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MasileinDE wrote:
Haven't read the whole article yet, but if this really goes the way I expect it to:
I find it super interisting. Personally, not my look and all, but the way it works and how it tells us how society and ideals/standards work and develop is very interesting. The pseudo sociologist in my really gets off on things like this.

Persona wrote:
I was talking to my bf yesterday about how disturbed i was at the amount of 'egirls' who facetune the living fuck of their face, to the point where they look half alien, and THOUSANDS of people reply like 'omg beauty <3 wish i was you <3 marry me <3' and i'm their like ??? cannot they not see that there is no way this person looks like this... it feels like i'm seeing the sky blue but everyone tells me it's green 

disintegration wrote:
I understand how it is a problem and how we really should introduce a new mandatory school subject that deals with how to navigate the internet (a mix of legal stuff, basic computer science,psychological stuff) but on the other hand are ppl really that stupid overall to believe those photos with filters and face tune and all that shit? I refuse to believe that the majority falls for it.

Delusion1111111 wrote:
'Social media has supercharged the propensity to regard one’s personal identity as a potential source of profit—and, especially for young women, to regard one’s body this way, too ... For those born with assets—natural assets, capital assets, or both—it can seem sensible, even automatic, to think of your body the way that a McKinsey consultant would think about a corporation: identify underperforming sectors and remake them, discard whatever doesn’t increase profits and reorient the business toward whatever does.'

nice

MasileinDE wrote:

I feel like most of the times you can tell it's not the real face, but people just don't care. It's the striving for the aesthetic without questioning its origin, purpose or longevity. Maybe even viability? Like ... you can observe the same work when it comes to trends throughout history in general, but now with social media and the all-aroundness of the internet, it's way more obvious and easier to achieve and copy. People don't care if they get shown the truth, people want to see what they think is pretty or what they have been told is pretty. And that's where it ends. It is getting more and more difficult to go against the grain, if what the "world" perceives as beautiful and "should be achieved at any cost" isn't what you deem it to be.

Delusion1111111 wrote:
'Social media has supercharged the propensity to regard one’s personal identity as a potential source of profit—and, especially for young women, to regard one’s body this way, too ... For those born with assets—natural assets, capital assets, or both—it can seem sensible, even automatic, to think of your body the way that a McKinsey consultant would think about a corporation: identify underperforming sectors and remake them, discard whatever doesn’t increase profits and reorient the business toward whatever does.'

nice

Persona wrote:
yeah. I think it's kind of related to the fusion of man and machine... we are so used to seeing things through the eye of a camera (because even that isn't 'real' - it's carefully orchestrated angles, lighting, etc) that we don't know how to view things through real human eyes anymore. 

lol this sounds like a boomer 'those young kids are so obsessed with their phones and their camera they don't enjoy things anymore!' but it's not that, it's more like we can only appreciate reality if it's been through several filters of unreality. Like those kind of people who visit art galleries and just walk up to a painting, take a photograph of it and move on without even looking properly at the painting (which i seen happen all the time...)