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This is exactly what you did when you first viewed this meme

I had an eyebrow shaved off once at a party and also was briefly missing that tooth, and someone sent this meme to me. I felt so personally attacked.

Priming biases the results. Top-down processing and all that.

Not to mention that a person missing one of their front teeth likely gets out of the habit of toothy grins.

This was literally a dentistry ad. Why has it been reframed as if it were a social media comment?

My first thought was to kind of recoil at the soulless smiling stares of the people, and then I noticed the tooth.