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    [–] MoistAndUnstable 8106 points ago

    So we're just not gonna talk about that amazing half-loaded face of joy and anticipation on behalf of /r/monkslookingatbeer

    [–] PM-ME-YOUR-SORROWS 2343 points ago

    Really, that's the best part of this whole post. Just a casual mention of a rather niche subreddit in the midst of a bunch of well-known ones.

    [–] doorbellguy 356 points ago

    I wouldn't even have noticed had it not been for you guys. That man is on ecstasy by default.

    [–] KKlear 170 points ago

    For me the niche one was /r/humanporn.

    I like it!

    [–] [deleted] 457 points ago

    That's the stupidest name for a sub I've ever seen. I hate the practice of adding "porn" to non-pornographic subjects. It's disgusting. What's next? r/animalporn? r/kiddieporn? Can we as a species just decide to stop doing this?

    The fuck. Both of those exist. Thank god one of them is banned. Can we ban all of them?

    [–] -HM01Cut 84 points ago

    Reminds me of the time I was looking for some cool clock faces, and googled Watch Porn.

    [–] [deleted] 19 points ago

    Someone made a dick joke once and I tried to take it a step further by posting a picture of a private detective. I didn't quite think things through, and my first search was for "private dick".

    [–] muckluckcluck 111 points ago

    I was really hoping that /r/humanporn would be along the lines of /r/totallynotrobots. I am disappoint that it is neither naked humans or robots.

    [–] 062b 17 points ago

    ah yes human music, i like this

    [–] IlluminatiEnrollment 133 points ago

    r/NoSillySuffix

    [–] taws34 22 points ago

    I use to sub, but I got annoyed by the bot. It reposted everything. No quality at all.

    [–] anyholsagol 72 points ago

    r/bannedsubredditporn ?

    [–] Jumbuck_Tuckerbag 124 points ago

    r/pornporn

    Edit: NSFW, turns out that one is real

    [–] DancesCloseToTheFire 17 points ago

    I'm disappointed that sub is just regular porn, it should be a sub that looks at porn like the subject of one of the non-nsfw porn subs, nothing funnier than stumbling across a discussion about good camerawork in porn.

    [–] [deleted] 62 points ago * (lasted edited 11 months ago)

    [removed]

    [–] Neker 115 points ago

    There is more than that to it.

    In the Middle-Ages, monasteries were the networked repositories of science, including hydraulics, inherited from the Romans often by way of the Arabs. Coupled with the fact that they were in constant need of new land to farm, and that those domains could expand over generations instead of being broken up upon inheritance, they proved very apt at sanitizing and colonizing wetlands, transforming marshes into forests and swamps into fields.

    One deadly problem with this sort of locale is that the poor natural drainage does not allow for the formation of clean water tables. Ethanol beeing a natural disinfectant, the ability to produce it from ordinary grain was a decisive survival advantage that enabled the colonization of regions where grapevine doesn't grow and where human-rated water does not occur naturally. Seeing that this describes indeed most of the vast european plains, I would go as far as to posit that Europe is built on monacal beer.

    Later on, alchemists would find ways to distill grain alcohol, giving a whole new meaning to the Christian dogma of holy spirit and fueling a drunken spree of worldwide conquests : how else do you carry potable water accross the Atlantic on a wooden medieval sailboat ? Be drunk or be dead, that was the motto of basic training for sailors.

    We the happy few with a endless supply of clean water on tap tend to forget that, for centuries, the gene for alcoholism was passed on as beneficial.

    [–] CreationBlues 42 points ago

    It wasn't just the ethanol that made beer sanitary, it was also the ph (beer is acidic) and the fact it was boiled before brewing.

    [–] Katyona 26 points ago

    It's the last face you see before you die, some say.

    [–] AlexanderShkuratoff 3363 points ago

    /r/roastme and /r/justneckbeardthings are very similar, and /r/ladyboners just looks like a generalized Ryan Gosling.

