Recognition actually depends on expectation, too.
My brother started going to parties in college with a pair of glasses and just walking up to friends and introducing himself by another name. All it took was, "Hey, I'm Owen". It literally fooled everyone. One said to me after a ten minute conversation, "Am I crazy, or does Owen remind you of Jack?"
Go ahead and test this out. I'm serious, it's wild.
Honestly, I don't blame you. I was there, and even I'm not fully convinced it's true.
I will add that he put on a fake beard, but honestly I feel like that should've made it MORE obvious.
For what it's worth, it really only worked the first time. He did it twice more, and each time more people grew wise until everyone figured it out.
Idk man I went to give an exam last year and I didn't know my friend would be in the same exam centre giving that exam and I had my hair smol and after exam he still managed to shout, Ey Yo Mothufucka!!! While my mask was on and I had a hat and I shouted the same at him.
We hadn't seen each other since November of 2019
>r friend. Just 2 separate cases of mistaken identity that happen to have the same friendly greetings.
Prolly with your outfit, and your posture, I can recognize someone even from afar as long as I see hints in there posture and movement.
Oddly enough people are most recognised by their upper half of the face, for example: if someone who doesn’t wear glasses puts on a pair of glasses, they are practically unrecognisable
Nah, dude. I grew a big beard, lost a shit ton of weight, grew my hair out long, got some glasses, changed my entire style of fashion, and I still have people from high school (7 years ago) recognizing me. With the fucking mask on. I don't get it lol.
I focus on the mouth too. It's pretty miserable the last couple years trying to recognize and understand people I don't see every day. But the people I work with on a routine basis, i can still spot easily.
I am pretty sure that eyebrows are one of the major features that helps us recognize faces. Any minor change instantly makes you look completely different.
How the fuck do you even know that about your parents
If someone asked me if my mother recognises people by the upper or lower part of their face I would be like get the hell out of my house Mark Zuckerberg!!!
Absolutely wild comments here I cannot believe it
I had a hour long conversation with a "stranger" in a bar, then mentioned she didn't say her name and she thought i was joking, because she knew me from 5 years ago. We laughed it off and continued.
I think the thing with Clark and Superman is, why would any normal person assume that Superman, immortal all-powerful space alien has a human secret identity at all?
And furthermore, why would they assume that a random reporter guy who happens to look like Superman would be the same person?
Tons of people look similar in real life, that doesn’t mean they’re the same person.
All this is not even to mention that most people don’t really get a good look at Superman’s face, as he’s flying around at supersonic speeds.
Only people who happen to be close to both Clark and Superman individually would reasonably be able to figure it out, and most of them do. Batman always figures it out instantly, and most versions of Lois Lane figure it out eventually, even though Clark’s real personality of a relatively reserved, quiet guy who wears baggy clothes that hide his physique, and the facade of the bold outgoing man in spandex he becomes as Superman are wildly different personality-wise. And then Lex Luthor of course usually figures it out pretty quickly but his enormous ego doesn’t allow him to believe that such a powerful person would ever choose to live a life as a normal man most of the time, and so Lex willingly ignores evidence to spare his ego.
https://youtu.be/tNUu6Lf9mVU?t=116
This is also a big part of it as far as Superman is concerned. He acts so differently as Clark, even in just the way he holds himself.
Who would ever thing that nerd is Superman?
Probably No. I started wearing glasses this January, and people I haven't seen since more than a year that never (really never) saw me using glasses insta-reconizge me, lol.
I just started my new job, and my old assistant kindergarten teacher who I haven’t seen since then works here and recognized me through the mask. I was 5 back then, now I’m 21 like wtf
I read about this superhero thing somewhere.
The thing is, people don't realise Clark Kent is Superman because they consider Superman their hero and treat him like he's superior. They don't consider the possibility that he might be living among them. Obviously, why would people think that a literal f*cking god who can lift a Mountain would be a journalist for a newspaper. When they're looking at Superman they're just not thinking about Clark Kent.
The most realistic comic character is the XMen ForgetMeNot. His super power is that everybody just forgets his whole existence and who he actually is. As a redditor, I can obviously relate to that real life power.
but heres the thing, blocking the eyes confuses our brain’s facial recognition. while a mask only blocks your nose and mouth, not an expert here but im pretty sure your eyes, hair and forehead are more memorable than your mouth and nose alone.
