My kids (15, 9, 7) do it all the time too! I love it when they all give bunny ears to each other simultaneously. The silliness always brings out real smiles.
Granted, I don’t post their pictures online much, so OP wouldn’t see its frequency.
A great American tradition, passed down through the generations, that stands alone in its perpetual, constant, uninterrupted state of being actively played. In the time it took me to write this, hundreds of kids have frogged each others arm for the offense of seeing that hand configuration.
I just told my wife I wanted to her to give an Eskimo kiss, and we rubbed noses. Then I asked for a French kiss, and we locked lips. Finally I asked her for an Australian kiss, and she looked at me confused. I told her, “you know like a French kiss, but down under…”😏
I agreed with OP and upvoted, but this is a good point. I also don’t have kids yet and don’t interact with kids often, so I still remember bunny ears fondly as a thing from 15 years ago when my brother and I were tweens
It seems like photo pranks went out of style while digital photography became more accessible. You would think it'd be the other way around. A film camera used to only have so many shots in it, then you waited for them to be developed. That meant the results of a gag photo were more permanent. Nowadays you can get as many pics as you want, so you can also schedule some silly ones. Maybe that took the fun out of it for some people. It became too legitimized.
I guess if you're talking about having them developed yeah.
But I think most people just take pictures and post them online, and in that regard, a dime a dozen wouldn't be very cheap.
Imagine if Instagram charged a dime to post a dozen pictures. That's what I was talking about.
I think it more went out of style because of social media, not because the photos went digital.
Before photos were mainly just for yourself or to show family/friends.
Now with so much of what people photograph instantly being posted to Instagram or Facebook or somewhere, people seem more cautious of doing funny, silly, or embarrassing poses as it'll go up for the world to see. People now seem more concerned with "getting the best angle" or making the photo look cool rather than just having fun with it.
100% this. I dont even have photos of me and my friends anymore because it seems at least one of them always has some inane insecurity they refuse to get photographed 🙄 it kills me because we are women in our mid 30s… why the fk does it still matter so much to some people?
My sister's ex used to screw up every photo he was in. It used to piss my mom off to no end. He thought he was being funny because most of the time she didn't notice until the photos came back, and the special occasion, whatever it was, was over so a new photo couldn't be taken.
My mom was so happy when my sister divorced him and she could go through and cut him out of all the photos.
Your sisters ex is me to my mother.
She’s so manic about photos and every damn thing has to be a photo shoot. Every.Damn.Thing. The entire family despises it, to the point where people at gatherings will avoid rooms she’s in. And she takes like 12 of every single picture. And it’s all staged and forced. And it must be framed right. And posed. And everyone has to smile. For like 100 pics so by the time everyone “looks right” no one is smiling with their eyes; snarling is more appropriate. And if anyone is blinking or not showing teeth or their pants look funny, or whatever they all have to line up and take it again.
She spends her entire time at gatherings just taking pic after pic after pic. And she’s legitimately a terrible photographer. Worst photos you’ve ever seen. Then she goes home, seems to find the ones with the worst facial expression or embarrassing ones like you’re eating and your mouth is gaping open or where they make you look ugly or fat or derpy, puts like neon pink borders on the photos and little thought balloons of what she thinks they’re thinking based on their expression in the pic, and then emails everyone copies. And then gets them printed online into albums, and gives them as gifts. To you. An album of pics OF you, TO you. Of the worst photos of you, to you.
So you’re damn right I do my level best to ruin every one. I’m doing a service here.
And Lord does it piss her off.
I love my mother but for Christ sakes…
> That meant the results of a gag photo were more permanent.
This is the key though. If I give you bunny ears now you look at it delete it and we just take another. When I did it in the 90s on your disposable camera you might not even know about it for months and even if you did what are you going to do about it?
With a film camera, you generally took one shot of a picture. The person doing the bunny ears would pose normally, then as you saw the finger move towards the button, you throw up the ears and then they go back down, quick and well times. Now with cameras on phones, people are snapping several photos all in a row, and if you stand around with the bunny ears up you don't look quick and amusing, you look dumb.
Weaker flashes don't cause red eye, so you don't get it so much from phones as you did with those old flash bulbs. You also don't need flash as much with better low-light cameras.
