If a pic of your crush, class friend, or one of the influencer divas looks too good to be true… you do the math. Because if there’s anything we know about pic-perfect shots on social media by now, it’s that a huge number of them are totally fake.
And as long as there are serial Photoshop offenders out there, the Instagram Reality subreddit will continue exposing their malicious deeds. Trust me, people out there are never running short of inspiration to face-tunefy and beautify their looks.
Below is the fresh batch of IG absurdity that must be seen to be believed. More eye-rub inducing snaps from Instagram vs. Reality can be found here, here, and here.
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Don't You Hate It When Your Pecs Grow Over Your Pendant?
She Must Be On Tatooine With The Sun Both Behind And Ahead Of Her
Don't be too harsh. Maybe she's on another planet that has two suns. No? Not possible you say?
Spines Are Out Of Fashion. Pass It On
I tried to think of a pun, but it would've been spineless. Thank you, I'm here all week.
Previously, Bored Panda reached out to the redditor Cluelessnumber7, who’s the moderator of the r/InstagramReality community. The moderator explained the adverse effects all the heavily edited images have on people.
First, it sets unrealistic expectations that influencers purport to their easily impressionable audiences. “The amazingly smooth skin, suddenly common almond-shaped eyes, pouty lips, sharp jawlines, slim hourglass shapes, and so on," they commented.
Meanwhile, the viewers have no idea how long it took to pick the outfit, hunt down the perfect lighting, and many other little details that come before face-tuning every picture-perfect Insta look. Without discussing the use of editing apps such as Photoshop and Facetune, “there is now a countless amount of people comparing themselves to (and perhaps spending money to look like) a person who doesn’t exist," Cluelessnumber7 told us.
Her Official Press Photos vs. Interview
Can’t women own their unique noses! What’s with all of these cookie-cutter noses?
Is It Really That Hard To Hire A Pregnant Model, Amazon?
Pretending To A Chess Player Without Learning A Single Rule Of The Game. All For The 'Gram!
The second problem that hasn’t been addressed enough is the insecurities of the influencers who feel an urge to edit their pictures. “They’ve been editing their photos for so long it could mean losing the validation from their followers, losing followers, and maybe losing sponsors if they came clean.”
As huge crowds of followers become familiar with your fictional, yet perfect look, it may be impossible to speak out about all the editing that goes into creating their brand. “So, they would rather enjoy the false fame than risk losing it over integrity," the moderator concluded.
Reptilians Are Back
People Writing “I Wish I Had Skin Like This”. Lol She Wishes She Had Skin Like That Too.. Don’t Let Filters/Photoshop/Facetune Make You Feel Insecure
He Must Use Wite-Out Instead Of Toothpaste
When You See It
Who Needs Organs Anyway
What Did She Even Try To Do With The Edits?
It’s The Photoshopped Cleavage For Me
Twitter Thirst Trap Got That Grinch Fingers
What She Posts vs. Her Live Stream
Left Is From Her Instagram, Right Is From A Video
Same Guy.. Left Is His Pfp
This Girl Is A Gold Mine
Lmao This Has Got To Stop
This is the punchline to a joke...with a little help she can sit up.
What The Actual Fu-
Where Are Her Knees At?
This Is A TV Anchor... We Know What Your Face Looks Like?
My Sims After I Go On A Custom Content Binge Be Like
His Instagram vs. TV Screenshot
At first I thought why has he stretched his eyes??!! Then realised he’s cropped eyes and put them over his real ones in the pic. Just sad
I think this whole pic (on the left) has been altered, it looks nothing like him EXCEPT the hair, it’s still janky.
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What's wrong with the way he looks normally? ... If he was just happier he'd be a handsome dude.
That’s what happens when one photoshop ones own photos, and don’t have an artist eye. They don’t see those kinda things that they’ve done wrong. LOL
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he looke fine regular. argh people make me confused about why this is a thing
same haircut - different guys - different ears, eyes, nose, mouth - totally different guys
He did a lot of photographing on the LEFT photo, that’s why it doesn’t look exactly like him.
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Photo Posted On Her Instagram vs. Interview
I’m Sorry What
this reminds me that meme about the loooong cat 4c195a2b21...ac7a22.png 
Left Is Steve Madden On Twitter, Right Is Their Instagram
WHY the need the pretend women don't have ankle bones?
Instagram vs. Reality Queen
She is like Kloe Kardashian of Serbia. We all know how she really looks like but she is still using tone of facetunes and filters. Why people do that? Accept how you look like, it's fine.
I Just Don't Understand
Note: this post originally had 79 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
It's not entirely their fault. They're getting all those likes that they assume they're doing something right. It's a vicious circle that goes round and round. I wish people would understand that it's our personalities and our character that make us better people not our looks.
I agree, it's messed up but people know they are looking at something artificial. They are giving likes to cartoony looking people with photos that are clearly tinted and manipulated
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I want to know who woke up one day and decided super sharp chin and humongous eyes are attractive?
You guys spend ALOT of time fixating on IG accounts...seems kind of trivial in the Grand Scheme of things. Are you out of material to heckle or???
If "curvy" is supposedly so beautiful nowadays, how come none of these people made themselves appear to be fatter?
Locally they do --- fat/weird lips, fat hips/weird butts, spherical boobs...
Load More Replies... Pretty sure that's Stella Vaudran and that's really how her body is shaped. She's always been thin.
That is sad that they want to look like a completely different person.
sure, they may be gross with facetune and photoshop, but death!?! nah....
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Why some people want to look like Sims or Barbie dolls? How is that even a trend?
It's not entirely their fault. They're getting all those likes that they assume they're doing something right. It's a vicious circle that goes round and round. I wish people would understand that it's our personalities and our character that make us better people not our looks.
I agree, it's messed up but people know they are looking at something artificial. They are giving likes to cartoony looking people with photos that are clearly tinted and manipulated
Load More Replies... I want to know who woke up one day and decided super sharp chin and humongous eyes are attractive?
You guys spend ALOT of time fixating on IG accounts...seems kind of trivial in the Grand Scheme of things. Are you out of material to heckle or???
If "curvy" is supposedly so beautiful nowadays, how come none of these people made themselves appear to be fatter?
Locally they do --- fat/weird lips, fat hips/weird butts, spherical boobs...
Load More Replies... Pretty sure that's Stella Vaudran and that's really how her body is shaped. She's always been thin.
That is sad that they want to look like a completely different person.
sure, they may be gross with facetune and photoshop, but death!?! nah....
Load More Replies... Why some people want to look like Sims or Barbie dolls? How is that even a trend?