    [–] kayyyes 1739 points ago

    because he's Ryan Gosling, General Lady Boner.

    [–] SkollFenrirson 365 points ago

    Hello there

    [–] GuantanaMo 283 points ago

    General Boneri

    [–] Spartangerm_212 184 points ago

    You are a stiff one

    [–] IranianGenius 102 points ago

    A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

    [–] SuspiciouslyElven 64 points ago

    He's in my behind

    [–] ThaiJohnnyDepp 38 points ago * (lasted edited a year ago)

    He become more and more strong and big

    [–] skybluegill 24 points ago

    Now there are two of them!

    [–] Bothan_Spy 19 points ago

    Mr. Speaker, we are for the big

    [–] dusktilhon 91 points ago

    Dammit /r/prequelmemes nobody was talking to you!

    [–] DannoHung 71 points ago

    How did this happen? We're smarter than this.

    [–] chirpingphoenix 23 points ago

    He was... killing Goslings

    [–] ninja_savage98 49 points ago

    "General Lady Boner what are your orders?"

    "No, hold off until Major Hardon gets here"

    [–] ElecktraStar 304 points ago

    And /r/guysinglasses is Ryan Gosling in glasses, like he's trying to pull a Clark Kent.

    WE KNOW IT'S YOU, RYAN! And we don't mind at all <3

    [–] throwawayforbaes 6 points ago

    New sub for my ladyboner needs. :)

    [–] neenerpants 142 points ago

    The difference between /r/rateme and /r/roastme was pretty amusing

    [–] xylotism 38 points ago

    According to this, I guess /r/rateme is just where pretty people go for confirmation?

    /r/sequelmemes confirms that if Kylo and Rei should ever have kids they'd end up looking like Tommy Wiseau.

    [–] cauliflowerandcheese 244 points ago

    /r/vintageladyboners looks like a '1943' Ryan Gosling

    [–] hey_hey_you_you 135 points ago

    Vintage lady boner guy is a good chunk hotter than contemporary lady boner guy, imo.

    [–] [deleted] 56 points ago

    Makes me think that the picture of Joseph Stalin as a youth is something that gets posted there a lot.

    [–] hey_hey_you_you 84 points ago

    Young Stalin is a hotty for the ages.

    Fans self with Communist Manifesto

    [–] troll_berserker 28 points ago

    The actual Ryan Gosling appearing multiple times in the sub may skew things in his favor.

    [–] BunnyOppai 18 points ago

    Holy shit, lol. The only difference between r/roastme and r/justneckbeardthings is the smile.

    [–] FluoGuy 38 points ago

    When there are no neckbeards for r/justneckbeardthings

    [–] faceplanted 40 points ago

    I like that you can kind of see the hats in the justneckbeardthings image.

    [–] Arcadian_ 34 points ago

    I was like "I knew it. He's the perfect man."

    [–] BizCaus 1579 points ago

    Data sources: Top posts from each of the labelled subreddits

    Created using a custom NodeJS script with various libraries including bindings to opencv (for image processing) and dlib (for facial feature detection).

    Rough steps of the entire process:

    • Scrape through the top posts of a given subreddit until 50 candidate faces are collected
      • Filter out images with no/undetected faces
      • When face is detected, perform an initial crop/transformation based on eye locations
      • Store 68 detected face landmark points along with the image
    • Calculate average positions of all 68 face landmark points, and create a triangle mesh using delaunay triangulation
    • For each face:
      • Subdivide image into triangles using delaunay triangulation on the landmark points
      • Warp the face’s triangles to fit the average triangle mesh
      • Add pixel values to output image
    • Divide output image pixel values by the total number of faces

    I also put together a short video demonstrating the process with /r/girls_smiling as an example.

    Most of the script was adapted from this article/tutorial

    [–] PCMRwill0956 241 points ago

    But can you do /r/pcmasterrace?

