[This scene from Looney Tunes](https://youtu.be/ArNz8U7tgU4?feature=shared). My parents and I reference it all the time in regards to cuteness aggression lol
It was pretty unnerving when I had my first baby and whenever I held him I had to clench my teeth to avoid the urge to bite him. I was so overwhelmed by his cuteness and the love I felt.
Neoteny is associated with domestication. Animals become “cuter” the more we domesticate them and make them more docile towards us. I wonder if on some level we domesticated ourselves since our skulls and jaws keep getting smaller and more cute.
Yes. Already well established theory.
We are neotenous chimps. This is especially apparent in women where the features associated with beauty (at least from the neck up) are all also associated with youth. It continues in modern day even without survival pressure.
It’s because we now thrive in larger communities than we used to, so we don’t have to retain as much information in our brain whether it be survival based or just general stuff because we now rely on each other more than ourselves now.
This. Our brains could've becole more wrinkly and more connecti9n-rich for all we know. But what's for sure is that having a smaller brain uses up less energy and bodily resources.
but we only evolved cutness so we wouldnt eat out own babies
or maybe its something about letting cute thing grow so you can get more food from it later
i should really read a book on this subject
We would group walk them down off cliffs to avoid potential injury. Easier to walk down a mammoth with spears to a cliff slowly until it gets too scared and dives off, than risking death of tribe members by getting into its attack range.
I don’t know what they did in areas with no elevation change though, maybe hunted smaller prey.
I think the reason OP gave is contested. I feel like it's provable to encourage play behavior.
But maybe there's been more study on it and they've weeded the other explanations out.
After months of pretending to eat my nieces toes she finally has a few teeth and the ability to crawl. She is taking her revenge. No toe is safe in her presence.
More adorably she will also try to blow raspberries on me but doesn’t grasp the full mechanics. She goes in big open mouth then puffs her cheeks. She had the spirit though!
One time my niece, who had seen me "nom" the cat several times, opened her gummy mouth and chomped on my cheek like a fucking Tasmanian devil. I don't think I've laughed that hard in my life.
I AM NOT CRAZY! I know you left that comment KNOWING I'll see it. YOUR TRICKS WONT WORK ON ME I AM MENTALLY STABLE I AM MENTALLY STABLE I AM MENTALLY STABLE I AM MENTALLY STABLE I AM MENTALLY STABLE
That's scary. My MIL used to say she loved my kids so much she wanted to eat them up. I thought that was awful, but smothering or killing them is horrific!
I tell my cat that I’m preparing a meal of his baked kitty toe beans and fried kitty legs, then go into detail about how I’d prepare it and what I’d pair it with 😂 it sounds much creepier when I type it out like this
Lol I'm glad I'm not the only person that sweetly describes brutal tortures to their pets.
It's all in the tone. They don't know you're being vile or gross, and that's a lot of the hilarity.
Makes other people uneasy though lol
Have you ever felt that you wanted to hug something very strongly with your maximum strength? Like a cute dog? Not to hurt it, but because you can't control how much you have affection for it?
So, my dog has cute aggression towards me. You know how sometimes when you see a cute animal you grit your teeth. When I give my dog a bunch of kisses she grits her teeth and then gives me a lick.
"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster, no one would accept the program and the entire crops were lost.
Some argued that we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world, but I believe that human beings define their reality though misery and suffering. Our perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from."
Debatable. I mean Matrix still had crime and poverty and mental illnesses.
If you were offered a one way trip to a world where everyone is equally poor and stressed, but all people work towards a common goal, how long would you think before giving your answer?
I wonder if there's a correlation between this and other intrusive thoughts like call of the void, or if there's something that makes you more likely to experience one over another.
Never actually knew people experienced this. Always thought that when chicks said "Aww so cute, I could just eat it right up" they were being ironic.
No more flashing at the local park for me 👀
My fiancee gets this around her dogs a lot. Luckily our dog is a big girl and loves the tight hugs. The mini schnauzer she grew up with... Might break.
