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We study the vacant stare. Not the stare of sadness—sadness is rich, hot, and full of life. Not the stare of anger—anger burns. We study the neutral stare. The stare of the NPC. The stare of the person who has dissociated so hard they looped back around to a terrifying state of hyper-clarity.

Science tells you the pupil dilates in response to light and emotion. Psychology tells you the eyes are the window to the soul. tells you that the window is boarded up. r/deadeyes sidebar

To post a selfie here is not to seek validation. It is a radical act of surrender. It is saying, "This is the face behind the curtain. It is tired. It is watching. It does not care if you watch back." We study the vacant stare

A "Deadeye" is the shell of a person who has seen the code. It is the customer service representative whose smile hasn’t reached their hypothalamus in a decade. It is the protagonist of a David Lynch film five minutes after the credits roll. It is the specific, chilling flatness in the iris of a person who has realized that free will is just a particularly persistent hallucination. We study the neutral stare