goddamn smirky eyebrow-raised badass poochie cartoons nowadays

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!
Problem solved!

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

great revive

well thanks but imagine if my nose were smaller. it would be game over for all of you

xp
sounds like someone needs an eyebrow raise and a little light smirkening around the mouth

The article rob posted above was interesting. People are not just trying to look “hotter” — younger, slimmer, smoother — they are turning themselves into human cartoons with cartoon facial expressions and sound effects. The ideal is not even realistic for anyone — not even the most conventional looking person around — it isn’t meant to be on our plane of reality. This is about virtual representations of the self supplanting the real self, probably causing weird kinds of dysmorphia.

Not even dysmorphia. A more general or fundamental alienation from the body. I think this is why it seems so dystopian.

I guess digital foot-binding and skull shaping is preferable to IRL foot-binding

Yeah that is true. But people are getting real-life surgery to approximate anime body proportions.

https://www.statesman.com/storyimage/TX/20161012/NEWS/310112497/EP/1/3/EP-310112497.jpg

this is the terrifying sequel to 28 days later I really needed

Alex Jones is not yet 50

14 years on...

https://images.mymovies.net/images/film/cin/350x522/fid21007.jpg

maximum Poochie

The original Legion of Super-Pets is v much not a smirky eyebrow-raised badass Poochie comic strip

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Legion_of_Super-Pets_%28Earth-One%29

https://i.imgur.com/R4JmXDx.jpg

Excellent.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNWEyYzc2YjItYzY4Ni00ZTY2LWJjYTItMjJiYTE1MWNkZTU4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyODUwMzI1NTI@._V1_.jpg

http://www.impawards.com/2023/posters/ruby_gillman_teenage_kraken_ver6_xlg.jpg

Dreamworks, it is time for you to learn to draw faces

There is a large slice of society for which smirk=WINNER and a smaller slice to whom smirk=sociopath, we must choose a side