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Social media platforms are removing billions of fake accounts but even the real ones aren't authentic. Our endless pursuit of physical perfection has made our internet profiles shinier and smoother than our real-life selves have ever been. This obsession has reached a point where it has become the norm and you can't always tell how many filters the people you are seeing in your feed are hiding under.

As Rebecca Jennings pointed out in Vox, things get even more complicated when the bogeyman is not an anonymous evil fashion editor at a glossy magazine but average folks plumping their lips and touching up tiny flaws. Easy-to-use apps allow virtually anyone to participate in that same manipulation, giving the power to create the perfect digital version of yourself.

To highlight that you always need to retain a certain level of skepticism online, TikToker RIKKI has been producing videos that she calls the same as Bored Panda's article series, Insta vs. Reality. In these clips, RIKKI shows her own photos before and after editing them. Her honest uploads are generating millions of views and the buzz around them has gotten so loud that other people are joining in, creating sort of a new internet trend.

TikToker RIKKI shared photos of herself before and after editing them to remind people that social media is fake, and other users are following her example

@rikkisandhuu
Ahh they gradually get worse & worse! 🤪✨ #bodypositivity #filtervsreality #makeuptips #foryou
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Paizleypie
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5 years ago

Editing not necessary.

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    bookshellf
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    5 years ago

    confidence and happiness :) you can feel that fully from the right picture more.

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    Jenn Jackson
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    5 years ago

    The amount of people not understanding the point is incredibly frustrating.

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    J Rob
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    5 years ago

    That's not really an edited photo. Two different photos and she is posing differently.

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    Sowieso
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I really don't get it... Why would you 'expose' social media for the fake that it is, but keep participating in it? I mean, you do expose yourself as fake as well. And you keep re-enforcing impossible beauty stardards. While a lot of these people are actually pretty good looking without all of this nonsense?

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    Vonny
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    5 years ago

    After scrolling thru a few of these, it hit me, 99% of the brunettes photo shopped pics look like they've turned into members of the Kardashian clan

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    ggus44
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    5 years ago

    This one just made a whole new face for herself.

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    Abraham Marshall
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    4 years ago

    You look great! no filter needed.

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    Mich
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    5 years ago

    Why bother applying makeup to your face for a photo shoot, when you can apply it digitally

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    A.J Milne
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    5 years ago

    (Second picture) She looks like a cute nerd😋

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    A.J Milne
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    5 years ago

    Why would you do that, your beautiful!

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    Jamma
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Equally pretty. The one on the right looks like a great friend who is a high achiever as well.

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    Nicole Tomme
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    5 years ago

    I love the one on the right because her smile looks genuine with the crinkled eyes. Making your eyes look wider and bigger often removes the look of a genuine smile which involves the eyes and mouth.

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    Zozo🤟
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    5 years ago

    She is gorgeous!!! Absolutely stunning without editing

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    Mich
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    5 years ago

    They both look badly photoshopped. She’s not sitting on that bench.

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    Wendy
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    5 years ago

    It’s so healthy and refreshing to see normal body rolls because they have been censored out of any ads and many people do not realize it’s perfectly normal for our bodies to look this way.

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    Wendy
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    5 years ago

    I think she’s equally beautiful in both photos.

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    A.J Milne
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Don't lie to yourself, the picture quality is not that good, but I can see that you're gorgeous

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    Jamma
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    That's just what bodies do. She's still thin.

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    Marie
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    5 years ago

    Natural facial hair on women is real. Editing it out makes it seem embarrassing, when 99% of the time no one cares in real life.

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    Glirpy
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    5 years ago

    Those eyelashes need to go. SOOOO creepy!

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    Vicky Z
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    5 years ago

    These spider lashes though

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    Alex K
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    5 years ago

    like a different person. even the eye color is changed

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    Suzanne Clark
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    5 years ago

    What is with the Blowfish lip look? I'll be gad when that goes out of style, which it will eventually.

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    Glirpy
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    5 years ago

    No editing here. Just suck in your gut.

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    Frank Ropen
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    5 years ago

    No real difference

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    Zozo🤟
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    The right one is so much better😄😄

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    Sheila Reinhard
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    5 years ago

    Pulling your pants up above your waist, prevents muffin top.

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    Marie
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    5 years ago

    The left looks drained of color and flat.

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    Tim S
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    5 years ago

    So... smile? Is that the lesson here?

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    Witchling
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    5 years ago

    I see noooo difference here.

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    Zozo🤟
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    5 years ago

    The right looks so much more natural and prettier 😄

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    Jackie Johnson
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    5 years ago

    So much cuter on the right. Looks very similar to an old friend of mine. Also, most of her edited photos she loses some of her dimples.

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    Jackie Johnson
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    5 years ago

    She should just buy the lipstick she wants instead of photoshopping a color change every time. And maybe some face powder or oil blotting papers. No need for editing.

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    Jackie Johnson
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Again, she should just buy the lipstick color she wants and put that on instead. She could just match one to her photo edits right at the store. Also, she should stop over lipsticking her upper lip. Looks as if she was bibbling koolade the same color as her lipstick.

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    A.J Milne
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    5 years ago

    I just realized that it's the same person in almost all these pictures😨

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    Eden
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    5 years ago

    This is one of the only ones w/o heavy editing.

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    Jackie Johnson
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    No difference, just scootched her pants down. I think she's imagining she has a unflattering belly.

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    Loki’s Lil Butter Knife
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    5 years ago

    Holy Kardashian clones, Batman!

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    Jackie Johnson
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    5 years ago

    Wait, the editing is blending her tongue into her bottom lip, Weird!

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    Jackie Johnson
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    5 years ago

    Yikes! Terrible edit, and scary!

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    Ara Noguera
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    5 years ago

    I wish I had to try this hard to get a muffin top.

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