I would like an app to age my photos with red eye and finger bunny ears, ~~even~~ *especially* when the subject has closed eyes and no-one standing nearby.
I was pranking the people with "devil ears"... Soo, they are whatever your intents are. Obviously we both thought the same.
Also, I don't think they are out of fashion. We just all probably grow older.
27 years old. I’m pretty sure there’s a photo from my friend’s wedding where i gave her bunny ears. It was not in a serious photo btw we were taking a silly pic to be clear
It was a funny, harmless prank back before "instant" photos.
It used to be that you would have to wait until you got your photos developed at the store, and cameras only had so many "shots" before they were out of film, so it could be 72 hours at the fastest or a week before you got your pictures back to find out you had been pranked.
I'm 23 and I still do it occasionally, just depends who you're with. I think the difference is we don't post those, they're the ones we keep for ourselves. (Usually)
Photobombing use to be one of my favorite past times growing up before the digital age during the disposable camera days. I have to be in HUNDREDS of people's pictures circa 1997 - 2005 that they paid to develop. I was a shark that could smell a photo about to be taken from a mile away.
The trick to photobombing people in the digital age is to be discreet. They MAY delete it later, but you know that they only took one photo and more than likely will not delete it.
Photobombing becoming much less of an issue with AI photo editing being built into phones that magically erase things in the background. Sad, but I think it's overall a good thing that technology keeps progressing.
That's because you won't see the bunny ears until the photos are printed which could be a day or more later. So it comes as a surprise.
Nowadays, you take a photo and review it instantly thus ruining the magic of the bunny ears.
*you* don't. This is called getting older I assume.
Also the stuff other people said about it not being as much of a prank with instant cameras. And the fact that any moron can just edit the photo to prank/mock someone in post.
In my schools growing up kids would say that if you do that to someone in a photo it means you wanted to kiss them, and so everyone stopped doing it really. Weird how that's stuck with me over a decade later.
Bunny ears were funny because they "ruined" the photo. Back in the day when photographs were a finite resource and you didn't even see how they came out until days later. That's what made it funny. Now, when you can just take another digital photo immediately, it doesn't matter.
I used to wait tables at the time digital cameras started getting popular. Customers would ask for their pictures. If they were nice, no problem. But if they were a-holes, we used to frame the picture so we cut off their heads.
Couldn’t do that with digital cameras where the photo could be reviewed immediately. Probably the same for bunny ears in phone cameras.
I don’t know about bunny ears, we used to interpret them as « donkey » ears when we were kids.
And as you might have guessed, sadly, donkeys were very badly treated in our culture and used to caricature dumb/stupid people.
I'm a librarian and just the other day a family came in to get their two very young kids their first library cards. The parents wanted a photo of the kids with me to commemorate the event, and for some reason I gave both the kids bunny ears. Haven't done that in YEARS but it felt pretty good
You used to have to be conservative with your shots when taking photos. There were a limited number per roll and developing cost money. The chances of ruining a photo were much higher in the film camera days.
Now that everyone has a digital camera and can take unlimited pictures, the prospect of ruining a photo has lost its appeal.
My thing is, it's probably because photos are less of a "thing" nowadays. People just take them anywhere and everywhere all the time that there's no chances to do bunny ears.
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Bunny ears worked best when it was film that had to be developed. A month or more later, the photographer would excitedly pick up the developed photos from the chemist and run back to the car to look at them. And there it is. Eight year old Johnny gave bunny ears to Great Aunty Ida in the multi-generational family photo and the realisation that you'll never ever get that group together again.
Nowadays, you can see it straight away, and you can retake it.
I think, at least for my area, it was because someone started a rumour that if you did bunny ears to someone, it meant you wanted to have sex with them. Died off pretty quick after that. We were 10.
My work hosts high school STEM students for one day every year. This year I was one of the tour guides which also required I take pictures of the visit. Trust me, bunny ears are alive and well, at least with high school kids.
I think it probably has a lot to do with the fact that we can see the photo as soon as we take it now. Back in the day, you could do it and the other person wouldn’t know until you got the film developed. Now, the thrill is kind of gone.
