People use to strangle their feet to keep them small in order to be attractive for men. This is harmless by comparison?
Physically, perhaps...
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)
#82Perhaps 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.
Agreed. It does not look like a human person. Or at least is in that direction.
Re: Instagram Face: The rise of selfie make-up and quest for hyper-perfection (2018)
#83Related story in the New Yorker today: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/decade-in-review/the-age-o...
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Re: Instagram Face: The rise of selfie make-up and quest for hyper-perfection (2018)
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work there and I would feel bad if I could repro that issue, but it seems like a totally normal link for me, having checked chrome, firefox, and safari :S On mobile, clicking that link opens up the mobile app (which sends the browser with history into the background), but I assume that can't be what you're talking about...?
Ok I figured it out, it's Mozilla's Facebook Container plugin. Sorry HN doesn't let me delete the comment any more. This one is not your company's fault, though I still think you should feel bad.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules.
Re: Instagram Face: The rise of selfie make-up and quest for hyper-perfection (2018)
#85Because 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.
The Netflix series Better Than Us has a great example of this with the character Svetlana Toropova.
Spoiler: The character is a TV host who suffers a mental breakdown. You first see her Instagram face, then you see her looking more natural with her lover (for whom she doesn't wear a wig), and finally she ends up in a psychiatric hospital where you see her without any makeup. At first I was questioning whether it was the same actor.
Re: Instagram Face: The rise of selfie make-up and quest for hyper-perfection (2018)
#86The 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/
This is beyond gross. This is Gingrich-gross.
Re: Instagram Face: The rise of selfie make-up and quest for hyper-perfection (2018)
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Warning: if you click that link on some browsers it will remove your back button history by opening a new tab and killing the previous one. Instagram is aggresively user-hostile and if you work there you should feel bad.
When did it become ok to target individuals who work at companies? The last week I’ve seen an uptick in these attacks on HN, they come off as very “I’m better than you” SJW’y, totally oblivious to a person’s situation. Let’s not turn this into a thing people do.
I mean, as a society we agreed "I was just doing my job" isn't any sort of ethical defense about a century ago. It really just comes down to whether or not you support what these companies do.
Re: Instagram Face: The rise of selfie make-up and quest for hyper-perfection (2018)
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
To grossly generalize: Differentiation does not benefit females in the way it benefits males. Being "average" is a safe mating strategy for females, but not for males.
The existence of persistent cultural tropes around “not being like the other girls” is at least one piece of evidence to the contrary.
I think that comes from misogynistic stereotypes concerning personality traits. "Women, ugh, they're all so x. Not you though, you're different."
Re: Instagram Face: The rise of selfie make-up and quest for hyper-perfection (2018)
#89Perhaps 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’m with you and think we may be the silent majority.
Re: Instagram Face: The rise of selfie make-up and quest for hyper-perfection (2018)
#90Perhaps 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.
Agreed. Most of my friend group (women in their late 20s and early 30s) make this face and it just appalls me. I think Baudrillard's conception of simulacra & simulation [1] is the perfect vehicle for understanding the "uncanny valley" effect this creates.