The meaning has shifted to that a looong time ago. Are there seriously people who didn’t notice that or is it just a matter of not being able/willing to accept that language is never absolute and changing over time?
I know several persons riding unicycle professionally (among other circus-related skills) and they are definitely more smiling than Tommy… even more smiling than average adults!
I’ll never forget when I visited Japan and found out how fucking popular he is in commercials over there. I’d always stop and watch the boss coffee commercials with him being so flat faced ridiculous.