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The Danger of Instagram Filters | @Jouelzy
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Our whole society is trying to live up to a standard that DOES NOT EXIST. 😩
Yes!! Amen!!
This is so scary! I’m shying away from them.
Barbie doll. A fake piece of plastic. Can you believe a human wants to look like plastic? We live in a very demonic age
@@ms.a806 “can your believe a human wants to look like a piece of plastic “ I cracked up at your statement, but it’s actually sad, that ppl are resulting to extremes ...
Yes
So glad this topic is being addressed. This summer I was playing around with the filters and I had to stop. I caught myself liking the "filter me" more than my real face. Had to leave them filters aloooone!
Happened to me the other day. Same girl, same!
You did the right thing.
Same!!! I use to NEVER use filters then I downloaded Snap and was loving the filters! It was to the point all my pictures were filtered! I’m like wth have I become?! 😩
Exactly this! Deactivated and deleted both Instagram and Snapchat. Had to reset my brain 🧠 😩
Saaaaame
Come thru with the message!!!! The poreless thing...., I am a dermatology nurse practitioner and people be literally tripping because they want their pores to be gone and I, as the provider be like “where are they?!!” People we can not shrink our pores, we can minimize the appearance, but not get rid of them. We can use retina, chemical peels , and good skin care regimen, but get rid of them.... um nope. And the babies??!!! They come out the womb with filters on them!!! We’re going to have a whole generation with body dysmorphia and a whole new section added to the DSM5 or are we at 10 yet??!! 😆 always insightful.... we miss you on here!
Thank you!! 🤗
Yes ppl putting filters on a new born ! It’s like why ? Lol
@@itsbritt9155 So troubling. When they grow up they won’t know what they actually looked like as babies. So sad!
Riight! And lol @ the DSM 5 comment! If we’re not yet at 10, we are surely on the way!
I feel the same way! These filters will definitely add a new sub section of dysmorphia in the DSM.
this is why i deleted instagram just too much toxicity
Same!!
This is why people shouldn’t rely on beautiful influencers selling products. They use filters and you don’t “really know “ if the product works. Thanks for starting the conversation!
Excellent point. And tip. I should take into account.
You're absolutely right. Also, some people are just more photogenic than others, and appear more attractive on camera than in real life. You never know how they look unless you meet them in person.
I don’t post on social media. It’s too much pressure & I refuse to fall into the trap of perceived perfection. Nope!! 🙅🏽♀️🙅🏽♀️🙅🏽♀️
It’s so wild because even the mixed race/black biracial aesthetic is excluding MR & BBs with 4c hair texture, bigger features, darker skin. Imagery steeped in anti-blackness.
Facts
What is MR and BB? I tried to look it up but only thing im getting is beauty balm and multi-racial for some reason. 😅
@@kionnakelly2918 mixed raced & black biracial
@@MostlyMoselei oh ok. Thank you
@@kionnakelly2918 no problem.
My experience has been when I look in any mirror, make-up or not, I like what I see; sometimes even love. But when I turn on my camera, no filter involved, I look completely TIRED/WORN DOWN/UGLY/etc. I'm not sure if this is something my mind has conjured up or if the cameras in Apple Iphones are actually out to make the images less attractive lol smh
Yes that’s how I feel! So that’s why I use some filters than turn them way down just so I look more like I do when I see myself in the mirror 😅
Me too!
Okay this 👏🏾
Nooooo!!! This is really a great summary of what I actually happens in my mind and life
Saaameeeeee 😩😅
i saw a tiktok of a girl saying she was upset bc she wasn’t ✨black✨ but rather “ooga booga” black. It made me realized how i was feeling the same due to social media. I see a of people have low-self esteem not bc of antiblackness but bc of this obsession w being a baddie. Young cute black girl’s can’t just be cute they gotta be “fierce” “sexy” the super shiny oiled up glowing skin and lashes and snatched body. it’s harming our girls
i’m sorry but what is ooga booga black?
@@BlessedMessiahMinistries Looking indistinguishably Black/African basically
I saw a video from a plastic surgeon recently and he was saying that when he started doing surgery people would bring in images of celebrities and now more women are bringing in images of themselves with filters on and saying they want to look like that. They want to be the filtered version of themselves. I just feel like filters are distorting how people think of themselves. I think it is very problematic and I dont even want to think about the damage that this is doing to the younger generation that is coming up. It is very interesting to see what will come of it.
