As an american, I find this thread extremely entertaining but also perplexing. Now I want to see side-by-side comparisons of photos of americans and photos of non-americans. As others have said this is nothing I've ever noticed, but now I want to know if this is actually a thing or not.
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
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This is interesting. Even skinny Americans? I've never heard this, but I have heard you can tell someone is American because people from elsewhere don't lean on things when standing.
People from other countries also usually don't expose their entire set of teeth when smiling...
I am an american and I have lived here my whole life, and I never got this. Almost every person I know IRL except me smiles with all their teeth out like a fucking demented shark or something, and if I dont show my teeth like Im about to bite someone then other people chide in like "come on you arent even smiling!". For some reason americans just bare all their teeth like dogs when we smile and its disgusting and weird
Would it be wrong to assume you are self-conscious about your teeth (crooked, missing, etc)? This is the case with every American I know that doesn't like to smile on photos, although sometimes they're people who are happy to do full-burst laughter showing all in small trusted group settings.
Im not particularly conscious and I do sometimes smile with some teeth showing, like if I was laughing super hard and my teeth just happened to be showing I wouldnt try to hide it. But if I am, say, taking a group photo, I dont smile with all my teeth out. Its just weird to me.
I rarely smile at all, but I sure will lean when the opportunity presents itself.
Car culture is huge in the United States. Most folks I know drive everywhere even if it's only a mile away. Add fast food drive-throughs like McDonald's to this and you get obesity and thick "necks".
This guy looks like the βif humans evolved to survive high impact car crashesβ figure they made a while back.
I remember when I first saw Project Graham. I thought it was so cool and immediately homebrewed it into a human subrace for my D&D campaign.
This guy has literally no neck, not a fat neck. He can't look over his shoulder because his skill is attached to it.
Your mum's skill is attached to her shoulders lmao
Her ~~skill~~ skull is attached to her neck, not her shoulders.
Alright, that one took me a second, but I'm keeping it.
He looks like Patrick from SpongeBob.
hey dont take ed down this road.
he is a very sensible, loving human beeing.
on the search for love....
(yes, my girlfriend likes to watch trash tv... and yes, I am rethinking sometimes my choices)
It's where we store our excess Freedom
Adds stability when firing.
We're really fat
Guessing football and wrestling in high school, growth hormones in their meat, and an element of obesity. These are all guesses though, not shitting on the yanks.
They might like it.
This is me. Competitive swimming and wrestling as a youth, along with many years of rock climbing.
My upper back and neck is disproportionately larger than my lower torso and legs.
How many different populations have you observed this in? I've never observed this.
Because my trapezii are fuckin' jacked. Straight yoked. I've been working on my sternocliedomastoid form for years with some serious cervical reps. Glad someone noticed. 
You're looking at football fans, who obsess over overeating and competitive sports. While the US has a lot of those, they are not the only demographic.
Cop phrenology
Itβs evolution. In the days of the wild west, outlaws were typically dispatched by noose.
Occasionally one would slip out of the noose and make for the hills before the law could put any lead in him.
Those thick-necked outlaws then spread their genes to the present day. We call this βsurvival of the thiccestβ.
slow clap
The neck is relatively thin compared to the grossly obese body
HEY OP, YOU CAN'T JUST ACCUSE AN ENTIRE NATION OF HAVING THICK NECKS AND DISAPPEAR WITHOUT ELABORATING. DO I HAVE A THICK NECK!?
Itβs probably the three years we spend in middle school power lifting in PE class.
I'm trying to I get rid of it :(
Those are just normal necks there frenchy