I am in this picture and I don’t like it. People have always taken professional photos for their organisations. The photos are usually done in a certain style – specifically showing your head and shoulders and in a tilted way. This photo of a monkey in a suit went viral as it makes fun of this vanilla way of taking a headshot.
this is every journalist headshot pic.twitter.com/4SxZTgpn1k
— Ruchira Sharma (@RuchoSharma) March 19, 2019
This one describes this pose well
It's the "serious, but uncomfortable" look we are all so familiar with. https://t.co/bOJptwWOmy
— Andrea Ross (@_rossandrea) March 19, 2019
Every person who has ever taken a headshot felt attacked.
I just looked at this and then looked at my profile picture and I am… so mad https://t.co/KRKtKQRn6B
— Terron Moore (@Terr) March 19, 2019
Time to roast yourself…
Every journalist who has a headshot in a different pose: "Hey, lol, this looks just like me!" #primates https://t.co/6tK9eNRJUW
— ?????? ?????? (@CircleReader) March 20, 2019
You and I both…
i am extremely owned https://t.co/H12I6Xhl1W
— dan seifert (@dcseifert) March 19, 2019
It hurts
this is so dead-on accurate it's painful https://t.co/ZJ2fW4zn7m
— Farhad Manjoo (@fmanjoo) March 19, 2019
Dating app Bumble took part too
They would be a great addition to our team pic.twitter.com/Rni0GyLPQU
— Bumble (@bumble) March 19, 2019
Some can even recall the time they took their headshot
I have never looked this well dressed in my headshot. https://t.co/6LlOm3uaoa
— Andrew DeMillo (@ademillo) March 19, 2019
This one shared the same sentiment
Bullshit. I will never be that cute. https://t.co/GsZbR2epIY
— Amber Hunt (@ReporterAmber) March 19, 2019
Motherjones joined in too
Please welcome our newest staffer https://t.co/HYqdB3O1cy pic.twitter.com/BS9n7pAPnI
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 19, 2019
Others suggested what kind of stories would be written by the monkey
This monkey looks like it is the host of a vice documentary in midst of a cultural safari in japan's sex tourism industry where schoolgirls are for sale and over-pronounces 'konnichiwa' when speaking to asian people https://t.co/QtqkZzIzJ3
— sarah amy harvard (@amyharvard_) March 19, 2019
The replies were too accurate
Oh god down to the damn smirk ? pic.twitter.com/fA3mudyzPj
— Mary von Aue (@von_owie) March 19, 2019
And this one
i mean. pic.twitter.com/FBm82RJzhx
— emily sullivan (@emilyasullivan) March 19, 2019
How about this one
Goddammit, that's MY pose! pic.twitter.com/GvX4jHsD92
— Joanna Wane (@JoannaWane) March 20, 2019
This too
Why you have to do me like that? pic.twitter.com/UWNEwxZ2Eb
— Richard Chambers (@newschambers) March 19, 2019
Kenyan journalist Joy Doreen also confirmed this
— Joy Doreen BIIRA (@JoyDoreenBiira) March 20, 2019
HBO didn’t want to be left behind
can confirm pic.twitter.com/vsgYr79fhG
— HBO (@HBO) March 19, 2019
Looks like it’s time to change your headshot to something less cliche.
this is why i have an anime avatar https://t.co/I3vu1Gszc4
— Gene Park (@GenePark) March 19, 2019
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