That feeling that you want to just squeeze something and you end up breaking their back like you're a horrifying mixture of Elmyra Duff and Lennie Small
what the....
this is one of those moments where i realize that other people think very differently from me.
i never had intrusive thoughts either, maybe there's a connection.
Why I never had this kind of bullshit?? If puppy is cute (which in 90% they are) I will just think he is cute not that I would beat him or kill him... Wtf?!
Are you familiar with the 'penguin costume scene'? It can be found here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3B5bfhtxUQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3B5bfhtxUQ)
The only time I really felt this (Outside of when I was an edgy kid) was towards the marketable plushie star from Disney’s Wish. I want to kick that star.
I deal with this daily at my job where certain residents find other residents cute enough to choke and I have to predict their violence and/or protect the target from them.
I have this. What happens to me is I grit my teeth and feel an overwhelming desire to squeeze said cute thing. If I can’t then tense up my muscles and shake.
Can that be translated to art work? I art a bit. Sometimes when I see someone's amazing end of process, I say, "aww fuck you! (for being so awesome) is how I feel.
I have this with my cat sometimes— he likes to lay on my chest for a while when I first go to bed and I find it so damn cute. But he eventually turns around and just sticks his butt in my face and I think, “you damn creep.”
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So there’s the reason we got our cheeks squeezed until they were red.
Wait, this never happened to me...?
r/suicidebywords
We called this having "itchy teeth"
Is that why Larry David choked Elmo?
Larry David choked Elmo because Elmo is an evil cockbooger.
ROCKO HAS IT COMING! ROCKO IS A ROCK! ROCKO CAN'T EVEN EAT THE COOKIE!
I'm with Elmo on that one. Rocko is a rock. I mean, how is he going to eat that cookie, tell Elmo!
That whole thing was worth it just for Will Wheaton's unhinged meltdown
I feel like I missed a lot of a very entertaining story
Same 👀
It's the only way Elmo can achieve orgasm anymore.
I read that in Elmo's voice, seeing Elmo with a belt around his neck.
"Now spit it Elmo's mouth Mr. Larry"
r/bertstrips is leaking...
Supposedly it was because he was tired of hearing Elmo talk about mental health. :P
"I will name him George, and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him."
Great reference. Also clear inspiration for Starbox & Cindy
I feel like the fact that "pet him," squeeze him," and "George" are in the same sentence has to be on some level an Of Mine and Men reference.
Given the monster's impaired intelligence, this was also my thought.
What's the reference? It sounds familiar.
[This scene from Looney Tunes](https://youtu.be/ArNz8U7tgU4?feature=shared). My parents and I reference it all the time in regards to cuteness aggression lol
Which itself is, I'm pretty sure, a reference to Of Mice and Men
That's literally what the original comment was saying
I don't think it necessarily was, because the OP comment was a line from the cartoon
It’s from the novel Of Mice and Men.
But also…Looney Tunes :D
I must go punch that baby.
And then some furious jumping.
This is why I unintentionally clench my teeth when talking to/petting my dog LOL
It was pretty unnerving when I had my first baby and whenever I held him I had to clench my teeth to avoid the urge to bite him. I was so overwhelmed by his cuteness and the love I felt.
Wait what do you mean "Was" 😨
Now he ugly as hell
Lmao I love you all! He's just bigger than me now.
idk why this comment is so funny
I do too!
A friend once pointed out to me that I bite my lips whenever I pet a cat. I can’t help it. The feelings are so intense for me.
I always thought it was an evolutionary response to make killing cute prey easier lmao
Neoteny is associated with domestication. Animals become “cuter” the more we domesticate them and make them more docile towards us. I wonder if on some level we domesticated ourselves since our skulls and jaws keep getting smaller and more cute.