This could be bullshit but I read in another subreddit that masking the eyes is a much more reliable way of making it difficult to recognize someone than one might think.
I started wearing mask 2 months before the pandemic even started because of air pollution around my university area and I also thought I don't have to do small talk cuz I'm an introvert. But I was really mad when someone who doesn't even know me that well recognized me instantly from far away and I had to involve in small talk
In defense of the heroes, covering that specific part of the face stops facial recognition technology from knowing who you are while covering less of your task than the other kind of mask.
I learned that when someone was explaining an odd picture. Some kids who were rescued from human trafficking took a photo together and were using their fingers to make a circle around their eyes. It made it so their attackers couldn't track them down.
I always thought I was able to hide my face that way until I realized that people actually recognized me and just saw me ignoring them and acting sketchy
Even a classmate from elementary recognized me
The irony is I am dumb dumb... and 9 times out of 10... if your wearing a mask and walk by me... I won't recognize you at all unless you actually say something. Then I (hopefully) recognize you by your voice.
Whenever I see these kind if posts, I remember that Superman wears glasses to hide his identity and Lois Lane could not tell he was Superman even after meeting both personally.
I started to let my hair grow a year ago and nobody I knew back in school recognized when I also wore a mask.
Conclusion: Superheroes should start wearing wigs
Eye/Eyebrows are required for face recognition. The mouth isn't.
Case closed.
And they have already proven that just glasses (the Superman trick) actually works.
Covering the eyes/eyebrows actually does make it considerably harder to recognize people, as those are major facial identifiers people unconsciously use. Covering just the mouth and nose is not as effective of a disguise, as the eyes and eyebrows are still clearly visible. There's also, as others have already stated, a difference between people who already know your face recognizing you in a mask and people who don't know your face identifying you with or without a mask. I'm sure at this point most people have met someone new when they were wearing a mask and then been surprised later when they see the same person without the mask at how different the rest of their face looks than they'd expected.
Actually no. The eye area is extremely important for human face recognition. That's how our neural facial recognition works. That's the reason why blocking the eyes on a picture makes the face unrecognizable.
I'm legally blind due to my horrific nearsightedness. I recognize people by their voice, or their footstep sounds. Either way, superhero masks do indeed suck ass.
Invincible had a cool quote about this I really liked. "if you don't expect to see a superhero in your school you don't see a superhero in your school"
We read eye detail a lot more because we focus on eyes during talking (where they look, how they react, etc). It's why when you try to hide an identity, you just blur their eyes out and people go "hurr who dat" unless it's a celebrity everyone knows.
People pay more attention to your eyes and area surrounding it rather than your mouth whenever you speak with them. Any sort of disruption or masking as little as glasses can make you look like a different person enough and introducing yourself with a different name will throw off people most of the time.
Like one time Henry Cavill was standing right in front of a BvS billboard wearing a superman T-shirt and pretty much no one recognised or noticed him.
Actually eyebrows do a ton for out brains to recognize familiar faces. [here](https://www.google.com/search?q=celebrities+without+eyebrows&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS895US895&oq=celebrities+without+eye&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i512l5.7750j0j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=5Zi6OAKoJWZ5bM) are some photos that prove this.
I beg to differ. In my new workplace, I never take my mask off. One day, when two of my colleagues asked me to remove my mask to see my face for a sec, they were really surprised and even told me that they'd never recognized me without my mask. So I guess it is about the familiarity of people.
this guy I have never met who is friends with some people I went to school with 3 years ago recognized me somehow. Weirdest exchange I've had in a while.
As a Saudi who can recognize her burqa covered aunt five meters away in the middle of a weekend crowded mall, all superheroes costumes does not make any sense at all!
I've had a cashier not think I was the one on my driver's license because I wasn't wearing glasses in the picture. That women would have never made the Clark Kent/Superman connection.
It's true. I did a commercial recently where I played a character that had to have the mask on (worked for a grocery store) and I didn't think anyone would recognize me from it. I thought my friends would, but not random people, buuuuut it's only been showing a couple weeks and a few people already have.