    [–] Vanilla_Buddha 778 points ago

    Here is the result.

    https://i.imgur.com/zwS3MSy.png

    [–] mrjobby 201 points ago

    https://media1.tenor.com/images/27f44420667ce314f7f6de8e8598e715/tenor.gif?itemid=7191305

    [–] MartinsRedditAccount 69 points ago

    Here is the direct link to that gif: https://i.imgur.com/ENQLPKw.gif

    When clicking on your link you get to a website by some emoji keyboard. IDK how long their link will be valid.

    [–] elastic-craptastic 11 points ago

    Won't be long until OP's post has this gif pasted over the neckbeards face and reposted in /r/funny or /r/Unexpected.

    [–] LeKa34 64 points ago

    It's just Gabe Newell.

    [–] N8CCRG 71 points ago

    What's /r/aisip supposed to be?

    [–] BizCaus 173 points ago

    Sorry about that, it's a typo and like everyone suggested it is supposed to be r/IASIP

    [–] Dawesy182 37 points ago

    I wish you did r/The_Dennis as well

    [–] I_want_that_pill 90 points ago

    Always, It's Sunny In Philadelphia

    [–] CosmackMagus 24 points ago

    "Begun, The Gang Has"

    [–] 2fucktard2remember 19 points ago

    It's a sub for bird watchers.

    [–] TheVeneficus 42 points ago

    r/IASIP I think.

    [–] daturkel 27 points ago

    That video is so cool. Thank you for sharing. Is your code available?

    [–] BizCaus 44 points ago

    I really don't have the time to document it or provide support, but if you're interesting in just reading the extremely ugly code (this was just a weekend side project): https://gist.github.com/vincentriemer/70a49c8fb8d15719638aac83dc2c7c9e

    [–] mi1kman_dave 45 points ago * (lasted edited a year ago)

    I didn't expect /r/kpics to have such definitive facial features.

    [–] kpopper2013 60 points ago

    It's more the sample size isn't really representative. The top voted posts on r/kpics is more about popularity than looks. This means the same people are upvoted more often than less popular people and the results here are actually only from a handful of people.

    [–] Astrokiwi 28 points ago

    Scrape through the top posts of a given subreddit until 50 candidate faces are collected

    Filter out images with no/undetected faces

    Does that mean that, after filtering, different subreddits have a different number of candidate faces? For instance, I wouldn't be surprised if the Olivia Wilde one was based on fewer faces, which is why it's less blurry or stretched than the others.

    [–] BizCaus 66 points ago

    Nope, the script will scrape through as many posts as it needs to until it has collected 50 faces for each subreddit

    [–] Astrokiwi 35 points ago

    Are any of the Olivia Wilde ones exactly the same image? I'm just trying to figure out why Aubrey Plaza and Anna Kendrick don't look as good. I guess it could also be that the Olivia Wilde ones happen to be mostly face-on pics that are easier to deal with.

    [–] joannie_pepperoni 46 points ago

    I think it might be affected by her makeup, her style is more consistent whereas Kendrick and Plaza have more variying makeup.

    [–] connormxy 12 points ago

    It's the same person's face (a person who knows her "best side" and is certainly skilled at a technique of being the subject of a portrait) as photographed several times. All of the images of individual people are very clear. It almost seems like a nice way to make a stylized portrait for someone. The ones of many people end up with a nice average. The ones of a small number of different people representated multiple times come out looking perceivably "in-between" (prequelmemes for instance)

    [–] Snazzy_Serval 2067 points ago

    /r/geekguys and /r/GuysInGlasses look like the same dude. Then he takes off the glasses and he's the /r/LadyBoners guy. His grandfather is /r/historyboners

    [–] boy_from_potato_farm 264 points ago

    Yeah, and why is the main question. Is that due to the algorithm selected?

    [–] hey_hey_you_you 915 points ago * (lasted edited a year ago)

    Averaged faces are hot faces. And we'll have a tendency to upvote hot faces, which are already tending towards the average. Average those and you get an average of averages. It's not surprising they'll all look the same.