Omg yes I was gonna bring this up... ppl are now requesting to look like their Snapchat filtered self 🥴💀
@@Brwniee95 It honestly saddens me to to think that there are many women out there that dont even feel like themselves without a filter because that's just how they see themselves all the time. In this distorted
That sounds like an episode of Black Mirror. Smh. Absolutely terrible.
@@thee_bougiebronzebeauty5192 2020 is a black mirror season girl 🙈
I saw something like this too. One girl used filtered photos on dating apps. She didn't go on dates until after her surgery.
Actually, the body dysmorphia activities have been going on way before the IG filters, especially as it pertains to Black Americans. A very good case study is the Jackson family.
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I think she was more pointing at the fact that these new tools consistently seem uphold an existing standard and making the preference more explicit. Like are we ever going to be free type of thing.
The Jacksons did what rich & celebrity people did in their era. It's different now because normal/regular folks are getting all types of work done.
@@Belihoney we can be free from it once we realize it’s unnecessary. Most people who use filters deem it necessary and in abundance so people follow suit, especially when they see something like a filter being used in abundance. Vast support to many people means that it’s okay to do.
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Whew child the filters for a skin care routine !
Yes doing a whole foundation routine with a filter 🤦🏾♀️
This one irks me... like so what am I suppose to believe you woke up like this? 😩🙄
@@BeEnOn okay right?! Like have several seats 😩🙄
@@Brwniee95 Sis I’m over it...I scroll pass with the quickness. They all look the damn same smh.
@@BeEnOn THIS 👏🏾👏🏾 clones 🤦🏾♀️
Amen to "I don't ever want to love myself less"
I didn’t use filters intentionally because I worried that I would become over reliant on them (I’m off the gram entirely now). I appreciate my imperfections as they are ❤️. I see filters being used all of the time (especially by women). I honestly doubt that there are filters that target men the way they target us.
Great POV, filters defo target women more tho I see men also gravitating towards filters now a days lol. I’m gonna check out your channel ✨
So so SO true! Hence why most of these filters add lashes & enhance lips
me too!!!
@@mellow_vybes Thank you ☺️
@@Brwniee95 When I left Instagram 3 months ago, I didn’t see a lot of male filter use but you may be on to something lol. Also, thanks for checking out my channel 😆
It's you whispering "but it's a light-skinned black woman" 💀💀💀
I genuinely make it a point not to use filters or alter myself because I started getting a distorted view of myself. I’m happy with my reflection now more than I was when I was using the Snapchat filters but maybe it was easier for me to pull back because I’m cute regardless. Also watching channels like Lorry Hill that go into the procedures that people get done helped create a more realistic expectation around what human beings should look like.
I love how you said "I'm cute regardless" 💚💚💚
I’ve been said that, I hardly participate in social media because it’s feels like it literally distorting peoples realities and I’m truly content with who I am that I do not need the validation
EXACTLY!!!!
Facts. 💕
Shawty u just inspired me so much ! May god bkess u
This conversation is so needed. I'm glad you spoke on this to us as adults. As a middle school teacher, I see so many young people who won't take their own picture without filters. They are kids, and they want to look like an augmented version of themselves. It's sad. "Heavy" was everything!
On a side note- your tattoo is lovely 😍
Yessssss
i said it before and I’ll keep saying it ...them filters is a drug. I find it really interesting that the increase of these filters came about during quarantine. People are already struggling with mental health issues now add body dysmorphia to the mix . Smh.
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I can’t stand some filters because they’re not my feature friendly and they make my nose SUPER tiny and my already full lips huuuuge
Same 😩🙄
Yupp 😩
Facts! On Snapchat a lot of those filters never covered my full lips, tried to overly slant my eyes and tried to make my nose bridge super thin. I looked like a freakin alien lol
25 years as a skin care specialist and I literally stopped using the IG filters last year because I realized I didn’t think I looked good enough without it . Damaging addiction , it’s all about balance - I get it consumers do like to see perfection and that’s what drives them to purchase but I still have to make sure I’m nurturing my self care and self love . So stopped overdoing the filters and do it from time to time for fun .
