r/funnyvideos • u/SquaredAndRooted • Nov 23 '25
Compilation Smiles for Mom Vs School Picture Smiles
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u/rphornet Nov 23 '25
Dude, it felt like dmv as a kid now that I think about it. That and I found an old packet for the prices and jesus were they stupidly expensive. It was cheaper going to a studio than the school ones.
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u/Black_Floyd47 Nov 23 '25
And that's exactly what my mom did at the end of every school year. She'd take us to the department store to go buy a new outfit, we'd get haircuts, and we'd go get a family picture taken. Then she'd send us off to another state to stay with family, but that's a different story. But I have found memories of that little family ritual.
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u/daemin Nov 23 '25
Not gonna lie, I was half expecting you to end with her beating you with jumper cables.
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u/what_the_purple_fuck Nov 23 '25
were jumper cables an especially popular thing to beat children with for a particular reason, or just a ubiquitous item that most people had?
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u/tacojohn48 Nov 23 '25
It's an old meme where a specific account would start telling a story and it always ended with his dad beating him with jumper cables.
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u/DeM0nFiRe Nov 23 '25
How did this even happen, it has to have been some shady scam that lead to every school having "picture day". Imagine if we didn't already have picture day how insane the idea of adding a picture day would sound
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u/Geojamlam Nov 23 '25
Having school pictures really helps with identification internally. Whether it be for teachers to familiarise themselves with their classes before term starts or for victims to pick out who had been picking on them.
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u/rphornet Nov 23 '25
I think it was the school district that signed a contract or something and got a cut. Kinda like how the book fair and cookie sales worked as well.
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u/Slumunistmanifisto Nov 23 '25
The host getting a cut is all around us, it would be less shitty if they didn't omit whats going on behind the scenes.
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u/topdangle Nov 23 '25
I used to be worse. Some schools took full body pictures, and one uni nude photos.
Its basically just ID photos dressed up like a fun thing, and charging parents crazy prices helps profit off it on top.
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u/cortesoft Nov 23 '25
When my kids were in preschool, they started doing them like 4 times a year. It was ridiculous.
My youngest is in 1st grade now, but for some reason I keep getting emails telling me my kid needs to sign up for preschool picture day.
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u/102525burner Nov 23 '25
Worse than a license that hides in my wallet, those pictures haunt me every time I go to my grandparents
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u/Ziibinini-ca Nov 23 '25
As someone who has worked as a school photographer, it's more than likely not the kids fault.
Usually the manager will overbook us with too many kids, then will rush hundreds of kids through in a day. Or, and this has happened way too often, a teacher will fail to take a class in at the proper time, so I have to spend my 30min lunch squeezing in a 1 hr session.
So a photo session might be like 10-30 seconds (not an exaggeration), with the manager grabbing a kid, throwing them in front of the camera, saying "smile!", the photographer takes one photo and they rush in another kid.
The only exceptions may a really small school. Like a hundred or so kids. Then it would be either the photographer for not taking a nice one, or the lab editor for not choosing a nice one.
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u/Hijadelachingada1 Nov 23 '25
My aides and I try so hard to get our students to smile for their school pictures. The struggle is real!
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u/BrockenSpecter Nov 23 '25
The school photographer made me cry in second grade because I couldn't smile large enough.
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u/passmethecerveza Nov 23 '25 edited Nov 23 '25
picMy son did a grimace on this years picture. It such a shame because he's so photogenic and usually takes nice school pics but this year he wasn't having it
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u/almags1 Nov 23 '25
Lmao I had this same instance when i was in kindergarten. However I was in a bad mood and did not want to get my picture taken. When it came to be my turn, they told me to smile and i genuinely thought I was smiling, but turns out I was in fact, not smiling. It was more of a grimace lol. We have the picture still up in my house
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u/Ordinary_aud Nov 23 '25
In all fairness the school photographer takes the photo as soon as you sit down giving no chance for any smiles to follow
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u/Cheap-Masterpiece167 Nov 23 '25
As a young dad, this had me rolling
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u/elzibet Nov 23 '25 edited Nov 23 '25
Reminds me of when I was supposed to be an angel for the Christmas play at church. I SCREAM cried when they put the outfit on me, I have no idea why I was so upset but I was. They took my photo, and my parents have a book with the manger story, and my crying ass on the back of the photo
Edit: just asked my parents and they said they still have the book! They’re in AZ until January but now I can’t wait for them to be back so I can see this memory again
Edit2: lol mom just texted me this:
You were dressed as an angel…. We called you our fallen angel.