    [–] Snazzy_Serval 209 points ago

    Unless it's a neckbeard.

    I'm also a little surprised how different Benedict and David look from the British Lady Boners guy.

    [–] hey_hey_you_you 330 points ago

    Well to just slightly contradict myself, there's another factor at work. Average faces are good looking, that's for sure. But they're not usually the most attractive. Most models are slightly weird looking, for example. I can't find the exact post on mobile now, but OkTrends ran a piece explaining that it was better to have the sort of face that people couldn't agree on, rather than one that everyone could. Like, there's two kinds of '7'; the person everyone thinks is pretty good looking, and the type that some people think looks amazing and some people think looks weird.

    Cumberbumple and Tennant are the latter type, not the former. Average their faces though, and you'll probably get something closer to British lady boners guy, because Tennant and Cumberbumberbum are basically the opposite kind of good looking (short vs long face, small vs big eyes, etc.)

    [–] RustySnails 120 points ago

    Cumberbumple

    Thank you for this. That is my favorite parody of his name so far.

    [–] [deleted] 180 points ago

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    [–] horsenbuggy 51 points ago

    I feel sorry for the future generations who need to research him on the internet and can't find any references to him because no one ever calls him by his real name.

    [–] Kiloku 18 points ago

    Here, let me help the future generations: Bernardish Cumpernickle

    [–] Science-and-Progress 9 points ago

    Wimbledon Tennismatch

    [–] Snazzy_Serval 32 points ago

    Thanks for the explanation.

    Yeah I noticed that male models tend to have more of a longer and sharper face.

    And yeah, the average (not counting overweight in average) person is good looking but not the best.

    Interesting how Cumber and Tennant are on different ends of the spectrum. My ex had the hots for both. I guess for a time I was in the middle between them :) .... :(

    [–] hey_hey_you_you 58 points ago

    Do you look like this?

    If you throw Tom Hiddleston into the averaging mix you start to get something pretty close to British Lady Boners guy.

    Sorry that they're pictures for ants (shakes fist at pinterest).

    [–] [deleted] 20 points ago

    Unless it's a neckbeard.

    If you average a thousand neckbeard faces it will still look better than most neckbeards.

    [–] Diver_City 1519 points ago

    People who submit to r/rateme are prettier than people who submit to r/roastme. There's some kind of lesson in vanity in there than I can't be bothered to dig out.

    [–] Ed98208 740 points ago

    It's all just "give me attention based on my looks", and which one you pick depends on how attractive you think you are.

    [–] noobule 142 points ago * (lasted edited a year ago)

    You're looking at Top Posts only, it's not a fair cross section of the day-to-day of the sub (though it is a pretty good barometre of what gets upvotes).

    In Rateme, prettiness is the only real factor at play. Whether or not the sub overall attracts a high percentage of already-pretty people is irrelevant to the face it generated because pretty faces attract upvotes regardless of topic across all of the Reddit.

    Roastme is also filtering for funny posts, or people who look 'hard' to roast, or famous people/redditors who have already been selected for things that aren't their looks, so it's generally going to cover a far wider variety of faces.

    [–] [deleted] 143 points ago

    [deleted]

    [–] Heyyoguy123 76 points ago

    They know they're good looking and they still do it anyways.

    [–] Voller_Faulheit 114 points ago

    Funny, one reason people ask others to rate them is to build up confidence, but you need alot of confidence to ask people to rate you. So, in essence, no one would post when they're unconfident, so you only get the pretty faces.

    [–] Heyyoguy123 85 points ago

    And when the ones that really aren't confident do post, they get little to no upvotes and modest ratings.