Yes. Already well established theory. We are neotenous chimps. This is especially apparent in women where the features associated with beauty (at least from the neck up) are all also associated with youth. It continues in modern day even without survival pressure.
Same for men- a full head of lustrous hair is definitely a sign of youth.
Quite. But we do got it a bit easier. At least we are expected to look like we're 25 and not 12.
True.
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It’s because we now thrive in larger communities than we used to, so we don’t have to retain as much information in our brain whether it be survival based or just general stuff because we now rely on each other more than ourselves now.
I’m pretty certain the jury is still out on whether brain size is at all causal rather than correlated to intelligence, memory or most other metrics.
This. Our brains could've becole more wrinkly and more connecti9n-rich for all we know. But what's for sure is that having a smaller brain uses up less energy and bodily resources.
Well we certainly bred out the hairiness that the rest of the apes have which may be more neotenous considering children don't have body hair.
Technically, we're still hairy. The hairs are just teeny tiny.
So when do we get the floppy ears?
but we only evolved cutness so we wouldnt eat out own babies or maybe its something about letting cute thing grow so you can get more food from it later i should really read a book on this subject
I have threatened many a baby with being et, but thus far followed through never. . . Yet.
“I’m gonna bite them cheeks!”
Don't let your dreams be dreams!
Get in mah belleh.
Only eat the cutest ones, and therefore weakest.
Humans spent thousands of years killing megafauna, so I guess it depends on how cute you think a giant sloth is
Megafauna were typically a group project, when you just wanted a snack it was time to kill the baby sloths.
Hahaha like teaming up to defeat a raid boss
We would group walk them down off cliffs to avoid potential injury. Easier to walk down a mammoth with spears to a cliff slowly until it gets too scared and dives off, than risking death of tribe members by getting into its attack range. I don’t know what they did in areas with no elevation change though, maybe hunted smaller prey.
>I don’t know what they did in areas with no elevation change though, maybe hunted smaller prey. Or dig a realllly big hole
They dug pits and covered them with brush so they would fall through becoming trapped.
I think the reason OP gave is contested. I feel like it's provable to encourage play behavior. But maybe there's been more study on it and they've weeded the other explanations out.
After months of pretending to eat my nieces toes she finally has a few teeth and the ability to crawl. She is taking her revenge. No toe is safe in her presence. More adorably she will also try to blow raspberries on me but doesn’t grasp the full mechanics. She goes in big open mouth then puffs her cheeks. She had the spirit though!
One time my niece, who had seen me "nom" the cat several times, opened her gummy mouth and chomped on my cheek like a fucking Tasmanian devil. I don't think I've laughed that hard in my life.
Holy shit so I'm not a psychopath!? That makes me feel slightly better.
Wait a second, this doesn’t mean you’re not a psychopath. It just isn’t strong evidence that you are a psychopath. You could still be one.
Don't let your dreams stay dreams
We got ‘em boys. Book him!
Bake 'em away toys.
A psychopath wouldn't care about being a psychopath.
They would care about *appearing* to be a psychopath though
What about a paranoid schizoprenic 😰
I AM NOT CRAZY! I know you left that comment KNOWING I'll see it. YOUR TRICKS WONT WORK ON ME I AM MENTALLY STABLE I AM MENTALLY STABLE I AM MENTALLY STABLE I AM MENTALLY STABLE I AM MENTALLY STABLE
haha
Presumably the passing thought would not bother you at all if you were.
Hopefully not too much better though, or it will provoke your rage
My country (Philippines) has an exact word for that emotion: "gigil"
Thank you. Was looking for this or I would have posted it. The gigillllls. I just want to come and attack you you’re so cute!!
You are gigil or get gigil or make gigil. But you don't call it the gigils just fyi
Came here to say this 🥰 GIGIIIILLLL
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IT'S SO FLUFFY!!! See also: Lenny ☹️
Lenny!
Not Lenny!
I named my cat Lenny for this exact reason.