Thanks for the video and I like your channel a lot
thanks for starting this conversation. haven’t finished the video, but i wonder if you touched on people not being able to post their children/ literal babies without filters on their face. it’s...unsettling to me.
and speaking of khloe kardashian, she posts her child a lot, like any proud parent would. but more often than not, she’s got a filter on that baby’s face.
idk, there’s something to be said about a white woman who’s tried her hardest to recreate a black/mixed woman’s phenotype, procreate with a black man, and have her half black child posted on social media almost always exclusively with a filter on their face. weird times we living in.
At the very end 😉
JOUELZY thank you. Per usual, such a nuanced conversation. Not just on how desirability impacts how we see ourselves but how it also impacts how we treat people in our communities. That one stung when I think about who I extend grace to and how their attractiveness plays a role in that. Plus, I haven't used a filter in several years cos I saw early on how weird it felt to take a selfie and feel confused by it after constantly seeing a slightly altered version of yourself. And the part about vulnerability and what images we deem "acceptable" for the internet. So much to digest. Thank you for this! Love your work. 🥰
this convo reminds of black mirror and the weird world technology is taking us to.
Love black mirror !
Scary stuff
It's called "self-hate." Your key word was "Europeanize." So sad, we as (Black folk) keeping falling into this trap.
I love this community of like minded people. Most people I know firmly deny this shit and it’s so fucking annoying because, it’s obvious! Anti-Blackness ingrained in so many aspects of our world it’s sick!
THIS. People swear they love themselves but display the exact opposite...
I don't have IG but I've notice when googling certain celebs, some filters are so blurred it looks like they don't have a nose...😩
A few people barely have a nose bridge, FWIW. I remember watching Oprah three decades ago one episode when her makeup artist showed some tips and tricks on her, and he was talking about how he had to paint on a fake nose bridge with makeup on her every day, because hers was that flat. I guess I can get wanting to have a stronger looking nose, it makes you look less cutesy, which was too important back in those days.
The super tiny nose trend is confusing. Same as all other plastic surgery trends. Body part styles being trendy is disconcerting.
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@@Call-me-Al Yeah I was actually born with a condition called Binders syndrome which left me with an underdeveloped jaw and no cartilage where my nose bridge is. It’s actually very rare (especially in the US), so I’m wondering if the model has it too. Anyways I don’t necessarily find stronger noses attractive but I do like a nice nose bridge with a cute rounded tip. I do agree that a stronger nose does make the face less cutesy though
I think smaller noses are cuter, but for instance, Jouezly has a full broad nose and she has a good looking nose. Suki Hana and Meg the Stallion are other examples of women with big noses that are cute, so I guess I’m saying it depends on what you look like and what nose looks good on your face !
I had to delete insta and snap for this reason..it was really messing with my head to an unhealthy degree and distorting my self-perception.
Anyways, thanks for reminding me not get caught up in all that again. Always appreciate your voice and insight!💖
Ah! Just finished doing a Psychopathology term paper on Body Dysmorphia and Instagram Filters.
Oooh! I would love to read this lol!! ✨
I want to read it! It sounds interesting!
Ooh, how interesting!
@@missrose9795 Right!
heheh yes i too would love to read it if you wanna share!!
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The hair
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It's why we stay subbed, promise we'll be on the patreon once we back up :)
I’m glad you made this video, I thought I was the only one who didn’t use filters, like altering filters. I use the color correcting ones, when the flash/lighting makes me look bright as all get out/washed out, but none that change my face composition. Like, why do I look like 2000s Michael Jackson? Gimme my daddy nose back, please! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
this is where I have trouble.... as a nail artist it's pretty hard trying to find the balance between perfecting artistic technique and taking competitive gorgeous fashion photos and relying on IG followers and all that social capital.... it's overwhelming. It's effecting my mental health, I'm not on facebook and I don't want to spend all my time on social media marketing. I need to network with the old school word-of-mouth nail artists who still work in the hood lol
Same here. I keep getting the pressure of making social media to get more clientele but I'm trying my best to get clients the old fashioned way. Let's continue on our path of old school way & well be alright. It's just another way they're trying to lure us back in. I do esthetician work. Lashes & waxing, I always feel the pressure every single day but I've been off social media for good for over 2yrs. It's hard 😫
Me too :/
Love your tattoo, I never considered that placement, but it is stunning, especially in color. I’ve definitely noticed this trend and the attachment to distortion, especially in conversation with what Kimberly Foster has said about beauty as currency and Kiese was saying about desirability. Our realities and our imaginations can be so disparate.