My 8 and 6 year old nieces would argue that point.
My kids (15, 9, 7) do it all the time too! I love it when they all give bunny ears to each other simultaneously. The silliness always brings out real smiles. Granted, I don’t post their pictures online much, so OP wouldn’t see its frequency.
My kids, 19 and 22, both girls, do this number here 👌🏼, but upside down and down low, and if you look at it, they laugh at you and hit you in the arm.
A game as old as time. Got some nice bruises from that in highschool
A great American tradition, passed down through the generations, that stands alone in its perpetual, constant, uninterrupted state of being actively played. In the time it took me to write this, hundreds of kids have frogged each others arm for the offense of seeing that hand configuration.
It goes beyond America. I'm Aussie and we played it lol Cruising for an international bruising
I just told my wife I wanted to her to give an Eskimo kiss, and we rubbed noses. Then I asked for a French kiss, and we locked lips. Finally I asked her for an Australian kiss, and she looked at me confused. I told her, “you know like a French kiss, but down under…”😏
Ah man, I've been kissing my homies wrong this whole time!?!?
Do your homies high five each other getting a kiss from you?
And if you stick your finger in it before they catch you, then *you* get to hit *them*. At least those were our rules.
You are correct, but in our rules, you had to pull their finger and thumb apart, or else it didn’t count.
Yep, my sister's kids, 8-17, still do it.
My 10 year olds jam
As a dad I still regularly give and receive these
On topic https://imgur.com/a/K25tYWB
Made me actually chuckle. Thanks
My daughter perfected it.
As a mom I do as well!
Yeah, OP must not have kids. I got a phone full of rabbit ear photos
I agreed with OP and upvoted, but this is a good point. I also don’t have kids yet and don’t interact with kids often, so I still remember bunny ears fondly as a thing from 15 years ago when my brother and I were tweens
Not a dad, but a frequent user of dad jokes and pranks and I can confirm this, I’ve been using the bunny ears for a long time and will not stop it
Same
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It seems like photo pranks went out of style while digital photography became more accessible. You would think it'd be the other way around. A film camera used to only have so many shots in it, then you waited for them to be developed. That meant the results of a gag photo were more permanent. Nowadays you can get as many pics as you want, so you can also schedule some silly ones. Maybe that took the fun out of it for some people. It became too legitimized.
I think that's the key though. You wouldn't necessarily know Bunny ears happened until the film was developed!
Exactly. The prank photo was a more tangible thing. Doing bunny ears just has less substance as photos are dime a dozen now.
I know it's just a saying, but could you imagine if you had to pay a dime for a dozen photos? That would suck lol
I feel like for photos, that would actually be pretty cheap, unless they were printed on like, A10 printer paper...
I guess if you're talking about having them developed yeah. But I think most people just take pictures and post them online, and in that regard, a dime a dozen wouldn't be very cheap. Imagine if Instagram charged a dime to post a dozen pictures. That's what I was talking about.
I mean, last time I was on Instagram, it was primarily women trying to sell mlm schemes or their onlyfans, so I'm not seeing a downside, honestly...
I think it more went out of style because of social media, not because the photos went digital. Before photos were mainly just for yourself or to show family/friends. Now with so much of what people photograph instantly being posted to Instagram or Facebook or somewhere, people seem more cautious of doing funny, silly, or embarrassing poses as it'll go up for the world to see. People now seem more concerned with "getting the best angle" or making the photo look cool rather than just having fun with it.
Also a lot of selfies. It’s hard to sneak something in when they can see you doing it.
I've photobombed my share of selfies. It's harder to do these days but still possible.
100% this. I dont even have photos of me and my friends anymore because it seems at least one of them always has some inane insecurity they refuse to get photographed 🙄 it kills me because we are women in our mid 30s… why the fk does it still matter so much to some people?
My sister's ex used to screw up every photo he was in. It used to piss my mom off to no end. He thought he was being funny because most of the time she didn't notice until the photos came back, and the special occasion, whatever it was, was over so a new photo couldn't be taken. My mom was so happy when my sister divorced him and she could go through and cut him out of all the photos.
