Final Fantasy 14's Dawntrail expansion may have had a pretty rocky reception thanks to a slow story, but every other aspect appears to be going down rather well. One of the biggest improvements that came along with Dawntrail was the long-awaited graphics update, one which has proven to be quite drastic and has massively improved the game's environment and character models.
Of course, with better character models comes more potential for fancy gpose screenshots, though rather than take a nice picture of the sunset or Bakool Ja Ja's glistening pecs, it seems like a lot of fans are using the newly improved faces of their Warriors of Light to recreate every meme you can possibly think of.
It all started with Twitter user FeristalJ, who suggested a "Dawntrail Expression Challenge" to help people get used to tweaking facial poses in greater detail, using several famous smug facial expressions from across various TV shows and anime to practice. FeristalJ then went on to suggest that players use #Gfacials (yes, and unfortunate name, I know) to keep things organized. What ensued was something far greater than FeristalJ could have dared wish for.
It was going rather normally at first, until...