I loved using the filters on Snapchat when I was on that platform, but I eventually stopped using them for the same reasons that you and Jia outlined. The insidious way that filters started to alter my own perception about how I looked was enough for me to stop using them. I'm genuinely about how this is molding young teens and kids sense of self because of the way these filters can prey on people's insecurities.
I'm confused by how using filters is different than wearing makeup (for the record, I'm not against either even though I use neither). @Jouelzy, at the end of this video you say, "I want to enjoy me in its natural state because I don't want to have to change me for a standard that's just not realistic." Respectfully (and I mean that; I'm truly curious, not accusatory), you said that while wearing a face full of makeup. To me, the differences between a natural face and a made-up face are way more jarring than the changes that filters make. A lot of women prefer their made-up faces more than their natural faces. Should those women stop using makeup? Why is one okay and the other not? I feel like every justification for using makeup can also be applied to filters, so I'm interested in your thoughts on the differences between the two.
I think this is an interesting and valid point --- would love to hear @Jouelzy's opinion!
You made some very valid points... I would love to understand the perceived difference between using filters vs. makeup to alter one’s looks.
Wow. This whole time I thought people actually looked like that on Instagram 🤦🏿. Thanks for adding the examples.
Me too ! Lol makes sense now
The glittery one is really big now.
I've literally been thinking about this a lot of myself, it's crazy that you posted this video. I initially used one in particular bc I had terrible breakouts which left bad scarring on my skin. I noticed that I've become superrrr reliant on the filter and I feel like I'm not being true to myself. This was exactly what I needed! Thank you for this !
Try a plant based diet for a month to reset your body. Then introduce meats & dairy slowly back into your diet that way you can pin point what it is causing your breakouts. 🙂
@@villainouspixie2923 I am vegan. I’ve been for 2 years lol
@@SimplySakina. oohhh lol well excuse me! 🤣 lol that's good though have you noticed a change in your skin?
Wow! I had no idea that filters had become so advanced! This makes me sound old, but I don't have a Snapchat or Tiktok, but I do have an IG. I knew there was photo editing, but this?!?
Dang. Thank you for talking about this subject, you definitely have me a pair of brand new eyes.
Me either lol explains why everyone looks so perfect.
Ditto! No colored knees perfect armpits! Some not a stretch mark in site or they even make those look good! Its really crazy!
Thank you thank you thank you for this! When I take a picture with my friends, I always tell them no filter for me. I have worked many years in my youth to love and accept my nose as it sits on my face, and I refuse to allow filters to cause me to develop insecurities about my face now. People who argue that consistently using filters is not a sign of insecurity are in DENIAL.
Thank you for your work! This video should be required viewing.
I didn’t even know Instagram had all these filters wow
I deleted my Instagram 6 months ago and not going back
I believe her name was "Bunny Rabbit," but one of the Real Chance of Love girls said she got her nose done because she liked the way a filter made her face look and she wanted it to be permanent. A perfectly attractive woman getting surgery to look like a filter🤦🏾♀️
Another issue I'm seeing are very, young girls getting things done that will require expensive maintenance like veneers. I understand why Cardi B did it, but some have perfectly, nice, straight teeth, yet getting their teeth filed down for the chiclet look because IG made it so popular. They're so young that they have to take supplements to gain the necessary weight to get a BBL. This shouldn't be the norm.
This! I just watched a video from a dentist that said veneers and crowns essentially destroys your teeth and nerve endings. She said that people who get veneers are going to be having to wear dentures for the rest of their life.
It's like having plastic surgery. Once you start, you can't stop.
Rich auntie life is agreeing with you!
LOL I was just about to comment about the Jia Tolentino article.
