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Here's a no JavaScript version of the article that reduces the page size by 99% - from 3.15 MB to 33 KB: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/768
I like the concept, but in this case i'd rather load an extra 3.1MB to get the New Yorker's typesetting. 120 characters per line and a short line height does not make for a great reading experience.
It's called FaceTune:
> FaceTune, which was released in 2013 and promises to help you “wow your friends with every selfie,” enables even more precision... “I think ninety-five per cent of the most-followed people on Instagram use FaceTune, easily,” Smith told me.
It's a phone app. More information is available here: https://www.facetuneapp.com/
Click the "watch video" link on that homepage to see a good visual example of what the software can do. (Warning in advance, the video has an obnoxious, loud techno soundtrack. Mute the tab before you hit play.)
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.
Here's a no JavaScript version of the article that reduces the page size by 99% - from 3.15 MB to 33 KB: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/768
I like the concept, but in this case i'd rather load an extra 3.1MB to get the New Yorker's typesetting. 120 characters per line and a short line height does not make for a great reading experience.
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.
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I think they describe it pretty accurately. The idea here is that the face is fake and propped up and pretty identical between “top” users of instagram. That’s a bit worrying.
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.
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…
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.
Here's a no JavaScript version of the article that reduces the page size by 99% - from 3.15 MB to 33 KB: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/768