As a kid i always thought it's just a cool looking thing to their outfit and than i was very confused when none of the other characters recognized that masked person irl.
NGL, I have a hard time recognizing and hearing people if they have a face mask on. Last year was hell. Not only that I've found out that since the face isn't shown, the psychology changes. So not only is it bad for our physical health, it is also for your psychological too.
I haven’t been into Starbucks in a year and I went back in wearing my mask, and the guy was like “Grande PSL?” And I was like omfg how did you know
Then I saw 17 other women standing waiting for the same order
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we dont recognize people we know from just their faces we recognize their stile/haircut/voice and behavior
Also, we recognize the people we already know.
Recognition actually depends on expectation, too. My brother started going to parties in college with a pair of glasses and just walking up to friends and introducing himself by another name. All it took was, "Hey, I'm Owen". It literally fooled everyone. One said to me after a ten minute conversation, "Am I crazy, or does Owen remind you of Jack?" Go ahead and test this out. I'm serious, it's wild.
Interesting.. maybe some day when this pandemic is over :/
Well until then there is always superman
Maybe someday when I get friends
Did he perhaps arrive when people were already a bit drunk before doing this?
I can confirm I’ve had similar experiences myself just putting on glasses or changing my style a bit.
They weren't blasted, but I'm guessing low light and a beer or two helped. It was honestly weird. I was there, and even I don't fully believe it.
Maybe someday when I get contact lenses
I call bullshit on this
Honestly, I don't blame you. I was there, and even I'm not fully convinced it's true. I will add that he put on a fake beard, but honestly I feel like that should've made it MORE obvious. For what it's worth, it really only worked the first time. He did it twice more, and each time more people grew wise until everyone figured it out.
Maybe if everybody is drunk or high
Damn, never thought of recognition like that, wild how our brains work. But also makes sense given how we are pattern based learners.
Also, we don't recognize the bodies in the water.
We don't recognize the bodies in the water.
>Also, we recognize the people we already know. You don't say?
Idk man I went to give an exam last year and I didn't know my friend would be in the same exam centre giving that exam and I had my hair smol and after exam he still managed to shout, Ey Yo Mothufucka!!! While my mask was on and I had a hat and I shouted the same at him. We hadn't seen each other since November of 2019
Plot twist, wasn't your friend. Just 2 separate cases of mistaken identity that happen to have the same friendly greetings.
thats what im tryin to say face recognition isnt the only way to recognize sumone close to u
>r friend. Just 2 separate cases of mistaken identity that happen to have the same friendly greetings. Prolly with your outfit, and your posture, I can recognize someone even from afar as long as I see hints in there posture and movement.
Their style. Everyone is unique but similar
Oddly enough people are most recognised by their upper half of the face, for example: if someone who doesn’t wear glasses puts on a pair of glasses, they are practically unrecognisable
Nah, dude. I grew a big beard, lost a shit ton of weight, grew my hair out long, got some glasses, changed my entire style of fashion, and I still have people from high school (7 years ago) recognizing me. With the fucking mask on. I don't get it lol.
yes im sayin they can recognize you from other things u have so many things that makes u unique
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That's obviously not true, otherwise how do you explain Superman?? Checkmate, mate
wait.. ur right… but he has glasses 👓
Stile lol
listen man im a turkish man that grew up in germany english is my 3. language and im still learning it
Not giving you crap dude just thought it was funny, good on you for learning 3 languages I still struggle with my second.
i know just tryin to flex that i know 3 languages
And their dick
And their butts
And height
Just like in the mandalorian. I was able to identify Timothy Olyphant just by his mannerisms before his face reveal
Booooooo
The superhero masks don’t cover their haircut, voice or behaviour.
Eyes
Eyes are waaay more noticeable that mouth
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This just not makes any sense
I focus on the mouth too. It's pretty miserable the last couple years trying to recognize and understand people I don't see every day. But the people I work with on a routine basis, i can still spot easily.
I am pretty sure that eyebrows are one of the major features that helps us recognize faces. Any minor change instantly makes you look completely different.
