This Online Community Is Dedicated To Calling Out Instagrammers Who Edit Their Photos Way Too Much (50 New Pics)
A quick scroll through social media and you might begin to think that you're not good enough. There, people look so happy, so beautiful, it's as if the whole world is theirs.
But it's important to remember that their uploads are just snapshots and that they often don't reflect the full story, either. To illustrate this point, we present to you the subreddit 'Instagram Reality.'
Its 1.2 million members regularly share images that expose the fake people online, highlighting just how ridiculous their photo editing has become. There's always more than meets the eye.
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What She Posted vs. What The Man On The Right Posted
When You Skip Left Arm Day On Photoshop?
Such edits might seem insignificant, but they contribute to the overall online landscape, and social media has been shown to negatively impact mental health, especially for teens.
Posts, likes, and comments can contribute to feelings of perfectionism, anxiety, and even body negativity.
No Words, None
She Looks Better Without Editing The Photos
Come On...seriously?！?
Jeremy Tyler, PsyD, an assistant professor of clinical Psychiatry at the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, speaks with patients about perfectionism and often addresses social media as a stressor.
"A big trigger for perfectionism is social media and that fear of missing out,” he said. “It can be challenging to take a step back and recognize that what is being posted isn’t reality."
What She Posted vs. The Clinic
The Proportions And The Face Are Just Not Human
She Posts A Lotta Videos So I Didn't Expect This Stark Of A Difference
Posted And Tagged
"Many assume that people with those perfect photos don’t have problems, but they do. It’s important to remember that the people behind the lens are just as stressed and nervous as everyone else," Tyler added.
"Everybody suffers at some point or feels less than perfect. Social media expression is inherently biased because very few people aim to post about their flaws."
I Was Checking Out Tagged Photos Of A Restaurant And Stumbled Upon This
Ah, a common problem when you make your head tiny - if you don’t shrink/align the rest, your face won’t fit.
Why Do People Edit Their Heads So Small? Her Hand Is Literally Twice The Size
She Uses This Filter Not Only For Her But For Everyone Else
Because who doesn’t want to look identical(ly unnerving) to everyone else?
Her Left Brow Has An Escape Plan
While striving for the best can be seen as a positive character trait, studies show that perfectionism can harm our mental health.
Adolescents are increasingly holding unrealistic expectations of what they should own, how they should look, and what they need to achieve, which is linked to higher rates of anxiety.
Her Posts Have Seriously Helped Me Feel Better About My Body! Love Seeing These Types Of Photos
This Lady Lives Somewhere Near Me And Frequents Dating Apps. Genuinely Disturbed Upset By Her Appearance Every Time It Crosses My Path
This Girl Has Gained A Huge Following Of Mostly Men And Young Girls Because Of Her Tiny Waist. Recently She Posted Photos From A Photoshoot, Then The Photographer Posted The Originals
but she's... already skinny??? why does she want to be even thinner???
A Little Side Head
Twin Reality TV Star’s Instagram Post vs. Tagged Story Post…
Which is before and which is after? They are *both* nauseating
Legs For Days!
The longer you look, the more confusing it gets - wtf is going on with that upper body?
Found By A Friend In The Wild: Filter Madness
Need Help Reaching The Top Shelf?
The Way This Is Not A Parody Account…
The photoshop is decent here. It’s obviously super fake but photoshop is decent
How Anything Thinks This Extreme Photo Shopping Looks Good/Believable Is Beyond Me
I vs. R
A Totally Real Body For Sure
Something Is Very Wrong Here
She Swears She’s A Baddie
Back In Black
How Can They Smell Without Nostrils
This Woman I Met Years Ago Posting Progressively Weirder Stuff On Facebook
What She Posts vs. What She Looks Like Irl
This Makes Me So Sad. There's So Many Things Wrong About This
Mother/Daughter? Nope, The Same Person
Pic By Photographer vs. Pic From Her Instagram
Found One In The Wilds Of My Ig Feed
My 60 Something Year Old Aunt Discovered Filters And Promptly Lost Her Nose 🫠
People Love To Look Ai Generated
Posted vs. Tagged
I Love Hear
Compared to the rest, this one's practically natural. A little color correction, a little smoothing... she still has blemishes on her face and chest and her skin has texture. There are no abnormal bends or shaping...