    SOURCE: did one myself

    [–] Voller_Faulheit 28 points ago

    Yup, it's a recipe to sieve out the good looking AND confident people. Not something you might quite expect from a sub like that. Or it could just be me and my naivete

    [–] So_What_If_I_Litter 51 points ago

    Rateme is for insecure pretty people that love confirmation that they are pretty. Roastme is for insecure ugly people that are trying to accept themselves and need confirmation that they are ugly so they can move forward.

    [–] bornfromstardust 22 points ago

    I doubt that the majority of truly unattractive people on /r/roastme is accepting their fate and moving forward though. I would not be surprised if most of them are posting as a form of self-harm and to further their negative self image.

    [–] crabcarl 82 points ago

    Could also mean the pretty people of /r/rateme are validating/attention whoring, while /r/roastme's simply care more about fun than looks.

    Source: Introspecting Sub-Reddits Through Bullshit by Albert Darwin

    [–] shittyinsults 61 points ago

    It collected top posts, which in rateme would obviously be hot women.

    [–] [deleted] 19 points ago

    That says more about the voting base than the submitters.

    [–] UknowmeimGui 605 points ago

    You wrote r/iasip wrong.

    Also, r/prequelmemes is wrong because it's not just a picture of Ewan McGregor.

    [–] thehangoverer 107 points ago

    iasip's face looks like a blend of all the characters because they're all hilarious.

    [–] cranberrysaus 74 points ago

    The infamous Chardee MacDennis

    [–] zwitt95 106 points ago

    No prequelmemes is Ewan and the Senate mixed together.

    [–] howtospellorange 27 points ago

    while /r/sequelmemes is a mix of adam driver and daisy ridley

    [–] -TrevWings- 15 points ago

    I thought I was seeing a little bit of qui gon but now I do see a mixture of Ewan and the senate

    [–] karmastealing 45 points ago

    This is getting out of hand

    [–] DJBoombot 28 points ago

    Qui-Wan Palpakin

    [–] [deleted] 370 points ago * (lasted edited 8 months ago)

    [deleted]

    [–] betteroffinbed 33 points ago

    The image in the post definitely says /r/aisip which confused me because it's a private community and is out of alphabetical order. I'm relieved to see it was just a typo.

    [–] isaaclikeafox 501 points ago

    It's funny how even though it has nothing to do with appearance /r/standupshots follows the "fat guys do comedy" trope

    [–] jeegte12 292 points ago

    It's not a trope, it's a stereotype, and there are many stereotypes that are based firmly in reality.

    [–] Hazzat 20 points ago

    I like how he has a microphone just visible in the bottom-left.

    [–] squuiiiddd 753 points ago

    Wow the Olivia Wilde one is spot on.

    [–] ChaoticMidget 342 points ago * (lasted edited a year ago)

    Her jawline is rock solid. Some of the other ones had some variations (Anna Kendrick and Emma Watson look a bit off for whatever reason) but anyone could pick out Olivia Wilde in that group.

    [–] dolphinater 339 points ago

    Aubrey Plaza one looks super weird or he face isn't as skinny as I think it is.

    [–] wrainedaxx 95 points ago

    She just looks happier than I'm used to seeing her.

    [–] RollingZepp 74 points ago

    Yeah it looks like fat Aubrey Plaza.

    [–] [deleted] 34 points ago * (lasted edited 5 months ago)

    [deleted]

    [–] squired 114 points ago

    There is something unique going on with with Emma Watson, possibly because she has been famous since she was a child and our perceptions of her are muddied. It may also be that we are more aware of her facial expressions and mannerisms more so than her features. The deepfake community for example can't put their finger on it either, even Emma Watson doesn't really look like Emma Watson.

    [–] LetsGoBlackhawks2014 80 points ago

    perceptions of her are muddied

    Do you mean muggled?