The quote where Tolentino says people, like Kim who's labeled as "Patient 0" for Instagram Face, has definitely snatched features from all us "ethnic" girls to get that "exotic look" the 'gram goes crazy for was especially poignant since plastic surgeons have noted that procedures have gone up by 300%.
Basically, clients are coming in to get the very looks we all naturally have to hyper exaggerate them, like the KKKlan and other Instagirls. And, even the "poreless face" filter you mentioned is a procedure that is now exploited since once upon a time, one would sit all day in a makeup chair to get that type of "look," whereas now, you can have a procedure to make you look like a filter from IG or SnapChat.
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Lol this is why I stopped wearing makeup I started feeling uncomfortable without it and not liking the differences i saw when I washed my face. I dont do every day makeup now only for fun special occasions. I feel so much better and confident now.
I just realized i like listening to you because you make me see another side of how people think.
You would be great on a show like the real or the view or you could literally have your own show. I pray it happens for you one day.
I’m pretty sure I’ve been watching Jouelzy since I was in highschool. I’m now in pharmacy school. Still here and still loving the content.
I worry about the children and teens who only see themselves through these lenses. I couldn't imagine if these filters these sites were prominent when I was a teen.
Tiktok does the Asian beauty standard it lightens and smooths the skin, slims the nose and makes the shape a V-shape which is the ideal face shape in Asia.
That’s why the only social media I use is Tumblr. You can be your pure self on tumblr and still get “notes”. It’s way more authentic. I remember when I got blocked my Deelishes a few years ago, I commented and said her face looks kinda fake. Now look at her 🤦🏾♀️😔
Jouelzy came through with a word.
This video needs to go VIRAL 🙌🏽
True IG filters aren’t as overt whereas Snapchat you see this immediate / intense change loll, the age old “I just have Snapchat for the filters” and yes you do have to reset how you see yourself after using a filter 😬 check out Wayne Goss’ recent video “why you’ll never look like a beauty guru”
Snapchat filters are REALLY good though lol I don’t mess with IG’s filters, they makes you look like Kylie Jenner 😂
I love this conversation, because it is really overdue. Body dysmorphia is no joke. We've always had the pressures of beauty standards that most of us never fit into, but now it's going to a new extreme. The bbl surgery is so got damn dangerous. If you inject fat in the wrong place you could cause cardiac arrest. I'm trying to love the person that I am. It's hard enough sometimes just loving yourself, but to add surgery to the mix just cause more damage because you will still find something you're lacking. I stay away from filters that change my face. I'll play with filters that add cat ears or something funny, but nothing to catfish the world or myself.
👏🏾THIS👏🏾WAS👏🏾SO👏🏾GOODT! Wow! I’m so glad that you have brought this dialogue to the table. It is a problem. It is interesting to see how we moved from touching up images in the magazines in the 80s and 90s to filters on social media. Either way throughout the generations the message always has reflected unachievable beauty standards which is needed to keep women tethered to products because they have been implicitly taught to hate themselves and the way that they look. Same commercialism game has been played for ages. And it sad!
Sis,
I have seen this happen with young and older people (35+). My social media footprint is smaller than most (never had FB). But I have not been immune to these filters. I see pics posted of family and close friends and I found myself slightly distracted when seeing them in person. I found myself trying to figure out what was wrong; why the swollen nose, darker eye color, wider face. Then I realized it was nothing wrong with that person, it was my perception of them that was flawed/false.
Wow, try my best to not be an active participant but even the “receiver” willingly participates...🤔
I couldn’t even tell that was khloe damn.
also with our fantasies and attractions, I've recently realised that they are not independent from our lived realities. our environment very much informs who we desire, who we want to be desired by and why those people are who are or look like what they look like.
This.
I say this with love: is it fair to compare makeup to filters?
there’s people that never leave the house without their face the same as they never take a picture without a filter. Both are not clear versions of who you are tho 🖤
My sentiments as well. Same thing goes for weaves and wigs. Some women will not step out of their homes without it.
