anglefraud

plural anglefrauds

1. slang4chan /lgbt/ slangA self-portrait photograph taken from a favourable angle in order to conceal or mitigate a perceived negative physical characteristic.

   Lose some weight. Your shoulders and arms are still very manly and no amount of anglefraud will be enough to mask your waistline.

   2024 October 23, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/

   3 more examples

   i kinda wanna post anglefraud for chaser attention, but i can’t because i look like shit and i wouldn’t even know where to do it 💔

   2026 January 7, u/Aurum-ie-GOLD, “i kinda wanna post anglefraud for chaser attention”, in Reddit, r/4tran4

   can i be honest and say i hate HRT timeline photos because they're either all -2010s instagram anglefraud filtered photos -post-FFS -too short a time span (12 months max) and it's like, kind of tough to get a grounded view on what most transitions look like

   2025 July 31, @OrbitalPoop, Twitter

   it’s just a bunch of anglefraud and photo retouching. Most people ITT only post one angle of their face and some post the same damn picture every time.

   2023 January 7, anonymous author, “Passgen”, in 4chan, /lgbt/

present singular third person anglefrauds · participle present anglefrauding · participle past anglefrauded · past anglefrauded

1. intransitive4chan /lgbt/ slangTo photograph oneself from a favourable angle, so as to conceal or mitigate a perceived negative physical characteristic.

   Just doesn't hit the same I had to anglefraud so hard to make my face look so small again

   2024 May 21, @Valerie_tbh, Twitter

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   if i anglefraud my front profile i look exactly like this except the hair, but as soon as someone sees my side profile or me without makeup or just undereye concealer i look like a fucking ugly man

   2025 May 7, [deleted], “if i anglefraud my front profile i look exactly like this except the hair”, in Reddit, r/4tran4

   My gf takes anglefrauding too far. Every time we try to take a selfie together she steps behind me so her entire body is hidden behind mine and pops her head up behind my shoulder.

   2025 November 27, u/Eugregia, “it's so unfair that cis women get to anglefraud and not feel bad that they're lying about what they actually look like”, in Reddit, r/4tran4

   In photos, my face look like literal shit unless I anglefraud and take the best 1/100 photos. I can be looking in the mirror, see that my face looks good, take a picture, and it's ugly as fuck.

   2023 January 25, anonymous author, “...am I the bddfag?”, in 4chan, /lgbt/

   i get what you mean, but passing is really hard, and most trannies itt anglefraud or use makeup to pass for validation.

   2026 February 6, anonymous author, “/passgen/ lets actually try this time edition”, in 4chan, /lgbt/