In a year that has seen the rise of?blurry photos?and?0.5 selfies, there has also been a new pose taking over Instagram in 2022.?Featuring a blank stare and lifeless rolled eyes: meet the lobotomy-chic aesthetic.

For over a decade, Instagram users posed with the signature?“duck face”?expression favored by the picture-perfect Kardashians, sucking in their cheeks and pursing their lips to create a playful pout.

However,?according to a piece published by Rayne Fisher-Quann in?i-D, the duck face pose has been dethroned in 2022.

In the last year, social media has instead been dominated by models adopting a lobotomy chic aesthetic, also known as the “dissociative pout.”?

The dissociative pout has become the go-to-pose on Instagram and sees subjects “favoring pouty, puffed-out lips stretched into a disaffected frown” with “wide eyes… either captured mid-roll or aimed at the camera in a plaintive, lobotomy-chic stare.”?

Fisher-Quann says the goal of the dissociative pout is “the performance of detachment” and to look as uninterested, apathetic, and numb as possible.

The lobotomy chic aesthetic has been popularized by celebrities like?Billie Eilish,?Amelia Gray HamlinBella Hadid, TikTok star?Addison Rae, and?Euphoria?actress?Chloe Cherry?whose photos have made her the poster-girl of the trend.

All of these Generation Z icons have posted casual selfies which show them posing with relaxed pouty lips, glazed-over eyes, and assuming the blankest expression they can muster to create a lobotomy girl appearance.

It is not just a specific pose that is important to the trend, a distinct style of photography plays a major role in this aesthetic too.

According to?Dazed, photographer?Stolenbesos?has particularly defined the lobotomy chic aesthetic.

Stolenbesos’ work features deadpan models shot with cool-toned flash photography and framed in a pastel-and-black color palette.

Her subjects often pose in obscure settings with random objects to increase the sense of dissociation.Sometimes Stolenbesos’ models, whose faces are washed out by the flash, look like they are not even aware that the photograph is being taken at all.

It is no secret that Generation Z is fascinated by the Y2K era, as witnessed by TikTok’s?revival of the point-and-shoot digital cameras of the early 2000s.?And the lobotomy chic trend is certainly heavily influenced by early 2000s grunge aesthetics.

However, the recent popularity of the lobotomy chic aesthetic can be primarily linked to the many trends that have seen Generation Z rejecting the highly-edited, flawless visuals that they grew up seeing from their millennial counterparts.

Generation Z’s dissociative pout could not be further from its precursor, the duck face.

While the duck face required influencers to tense and exaggerate certain facial muscles, the dissociative pout requires little effort.

While the duck face pose screamed look-at-me, the lobotomy chic aesthetic focuses on apathy and “not caring” as a means of being powerful and attractive.?

The dissociative pout trend is part of Generation Z’s shift away from taking picture-perfect photos in favor of a more “casual Instagram” aesthetic.

Younger people are drawn towards taking more seemingly authentic, imperfect, and candid photos on Instagram — but that does not make these images any less curated than their millennial predecessors.?

“As the ‘casual Instagram’ trend shows, honest performativity in any form has been discarded in favor of a heavily-constructed facade of authenticity,” Fisher-Quann writes in?i-D.?

“Ring-light selfies have been replaced by blurry photos which are nonetheless casually-yet-meticulously photo-dumped in artful configuration,” he continues.

“Effort is out, baby — now, everyone is trying very hard to seem like they’re not trying hard at all.”

The dissociative pout can also be seen as part of a wider trend of women taking ownership of their image. Rather than simply being sexualized for the camera, the lobotomy chic aesthetic makes its subjects appear as undefinable and vague as possible.?

Dazed?writes that for lobotomy chic’s foremost photographer Stolenbesos, “the popularity of her style signifies a shift in how girls are allowed to exist within the photography world. Instead of being bland and sexy, female models can be autonomous, portraying themselves as they wish to be seen.”

“I actually hate the idea that lobotomy-chic is nihilistic,” Stolenbesos tells?Dazed. “Because I think my work is optimistic and hopeful!”?