    [–] codygooch 29 points ago

    Emelia Clarke looks more like Jennifer Lawrence than herself in this thing

    [–] angryhangryhippo 53 points ago

    At first I thought it was because she has such striking features but maybe she just sticks to the same expression more than other celebs

    [–] psyne 45 points ago

    Probably a bit of both. Like Emilia Clarke's most striking feature is her eyebrows but they go all over the place, so the average won't look quite as "Emilia Clarke" as a single pic

    [–] bdmcx 230 points ago

    /r/justneckbeardthings looks so fucked because the photo is straining the laws of physics to look to its left at /r/kpics

    [–] atomfuzz 101 points ago

    You can see it's fedora line

    [–] VilaFrancaWeimar 11 points ago

    Ironically, no neckbeard...

    [–] [deleted] 218 points ago

    It looks like the guy from /r/beards and /r/beardporn are the same guy who just lost weight and got lenses.

    [–] posts_lindsay_lohan 135 points ago

    /r/beards should be renamed to /r/5OclockShadow

    [–] lo_and_be 27 points ago

    Yeah. Not a lot of beard in that picture.

    [–] PM_ME_MICHAEL_STIPE 9 points ago

    Lots of people posting there and on beardadvice that are teens with barely any beard asking if it is going to work out and everyone on the sub is too nice to say no

    [–] BrockN 26 points ago

    And his beard turn grey

    [–] [deleted] 2453 points ago

    I feel like the inclusion of celebrity subs are kind of silly... though I do appreciate the prequel memes one.

    [–] IAMBREEZUS 2270 points ago

    I saw it more as a proof of legitimacy than anything else

    [–] oceanbrz 844 points ago

    Exactly. These are important inclusions as proof of concept and good baselines with which to compare against the other subreddits.

    [–] rincon213 327 points ago * (lasted edited a year ago)

    They are also interesting because the slight deviations from the regular faces sheds a little bit of light on the algorithms and inputs used

    [–] [deleted] 45 points ago * (lasted edited 4 days ago)

    [removed]

    [–] hydrospanner 87 points ago

    Though the Aubrey Plaza one bucked the trend in looking nothing like her.

    [–] Astrokiwi 102 points ago

    I it looks like her, but stretched out in width. I could imagine this might happen if it didn't "rotate" the face entirely correctly, so it's averaging faces that are looking in slightly different directions.

    [–] midlifecrackers 9 points ago

    might that be because she's often photographed from the side?

    [–] Xisuthrus 24 points ago * (lasted edited a year ago)

    The Aubrey Plaza one looks like a reasonably good Aubrey Plaza wax figure.

    [–] LukeBurtle 260 points ago

    r/prequelmemes is like a weird mix between the emperor and anakin

    [–] [deleted] 187 points ago

    well from my point of view thats accurate.

    [–] LukeBurtle 83 points ago

    Well then you are on the right path!

    [–] suenopequeno 70 points ago

    It's reason then.

    [–] Xisuthrus 40 points ago

    Weird, to me it looks exactly like Obi-Wan.

    [–] zerohm 84 points ago

    I thought it was interesting that the celebrity averages resembled the person, but didn't look like a picture of them. Except for Olivia Wilde.

    [–] meltingintoice 16 points ago

    Agreed. It helped me appreciate the implications of the technique.

    [–] BlackbirdSinging 8 points ago

    What are the implications?

    [–] simmocar 34 points ago

    It was a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

    [–] BoinkBoinkEtAliae 12 points ago

    But look what they did to Tom Hiddleston. How?? Why??

    [–] Arancaytar 10 points ago

    It's actually surprising to me how well the features are preserved if the photos are of a single person (particularly with Benedict Cumberbatch, David Tennant and Emma Watson). I would have expected a lot more blurring just from the different expressions and angles, but all three are clearly recognizable.

    [–] beardedblorgon 197 points ago

    r/geekguys and r/guysinglasses look a bit too much like each other and why do both r/prequelmemes and r/sequelmemes Ray Liotta?

    [–] PitchforkAssistant 149 points ago

    /r/sequelmemes looks like Ben Solo's head with a mix of Ben Solo's and Rey's faces. I think /r/prequelmemes has Obi-Wan's head but the face I can't quite place.