Your sisters ex is me to my mother. She’s so manic about photos and every damn thing has to be a photo shoot. Every.Damn.Thing. The entire family despises it, to the point where people at gatherings will avoid rooms she’s in. And she takes like 12 of every single picture. And it’s all staged and forced. And it must be framed right. And posed. And everyone has to smile. For like 100 pics so by the time everyone “looks right” no one is smiling with their eyes; snarling is more appropriate. And if anyone is blinking or not showing teeth or their pants look funny, or whatever they all have to line up and take it again. She spends her entire time at gatherings just taking pic after pic after pic. And she’s legitimately a terrible photographer. Worst photos you’ve ever seen. Then she goes home, seems to find the ones with the worst facial expression or embarrassing ones like you’re eating and your mouth is gaping open or where they make you look ugly or fat or derpy, puts like neon pink borders on the photos and little thought balloons of what she thinks they’re thinking based on their expression in the pic, and then emails everyone copies. And then gets them printed online into albums, and gives them as gifts. To you. An album of pics OF you, TO you. Of the worst photos of you, to you. So you’re damn right I do my level best to ruin every one. I’m doing a service here. And Lord does it piss her off. I love my mother but for Christ sakes…
when adults started asking for “now do a silly photo” i stopped doing silly photos
> It became too legitimized. IT IS NOW TIME FOR THE STATE-FUNDED FAMILY FRIENDLY CORPORATE APPROVED "fun"-TIME. DO A SILLY THING FOR THE CAMERA.
> That meant the results of a gag photo were more permanent. This is the key though. If I give you bunny ears now you look at it delete it and we just take another. When I did it in the 90s on your disposable camera you might not even know about it for months and even if you did what are you going to do about it?
That’s why it was funny
With a film camera, you generally took one shot of a picture. The person doing the bunny ears would pose normally, then as you saw the finger move towards the button, you throw up the ears and then they go back down, quick and well times. Now with cameras on phones, people are snapping several photos all in a row, and if you stand around with the bunny ears up you don't look quick and amusing, you look dumb.
Now you can just photoshop in the bunny ears. Or alternately, realize bunny ears aren't actually funny in the time it takes you to photoshop them in.
No red pupils anymore, either. What gives?
I looked like a demon child in all my pictures from the 70’s. 😈😈
Weaker flashes don't cause red eye, so you don't get it so much from phones as you did with those old flash bulbs. You also don't need flash as much with better low-light cameras.
I would like an app to age my photos with red eye and finger bunny ears, ~~even~~ *especially* when the subject has closed eyes and no-one standing nearby.
Stable Diffusion can do this easily.
It’s been years I haven’t seen anyone take a picture with a flash
Well this one is just objectively camera technology
right ? what do you mean, "what gives" ???
They might be doing what the kids call "a joke"
aren't jokes supposed to be funny ?
Whether a joke is funny is unrelated to your ability to recognize when someone is making a joke
oh. i guess i misidentified it
You aren’t.
Yeah unless you're at *those* parties
Yeah because you haven't seen photos with me in them. I will bunny ears the fuck outta everyone here! Don't test me!
You can’t before I do!
People that grew up doing that, give the camera the finger now
or the peace sign, no in between
That is just the reverse bunny ears
It literally is bunny ears
Silly me, I've always though that they were supposed to be devil's horns.
I was pranking the people with "devil ears"... Soo, they are whatever your intents are. Obviously we both thought the same. Also, I don't think they are out of fashion. We just all probably grow older.
With high res photos, they look less like "bunny ears" and really look like two fingers.... Which defeats the whole purpose.
I still do that all the time
That's a weird way of saying you've become an adult.
Stopped doing it after someone told me it meant "Turn around and kiss me"
Pretty sure that's not true
That is incorrect, my autistic brother does it all the time.
I tried but my grandma wanted real photos XD
I do it in almost all family photos, like almost all men in my family. I wish to pass this on to my nieces when they're older
I'm 40 and I still do it. Nieces think i'm lame, but I know i'm the absolute best.
That’s cause we have filters now
the joke changed, those fingers are going up the butts now
My dad still does them!
It’s offensive to bunnies. Wake up, man!
Peace sign, bunny ears, fake weiner!