在模糊照片和 0.5 張自拍照興起的一年里，2022 年也有一種新的姿勢接管了 Instagram。茫然的凝視和毫無生氣的翻白眼：滿足腦葉切除術(shù)別致的美學(xué)。

十多年來，Instagram用戶擺出完美的卡戴珊夫婦喜歡的標(biāo)志性“鴨臉”表情，吮吸他們的臉頰，噘起嘴唇，創(chuàng)造一個俏皮的嘴唇。

然而，根據(jù)雷恩·費(fèi)舍爾-全恩在 i-D 上發(fā)表的一篇文章，鴨臉姿勢已在 2022 年被廢黜。

去年，社交媒體被采用腦葉切除術(shù)別致美學(xué)的模特所主導(dǎo)，也被稱為“分離性嘴唇”。

分離的嘴唇已成為Instagram上的首選姿勢，并看到受試者“喜歡噘嘴，鼓起的嘴唇伸展成不滿的皺眉”，“睜大眼睛......要么在中卷中拍攝，要么以平淡的、腦葉切除術(shù)般別致的凝視瞄準(zhǔn)相機(jī)。

Fisher-Quann說，分離性噘嘴的目標(biāo)是“超脫的表現(xiàn)”，并盡可能看起來不感興趣，冷漠和麻木。

腦葉切除術(shù)別致的美學(xué)已被比莉·艾利什、阿米莉亞·格雷·哈姆林貝拉·哈迪德、TikTok 明星艾迪生·雷和欣快女演員克洛伊·櫻桃等名人推廣，他們的照片使她成為潮流的海報女孩。

所有這些 Z 世代偶像都發(fā)布了休閑自拍照，顯示他們擺出放松的嘴唇、琉璃般的眼睛，并擺出最空白的表情，以創(chuàng)造一個腦葉切除術(shù)女孩的外觀。

對趨勢很重要的不僅僅是一個特定的姿勢，獨(dú)特的攝影風(fēng)格在這種美學(xué)中也起著重要作用。

根據(jù)Dazed的說法，攝影師Stolenbesos特別定義了腦葉切除術(shù)的別致美學(xué)。

Stolenbesos的作品以冷色調(diào)閃光燈攝影拍攝的死板模型為特色，并以柔和和的黑色調(diào)色板裝裱。

她的拍攝對象經(jīng)常在晦澀的環(huán)境中與隨機(jī)物體擺姿勢，以增加分離感。有時，Stolenbesos的模特們的臉被閃光燈洗掉了，看起來他們甚至根本沒有意識到照片正在拍攝。

眾所周知，Z世代對Y2K時代著迷，TikTok在2000年代初復(fù)興傻瓜數(shù)碼相機(jī)就是證明。腦葉切除術(shù)的時尚趨勢肯定受到 2000 年代早期垃圾美學(xué)的嚴(yán)重影響。

然而，最近腦葉切除術(shù)別致美學(xué)的流行主要與許多趨勢有關(guān)，這些趨勢已經(jīng)看到Z世代拒絕了他們從千禧一代看到的高度編輯，完美無瑕的視覺效果。

Z世代的分離性噘嘴離它的前身鴨臉再遠(yuǎn)不過了。

雖然鴨臉需要有影響力的人緊張和夸大某些面部肌肉，但分離的嘴唇幾乎不需要努力。

當(dāng)鴨臉姿勢尖叫著看著我時，腦葉切除術(shù)別致的美學(xué)側(cè)重于冷漠和“不在乎”作為強(qiáng)大和有吸引力的手段。

分離的噘嘴趨勢是Z世代從拍攝完美照片轉(zhuǎn)向更“休閑的Instagram”美學(xué)的一部分。

年輕人被吸引到Instagram上拍攝更多看似真實(shí)，不完美和坦率的照片 - 但這并沒有使這些圖像比他們的千禧一代前輩更不精心策劃。

“正如'休閑Instagram'趨勢所表明的那樣，任何形式的誠實(shí)表演都被拋棄了，取而代之的是大量構(gòu)建的真實(shí)性外表，”Fisher-Quann在i-D中寫道。

“環(huán)光自拍照已被模糊的照片所取代，這些照片仍然是隨意而細(xì)致的照片，以巧妙的配置傾倒，”他繼續(xù)說道。

“努力已經(jīng)出來了，寶貝——現(xiàn)在，每個人都在努力，看起來他們根本沒有努力。

分離的噘嘴也可以被視為女性擁有自己形象的更廣泛趨勢的一部分。腦葉切除術(shù)別致的美學(xué)不是簡單地為相機(jī)性化，而是使其主題看起來盡可能無法定義和模糊。

Dazed寫道，對于腦葉切除術(shù)時尚最重要的攝影師Stolenbesos來說，“她風(fēng)格的流行意味著女孩在攝影世界中被允許存在的方式發(fā)生了轉(zhuǎn)變。與其平淡無奇，女模特可以自主，按照自己希望被看到的樣子描繪自己。

“我實(shí)際上討厭腦葉切除術(shù)是虛無主義的想法，”Stolenbesos告訴Dazed?！耙?yàn)槲矣X得我的工作是樂觀和充滿希望的！”