When most people “roll their eyes”, they flick their eyes directly upward, usually as far as they comfortably go, then resume looking normally.
When someone who learned the phrase before the behavior does it, they usually go in a circular (ish) motion. Since most eye movements are lines, it’s usually pretty triangular: the key points are usually a diagonal up one way, then to the far other side, then to a diagonal low the first way. Thus, the eyes basically make a loop, so they “rolled”.
I’ve found that when people who learned the up-down way first try the circular motion, they might risk motion sickness, so experiment carefully.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN MOST PEOPLE JUST LOOK UP
y'all, please, people aren’t doing this because they learned it “wrong” or too literally, there’s just multiple ways to roll your eyes. Everything from the full arc with head roll for emphasis to a quick and abbreviated upwards flick.
like basically every other facial expression, it’s a RANGE
[Image description: A screencap of the Biggus Dickus scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian. A Roman soldier is trying to hold in his laughter whilst Pontious Pilate stares at him sternly. /End description.]
I got an extension called DeArrow that replaces Youtube thumbnails/titles with crowdsourced ones to make them less clickbaity and obnoxious. If there isn’t one available I set it to just grab a random frame and remove ALL CAPS!!!.
Here’s some comparisons (Original on the left, DeArrow on the right):
might add this to my roster of youtube mods along with the “remove ytshorts from my existance” one
there is also the inverse, an extension called mrbeastify that adds youtuber mr beast to all the thumbnails
it’s interesting, because I thought from the pitch I would really like the DeArrow mod op described, but browsing the thumbnails under the cut I found they mostly became less informative both about the content and about whether I would want to watch them
