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[AuthenticM]

From MarketWatch:

The ”Sad Affleck" meme went viral last year and now it turns out Ben Affleck may officially be the saddest star in Hollywood.

Stephen Follows, a U.K.-based film producer and leading film data researcher, evaluated high-profile actors' emotions by collecting movie posters for films released between 2000 and 2016 and running them through Microsoft's Azure Emotion engine.

Follows selected 64 Hollywood stars based on their fame and had them analyzed by Azure, tracking seven emotions (anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise). He then calculated the median value for each star and compared it to all actors that were featured on movie posters, not just the 64 he had chosen.

When it came to the saddest Hollywood stars who have appeared on movie posters this century, Affleck came out on top, followed by Ryan Gosling and Bruce Willis. Angelina Jolie was the saddest-looking female star, coming in sixth.

The ”Sad Affleck" meme went viral when the star glumly responded to the critical backlash against ”Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice" while undergoing a promotional tour of the movie. Uncertainty surrounds Affleck's return as Batman while the high-profile separation and divorce from his ex-wife, Jennifer Garner, may have compounded his sadness.

SadAuthenticM me if old

 

[Alienous]

This is on you, Betty.

 

[caliph95]

 

[Litan]

Are you happy, Betty? Look what you did!

 

[shira]

what if they wearing a mask/cg?

 

[Dreadnought]

Does he like apples

 

[Master Yoshi]

 

[Permanently A]

Betty what did you do

 

[Random Human]

Some person on neogaf did what the Joker never could: destroy Batman.

 

[Volimar]

Memes aside, what an idiotic metric that they think they can measure like that.

 

[Trojita]

What about Martha?

 

[Lightning_Roller]

After what happened with his films, I'm not surprised.

 

[FallenOwl]

Who's Betty?

 

[UntoldDreams]

Some person on neogaf did what the Joker never could: destroy Batman.

Uhh... Doesn't him being upset and sad make him "more" like Batman?

 

[Dalek]

What about Martha?

WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?!?

Spoiler

Poor Betty

 

[Roubjon]

Who's Betty?

The creator of the meme: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1206842

 

[Cuburt]

Some person on neogaf did what the Joker never could: destroy Batman.

All it takes is one bad meme.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Damn it, Betty!!!

 

[KernelPanic]

Keanu Reeves is still the king to me:

 

[The Pet of the Month]

Spoiler

I liked Ben Affleck as Batman

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

Betty broke the Bat.

 

[GravityInsanity]

 

[Not]

This is on you, Betty.

ONE OF US

 

[Gordon Shumway]

What about Martha?

 

[Betty]

 

[hydruxo]

Keanu Reeves is still the king to me:

 

[caliph95]

The creator of the meme: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1206842

Betty is Batman's greatest villain

 

[tribal24]

YASSSS lol this one is so good

 

[MMarston]

 

[Dynomutt]

I mean what do you expect? As a child he was diagnosed with a high-functioning form of autism, his mother abandoned the family, and his father put him through a brutal regimen of mental and physical martial arts training.

Wait...

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/u1ZzDJE.png[/img]

 

[MMarston]

This is FB cover photo material

 

[The Silver]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/u1ZzDJE.png[/img]

spidey is the weak link here

 

[kmfdmpig]

If it were based on a sampling of out and about photos it may have some meaning. If it's on movie posters, which are staged a certain way and in which the actors are acting then I don't think it really means anything.

 

[Budi]

Spoiler

I liked Ben Affleck as Batman

Most people did. It's one of the few positives that people bring up when talking about the movie.

 

[Keym]

Thanks, Gaf.

 

[Hyun Sai]

I think "Drive" alone put Ryan Gosling second place.

 

[Cipherr]

even the fucking little lego batman is laughing at him

 

[Lightning_Roller]

What have you done, Betty!?!?