Girl from viral meme recreates other trending moments

THE girl from the viral bored nightclub meme has stepped in front of the cameras for the first time in seven years to recreate other trends.

Lucia Gorman, now 24 years old, became an internet sensation overnight in 2018 thanks to a picture taken on a night out at Milk Club Edinburgh.

The legendary shot, which shows her looking uninterested as a friend speaks into her ear, has since been shared millions of times and is one of the most famous memes in digital history.

Lucia has stepped back into the limelight to recreate the picture which made her famous alongside some of the internet’s most beloved memes – from Harry Maguire’s Put the Bins Out to the ever-relatable Confused Math Lady.

Samsung has enlisted her help to bring to life the common face fails to highlight its Best Face technology on the new Galaxy A56 5G that can help prevent common photo mishaps by using AI to perfect group shots by replacing blinking eyes or awkward faces.

The smartphone maker commissioned research which found blinking (36 per cent), awkward facial expressions when saying “cheese”; (26 per cent) and people standing in front of each other (21 per cent) are the most common group photo fails.

The new recreations see Lucia squint, blink and sneeze as research revealed nearly a third (30 per cent) admit to cropping part of the image out instead of attempting to edit pictures.

The study of 2,000 smartphone users found they spend 468 minutes per year editing, filtering and retouching images to achieve the ultimate level of perfection.

Gen Z will snap nearly 1,100 photos a year – more than twice as many as Baby Boomers taking an average of 21 snaps each week.

Their older counterparts take just eight a week – amounting to an annual total of just 416.

However, the younger age group also take an average of eight attempts at taking the perfect shot before they are happy to post it on social media.

Other common edits include getting rid of unwanted people in the background (24 per cent) removing red-eye or glare from glasses (23 per cent) and get rid of people blinking or chewing (16 per cent).

It also emerged the occasions for notorious facial fails are selfies (31 per cent), group photos (29 per cent), and theme park rides (17 per cent).

Nearly four in 10 (38 per cent) agree it really annoys them when everyone looks nice apart from them in a photo.

But despite this, just under half (47 per cent) would happily post a group photo if they looked great but a friend looked terrible.

When it comes to taking group photos, 21 per cent refuse to take photos all together, while 84 per cent have chosen to delete a pic rather than posting it on social media.

With these doing so because they didn’t like how they looked (38 per cent), or it was blurry and out of focus (21 per cent).

Almost half crop out friends the most (47 per cent) from their photos with a quarter admitting they have even cropped themselves out of photos before posting it.

The study also found 32 per cent have staged a candid photo to make it more nature – with Gen Zer’s being the biggest posers (69 per cent) compared to millennials (47 per cent), Gen X (23 per cent) and Boomers (22 per cent).

Annika Bizon from Samsung said: “We understand the desire to capture and share life’s best moments.

“However, our research revealed we spend nearly a month of our lives editing photos.

“We’re empowering users to get their best shot effortlessly, so they can spend less time editing and more time enjoying those special moments.”