On the left side, there's an understandable emotion on every face. A normal person can look at literally any of those faces, and each one is very clearly expressing something different from the rest.
The ones on the right side have no more affect than a cereal mascot. It's all some variation of "DURR" or "BLAH" or, best-case scenario, bland affability. I'm familiar with enough of these characters too, and the underlying problem behind the art is that none have an actual human trait. They can be best described as "plucky (in a maximally non-offensive way)."
On the left side, there's an understandable emotion on every face. A normal person can look at literally any of those faces, and each one is very clearly expressing something different from the rest.
The ones on the right side have no more affect than a cereal mascot. It's all some variation of "DURR" or "BLAH" or, best-case scenario, bland affability. I'm familiar with enough of these characters too, and the underlying problem behind the art is that none have an actual human trait. They can be best described as "plucky (in a maximally non-offensive way)."