Women who post duckface Facebook profile pictures think they look great, but a Web site is setting out to make them look bad.
A Facebook page also proclaiming its disdain for duckfacers has over 16,000 likes, while a similar Twitter feed has 1,500 followers.
Although most of these sites and groups target everyday female Facebook photos, celebrities are also among the guilty parties, including singer Miley Cyrus and Eliot Spitzer's prostitute companion Ashley. Even Donald Trump has been photographed doing the duck.
Christian Rudder, 35, a founder of the dating site OkCupid, did a study to see what female expressions received the highest responses from male users on his site. Rudder concluded that a traditional smile created more buzz than the faux-sexy look of the duckface.
"Unfortunately," he said, "it's just the pose people strike when they take their own picture because they think it makes them look hot."
Although strange, the duckface craze isn't the only bizarre trend that has hit Facebook, the most recent being planking, where people lay on their stomachs atop unusual surfaces with their arms at their sides.
It's become extremely popular around the world, especially in Australia, where a Facebook group dedicated to planking down under has amassed over 50,000 likes. The prank, though, turned tragic earlier this month when a man died after planking on a balcony outside his seventh story apartment building.
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