goddamn smirky eyebrow-raised badass poochie cartoons nowadays

honestly I can never tell if this sort of thing is just engineered for hate clicks

What bewilders me is people who can't distinguish decades whatsoever. 60s & 70s, but especially 80s & 90s kinda run together for them. I feel like due to consuming pop culture as a kid from every era 40s to the then-present I no problem at least guessing the decade correctly. My friend and I used to play the "what year was this movie released" and judging it solely on clothing and film stock we'd get within a year or 2 nearly every time.

Goddamit how'd that happen

if this was 1990 she would've gone to the NFL (National Forensic League) nationals in San Jose and totally dominated HI (Humorous Interpretation). rubbery face is pretty mesmerizing, though a little goes a long way.

How did she do this without accidentally splitting her face apart, is what I want to know

her eyes are nuts

She really does get the cartoon princess facial expressions perfectly. Some uncanny valley stuff. (Does "uncanny" also signal libidinous interest?)

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, August 2, 2021 11:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Totally. Impressive if extremely cringe.

Is she lip-syncing? If so, where does the original audio come from?

Tik Tok is like a nightmare for creative expression. It’s all just people making their own versions of viral videos—often seeming to put a lot of time into mimicking what has already been done. No other social media platform has been nearly this dystopian.

People used to do stuff like that as their 'party trick' to amuse their friends, because such specialized talents were useless in any other part of life.

Tbh the disney princess impression seems actually well done and original. But it seems to be in the service of one of these viral memes—like her spin on it. And the “three looks” one is certainly that, I’ve seen it before.

No other social media platform has been nearly this dystopian.

did you miss Friendster

i miss vine

Vine was so much better.

3 Looks is based on a Jenna Marbles video from 2014, which has apparently seen a TikTok revival.

these people existed on vine but it was so easy to never encounter them if you didn't want to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2TsiFctXkU

if I could go back in time to erase one movie it would be Ace Ventura

i would read a paper tracing the decade-by-decade history of objectively insufferable comedy from 1900 to the present

if I could go back in time to erase one movie it would be Ace Ventura

It really did (to me) seem funny and norm-breaking at the time but now I'm kind of like, oh, I guess that's why there were norms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXED2AVlbR0

How did she do this without accidentally splitting her face apart, is what I want to know

She's using some kind of filter, I think?

Some kind of image manipulation going on.

https://i.imgur.com/XzbU07J.png

https://www.reddit.com/r/uncannyvalley/comments/cha497/reverse_uncanny_valley_she_moves_like_a_cartoon/

I feel so sorry for her central nervous system

Strong Laura Dern in Inland Empire vibe

Now do the locomotion

with me?

https://reallifemag.com/tiktok-face/#!

Feel so glad I abandoned the social media ship when I did, feel so sad for the younger generations living life through this dystopian filter

I think what that article brings home for me is how routinely young people take and share photos of their face, which sounds like a nightmare to me

that article and this one linked were just uh...profoundly depressing to me

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/decade-in-review/the-age-of-instagram-face

yeah I read this yesterday and was similarly dismayed: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22598377/bbl-brazilian-butt-lift-miami-cost-tiktok

I notice there's no analogous Peruvian Penis Pump

There are many things to despise about society as a whole but the myriad ways in which women specifically are invited to mutilate themselves or have mutilation forced on them by others is one of the worst.

xpost Well if people would just contribute to my goddamn GoFundMe already

Until the last decade or so, the BBL was not common practice in the US. Its origins, as its name suggests, are in Brazil, where cosmetic surgery has a storied background, largely due to the country’s history of eugenics. In 1918, Dr. Renato Kehl founded the Eugenics Society of São Paulo, which aimed to erase all signs of Black and Indigenous physical appearance in Brazil. In 1960, a surgeon named Ivo Pitanguy founded the world’s first plastic surgery training center in Brazil, where he pioneered what became known as the Brazilian butt lift and taught surgeons all over the globe how to perform his techniques.

i'm irrationally annoyed by this shameless non-sequitur

There are many things to despise about society as a whole but the myriad ways in which women specifically are invited to mutilate themselves or have mutilation forced on them by others is one of the worst.

