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The reason that everyone always looked miserable in old photos wasn’t that they took too long to take. Once photography became widespread it took only seconds to take a picture.

It was because getting your photo taken was treated the same as getting your portrait painted. A very serious occasion meant so thst your descendants would know that ypu existed and what you looked like.

A screenshot of what’s probably a Windows XP desktop. The control panel window is open but the program has stopped responding. The user has then dragged the control panel window across the screen leaving a trail of afterimages of that window behind it. The top layer looks like a curving staircase and someone has added Cinderella, in her ball gown, walking down it.