People In The Comments Are Insisting It’s Real…
Travel-Fluencer Simply Photoshopped Herself Into The Location. 1m+ Followers
Ok Is It Just Me Or Did She Photoshop Herself In Front Of A Crowd
The Background Is So Bad, Everyone Is Calling It Out In The Comments
This Is Insane!
Do People Really Think This Is Normal?
Found On Facebook
Ouch
Mom Come Pick Me Up I'm Scared
Found This One In The Wild. How The Hell Do People Think This Is Real?
The Number Of Likes Tho
An Extremely Filtered Photo Of A Singer / A Less Filtered, With Make-Up Photo
Can Someone Help Me Understand What’s Happening Here?
She had head surgery and switched her head with a baby’s head. It’s all the rage. Takes a while to learn how to talk again though.
Seen While Swiping Lol
It’s simultaneously funny, sad and bizarre to me that only 30 years ago this was far from the ‘ideal’. No wonder this excessive photoshopping is what you get, when you’re supposed to have a totally different body shape from era to era.
Say What Now?
What She Regularly Posts vs. What A Photographer Posted
I Just…i Don’t Even Have Words. I Need The X-Ray
What She’s Tagged In vs. What She Posted
Definitely enhanced. But in fairness (and much as I can't be bothered with this lot) the picture on the left is too cold looking; with a washed out bluish tint. Very unflattering. They've just altered the colour balance.
First Time I Watch The News In Years (The Titan Sub Thing) And I Am Shocked At How Strong The Filters Are In The Studio
“I Don’t Photoshop”
My Friend Found Him On Tinder
Influencer Denies Using Video Editors To Make Her Waist Smaller
This Came Up On My Instagram. It’s Not Just Me Who Thinks This Looks So Poorly Edited, Right?
What's Natural Here?
This could be insane plastic surgery, though. I’m hoping it’s photoshop.
Reflection?
The reflection is so much better. Just own your body. We all have insecurities
My What Big Hands You Have
Omg I just feel sorry for this person who feels this represents their worth .. so sad
Notorious For Editing Herself And Her Own Sister
This Girl I Just Found On Twitter
No Skin Texture Or Chins Allowed On Ig!
Hope This Isn't A Repost
Reality TV ‘Star’ Lol
Tiktok vs. Article About Him (With His Real Age)
Instagram vs. Tagged Photo
It’s a bit hard to compare these two properly, but all in all I’d say this is more angles, lighting, and lack of colour than photoshop?
This Woman Is Insanely Fit But Seeing The Little Warps Has Destroyed Her Credibility For Me. She Also Posts Exercising With Her Preteen/Teen Daughter Which Is Worrying Given The Editing! Repost Bc I Included A Pic Of Her Daughter At First
For me, what makes these people even more vapid than they appear is the obviously posed for pictures that they try and convince were just them in the wild doing their thing, urgh
She Only Flies Private. These Are All In The Past 2 Months
Judging by the title I’m guessing we need to see more. Having now done so, she has a habit of (badly) photoshopping herself into places.
"That's Why You Can't Believe Everything Online, Trust Yourself And Your Own Journey"
She’s Fantastic
What I find most disturbing is what they edit. Some have reduced some enlarged breasts - fine. Some have narrowed or widened thighs - fine. All have smoother skin, that's OK. But why does every single one have narrowed waist - not right. Why does every single change to the eyes have bigger eyes - not right. Why smaller head, longer limbs? It's the attraction towards serious physical illnesses as a beauty standard that throws me.
Because that's what media/social media has shoved down everyone's throats as "the epitome of sexiness" instead of real beauty. I don't get the smaller head thing, though. That's just creepy.
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Small heads symbolize small brains; ie small intellect. The emphasis is on female sexual parts. These women are unwitting participants in a pervasive misogyny that sees and aims to keep women purely as sex objects
Load More Replies... What is it with the "dresses" where the boobs fall out? Not only the unnatural cleavage but that piece of boob sticking out anywhere Like the woman with the blue piece of fabric on her. There is a little bit sticking out downwards on the left side.
Unrealistic body standards have gone way too far, many of these people are beautiful in the original image, this is sad.
I don't understand why people do this. I get people not liking their bodies but then don't plaster it all over social media. It's kinda sad really.
