Website Tells You If You Are Gay
Why does Gay Check Online exist? The website, which purports to tell you whether you’re gay or straight based on your facial features. Just fire up your browser, smile for the camera, and within seconds, you have an answer.
According to Kim Asendorf and Ole Fach of NETRO, the artists who created the site, that vaguely creepy feeling is intentional. “Gay Check Online is not a practical tool but a statement: This tool is as ridiculous as homophobia,” Asendorf told ANIMAL via email. “It is a fun way to deal with the topic while the discussion itself is quite dumb and awkward for all of us.”
Gay Check Online ostensibly pulls data from two studies by Prague’s Charles University and The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, which found that gay and straight men tend to have differently shaped faces — namely, that your average gay man has a wider and shorter face, smaller nose, and larger, more rounded jaw than his straight counterpart. According to the site’s description, it analyzes your face from a webcam feed and matches it against the studies’ findings to determine your orientation.