@@saphire2214 and they are absolutely stunning without it. We can do without the illusions, in my humble opinion
i agree. filters and plastic surgery are from the same source that makeup and hair extensions are. people will excuse or rationalize the latter and filters but only because it’s not permanent like surgery but it still comes from the same discomfort with or dissatisfaction with our natural bodies. i’m speaking specifically of what you mentioned: people who are dependent on makeup (not people who wear it occasionally or just for fun)
I had the same thought
This is true , but my makeup doesn't change the shape of my nose (because I don't contour my nose ) . It also doesn't plump my lips and smooth out my pores. All I'm saying is yes ! People have a certain addiction to make up, but to put on a full face of makeup and then put a filter on top is something entirely different . 💗
I got rid of Instagram and Snapchat because it felt like it wasn’t real life and authentic.... I’m sick of social media ruining people lives and if you to a Walmart none of those people look like people on social media
Yes to all of this. I remember reading the uglies series when i was in middle school and i feel confident that we are heading toward the reality presented in that series. You have women changing their entire face and bearing children.... how do you teach these children with your original features to love themselves and the skin they came with.... im exhausted
The fact that you don't realize what's happening until it's too late too. Like I knew about the filters but I had to step back and ask myself why do I used them so frequently. The realization didn't feel good, but it was needed.
I saw that thumbnail and thought Khloe was going for Michael Jackson.
I saw the Michael Jackson thing too. I think that it might be the case the there us only one look that can be achieved in doing plastic surgery. The MJ look. 🤷🏾♀️ if we look at everyone who has done their face that’s the look they end up with, no matter the race, nationality, gender - its the MJ look. Maybe it’s the genre construct of the human head and bone structure or it could be surgeons are trained to only to do that look. 🤷🏾♀️
Congratulations on your Ten Year Anniversary! That is a major accomplishment. I love this channel btw.
Sadly this is me. I knew I had a problem because I couldn’t take pictures if it wasn’t on my phone with Snapchat filters. I actually stopped posting myself entirely to try to fix the problem. Now I only do natural hair styles 99% of the time and I only wear eye makeup. Best thing I did for my self esteem was staying off of social media. I’m starting to recognize myself again.
Great topic! I feel like filters are doing to people today what makeup and wigs and weaves did to people years ago. It’s just 2.0 and it’s sad to watch.
Even Beyonce has them lol...when I play in snap chat...I forget which nose width and skin is really me after a few lol
all these “- but what about makeup..it’s the same thing” comments ..
we talking about filters right now. That’s the conversation at hand.
um no we talking ab everything no difference in always wearing makeup or a filter
Girl this hair on you is so gorgeous. Absolutely love it 😍
Great content as always. How often do I look in the mirror say how much I love myself, self-love. I can't only blame the influencers for the filter. Our society is full of filters. Thanks to people like you remind me it is okay have pores and moles while I lather extra moisturizer
This is how I feel about Premadonna. She won’t post nothing unless it has a filter to it.
I have another LHH alum who I so badly want to tell to post herself w/out the filters, she even does lives with them on!
Girl! Kit from Black Ink Crew NY, She is naturally GORGEOUS on the show and yet all her pictures on Instagram are filtered AF.
And Nicki Minaj. And I love her but she never post a close up without a SC filter.
It’s so jarring when the filter comes off. I’ve started just taking photos of my face without filters and posting those! It’s so freeing but scary, which is insane
Hey Jouelzy I’m just commenting on both uploads at this point lol. But my 2 cents is that the filters are an extension of makeup... what does makeup do if not change your whole face (when you want it to).... some stuff seems dangerous when a better word is predatory, women particularly have been targeted in these ways since the dawn of time, altering our appearance to be more aesthetically pleasing is a very normalized aspect of femininity. More interestingly, I’ve been seeing folks online critique the performance of femininity which I find super compelling as a talking point. In a technology-saturated sex appeal first personality last world, why wake up and do your makeup to look pretty when you can simply flip to the perfect filter.... this shit is only gonna get more prevalent. TRUST
I agree. This filter thing will only get more prevalent because it has become widely accepted with very few people critiquing the inevitable damaging affects.
What a pleasant surprise 🥰
It's been a HOT minute! Welcome back SIS!!!!!!!!✨👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
i genuinely had to stop using the face filters or facetune because it started fucking with the way i saw my own face in the mirror. and i have no idea now why i even used them! i look at old pictures & now they look strange & fake & i'm much happier with my face now
edit: i also want to add, how much of this can be down to "choice feminism"? there's almost no feminist critique of plastic surgery because people hold it up as "let women make choices", but there's zero interrogation of what is behind certain choices.