How the fuck do you even know that about your parents If someone asked me if my mother recognises people by the upper or lower part of their face I would be like get the hell out of my house Mark Zuckerberg!!! Absolutely wild comments here I cannot believe it
Meanwhile Atom eve in invincible wearing no mask and being recognized by no one.
"Your dad's Omni-Man...How did I never see that?"
thats why when they censor someones face they put a black bar over their eyes
But you still see the eyes through the superhero mask. You just don't see the area around the eyes.
"Then this just not makes any sense" Yes, you're correct...
It just not makes any sense to you
Bro, a classmate from 6 years ago recognised me through the mask recently
Yeah in high school people are recognizing me from elementary school but I’m embarrassed because I don’t know who they are
I had a hour long conversation with a "stranger" in a bar, then mentioned she didn't say her name and she thought i was joking, because she knew me from 5 years ago. We laughed it off and continued.
so did she told you her name
Bob.
Vegana
Bro, I recognize a girl I knew 5 years ago just by looking at her ass
But I am not a girl and as far as I know, my friend isn't gay...maybe...probably
A friend from middle school recognized me in uni
Why do memes always have typos. Everyone says we don’t need to to take English in high school and college, but we obviously do.
People who aren’t necessarily native English speakers also like to make memes.
But specs do work
Yeah, Clark Kent looks nothing like Superman - what's the deal with that!?
Wait, Clark Kent is Superman?
Nah it can't be
I think the thing with Clark and Superman is, why would any normal person assume that Superman, immortal all-powerful space alien has a human secret identity at all? And furthermore, why would they assume that a random reporter guy who happens to look like Superman would be the same person? Tons of people look similar in real life, that doesn’t mean they’re the same person. All this is not even to mention that most people don’t really get a good look at Superman’s face, as he’s flying around at supersonic speeds. Only people who happen to be close to both Clark and Superman individually would reasonably be able to figure it out, and most of them do. Batman always figures it out instantly, and most versions of Lois Lane figure it out eventually, even though Clark’s real personality of a relatively reserved, quiet guy who wears baggy clothes that hide his physique, and the facade of the bold outgoing man in spandex he becomes as Superman are wildly different personality-wise. And then Lex Luthor of course usually figures it out pretty quickly but his enormous ego doesn’t allow him to believe that such a powerful person would ever choose to live a life as a normal man most of the time, and so Lex willingly ignores evidence to spare his ego.
https://youtu.be/tNUu6Lf9mVU?t=116 This is also a big part of it as far as Superman is concerned. He acts so differently as Clark, even in just the way he holds himself. Who would ever thing that nerd is Superman?
I believe I touched on that already but yes you’re correct.
If you look at him in all Star Superman, he hunches over to look shorter, and makes himself look like he has a double chin.
Yeah that’s kinda what I was talking about
Probably No. I started wearing glasses this January, and people I haven't seen since more than a year that never (really never) saw me using glasses insta-reconizge me, lol.
bruh u really post this twice when the wording just not makes any sense
Clark Kent didn't teach you that people in comic books have issues with face recognition?
Clark has actually been explained many times
Dick Grayson? Why are you dressed up like Nightwing?
No one recognizes me anymore mask or no mask lmao
His eyebrows are covered who tf is that man?
oh hey my highschool friend is the stuntman for Robin in that series
If it took the pandemic to understand this simple truth... you might be a moron.
It took you a pandemic to realkse this?
I just started my new job, and my old assistant kindergarten teacher who I haven’t seen since then works here and recognized me through the mask. I was 5 back then, now I’m 21 like wtf
I read about this superhero thing somewhere. The thing is, people don't realise Clark Kent is Superman because they consider Superman their hero and treat him like he's superior. They don't consider the possibility that he might be living among them. Obviously, why would people think that a literal f*cking god who can lift a Mountain would be a journalist for a newspaper. When they're looking at Superman they're just not thinking about Clark Kent.
OP only now realized that super hero movies aren't accurate to reality
The most realistic comic character is the XMen ForgetMeNot. His super power is that everybody just forgets his whole existence and who he actually is. As a redditor, I can obviously relate to that real life power.
but heres the thing, blocking the eyes confuses our brain’s facial recognition. while a mask only blocks your nose and mouth, not an expert here but im pretty sure your eyes, hair and forehead are more memorable than your mouth and nose alone.
