Duck Face Chicks Meme Template
“Duck face” or “Myspace face” is a pejorative label for a photo pose with pursed lips. Know Your Meme traces the broader pose to early social-network profile photos and records Urban Dictionary entries for “myspace face” in 2006 (user Crohnser) and “duck face” later that year (user Mair Mair). It also notes earlier cultural comparisons: a 1979 Little Feat album cover, a 1989 Full House character nicknamed “Duckface,” and Zoolander’s 2001 “Blue Steel” pose. Those references do not establish the origin, identity, or circumstances of the people in this particular template photograph. Because the term has often been used to ridicule women’s appearance, examples here make the speaker or the over-planned photo moment the joke, not someone’s body.
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What the Duck Face Chicks meme means
“Duck face” or “Myspace face” is a pejorative label for a photo pose with pursed lips. Know Your Meme traces the broader pose to early social-network profile photos and records Urban Dictionary entries for “myspace face” in 2006 (user Crohnser) and “duck face” later that year (user Mair Mair). It also notes earlier cultural comparisons: a 1979 Little Feat album cover, a 1989 Full House character nicknamed “Duckface,” and Zoolander’s 2001 “Blue Steel” pose. Those references do not establish the origin, identity, or circumstances of the people in this particular template photograph. Because the term has often been used to ridicule women’s appearance, examples here make the speaker or the over-planned photo moment the joke, not someone’s body.
A tightly cropped photograph of two people wearing baseball caps and making pronounced, pursed-lip expressions toward the camera. The photo has no baked-in words. Slot 1 is a caption band across the top; slot 2 is a caption band across the bottom.
How the joke works
Slot 1 sets up an ordinary photo-taking intention, expectation, or habit. Slot 2 delivers an exaggerated result, over-planned version, or self-aware punchline that fits the pronounced pose in the image. The two captions should form one contrast; the photo itself shows the same pose throughout, not a literal before-and-after transformation. Keep the joke about the speaker, filters, or the process of taking a photo rather than insulting the people pictured or commenting on real bodies.
- Top caption: set an ordinary intention, expectation, or photo-taking situation.
- Bottom caption: deliver the exaggerated pose, overplanned result, or self-aware payoff.
Caption examples
- Me taking one quick selfie
- Also me: 37 takes and three filters
The second line exaggerates the ordinary intention in slot 1 and makes the speaker’s overplanning the joke.
- I might take a selfie
- I might take a selfie
The second caption repeats the setup without adding contrast, escalation, or a payoff.
Situations it fits
- a self-deprecating joke about retaking a casual photo
- an ordinary plan that turns into an overproduced selfie session
- contrasting an intended natural pose with a knowingly exaggerated result
- humor about filters, angles, or trying too hard for one picture
When this format does not fit
- Do not claim the people pictured had cosmetic procedures or infer anything about their identity or character.
- Do not target a person’s natural features, gender, or body with insults; the historical label is pejorative.
- Do not describe the photo as a literal before-and-after; both people make a similar pose in the same image.
- Do not use unrelated captions; slot 2 should complete or exaggerate slot 1.