The snap filters are waaay sneakier now, you can add blush, lashes, whiten your teeth, etc. It’s crazy. Also thank you for the video, these kinds of issues make me worry about my little sister and the younger generation
I'm so glad you brought the topic up about the children!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I say this all the time.
Question: Isn’t makeup, particularly glam makeup (heavy eye makeup, lashes, contouring, highlight, lip plumbers, etc,) just the IG filter of yore? All of the makeup techniques are trying to achieve what filters achieve more easily. Wouldn’t our utilization and reliance on makeup be just as dangerous as utilizing and relying on filters? Don’t they both perpetuate a state of vanity due to some level of insecurity? Not shading anyone, just interested in different takes on the topic.
Absolutely
To some extent, of course, but I think utilising doesn’t necessarily have to be the same as being reliant. Make up can be used as a part of creating a different image, and not necessarily thinking that that is OUR image, but rather an image we want to present to others for a certain occasion/in a certain situation, for us and them to feel a certain way, for example to feel more confident, or to match a certain style. While using filters can create a certain caricature of yourself that you present to others, all the time, thus becoming reliant on it.
I came here for this comment.... especially when I saw her face
@@Amelia-lr5lp idk, I'd argue society is heavily reliant on makeup for the same reasons.
@⭐ gladiatorinsweats. Hmm, I guess, I just think that using a filter is a lot easier than using makeup, so the dependency can be developed easier in relation to filters, unlike makeup, which requires some skills to use.
I was just remarking yesterday how doctors who spend four years in undergrad, four years in med school, five years in residency, and an additional two years in a fellowship to become experts in plastic surgery allow people to come into their offices and tell them they all want to look like one person who doesn't exist in the wild and then those experts do it.
Putting the filters on the babies 😫 they not going to recognize their own baby pictures. 🤦🏾♀️
Thankyou for making this, I'll be talking about this on a podcast this week. These filters are disgusting and infuriate me to the core!!!!
Yes!I have a darker skinned sister in law and her reliance on filters, GIRL! It is so real! I know I use them but it's for the flowers/twinkles/hearts. It can definitely be addicting. I hhavent used IGs filters because their camera set up doesnt agree with my phone (it looks blurry, prob cause I'm Samsung) but I can only imagine how far down the rabbit hole it could be
Really glad you deconstructed this like this
This makeup look is divine!
Anyone who thinks Khloe K.'s face is the standard of beauty is so so confused in the head..no ma'am she just looks strange...
I didn't knew IG had all of these filters!
*Sidenote I need Kiese to audio-read all of his books!!!!
Thinking of the impact of filters as not only negatively altering the mindset of one's self and the adult consumers of the content - but our young girls. Teens and tweens consume way more social media than most adult women, as they are already entering stages of their lives where they struggle with the external perception of themselves. The damage will run dangerously deep.
"What does it mean when the standard of desirability becomes mixed race or the lighter skin factions of an opposed people" chile
this is such a fantastic video !!!! thank you so much for sharing ! I absolutely loved how you went through the filters on screen and compared what the filter changed or exaggerated. it is so eye opening to see it in real time. i've been thinking about this a lot, esp pertaining to body dysmorphia in young girls as AI filters are becoming more and more sophisticated and integral. I feel like Black girls have been overshadowed within this particular discourse , so I was so happy to see this upload from you about this very topic
It’s called reality and not your perspective. If we accept it is what it is. We can appreciate ourselves more. Even if we are trying to improve ourselves if we understood the reality of the goal The initial disappointment WILL wear off and we will start to be more accepting of ourselves
Thank you for making this video, Jouelzy. I can say from PERSONAL experience...those filters are a rabbit hole of HELL, DOOM, and GLOOM under the guise of GLAMOR & BEAUTY! I fell DEEP down that rabbit hole earlier this year (pre-pandemic)...unintentionally.
