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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