The “Cute” Factor
The New York Times is running an article called The Cute Factor which basically concludes the humans have an incredibly low threshold for cuteness–basically anything resembling infants of our species in any way is considered cute. Which must be why red is the color of Valentine’s day and love.
Scientists have decided that “bright forward-facing eyes set low on a big round face, a pair of big round ears, floppy limbs and a side-to-side, teeter-totter gait” are cute traits, and that “extreme youth, vulnerability, harmlessness and need” are behavior cues for cuteness. This sounds exactly like the combination for anime:
Then again, there’s too much cute in the world these days. Everything is cute. Sometimes you just want to rage against the cute, but “the human cuteness detector is set at such a low barthat it sweeps in and deems cute practically anything remotely resembling a human baby.” Our own biology fights against us realists. Let me mention that much that is cute in nature is ” accidental cuteness…”
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aww that is so cute!