30 Instagram Vs. Reality Pics Of Women ‘Exposing’ Themselves To Show How Fake Social Media Is
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
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confidence and happiness :) you can feel that fully from the right picture more.
The amount of people not understanding the point is incredibly frustrating.
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?
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.
What is with the Blowfish lip look? I'll be gad when that goes out of style, which it will eventually.
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.
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.
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.
No difference, just scootched her pants down. I think she's imagining she has a unflattering belly.
Wait, the editing is blending her tongue into her bottom lip, Weird!
I really wish women would stop overlining their lips. It doesn't make your lips look fuller; it just makes you look like you don't know how to use makeup.
So fake woman decides to show how she's faking things to get social media likes? This isn't quite the flex she thinks.
I really wish women would stop overlining their lips. It doesn't make your lips look fuller; it just makes you look like you don't know how to use makeup.
So fake woman decides to show how she's faking things to get social media likes? This isn't quite the flex she thinks.
