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

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

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Post by filoleg » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 10:38 PM UTC

CraneWorm wrote: post #136

nostromo wrote: post #27

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

Direct image link for the no-js crowd?

I haven't looked into how instagram hosts the images (had to look in source of the page to find the link, as it doesn't allow to just direct link to it normally), so please let me know in the comments if the link expired/not working anymore. As of now, it works, and I checked that it works in a private chrome tab as well, no login needed.

https://scontent-sea1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/3...

P.S. Interestingly enough, if you remove the query string from that URL, the link refuses to work and displays a "bad timestamp" error. Which is what made me guess they employ some expiring timestamp hash in query strings for image URLs.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 10:57 PM UTC

CM30 wrote: post #131

addicted44 wrote: post #40

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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.

I agree with this. What's seen as natural definitely appears to be a result of what you're used to. What's more, it's not just visual traits either. No, I suspect a lot of people feel an American accent is the 'norm' now as well, in part due to how much popular media originates in the US (and how many internet influencers seem to be from there). And there are definitely quite a few stories of people assuming their ow…

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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 filoleg » Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 11:12 PM UTC

zo1 wrote: post #137

dwighttk wrote: post #134

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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.

A bit of a side-topic, but I believe there are even more interesting consequences/applications of future AR when it comes to looks.

Why bother with only "fixing" certain things about your looks, whereas you can look like something/someone completely different? With AR advanced enough, I believe we will get to the point of multiple "realities" overlaid on top of the real one, which opens doors for so many interesting possibilities and applications. Don't like that pesky skyscraper blocking view of the lake from your apt? Luckily, there is a reality server you can subscribe to that has it removed. Or another reality server that acts like ad-block for real life.

When the AR tech matures and gets in the hands of an average person, I expect life to change in such a crazy way, that changes brought by wide smartphone adoption will look like a tiny blip in comparison.

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

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Post by filoleg » Sat, Dec 14, 2019, 12:43 AM UTC

turc1656 wrote: post #51

faissaloo wrote: post #38

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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.

That's a helluva analogy. But I like it. More to the overall point, I find it incredibly ironic that while the world is constantly talking about diversity, uniqueness, and all those wonderful things, everyone is simultaneously trying to dress the same and literally look alike.

>everyone is simultaneously trying to dress the same and literally look alike

I think it is a bit more complicated than that due to one small detail you omitted, but still just ironic. In reality, they are all trying to look "different", but "different" in the exact same way, so they all end up looking the same.

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

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Post by filoleg » Sat, Dec 14, 2019, 12:53 AM UTC

dirtyid wrote: post #107

firecall wrote: post #105

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I thought the fight-club look was supposed to be back in? Lean and purposeful looking.

It was a years ago, I think there's a... muscularity threadmill that maps with the growth of fitness social media in the last few years that started prioritizing towards size via functionality and strength. It started with relatively attainable fightclub look, aesthetics that is preferred by women, but people who enjoy fitness culture rarely stops there (it's a comparably easy and attainable body type) so the trend g…

it hasn't fully kicked-in in the mainstream yet, but I agree that it is going in the direction you are describing, and movies map to it quite nicely.

Just take a look the change over time in looks of Wolverine from the first X-Men movie to the most recent movie featuring him (all played by the same actor btw, Hugh Jackman). Back then, even though he was obviously fit and muscular, he had a physique that was fairly easily attainable by an average male without sacrificing much. Over time, it got to the point that there is no way an average male would be able to gain such physique without being obsessively controlling with the nutrition and spending all of the free time outside of work at the gym.