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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26 Responses to “The “Cute” Factor”
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That ‘dog pile’ pic is so adorable! ^^
I wish you would make more.
this picture is ao cute !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You just want to eat em up since there so cute!
Cute!!!!! Where did you get that picture from?
omg dis is soooooooooooooooo cute just look at them such adorable little ppl ^.^
it’s like in Pinky and the Brain!!!!
This is so cute I love it!!! Where did you get that picture?
Totally cute
they are so cute and they rock lolzz
my site is down right now, but is that Lee on the bottom sakura on top of him? can you tell me who the three are?
SOOOOOOO CUTE!!!
awwwww that is the cutest pic ive eva seen! so adorable and so small it makes me want to join in haha XD
awwwwwwwwwww! soooooo cute! i just wanna pick ‘em up and huggle them!
Aweee! That’s so cute! x3 Adorable! Nice job! ^-^
I rate it 9/10. It’s really cute!
awe.. nice job. who r the three though? lol
Omigod, this is so kawaii! Does anybody have any idea what anime it’s from?
anyways… urg! beyond quizilla, what good websites are there for anime pics? id love to find other pics like this one. it is so cute!
awww love it! dunno what anime tho
so cuteeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Have you guys read the definition of ‘cuteness’ at the top of this page? How dare they try to define such a beautiful thing! >-
super cute!
It’s sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sooooooooooooooooooooooo cute man!
oh my god they r soooo cute
heh. these.. are from the anime kamichama karin if im not wrong. cant really rmb their names.. the middle is karin i think.. the top is suzune.. btm forgot XP
Cool picture
aww that is so cute!