100-Year-Old Photos Look EXACTLY Like Today. Why?

I just stared at my grandma’s photo‑stack from 1912 and OMG—every single face in there looks like a filtered selfie from 2015. Hear me out before you slide into the comments and call me crazy, because something’s NOT right with those old pictures and the pattern feels like a hidden code in our ancestry. The first time I scrolled through a 100‑year‑old photo archive online, the faces all seemed to share the same jawline, eye spacing, and even that faint smudge of a “mysterious shadow” on their foreheads—like a watermark or a glitch that went unnoticed for decades.
Too many coincidences, right? Think about the Kodak 1900s film stock: it was based on a single photographic emulsion recipe that never changed due to corporate control. That meant every camera of that era used the same chemical “filament” that inadvertently smoothed skin tones, erased fine features, and turned human faces into a uniform set of “rounded” pixels. But if we dig deeper, there are reports from 1922 where the U.S. Bureau of Prisons distributed a new “face‑matching” film to all jails to monitor prisoners. Their goal? Make every inmate’s face look so similar that a central database could link them across state lines. Imagine a massive, early digital database built on smoothed, indistinguishable faces—essentially a genetic template for easier surveillance. And just when you think you’re dealing with simple chemical bias, you realize the most subtle smudge in those old frames might be the same faint ink stain that appears just behind every eye—like a stamp from a secret society that never revealed itself.
Now hear me out again: The truth might lie not in the film, but in the *humans* who captured those photographs. In the 1940s, photojournalists received a letter from a group called “The Uniform,” demanding all portraits on the news wire follow a strict aesthetic: a certain angle, a particular smile, and an “ideal” background. They claimed it was to prevent emotional bias, but we know that image standardization is a classic psychological manipulation tool. Their signature? The “morphing” technique that blends the features of every subject into a standard template—what we today call a digital “deepfake” before deepfakes existed. So, every old picture you see is a composite of a hidden face matrix created to dampen diversity and make the public more compliant.
The final piece of the puzzle: If you look at the most famous historical portraits—Lincoln, George Washington, even the first wedding photo in 1887—the same