That’s why the world isn’t good. It’s not the global pandemic or war or recession it’s the lack of bunny ears in photos.
27 years old. I’m pretty sure there’s a photo from my friend’s wedding where i gave her bunny ears. It was not in a serious photo btw we were taking a silly pic to be clear
Hard holding the phone up with one hand, and giving bunny ears behind your own head with the other...
I never really "got" why that was funny.
It was a funny, harmless prank back before "instant" photos. It used to be that you would have to wait until you got your photos developed at the store, and cameras only had so many "shots" before they were out of film, so it could be 72 hours at the fastest or a week before you got your pictures back to find out you had been pranked.
Simpler times...
I'm 23 and I still do it occasionally, just depends who you're with. I think the difference is we don't post those, they're the ones we keep for ourselves. (Usually)
We call it the horns
That’s because you are probably in fewer photos with 9 year olds than you used to be.. kids do this all the time
Photobombing use to be one of my favorite past times growing up before the digital age during the disposable camera days. I have to be in HUNDREDS of people's pictures circa 1997 - 2005 that they paid to develop. I was a shark that could smell a photo about to be taken from a mile away. The trick to photobombing people in the digital age is to be discreet. They MAY delete it later, but you know that they only took one photo and more than likely will not delete it. Photobombing becoming much less of an issue with AI photo editing being built into phones that magically erase things in the background. Sad, but I think it's overall a good thing that technology keeps progressing.
That's because you won't see the bunny ears until the photos are printed which could be a day or more later. So it comes as a surprise. Nowadays, you take a photo and review it instantly thus ruining the magic of the bunny ears.
My older sister (42) yells at me (31) for throwing up bunny ears.
That's cause you grew up.
I'm still on IG, and it certainly still exists. Also women doing the duck lips, and guys posing in a squat with a peace symbol or fake gang signs.
*you* don't. This is called getting older I assume. Also the stuff other people said about it not being as much of a prank with instant cameras. And the fact that any moron can just edit the photo to prank/mock someone in post.
I gave bunny ears to a random frog in my kitchen the other day so I be keeping it aliving
Yeah, it's been gang signs for a while now. Bunny ears are SO 10 years ago.
In my schools growing up kids would say that if you do that to someone in a photo it means you wanted to kiss them, and so everyone stopped doing it really. Weird how that's stuck with me over a decade later.
Probably people delete the ones intentionally ruined. Back I the good ol days they wouldn’t realise until they got them developed.
Kinda hard with all the selfies
Bunny ears were funny because they "ruined" the photo. Back in the day when photographs were a finite resource and you didn't even see how they came out until days later. That's what made it funny. Now, when you can just take another digital photo immediately, it doesn't matter.
I did this at my sister’s wedding I regret nothing
I did it to myself in a photo last week and it was …. Very cool.
Literally did it to my cat yesterday
I'm glad. I never found the prank to be funny at all.
Maybe you don't. Got one from my girlfriend's kid less than a year ago.
Don't see many people planking anymore on random things either.. those were wild times.. feel like it was a fad, it'll come back around
I used to wait tables at the time digital cameras started getting popular. Customers would ask for their pictures. If they were nice, no problem. But if they were a-holes, we used to frame the picture so we cut off their heads. Couldn’t do that with digital cameras where the photo could be reviewed immediately. Probably the same for bunny ears in phone cameras.
bunny ears gave way to duck faces
Speak for yourself I still ruin photos
I don’t know about bunny ears, we used to interpret them as « donkey » ears when we were kids. And as you might have guessed, sadly, donkeys were very badly treated in our culture and used to caricature dumb/stupid people.
Dude yes you do what
Because filters do it for you
I'm a librarian and just the other day a family came in to get their two very young kids their first library cards. The parents wanted a photo of the kids with me to commemorate the event, and for some reason I gave both the kids bunny ears. Haven't done that in YEARS but it felt pretty good
I do... It's more fun than making a duck face. Seld imposed bunny ears.
I do this alllllllllllll the time
You used to have to be conservative with your shots when taking photos. There were a limited number per roll and developing cost money. The chances of ruining a photo were much higher in the film camera days. Now that everyone has a digital camera and can take unlimited pictures, the prospect of ruining a photo has lost its appeal.
