AI Analyzed Whether You Really Enjoyed That Family Beach Vacation

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Forget lighting and angles. Your beach selfies might reveal more than you think. New research from Beach.com claims to have found America’s happiest beach towns, not by weather or hotel reviews, but by analyzing your photos.

Researchers pulled 100,000 Instagram shots tagged across 100 beach towns and ran them through DeepFace, an AI program that detects seven emotions. By measuring how often people looked happy (and how confident the AI was about those smiles), they created a “happiness score” for each destination. And the top results might just surprise you.

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