FF14 Players Loving New Emote for Funny Faces

• Final Fantasy 14 players can now make silly faces with new facial bones.
• The Dawntrail expansion improved character models significantly.
• Players use third-party tools for creative facial expressions.
• The #gfacials challenge encourages recreating famous anime faces.
• Hilarious screenshots and memes have flooded the community.

Final Fantasy 14 Heroes Can Now Make Silly Faces and Players Are Obsessed

The increase in facial bones has had a hilarious outcome.

By Willa Rowe

Published Thursday 4:00 PM

They say that fashion is the true endgame of Final Fantasy 14.

Indeed, making your Warrior of Light as good-looking as possible is one of the most time-honored and beloved pastimes in Square Enix's MMORPG.

The recent graphics update, released alongside the new Dawntrail expansion, has made it possible for players to make their characters look better than ever.

However, they've discovered that the update has also created entirely new ways to make your character look quite silly with the right tools.

Naturally, hilarious screenshots have ensued.

Improved Character Models

One of the biggest aspects of the graphics update is the better character models it introduced.

Faces received significant improvements.

For example, pre-Dawntrail, there was one bone for controlling eyelids. Now there are three.

More bones mean a wider range of movement and expression that creative players can manipulate in unintended ways with the help of third-party posing tools.

This will mainly be used to make your Warrior of Light look cooler in all those screenshots you take.

But some players are using it for something entirely different.

The #gfacials Challenge

In order to get used to the new facial models and their many bones, one poster on X (formerly Twitter) started a challenge to players under the #gfacials hashtag.

Yes, it is an unfortunate hashtag.

The challenge was to recreate some famous anime faces in-game.

The trend has quickly spiraled into players just making all sorts of silly faces, many of which recreate memes from all over the internet.

Some great examples include:

• One poster making their Viera look like the meme of Jamie Lee Curtis yelling at someone and then drinking a glass of water.
• Many female Hrothgar players making their Warriors of Light do cat memes.

Take a look at what the Final Fantasy 14 community has come up with thanks to all these new bones:

Final Fantasy 14 character posing their face to look like Flynn Rider from Tangled.

Final Fantasy 14 character posing their face to look like a tiger up close to the camera.

Final Fantasy 14 character posing their face to look like the "fuck boy" emoji meme.

Final Fantasy 14 character posing their face to look like the Chad meme.

Final Fantasy 14 character posing their face to look like the meme of a woman screaming.

Final Fantasy 14 character posing their face to look like Anya from Spy x Family.

Final Fantasy 14 character posing their face to look like Gojo from Jujutsu Kaisen.

Final Fantasy 14 character posing their face to look like the "no bitches" meme.

Final Fantasy 14 character posing their face to look like the "is this pigeon" meme.

Final Fantasy 14 character posing their face to look like Jamie Lee Curtis yelling.

Final Fantasy 14 character posing their face to look like a silly anime face.

Final Fantasy 14 character posing their face to look like the creepy girlfriend meme.

Final Fantasy 14 character posing their face to look like the messed-up Commander Shepard face meme.

Final Fantasy 14 character posing their face to look like Link falling through the sky.

Final Fantasy 14 character posing their face to look like a cat surrounded by heat emojis meme.