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

Post by agustif » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 1:47 PM UTC

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I think it's funny how 90% percent of these 'selfies' are taken in bathrooms. Used to be you went to a nice place and took a photo to show where you went. Now I think the average selfie taker doesn't even realize they are in a toilet, it is completely self focused. There is a fitting metaphor in there somewhere.

The way I remember early selfie culture is that it actually started in places like bathrooms and only spread to include location later. But those details do not matter, the real story is how bathrooms apparently became places of public representation.

Post by dirtyid » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 3:16 PM UTC

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I think somatypes like hardgainers have been debunked, the explanation being that predominantly, these folks are habituated to not eating enough, GOMAD etc. There's edge cases of medical conditions or training non-responders though. My main point is that western aesthetic standard for muscular men is increasingly moving towards more mass to the point where most individuals are below the bell curve for what's attainab…

Habitually not eating enough sounds like something that can be influenced by genetics.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 6:51 PM UTC

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" Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I didn't comment on wether someone read the article. I stated that the description is accurate enough for it not to mandate a picture.

Post by neuralRiot » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 8:43 PM UTC

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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.

> and get weirded out when they see people with wrinkles and stuff. Well someday they will have to look around them and see people with wrinkles... in real life.. unless they are too hooked to their phones to even realize this.

Post by Sohcahtoa82 » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 10:23 PM UTC

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AR facetune will save them.

You probably said that tongue in cheek, but that's probably where we're headed. People value their social media intensely, and the combination of the two will naturally happen as a consequence of VR/AR becoming ubiquitous in our lives.