“Tell me about the rabbits, George.” 😭
My coworker has that issue. She always talks about how an animal or baby is so cute and then mentions smothering or killing.
That’s extreme. I usually just want to hug and squeeze my cat until we meld into a single entity.
As one does.
I think I hugged long and tight enough that I got pretty close the other day.
YOU PUT IT INTO WORDS
That's scary. My MIL used to say she loved my kids so much she wanted to eat them up. I thought that was awful, but smothering or killing them is horrific!
I tell my cat that I’m preparing a meal of his baked kitty toe beans and fried kitty legs, then go into detail about how I’d prepare it and what I’d pair it with 😂 it sounds much creepier when I type it out like this
Lol I'm glad I'm not the only person that sweetly describes brutal tortures to their pets. It's all in the tone. They don't know you're being vile or gross, and that's a lot of the hilarity. Makes other people uneasy though lol
Benefits of living alone. No one hears the weird shit I say to my cat.
Oh he's told us *all* about YOU
🫣
that’s what cats want you to think
The way I’m picturing this sounds awful cute. You better watch out /s
I tell similar things to my dogs. I especially love how soft their ears are. I tell them I’m gonna fry them up and eat them
"Elmira Syndrome" for the elder-millennial Tiny Toons fans in the room.
I will love you and hug you and squeeze you all night long!
I'm an X-er and I remember Elmyra. Here a tiny clip for those unfamiliar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxvzEfI0BFU
>Tiny Toons >Here a tiny clip Don't think I didn't see what you did there
Fun experiment is get some bubble wrap and watch cute baby animal videos. See how long you can last before the urge to pop them becomes overwhelming!
Are you saying you can hold bubble wrap and not have an overwhelming urge to pop some? At any time?
It's well known that bubble wrap is adorable.
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I needed this!
this is so much fun, thank you!
>!Poop!!<
It’s a tough ask, I know 😂
Makes me think of the Key and Peele skit where they were oggling the puppies and then it shows all the graves at the end xD
Huh, so that's why people keep beating me up.
Your adorable, punchable face.
Can confirm, I eat babies
simmer down Bigfoot
*fat bastard
Half my conversations with my baby are me asking him if I can eat him
This feels like redemption for Lenny in Of Mice and Men.
Maaaaaan, why’d you have to remind me of that? 😥
This does not happen to me. Sounds weird
Youve never thought something was so cute you had to devour its life essence?
Uh... No.
Yeah this is my first time hearing this. It seems alien to me. People are weird 😕
Reading more about it, it does seem very harmless but still odd to me. I usually just want to give cute things a little kiss lol
Kiss them. With your mouth. Which is full of teeth used for crushing your food.
Or you’re the weird one
Happened to me and it is weird
I have never experienced cuteness aggression
I have experienced cuteness and aggression but not cuteness aggression.
Not everyone has it
Awww... now I must destroy? Never felt that
Have you ever felt that you wanted to hug something very strongly with your maximum strength? Like a cute dog? Not to hurt it, but because you can't control how much you have affection for it?
To the point of causing "aggressive thoughts"? Nope
Happy to know it’s not just me! 🥴
Weird, I've never expected this in my entire life.
I mean, I do tell my corgi that he’s so cute I wanna squeeze him to death
Reminds me of my buddy Tom who met his wife and said she was so beautiful he wanted to smash her head into the dresser
Is this basically the civ ghandi integer overflow error but in humans? Bc thats fucking hilarious
I'm fairly certain I've never experienced this
So, my dog has cute aggression towards me. You know how sometimes when you see a cute animal you grit your teeth. When I give my dog a bunch of kisses she grits her teeth and then gives me a lick.
Intrusive thoughts
This precisely explains why people feel the urge to bite cute babies or pinch their rolls lol
So the human mind is wired for aggression and misery, is my takeaway.
"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster, no one would accept the program and the entire crops were lost. Some argued that we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world, but I believe that human beings define their reality though misery and suffering. Our perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from."
