Listen here, on behalf of goths, kindly fuck off
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It's sad that this image has become nostalgic for me.
It’s hot.
Gather 'round the social media garbage fire children, and let me tell you a tale of the before times...
At the time, having a camera on your phone was a new thing. Phones were for calling/SMS, maybe playing snake if you bought a flagship model. If you wanted good pictures you'd have to spend $200-300 on a digital camera (in 2000 dollars, $400-$600 today) or take a film photograph and have the negatives scanned (drug stores and some retail stores also did film processing).
Very few people had laptops, mostly people who would frequently travel or tech professionals/nerds(same thing, at the time) but most people had a home desktop PC and they would often purchase a separate external camera to use for video chatting on the web; hence, the term: webcam. Since they were not restricted in size by being in a phone, they could use larger sensors and so they typically had a higher quality (but not by much) than phone cameras. Also, image processing was way too heavy of a lift for phone processing hardware, so they often sent the image directly off the sensor while PC webcam software could include basic things like denoising and exposure adjustment.
In order to make images with an effect like Instagram filters, you'd have to use Photoshop and the average person just knew enough to run a web browser and login to myspace. Instead of filters people would use lighting and angles. You've probably heard the term 'myspace angles', this is approximately the era where that term was invented.
All of that being said, Boxxy had a good webcam but she was doing a bit and the overexposure was part of the bit. Evanescence's use is more of an artsy representation of the same mainstream style that Boxxy was parodying.
We also wore an onion on our belt, which was the style at the time.
Deno-is-ing? The fuck kind of tech is that
Just some math and pixels
Your mom's math and pixels
OHSHITOMG! It's BOXXY!!!!
I'M NOT TROOOOOLING ! IM BOXXY !
lol, so random!
I saw Evanescence last week! (With Spiritbox and Nova Twins).
The level of goth in the audience across the generations made me happy 😁.
These youths don't realize that's just what digital cameras looked like at the time, insta filters didn't exist!
This picture (not me) is better than most of the pictures I could get with a camera back then
Hey everyone look what lifeinmultiplechoice looked like
The one on the left is an album cover and that style was very popular in the 2000s. Especially in cheesy sci-fi shows (looking at you Stargate Atlantis…)
The one on the right though, that’s just what cell phone and cheap digital camera pictures looked like when you posted them on MySpace.
Don't forget danger will robinson I forget the name
That's Boxxy, and you don't use that adjective for Boxxy. That's prob 480p early YouTube.
boxxy lives on in my heart
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I think you're left/right ~~confused~~ good at. The left one is the cover of the Evanescence album Fallen from 2003. The one on the right is Boxxy.
I was there Gandalf.
Man, what happened to that girl? Hope she's doing okay, former internet stardom can be tough
I seem to recall she hosted some web show for at least a while, but not as her boxxy persona. She seemed well adjusted.
Whats a bit amusing is that abpit 10 years seperated Evanacence at their peak and Boxxy. These really are not even from the same "era".
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Boxxy!! I named my new vehicle after her!
The old fag war has resumed?
Well, if you can triforce.
~I'm not even going to try on lemmy.~
Doforce or do notforce. There is no triforce.
Lol I'm so original
Camera and photo quality were lacking then compared to now. Gotta work with what ya got!
I wish I could get back into my old myspace account. I bet there's some treasures there haha
I have some bad news for you. MySpace changed ownership several times and the current owners did a botched server migration with no backup.
Oh no Justin Timberlake how could you do this
the noughties
You know, I’ve never heard it called that. I don’t like it. I always say the “oughts” or “early 2000’s”
I just ignore that decade like we all should. I spent it dead for tax purposes
I think that's because The Guardian is a British news organization so random words have a different meaning. Nought is zero and cookies are biscuits.
I wouldn’t really have expected them to keep all that shit anyway.
This would be contrast, not exposure, no? High exposure would boost the lows too. Very erm ackchyually, I know.
Kinda makes the face more anime, downplaying features like the nose.
the second is what a webcam would look like with normal lighting. all these popular streamers/youtubers nowadays have production crews.
also, using two examples to make a point, one being an album cover with a particular aesthetic that was popular and has nothing to do with the second image.
This style still rules imo
The woman who took my senior photos did this to them. It took my a while to understand what she was going for but we ended up retaking them ourselves before I ever saw that album art
Don't forget the MySpace angle.
... duck face was a mistake though, jfc.
Don’t forget the MySpace angle.
What, like from the side?
High angle, close up. Shows the face, exaggerates the chest, doesn't show much if anything below the cleavage. Also used to get referred to as the "fat girl angle" sometimes.
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Simple and effective
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