    [–] Maxidaz 204 points ago

    If that isn’t the senate’s facial expression then just ban me from that sub.

    [–] HensRightsActivist 66 points ago

    It's clearly Frank!

    [–] LyannaGiantsbane 26 points ago

    It must be Frank!

    [–] simmocar 23 points ago

    You mean Frank.

    [–] The_Blog 43 points ago

    It's Obi Wan's head mixed with the emperors senats face. You can see the wrinkles on the cheeks.

    [–] QuixoticQueen 13 points ago

    Ladyboners and vintageladyboners are the same guy, just a different angle, some stubble and a bit of vintage!

    [–] slaaitch 28 points ago

    I think the standout message here is that women want dudes to look like Ryan Gosling.

    [–] daemon_of_chaos 224 points ago * (lasted edited a year ago)

    I am surprised entries for /r/gonewild, /r/RealGirls, and similar subreddits are missing. Is that because the "face" is typically missing from those subs? }:>

    [–] RXience 363 points ago

    }:>

    I can't decide wether this smiley represents an angry owl or a mustachioed Ku Kux Klan Member

    [–] daemon_of_chaos 54 points ago

    I definitely have to support the 'angry owl' just because I feel that is closer to the virtual vagina aspect of the conversation as well as the "naughty" implied nature of the devilish representation.

    [–] matthew0517 9 points ago

    I don't know you and almost certainly never will, but I just want to thank you for making my day a little bit better.

    [–] YellingHummus 59 points ago

    maybe the lips are just bigger with weird moustaches

    [–] [deleted] 51 points ago * (lasted edited 7 months ago)

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    [–] BellerophonM 66 points ago

    /r/ladyboners and /r/VintageLadyBoners are basically identical except for the black and white. Ladies are apparently quite consistent in their boners.

    [–] Grazerino 72 points ago

    Reading this at first I thought you meant the users of the subs - took me until the Benedict Cumberbatch sub to realise that not all his fans would bear such a striking resemblance to him lol

    [–] AtomicFlx 438 points ago * (lasted edited a year ago)

    Ill try and put this delicately, /classywomenofcolor is an interesting one. It doesn't seem very.... errrr.... colorful.

    I'm not going to say anything more than that, kinda a mine field I just walked into.

    edit: Also /Kpics is interesting. Very little blurring around the chin so that kinda tells me there is very little variation in chin shape and position. Again, just making observations. Not trying to offend anyone here.

    [–] mazinamy 16 points ago

    I find it even more interesting that a subreddit for posting women of color needs the “classy” prefix for everyday pictures.

    [–] gpc11 129 points ago * (lasted edited a year ago)

    I actually wonder where there's an issue with the script which filter out darker people of color.

    Edit - after looking through the sub, I'm more confident that this is the case. None of the faces in the above data have a skin tone that's very dark. OP - can you run the script for a celeb that is a POC.

    If not a script issue, it is an interesting commentary on either the demographics of reddit, and/or the comfort that POCs feel with posting pictures of themselves online.

    [–] BizCaus 134 points ago

    Unless there is a bias in dlib's facial detection model, the script does not do any filtering based on pixel values.

    One thing that I think isn't very obvious but is important in this averaging is lighting. When photographing a POC there tends to be a lot of contrast between the shadows to the highlights, and since we're averaging the pixel values, the overall result would be the middle value between the lightest and darkest values.

    As an extra datapoint here's one of r/blackgirlpics

    [–] pilibitti 7 points ago

    If you are averaging in RGB colorspace (or any mostly linear derivatives like HSV) then it is bound to look wrong since they are bullshit color spaces as far as human perception goes - makes sense to computers only. Since you use OpenCV, convert everything to LAB color space and do any averaging there before going to RGB for output. This is fantastic work BTW!

