i might be about to go hardcore no retouching no filter. im getting like radically alarmed about what real time video filtering and just basic digital retouching is doing to peoples brains. not just kids either but adults who were around before it was a thing
Tiktok has been applying a face shrinking beauty filter even if you turn filters off, it’s fucked
this is absolutely terrifying. this is an actual cognitohazard. this should literally be illegal
my “compulsory retouching is causing body dysmorphia on an unprecedented scale and should be treated as a public health crisis” post is raising a lot of questions already answered by the post
Back when I was a teenager, I very quickly decided to not wear makeup every day because the people I knew who did got so used to seeing themselves with makeup, their brain couldn't handle them without it anymore. They hated mirrors because they didn't look like themselves without makeup, they'd apologise for not wearing makeup even if you visited them when they were sick at home, and at one point I even remember my mum being terrified of leaving the house because she'd ran out of eyeliner. And I mean proper "I can't drive my child to school like this, what if someone sees me, also my car has mirrors" terrified. And I'm not saying everyone who wears makeup on a daily basis is like this, but it sure was a noticeable trend.
This was way before every phone was a portable camera because I'm old as balls in Tumblr Time, so if you wanted a selfie, you either used an old school camera and had the pictures developed, or you saved up for one of the first digital models which you probably shared with the entire family and which had the same amount of pixels as a a goddamn potato. So, home-made pictures made you look either bad, or just like yourself.
(And sure, magazines were already edited to hell and back, they have been since their conception in the 18th century, but the average person didn't have access to Photoshop and such yet unless you were a professional photographer venturing into digital photography.)
So yeah, be terrified of this compulsory editing, because it's exactly the same thing except it's digital instead of physical, and no amount of contouring will achieve that face slimming thing TikTok does.
Y'all look normal, trust me. No, I don't care who you are and what features you hate about yourself, this goes for all of you. You've just been conditioned to believe you don't by digital editing the same way my mum was conditioned to believe so by eye liner, foundation, facial razors, and concealer.
It is much cheaper and easier to simply have a face