Awkward. I did this last week in a team photo
It’s almost like it wasn’t all that funny
That's because I've gotten more stealthy about it
I literally did that today to someone
I do it to my bunny frequently. I also adjust his rabbit ears for better signal, despite streaming everything haha
Tell that to my entire millennial coworkers - we will go on t for a single night and pretty much 80% of the photos it is being committed to.
You arent looking at pictures of me
I guess the thing that replaced is this thing 👌
People will just retake it 100 times
All my friends always said it's gay to do that, so everyone slowly stopped.
I'm bringing it back
You dont see people doing the devil horns either
I did bunny ears to my kid yesterday or something while her mom was snapping a pic.
You actually do, it's just not as common as it used to be. Or my entourage just outgrew that gimmick with age. Or both. Or all three of them.
You just haven't been looking
I did this to a friend two weeks back.
Yeah cause my mom would fckin yell at me when ever I tried lol
I still do bunny ears in any picture my mother takes of me and my little sisters. Gotta keep it alive
As someone who works with people with developmental disabilities, I see it everyday
You do not know about K-pop world
I still do! Never forget...
I do sometimes and I then I think. How did I not stop that by now? 40 years on bunny ears. It's not that funny! Is it?
Someone did it to me just the other day.
this was always dumb that’s why
The bunnies had a ‘Me Too’ moment
no, but according to my 8 year old self it’d meant that you wanted to shower with that person 🤭
Info it every occasion I get
Jokes on you I just did this last week
My 11yo daughter does it every chance she gets.
You don't see much "mooning" either. That's a good thing.
I’m old. I definitely still do this.
My thing is, it's probably because photos are less of a "thing" nowadays. People just take them anywhere and everywhere all the time that there's no chances to do bunny ears.
Used to do this as a young kid but then stopped when i heard someone say it meant that you had a crush on the person you did it to...
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Sounds like you’re hanging out with the wrong kind of people.
No, it's probably going to be flashing gang signs that is more fad culture these days, and those heavily into anime do their thing
I am pushing 40 and still do that.
I’m almost 36 and I do it to people every so often. Ahhhhhh the nostalgia :)
Bunny ears worked best when it was film that had to be developed. A month or more later, the photographer would excitedly pick up the developed photos from the chemist and run back to the car to look at them. And there it is. Eight year old Johnny gave bunny ears to Great Aunty Ida in the multi-generational family photo and the realisation that you'll never ever get that group together again. Nowadays, you can see it straight away, and you can retake it.
During school one of the trends that started was "bunny ears mean you wanna sleep with them!" So it stopped very fast.
I think, at least for my area, it was because someone started a rumour that if you did bunny ears to someone, it meant you wanted to have sex with them. Died off pretty quick after that. We were 10.
Hang around young kids. It's alive and well
I notice a lot less kids sticking their tongues out too
I give my bunny ears all the time! I'm 36.
You’ve clearly never met my brother
I actually have a recent photo (taken this year) where i was giving bunny ears to someone, and someone else was giving me bunny ears!
My work hosts high school STEM students for one day every year. This year I was one of the tour guides which also required I take pictures of the visit. Trust me, bunny ears are alive and well, at least with high school kids.
That doesn’t seem right...
Were those bunny ears ?? I thought they were donkey ears.
I remember that everyone i knew used go get so angry, it didn't seem worth it
Correction: "OP doesnt see it anymore"
I think it probably has a lot to do with the fact that we can see the photo as soon as we take it now. Back in the day, you could do it and the other person wouldn’t know until you got the film developed. Now, the thrill is kind of gone.
How about the Shaka alien? 🤙🏼
My 14 yo brother disagrees
I never see it because I’m the one throwing them up.
You don’t see them posted but I assure you they happen.
Well that does it. I'm bringing it back!
Nah, there is an app for that now.
Where I'm from we call it donkey ears
The way everything else from the late 90s is coming back, I'm sure it'll suddenly be everywhere -_-
Wait.... they're not Donkey ears???
Bc most pics are selfies and you can see it ?
You haven't met my dad lol
I never even saw that once, maybe people never did it where i am from
Because everything is digital now so no one uses them anymore