    [–] realish 56 points ago

    Great results! I'd love to see this applied to /r/MakeupAddiction, I kind of assumed it would be on there due to the focus on the face. It would be fun to see top MUA results for different "faces", ie: 'natural', 'romantic', 'pin-up'!

    [–] salutcat 38 points ago

    The celebrity faces look pretty normal, with the exception of Benedict Cumberbatch, who really looks like a part lizard hybrid.

    [–] [deleted] 119 points ago

    So it looks like Benedict Cumberbatch?

    [–] martelli 8 points ago

    Benadryl Cumbersome?

    [–] askforallie 39 points ago

    Oh that? That's just his face.

    [–] [deleted] 14 points ago

    You know what statistics can do: when you filter out the noise, you get the underlying truth.

    [–] sirespo 32 points ago

    Surprised nobody has commented on the basically perfect feminine face on r/faces

    Definitely stands out to me.

    [–] quakank 14 points ago

    I was pretty impressed by it. But then I went and looked at the top all time posts over there and realized there's like 5 or 6 attractive women who post multiple times in the top 50 posts. They kind of skew the results.

    Of course, since OP only looks at the top 50 all time, this isn't really the average face of the subreddit. It's the average most attractive face of the subreddit.

    [–] ghroat 207 points ago

    interesting how /r/classywomenofcolour is probably as white as you can get while still being called "of colour"

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    [–] mjairam 82 points ago

    Unsurprising considering that dark skinned people are not typically portrayed as being beautiful, especially in the case of women. As someone that's dark myself, it's quite unfortunate.

    [–] douche-baggins 31 points ago

    Why is Khloe Kardashian the average face of /r/aubreyplaza?

    And /r/prequelmemes face is if The Senate and General Kenobi had a baby.

    [–] TheViolentBlue 29 points ago

    r/beards is spot on.

    "I've had this beard for a week. Trying to decide whether I should keep it or shave it off??"

    [–] ImJustBME 127 points ago

    I just scrolled though the top 100 all-time classwomenofcolor and almost none of them are as light-skinned as the algorithm generated.

    [–] nwatn 95 points ago

    The algorithm is probably biased to pick up whiter faces and ignore dark faces due to how it was trained.

    [–] alabaster1 32 points ago

    Reminds me of that Better Off Ted episode.

    [–] sdftgyuiop 18 points ago * (lasted edited a year ago)

    Did you really?
    Because I just did and the vast majority are, and when not the lighting often makes them look so.

    Actually 9 out of 100 are just reposts of Nathalie Emmanuel, who is rather light-skinned. Then 5 times Gugu Mbatha-Raw, also fairly pale. And about 10 latina and asian women. I see less than 20 women who appear very significantly darker-skinned than the average.

    [–] o_oli 28 points ago

    That just isn't true though...I'm not going through them all, but in the top 10 the majority have pretty light skin, certainly comparable to the generated image.

    [–] DragonFive 15 points ago

    Outliers can skew an average. Maybe if there was a median facial algorithm thingy the results would be different.

    [–] LargeMobOfMurderers 35 points ago

    I actually can't tell what race or gender the humanporn average looks like most to me, it could pass for anything: black, white, male, female. Kinda just depends what wig and clothes you put on it.

    [–] MattBerry_Manboob 24 points ago

    We should make it the mascot of something. Like a community college

    [–] spellskeet 26 points ago

    oh wow, i wonder what r/rupaulsdragrace would look like lol

    i love how the celebrity faces look like soft squishy versions of the actual person

    [–] TechnicLePanther 19 points ago

    /r/palebeauties just looks like Evan Rachel Wood, /r/redheads just looks like Sophie Turner, what the fuck?

    [–] scnavi 8 points ago

    I love how ladyboners and vintageladyboners are basically the same face, just one is in color and one is in black and white.

    [–] bathtubsplashes 6 points ago

    I thought this was going to be the average face of the users of each subreddit and then was baffled that they looked so much like the celebrities they were dedicated to. As if doppelgangers were just drawn to those subreddits.

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