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Some people are more attractive, cooler, more interesting, than others. It's not some evil plot by the corporations to make us feel bad about ourselves. These people are really out there. The left wing narrative that all bad things that happen to us stem from some structural power imbalance in our society, is blind to this fact of nature. So they need strange stories like this to explain away the apparent differences…
She's trying to create a movement out of it: http://www.letsbegamechangers.com . I'm not sure how I feel about this, if it's sincere and genuine or just a marketing ploy. Hopefully the former.
Wow. Is she advocating for complete removal of social media from the web? Good. It has done nothing good for anyone.
She had to pose is what I'm getting from this. Granted, I'm not one of those people who thinks modelling is simple, but I'm not following what is severely dark about that.
Modeling has its own dark side but it's a job in which you work with co-workers. You're not getting your sister to take the shots. You're not disrupting family life in the same way. You also aren't actually graded on popularity and "likes" in the same way -- your job goes well or poorly and certainly since it's about appearance you get all the food disorders and etc, but there's still a level of remove. Someone else is taking the pictures and telling you what to wear and how to stand. The creative endeavor is not all on you. This girl, by contrast, was not just the person who posed but the one who set up the shots, had the sister take them, watched the "ratings," did the testing on what people liked, etc. On the one hand, that complete "creative control" is cool. On the other hand, she was very literally chasing the approval of others.
I think they probably skimmed right on over some of the really dark parts, like the restricted eating and insecurity that this sort of externalized approval processes would cause in most 15-year-olds. Some of us old people do weird s(tuff) when a high-school reunion is coming up, and we are supposed to be mature and grounded. Haha. But remember, that 15 is definitely an age where you have a somewhat more limited idea of the scope and shape of a good life.
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Apparently it took over her life, became an obsession. Social media made it easy to collect acclaim and popularity on a massive scale. Massive compared to what physical, real life offered.
Right, so like modelling, which is not exactly an obscure occupation. That she did it using instagram doesn't make much difference there. I think it's important to point out that I am an old man, not a teenager, so overdramatizing things doesn't boost my engagement.
(Now, math modeling may become an obsession...)
edit: just to be clear, oldmanjay, I am not making any comments about old guys in general! some of my best friends are old guys!
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Wow. Is she advocating for complete removal of social media from the web? Good. It has done nothing good for anyone.
Other than help start revolutions in the Middle East.
She's trying to create a movement out of it: http://www.letsbegamechangers.com . I'm not sure how I feel about this, if it's sincere and genuine or just a marketing ploy. Hopefully the former.
Wow. Is she advocating for complete removal of social media from the web? Good. It has done nothing good for anyone.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow. Is she advocating for complete removal of social media from the web? Good. It has done nothing good for anyone.
Not sure if this is sarcasm. Job opportunities, facilitating protests/revolutions, artistic collaborations, ...
Some people are more attractive, cooler, more interesting, than others. It's not some evil plot by the corporations to make us feel bad about ourselves. These people are really out there. The left wing narrative that all bad things that happen to us stem from some structural power imbalance in our society, is blind to this fact of nature. So they need strange stories like this to explain away the apparent differences…