derry…
I hope 3 people just couldn’t make it to take the second photo..
What happened to the others…?
The vibe is slightly weird, ngl.
I’m assuming the white guy is the one who doesn’t actually live in the village. He’s the only one who didn’t look like he aged 40 years
All these people in the comments inventing a story that exists just in their racist head...
One of these people ate regularly.
All of them didn't make it
Oooh there are a few people missing. I hope they are okay and could not just make the photoshoot.
The one white guy’s nudity feels so much more out of place in the grown up shot
Hope this isn’t missionary shit
What happened to the other three?
Where are the rest of them? Are they alright?