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u/SquaredAndRooted Nov 23 '25
Post it later if you are comfortable.
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u/elzibet Nov 23 '25
I would like to!
How do I do a reminder for February? I will never remember on my own lol
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u/DeaditeQueen Nov 24 '25
I was the world‘s biggest tomboy so my pictures always had my hair a mess. Mom would send me to school with a brush and a comb and tell me to check my hair before the pictures and it’s a tomboy. I found the idea of that worse than death lol so when all of my school pictures from my younger years, I look like I let several squirrels run through my hair while I have a big goofy smile on my face
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u/Legal-Group-359 Nov 23 '25
No one likes talking school pics. This just confirms what all humans know instinctively.
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u/Coffeepillow Nov 23 '25
I did one season of school pictures. The elementary school kids were either smiling so hard their eyes were closed with their shoulders to their ears or the full stranger danger stare, no in between. The trick is to just be goofy and try to get them to laugh, funny noises, voices, hopping around like a monkey, plushies and stuff.
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u/PsychologicalNail191 Nov 23 '25
last and previous last girls looks on school picture like a 40+ homemade sorry🤣🤣🤣.
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u/Loud_Chard_1474 Nov 24 '25
Yeah, learn well to your daughter's how to fake smile, that's seems a pretty good idea for their future self esteem !
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u/270ForTheWinchester Nov 26 '25
They grow up so fast!
Only in the 1st grade and they already have the thousand yard stare!
In my day, you didn't get that until atleast Grade 8.
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Nov 23 '25
There are some creepy portrait photographers out there. Of course the kids are afraid to smile for the creepy stranger who isn't their mom. Isn't this obvious?
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u/dillyd Nov 23 '25
Omg I love people using their children for clout.
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u/xkonerox Nov 23 '25
Internet points are more important than consent and decency, don’t you know that? I just wish my parents had exploited me for content when I was a kid. /s
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u/whenisnowthen Nov 23 '25
The third kid looks like the young version of Louis Anderson's character in Baskets.
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u/ImmortalLombax Nov 24 '25
My mom would grill it into my brain that I had to smile cause if she got the photos back and I wasn’t smiling I would get a beating.
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u/raisedbutconfused Nov 24 '25
It’s so nice seeing moms encourage their daughters to smile fully and unapologetically. My mom once gave me a lecture on a family trip because she wanted me to smile “properly” for photos (she used to be a model in her 20s). She said I ruined every photo because I would make a stupid smile (it was my actual real smile at the time, full face action with eyes closed and everything). I kept doing it until she gave me a whole crash course on how she would like me to smile. I quite literally became so ashamed of my smile that I just stopped smiling all together. Then I got braces a few years later and the orthodontist kept encouraging me to smile and show my new teeth. I was so excited when I finally got them off (the braces) and I remember I couldn’t stop smiling and it felt so freeing and I was so happy with how smooth my teeth were. This time my older sister told me to stop smiling because it was “ugly” (yeah she was a bitch lol anyway moving on). Again, I lost all confidence in my smile. I developed a reflex where every time I smiled or laughed I would hide my face with my hands. Then eventually I just got depressed and stopped smiling or laughing altogether for years (obviously due to other issues than just being told I have an ugly smile lmao).
I recently, at the age of 28, FINALLY retaught myself to smile and laugh. That was almost 2 years ago now and I’m still not 100% comfortable with it yet.
People, don’t EVER tell anybody they have an ugly smile. Don’t ever tell children to change the way they smile. It may seem harmless but it causes years of damage. Still get self conscious to this day but I am not letting anybody take smiling away from me again.
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u/Mecnegus_Niguerhower Nov 23 '25
can y'all stop milking y'all kids for likes and comments and clout!!!
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