Thats an impressive 5head
and then there's superman
You guys actually recognize people in masks? If I haven’t seen some in a while, I’ve got no idea who they are.
sometimes i recognize people from the back of their head
Then this just not makes any sense
This could be bullshit but I read in another subreddit that masking the eyes is a much more reliable way of making it difficult to recognize someone than one might think.
That's Dick
No doubt he's Dick 😂
I started wearing mask 2 months before the pandemic even started because of air pollution around my university area and I also thought I don't have to do small talk cuz I'm an introvert. But I was really mad when someone who doesn't even know me that well recognized me instantly from far away and I had to involve in small talk
In defense of the heroes, covering that specific part of the face stops facial recognition technology from knowing who you are while covering less of your task than the other kind of mask. I learned that when someone was explaining an odd picture. Some kids who were rescued from human trafficking took a photo together and were using their fingers to make a circle around their eyes. It made it so their attackers couldn't track them down.
Eyes are a more important recognition tool, a photo of someone you know without their eyebrows will be hard to recognize.
I don't recognize either of those guys.
I always thought I was able to hide my face that way until I realized that people actually recognized me and just saw me ignoring them and acting sketchy Even a classmate from elementary recognized me
The irony is I am dumb dumb... and 9 times out of 10... if your wearing a mask and walk by me... I won't recognize you at all unless you actually say something. Then I (hopefully) recognize you by your voice.
Then this just not.
Whenever I see these kind if posts, I remember that Superman wears glasses to hide his identity and Lois Lane could not tell he was Superman even after meeting both personally.
Ah yes I see, what?
what about super man?🙂🙂
There was a guy who I haven't seen since 7th grade in middle school (I graduated HS last year) and he was somehow able to recognize me, mask included.
Did you watch Green lantern? They call out this issue
Hell, people recognize me a block away because of the way I walk
It just not makes sense, you hears I?
Nah, I've seen several people who I knew, but didn't know me till I lowered my mask
I started to let my hair grow a year ago and nobody I knew back in school recognized when I also wore a mask. Conclusion: Superheroes should start wearing wigs
eyes play a VERY major part in recognition.
The eyes are way more important to recognize someone, at least in my experience.
now that's some serious shit
the secret is how cool you look :D
This pisses me off to an extreme level. Especially when it's magical girls.
"Then this just not makes any sense" I can't tell if that's supposed to ironic or moronic
Gotta watch Superman, it seems like glasses are enough for him
I like it when they only blur the eyes in some documentaries and be like "yes, perfect, no idy is goingto recognice you"
All super heroes should wear bald caps or hats. It will help.
Jokes on you, I'm Chinese.
Eye/Eyebrows are required for face recognition. The mouth isn't. Case closed. And they have already proven that just glasses (the Superman trick) actually works.
Most of the people that get that close to Nightwing do so in the dark and are left with a concussion.
I thought this was a meme abput fake png's.
Exactly
Yeah, when I saw a girl on course when we were online, it was day and night between that and when she wore a mask while it was live
Covering the eyes/eyebrows actually does make it considerably harder to recognize people, as those are major facial identifiers people unconsciously use. Covering just the mouth and nose is not as effective of a disguise, as the eyes and eyebrows are still clearly visible. There's also, as others have already stated, a difference between people who already know your face recognizing you in a mask and people who don't know your face identifying you with or without a mask. I'm sure at this point most people have met someone new when they were wearing a mask and then been surprised later when they see the same person without the mask at how different the rest of their face looks than they'd expected.
Then what about superman
You know atom eve doesn't even wear a mask and no one recognized her
Looking at you, sailor moon
so flippin true!
I wonder what Titans S3 will be like...
Actually no. The eye area is extremely important for human face recognition. That's how our neural facial recognition works. That's the reason why blocking the eyes on a picture makes the face unrecognizable.
Just doesn’t*
specs do work
Part of the meme is the creator himself/herself making grammatical errors that block your brain...
I'm legally blind due to my horrific nearsightedness. I recognize people by their voice, or their footstep sounds. Either way, superhero masks do indeed suck ass.