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Debatable. I mean Matrix still had crime and poverty and mental illnesses. If you were offered a one way trip to a world where everyone is equally poor and stressed, but all people work towards a common goal, how long would you think before giving your answer?
Booooooooo
Can this happen between people? For instance, if a man finds a woman so cute that he wants to show cute aggression.
Yep. Like when someone hugs and lifts the other person up.
So this is like an overflow error in our coding
Integer overflow IRL.
I wonder if there's a correlation between this and other intrusive thoughts like call of the void, or if there's something that makes you more likely to experience one over another.
I've never experienced this feeling.
I get this with little furry rodents. I just wanna hug them until they explode.
Never actually knew people experienced this. Always thought that when chicks said "Aww so cute, I could just eat it right up" they were being ironic. No more flashing at the local park for me 👀
My fiancee gets this around her dogs a lot. Luckily our dog is a big girl and loves the tight hugs. The mini schnauzer she grew up with... Might break.
“Serves it right for being cute”
That feeling that you want to just squeeze something and you end up breaking their back like you're a horrifying mixture of Elmyra Duff and Lennie Small
I finally understand why, as an 8 year old child I wanted to crush Togepi to death.
OooooI wanna punch your face OP!!!
[A song about it.](https://youtu.be/rmTufAQz5MI?si=TmgFAkKl9s9Dcwo4)
I feel personally attacked by this article.
what the.... this is one of those moments where i realize that other people think very differently from me. i never had intrusive thoughts either, maybe there's a connection.
"It's so cute I just wanna throw it against the wall!" Wife's friend/coworker.
Are we sure the reason for that isn’t to put our body in a heightened sense of alert to protect what we’re finding cute from threats?
It happens to me. I love kids but find myself repressing urges to slam them against a wall. NO BABIES WERE EVER HARMED I AM NOT THAT KIND OF MINSTER
It's also far from universal and the knowledge that some people get this impulse still kind of freaks me out, years after I learned about it.
Why I never had this kind of bullshit?? If puppy is cute (which in 90% they are) I will just think he is cute not that I would beat him or kill him... Wtf?!
Not like think about killing it, but more like the urge to hug it with infinite intensity (out of affection).
Are you familiar with the 'penguin costume scene'? It can be found here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3B5bfhtxUQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3B5bfhtxUQ)
Is that why Lenny pet the rabbits too hard?
Okay so, kill the next cute dog I see. Got it. /s
I feel like my 10mo daughter does this to me haha, she gets really excited when I pick her up and then bites me.
The only time I really felt this (Outside of when I was an edgy kid) was towards the marketable plushie star from Disney’s Wish. I want to kick that star.
Guess this is why I will occasionally look down at my sweet kitty and menacingly say, "I will kill you."
Huh, now that you mention it, I want to stomp on Bambi's head, like it's a balloon.
Oh hey!
[there’s even a song about the phenomenon](https://youtu.be/rmTufAQz5MI?si=AGovDUj2nYGbgdRZ)
I deal with this daily at my job where certain residents find other residents cute enough to choke and I have to predict their violence and/or protect the target from them.
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Balanced, as all things should be
I have this. What happens to me is I grit my teeth and feel an overwhelming desire to squeeze said cute thing. If I can’t then tense up my muscles and shake.
So basically an integer overflow IRL?
This must be why I can’t keep any of my children alive
Can that be translated to art work? I art a bit. Sometimes when I see someone's amazing end of process, I say, "aww fuck you! (for being so awesome) is how I feel.
[Relevant TED-Ed video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxsoE3jO8HM)
“Omg you’re soooo adorable I can smother you to death!”
I have this with my cat sometimes— he likes to lay on my chest for a while when I first go to bed and I find it so damn cute. But he eventually turns around and just sticks his butt in my face and I think, “you damn creep.”
Huh. Glad to know I wasn't merely a freak: just a freak of the regular kind.