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Instagram Face: The rise of selfie make-up and quest for hyper-perfection (2018)

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Re: Instagram Face: The rise of selfie make-up and quest for hyper-perfection (2018)

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Post by klodolph »

illinx wrote: post #16
klodolph wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It may be worrying but it’s not new. What we got from magazines in the 1980s and 1990s is found on Instagram and YouTube in 2020. Now, what’s fun is digging up an old magazine and making fun of it with some friends. You can occasionally find one on Imgur or the Internet Archive.

It doesn't seem like you read the article, which is about two specific technologies which did not exist in the 80's and 90's.

I read the article. We obviously have very different interpretations, but I’m unsure why you think my comment doesn’t make sense. Could you clarify?

Re: Instagram Face: The rise of selfie make-up and quest for hyper-perfection (2018)

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Post by busymom0 »

trimmedarticle wrote: post #3

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Be careful, you might hear from IP lawyers if you get even a little bit of traction.

Re: Instagram Face: The rise of selfie make-up and quest for hyper-perfection (2018)

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Post by userbinator »

Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I can't say I find "Instagram Face" to be attractive at all. It looks ridiculously unnatural, and evokes the same feeling as those ultra-SEO'd mostly contentless sites that flood search results.

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Post by mixmastamyk »

nostromo wrote: post #27
smacktoward wrote: post #22

The key takeaway here isn't that "Instagram face" exists or what it looks like, but that it's a product of two factors: the emergence of less invasive plastic surgery techniques, and of software specifically dedicated to producing these faces. This being HN, the existence of the software is the really interesting bit. It's called FaceTune: > FaceTune, which was released in 2013 and promises to help you “wow your frie…

My favorite FaceTune example: https://www.instagram.com/p/BmnSLiIF-Rl/

In a few words, wrinkles have been excessively blurred out. Newt looks like a big fat baby Huey.

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Post by ossworkerrights »

searine wrote: post #9
ebg13 wrote: post #2

Because it's The New Yorker, there are no photos in the article. So if you're hoping to learn what "instagram face" actually looks like, you'll have to dig somewhere else.

reddit.com/r/instagramreality

Somehow i don't like this kind of reddits - gives me the impression they are hate-groups.

Re: Instagram Face: The rise of selfie make-up and quest for hyper-perfection (2018)

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Post by brootstrap »

my little sister is (or wants to be) one of these, my wife watches them on instagram. I heard one woman talking about 'instagram brows' and she was just so fucking excited about how great her face and eyebrows looked. Here is this lady with the face (i've never heard it coined like in the article but I know it) and she has (tens?) of thousands of folks staring at her reinforcing the vicous cycle. More views, more facial contours, more stimuli, more ads, more money, more searches, more ads, more views

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Post by faissaloo »

brootstrap wrote: post #37

my little sister is (or wants to be) one of these, my wife watches them on instagram. I heard one woman talking about 'instagram brows' and she was just so fucking excited about how great her face and eyebrows looked. Here is this lady with the face (i've never heard it coined like in the article but I know it) and she has (tens?) of thousands of folks staring at her reinforcing the vicous cycle. More views, more fac…

I've found it subtly unnerving and in some way boring how women are beginning to look exactly the same, it's almost like something of comparable virality to the whole flat minimal UI design meme now exists in fashion.

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Post by brenden2 »

I've really improved my happiness ever since I uninstalled these apps (IG, Snapchat, etc) and never looked back. I suggest everyone do the same. They get you hooked on a dopamine drip feed, instill feelings of inadequacy, and otherwise do nothing to improve your life.

Re: Instagram Face: The rise of selfie make-up and quest for hyper-perfection (2018)

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Post by addicted44 »

userbinator wrote: post #33

Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I can't say I find "Instagram Face" to be attractive at all. It looks ridiculously unnatural, and evokes the same feeling as those ultra-SEO'd mostly contentless sites that flood search results.

I wonder if that's true for people who end up spending more time on Instagram than elsewhere, and start finding the IG Face to be more "natural" and get weirded out when they see people with wrinkles and stuff.

I'm assuming here that "natural" is a result of what you (and I, since I feel similarly) are just used to.

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