― Karl Havoc (DJP), Wednesday, August 4, 2021 2:30 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFKdZsAkMqs

oh my god what the hell is that

it's a guy who was on an episode of "how to with john wilson," highly recommended, and i hate how fucking catchy the song is

Anyway: I feel like on some level it is a positive development that people put their images through weird filters on Instagram in order to look different -- the hope is that we're at the tail end of the stage where people think how you look in person is how you "really" look, which is what's driving the perverse urge to get your body cut open in order to recreate in inferior physical form what Instagram can do easily and cheaply. In the future, looking one way on the screen and looking a different, perhaps less-marked-as-desirable way in so-called "real life" will not seem any weirder than looking one way dressed up and wearing makeup and a different, less-marked-as-desirable way when you wake up in your pajamas. And then we can fire all the plastic surgeons.

vtubers are, presumably, the first wave of that - although their relationships with fans, the real world, etc. is definitely different that an influencer on instagram or someone on a dating app.

Before you get too depressed over "instagram face" and similar self-mutilations, that entire New Yorker article was centered around real life examples provided by Beverly Hills and its ethic. Although pressure to conform to commercialized standards of feminine beauty is nearly universal, even extending into poorer nations now, the more extreme versions that include plastic surgery and expensive injections will be out of reach of the vast majority of women. It's always going to be a rather fringe phenomenon.

https://d43fweuh3sg51.cloudfront.net/media/media_files/a1e7449c-7171-47da-b82f-817b21ac0db6/7e206072-450e-4f6c-83c0-277fbec14513.png

Problem solved!
The problem is solved!
We solved the problem
And everything is awesome!
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Anyway: I feel like on some level it is a positive development that people put their images through weird filters on Instagram in order to look different -- the hope is that we're at the tail end of the stage where people think how you look in person is how you "really" look, which is what's driving the perverse urge to get your body cut open in order to recreate in inferior physical form what Instagram can do easily and cheaply. In the future, looking one way on the screen and looking a different, perhaps less-marked-as-desirable way in so-called "real life" will not seem any weirder than looking one way dressed up and wearing makeup and a different, less-marked-as-desirable way when you wake up in your pajamas. And then we can fire all the plastic surgeons.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, August 4, 2021 1:04 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hmm, i feel the converse. the filters making young people look much more conventionally attractive cannot be good for self-image and just anecdotally i know tons of women, some in their 20s, who are getting fillers and botox now whereas i knew none 5 years ago

If you're curious about numbers: https://www.plasticsurgery.org/documents/News/Statistics/2020/plastic-surgery-statistics-full-report-2020.pdf

15.6 million "procedures" (which includes Botox; 2.3 million of those are surgeries). That's a 14% drop from 2019, though obviously Covid is that crucial factor there

those are US numbers btw

There are many things to despise about society as a whole but the myriad ways in which every thought expressed in public must be crushed into a false binary straitjacket so it can be applauded or denounced in the simplest terms is one of the worst.

It's really more that your pathological need to be the most nuanced person in the room makes you post unnecessary things that don't expand or enrich the conversation

unnecessary things that don't expand or enrich the conversation

this makes me feel abnormally typical

hmm, i feel the converse. the filters making young people look much more conventionally attractive cannot be good for self-image and just anecdotally i know tons of women, some in their 20s, who are getting fillers and botox now whereas i knew none 5 years ago

yeah kind of my feeling, I put a pic of myself through a filter and thought "damn! I look good!" and then got depressed that I don't actually look like that. it also seems to be kind of a thing on dating apps - my wife has a cousin who's meeting people using one but using a picture of herself that looks nothing like actually does...I don't wanna be insensitive, but this almost feels like a form of catfishing?

frog you're a fox