# Sloth-Facing Sloth-Facing is a Photoshop meme where celebrities and movie stills have their eyes and eyebrows dragged down to line up with the nose, turning famous faces into droopy portraits named after the Goonies character. Redditor traverhass coined the term in a May 2013 Imgur album, and within a week the format was picked up by Buzzfeed, Funny or Die and Maxim as the summer's short-lived viral edit trend. ## Origin On May 30, 2013, Redditor traverhass posted an Imgur album to /r/funny titled "Been doing this in photoshop a lot... I call it Sloth-Facing," containing seven digitally lowered movie stills with the actors' eyes and eyebrows aligned to their noses[1]. Within six days the thread pulled in more than 3,815 upvotes and 143 comments[1]. The technique built on prior face-warping trends. In 2011 a Tumblr collage of Elijah Wood's disproportionately scaled features started circulating, and on December 24, 2011, Buzzfeed published a roundup of 26 similar photosets under the "Tumblr Face Game" tag[2]. In late October 2012 the subreddit /r/Quasimoderp launched, and an early post featuring a warped Clint Eastwood became one of the first known examples of the format without white margins[10]. - **Platform:** Reddit / Tumblr (viral spread) - **Creator:** traverhass (Reddit) - **Date:** 2013 ## Overview The edits work by taking a close-up screenshot or press photo, then vertically compressing the subject's eyes and brows so they sit level with the nose[1]. The result mimics Sloth from The Goonies as well as the low-set facial features of real three-toed sloths, which is where the name comes from[3]. Actors, athletes and cartoon characters all got the treatment during the initial run in the summer of 2013[6]. The tone reads as affectionate ugliness rather than outright mockery, since compressed features tend to look cute rather than grotesque. Obvious Winner described the finished portraits as "adorably weird sloths"[6]. Sloth-Facing sits inside a small family of facial-manipulation edits that included the earlier "Tumblr Face Game" collages, which stretched or shrank features into disproportionate scale[2], and the /r/Quasimoderp posts that dropped the collage margins in favor of a single warped face[10]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Sloth-Facing? A Photoshop meme that lowers a subject's eyes and eyebrows to sit level with the nose, giving celebrities and movie characters a sloth-like face[1]. ### Where did Sloth-Facing come from? Redditor traverhass coined the term in a May 30, 2013 /r/funny post linking to an Imgur album of seven edited movie stills[1]. ### What does Sloth-Facing mean? The name references Sloth from The Goonies and real sloths, both of which have low-set facial features that the edit imitates[3]. ### How do you use Sloth-Facing? Take a close-up photo, then vertically drag the eyes and eyebrows downward in Photoshop until they line up with the nose[1]. ### Is Sloth-Facing still popular? No, coverage tapered off after a burst of attention across Reddit, Tumblr and comedy blogs in late May and early June 2013[9]. ## References 1. [https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1fb9au/been_doing_this_in_photoshop_a_lot_i_call_it/]() 2. [https://www.buzzfeed.com/provincialelitist/tumblr-face-game]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sloth-facing]() 4. [http://tumblr.tastefullyoffensive.com/post/51699045262/sloth-facing-treverhaas]() 5. [https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/have-you-heard-of-the-hot-new-sloth-facing-meme]() 6. [http://www.obviouswinner.com/obvwin/2013/5/30/sloth-facing-turning-celebrities-into-adorably-weird-sloths.html]() 7. [https://www.funnyordie.com/slideshows/20011f8bdb/sloth-facing-will-very-slowly-become-your-favorite-meme]() 8. [http://laughingsquid.com/sloth-facing-famous-people-look-like-sloths-in-new-meme/]() 9. [http://thechive.com/2013/06/05/celebrity-sloth-facing-is-a-thing-15-photos/]() 10. [https://www.reddit.com/r/quasimoderp/comments/12btk9/clin_easwod/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/sloth-facing Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library