People are sharing unflattering selfies with their moms to see if they'll still get compliments.

Moms are the best hype men, it's a scientific fact. If musicians hired their moms instead of opening acts or producers to hype them up, every single show would have energy through the roof.

But alas, most moms don't professionally work as hype men, and instead funnel their love into emoji laden text messages and semi-manic words of affirmation to their kids. And the ones that don't fit this descriptor often pour a similar energy into trolling their kids or calling out BS.

In a recent Twitter thread, Abigail Sanders encouraged others to send no-context awkward selfies to their moms in order to prove a theory.