Quite a number of these people need therapy......and the followers need to shut down their social media accounts and stop promoting the madness....
Someone should follow around "influencers" have a real vs influencers' imagination.
Girls with the ridiculous huge bums. Guys with fake muscles …. So funny looking 😂
I get it, everyone looks at photos of themselves and thinks they look awful because we're all self critical. But there's some serious body dismorphia out there
Maybe their parents or some of their friends should have told them when they were young that they aren't pretty, nobody is pretty, get over yourself and just enjoy life.
HATE when this website posts articles like this, it sends the morality and social justice conscience of other articles completely out of whack, it is not ok to laugh at or mock people based on appearance, yes these people have posted photos that are heavily edited to the point of extreme but instead of mocking them perhaps the question should be; why do they feel the need to alter their appearance in photos? obviously most if not all have insecurities about they appearance it is not ok and never will be to to take the p out of them
How does anybody think that these people have bodies like this naturally? It's so creepy looking!
I'm afraid a lot of this is "thinspiration" And it's what people with eating disorders use to motivate them. It's called pro mia and pro ana. Most of us think this looks ridiculous, but to someone with an eating disorder this is the goal.
This is not thinspiration. Eugenia Cooney or Lily Rose Depp are thinspiration. This is just bad photoshop or good angles.
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*pukes* Influencers and filters are carcinogenic and should come with a large warning: FAKE AS F*K!
The small heads are a thing in China I think. I saw several reposts from the Chinese version of TikTok with voiceovers talking about small heads being just a new beauty standard.
What I find most disturbing is what they edit. Some have reduced some enlarged breasts - fine. Some have narrowed or widened thighs - fine. All have smoother skin, that's OK. But why does every single one have narrowed waist - not right. Why does every single change to the eyes have bigger eyes - not right. Why smaller head, longer limbs? It's the attraction towards serious physical illnesses as a beauty standard that throws me.
Because that's what media/social media has shoved down everyone's throats as "the epitome of sexiness" instead of real beauty. I don't get the smaller head thing, though. That's just creepy.
Load More Replies... Small heads symbolize small brains; ie small intellect. The emphasis is on female sexual parts. These women are unwitting participants in a pervasive misogyny that sees and aims to keep women purely as sex objects
Load More Replies... What is it with the "dresses" where the boobs fall out? Not only the unnatural cleavage but that piece of boob sticking out anywhere Like the woman with the blue piece of fabric on her. There is a little bit sticking out downwards on the left side.
Unrealistic body standards have gone way too far, many of these people are beautiful in the original image, this is sad.
I don't understand why people do this. I get people not liking their bodies but then don't plaster it all over social media. It's kinda sad really.
Quite a number of these people need therapy......and the followers need to shut down their social media accounts and stop promoting the madness....
Someone should follow around "influencers" have a real vs influencers' imagination.
Girls with the ridiculous huge bums. Guys with fake muscles …. So funny looking 😂
I get it, everyone looks at photos of themselves and thinks they look awful because we're all self critical. But there's some serious body dismorphia out there
Maybe their parents or some of their friends should have told them when they were young that they aren't pretty, nobody is pretty, get over yourself and just enjoy life.
HATE when this website posts articles like this, it sends the morality and social justice conscience of other articles completely out of whack, it is not ok to laugh at or mock people based on appearance, yes these people have posted photos that are heavily edited to the point of extreme but instead of mocking them perhaps the question should be; why do they feel the need to alter their appearance in photos? obviously most if not all have insecurities about they appearance it is not ok and never will be to to take the p out of them
How does anybody think that these people have bodies like this naturally? It's so creepy looking!
I'm afraid a lot of this is "thinspiration" And it's what people with eating disorders use to motivate them. It's called pro mia and pro ana. Most of us think this looks ridiculous, but to someone with an eating disorder this is the goal.
This is not thinspiration. Eugenia Cooney or Lily Rose Depp are thinspiration. This is just bad photoshop or good angles.
Load More Replies... *pukes* Influencers and filters are carcinogenic and should come with a large warning: FAKE AS F*K!
The small heads are a thing in China I think. I saw several reposts from the Chinese version of TikTok with voiceovers talking about small heads being just a new beauty standard.