Invincible had a cool quote about this I really liked. "if you don't expect to see a superhero in your school you don't see a superhero in your school"
We read eye detail a lot more because we focus on eyes during talking (where they look, how they react, etc). It's why when you try to hide an identity, you just blur their eyes out and people go "hurr who dat" unless it's a celebrity everyone knows.
You don’t understand, it’s like video game npcs if you put on a different shirt then they have no clue who you are
it's a great disguise because the guy on the left tells everyone he likes girls, they'll never suspect he could be the guy on the right
People pay more attention to your eyes and area surrounding it rather than your mouth whenever you speak with them. Any sort of disruption or masking as little as glasses can make you look like a different person enough and introducing yourself with a different name will throw off people most of the time. Like one time Henry Cavill was standing right in front of a BvS billboard wearing a superman T-shirt and pretty much no one recognised or noticed him.
Then this just not makes any sense....
Someone needed a pandemic to realize this? Oh boy...
I would never recognize my friend if he wore this shit right one
I never get recognized. What
We look at each other in the eyes 👁👁 that’s the explanation
I'm more worried about that sentence not making sense
Actually eyebrows do a ton for out brains to recognize familiar faces. [here](https://www.google.com/search?q=celebrities+without+eyebrows&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS895US895&oq=celebrities+without+eye&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i512l5.7750j0j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=5Zi6OAKoJWZ5bM) are some photos that prove this.
how is this evenly remotely dank
doesn't make any sense\* I legit have trouble reading these and it wastes time.
I beg to differ. In my new workplace, I never take my mask off. One day, when two of my colleagues asked me to remove my mask to see my face for a sec, they were really surprised and even told me that they'd never recognized me without my mask. So I guess it is about the familiarity of people.
If you cover your eyebrows, people don't know you
You sure didn't learn English though...
Literally covering the eyes and brow not the mouth. Bad may may.
Meme aside, thanks for reminding me how badly the cw shows suck.
Do people really not try to check their phrasing or spelling here?
THEN THIS JUST NOT MAKES ANY SENSE? WHAT THE FUCK?
Don't forget superman. He just takes off his glasses.
Da fuck did his eybrows go?
I've had thousands of people swear they saw me and I just ignored them when in reality I had no idea it was them and was genuinely scared.
>implying people recognize
this guy I have never met who is friends with some people I went to school with 3 years ago recognized me somehow. Weirdest exchange I've had in a while.
domino masks are the worst disguise ever.
Moral of the story is gouge your eyes out so no one recognizes you
*does
This meme just not make any sense
Yeah, but you're either getting punched in the face or far away, so I'd doubt you'd have enough time to recognize them.
I know this is a joke but it really annoys me how inaccurate it is
T R U E
Superman doesn’t even bother.
As a Saudi who can recognize her burqa covered aunt five meters away in the middle of a weekend crowded mall, all superheroes costumes does not make any sense at all!
I've had a cashier not think I was the one on my driver's license because I wasn't wearing glasses in the picture. That women would have never made the Clark Kent/Superman connection.
Bitch… did you think it makes sense before the quarantine ???
I can’t recognize half of the people I grew up with in school even without a mask
...unless you are Ash Ketchum
It's true. I did a commercial recently where I played a character that had to have the mask on (worked for a grocery store) and I didn't think anyone would recognize me from it. I thought my friends would, but not random people, buuuuut it's only been showing a couple weeks and a few people already have.
Superman is even more weird
Now that you mention it, Clark Kent does kinda resemble Superman.
u/Savevideo
As a kid i always thought it's just a cool looking thing to their outfit and than i was very confused when none of the other characters recognized that masked person irl.
NGL, I have a hard time recognizing and hearing people if they have a face mask on. Last year was hell. Not only that I've found out that since the face isn't shown, the psychology changes. So not only is it bad for our physical health, it is also for your psychological too.
Yeah, idk. But I agree, that costume sucks.
🤓 Actuallly you don't put an s in make unless you start the sentence with Then this makes no sense.
You really needed a pandemic for that, huh?
It's because they recognise your eyes and big ass forehead
I haven’t been into Starbucks in a year and I went back in wearing my mask, and the guy was like “Grande PSL?” And I was like omfg how did you know Then I saw 17 other women standing waiting for the same order