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Rather than empowering individuals & promoting diversity, the internet reinforces & exponentially promotes unattainable beauty standards that negatively impact one’s identity through self-comparison, as it drives users to consider drastic measures in the name of beauty. #COMN3517
The internet is a notorious tool for self-comparison as a myriad of edited content is available to vulnerable users, wherein beauty is manipulated to depict a certain criterion, the foundation as young, white, & thin. #COMN3517
‘Beauty filters’ on Instagram are infamous for morphing one’s face to one that is less flawed & re-configured to portray ‘Instagram face’. This can occur through blurring blemishes, brightening skin, lightening eyes, enlarging lips, etc. #COMN3517
Beauty standards are reconfigured for profit gain as platforms generate a perpetual ideal to be chased by women. Instagram users are swamped with beauty filters, where real faces are morphed to carbon copy resembling the ‘Instagram face’. https://tinyurl.com/w4uzvx3 #COMN3517
Images of feminine beauty are a source of social capital amid celebrities as devoted followers partake in ‘celebrity worship’ & succumb to initially meager endorsements of makeup/fashion which ultimately manifests into cosmetic surgery. https://tinyurl.com/y3zhtyc8 #COMN3517
Social media taints reality as idealistic beauty standards & normalization of plastic surgery has endorsed an impossible ideal, as they send users on a fabricated pursuit of beauty whereas they mimic images that seldom resemble real life. https://tinyurl.com/y4qb5f2p #COMN3517