I am, in fact, someone who suffered from poor body image and low self-esteem for a LONG time. I know all about filters though. Back before these social platforms existed, there was the "beauty" filters that came on our phones. I used to be OBSESSED with them. Not because it changed my face shape but because it made my skin smooth and flawless! (I've had a long struggle with blemished skin, too). I envied EVERYONE'S skin. I felt like I was the ONLY ONE walkin' with jacked-up skin! Now I've never been one to be on Snapchat though... I have one but I never really use it. I don't get the hype and its function doesn't appeal to me. But one day I finally re-downloaded the app and logged in and I played around with some of the filters. (What else was there to do on there? Lol). Some of them were cute and fun like ones with the animal ears and noses and colorful sparkle effects, etc...but GUUURRRL, when I got to those soft glam, sparkling face-changing filters...it was OVER. So many things happened in my brain at the same time: First, I was so AMAZED at the fact that I was so "PRETTY" and I actually thought I looked BETTER. Then I took pictures in the same pose-with the filters and without the filters and I compared them. I got INSTANTLY depressed when I saw how much "better" I looked with certain features altered: my eyes, my nose, my lips, my face shape, the clearer skin. I cried. I spiraled downward out of control! I couldn't BELIEVE that I was really "THAT FUCKIN' UGLY! LOOK HOW MUCH BETTER I LOOK WITH THESE FILTERS!" There was a sort of cognitive dissonance going on inside of me: I sighed with relief to FINALLY learn the secrets of all these beautiful women on social media who use these filters RELIGIOUSLY and don't even look like that in real life AND simultaneously I lamented about why couldn't *I* look like this in real life. (*MAKE IT MAKE SENSE*)!!! I ended up snapping on my man about it when I cried to him because he said to hell with social media and those filter. He INSISTED that this so-called "glowed up," altered me is what he sees when he looks at me everyday anyway. I was so insecure and convinced of how ugly I am that I couldn't even truly take in and appreciate what he was saying. 💔
To soar so HIGH and get so ADDICTED to filters within the first 20 minutes of playing around with them just to CRASH and BURN with despair within that same hour is such a painful thing to acknowledge and admit. My self-loathing went into OVERDRIVE...it took FOREVER to recover. I STILL struggle with reminding myself that NONE OF THIS ONLINE SHIT IS REAL.
This...obessesion over beauty, perfection, flawlessness that has a grip on the world at large is dangerous enough as it is...but these things are going by WHOSE definition?
Needless to say, I kept those pictures to myself and I ultimately broke out of that spell and I actually came across those filtered pictures on my Google Drive recently. Seeing them with fresh eyes, those pictures are absolutely HIDEOUS and I can't believe just EARLIER THIS year I actually thought that these were the PRETTIEST PICTURES OF MYSELF I'D EVER seen...even though it was all an illusion from a damn APP.
NEVER. EVER. EVER AGAIN. I love myself just the way I am. Is there room for improvement? Of course, but that's more on a health and wellness tip, not giving in to the delusions of what society considers beautiful.
Again, THANK YOU for this video! 💖💖💖💖
Omg I just finished Queenie and I'm ready the Vanishing half Im almost done with it ! 😊😊😊 The Vanishing half is my favorite of the two really good story... so glad to see a video from you Jouelzy !!
So glad you finally posted about this topic. I follow you on IG & when you started talking about the filters, I was just waiting. I had a phase where filter only was what I posted. I had to stop for a while because I started to hate my natural normal face. This is such an important topic. Thank you Jouelzy for always coming thru. 💛
I really enjoyed this! As ignorant as it may sound I could not figure out for the life of me how people faces seem to just come alive on these social platforms.. that split screen demo you did really was a big reveal for me! No one should risk losing themselves to this inauthentic vision of who they are and what they look like naturally.
I love this because social media has become so self destructive. The constant comparing and setting standards that are based on other peoples lives. Beauty is definitely a big part of this. Even watching hygiene routines and you see people using 10+ products just to shower to achieve "soft glowing skin". I deleted instagram because of the anxiety I would get after posting and checking likes comments etc. A good social media break every once in a while helps to balance me out.
I love listening to you talk. It’s always so thought provoking. This was such a good topic. I try to limit the use of filters myself. I’m cuter then the filters make me anyway.
I deleted my Snapchat 2 years ago because of the filters. I had moments in which I felt ugly without the filters and I confronted some truths within myself. So many people are influenced by normed desirability and physical beauty rather than a broader sense of beauty.
I literally did a IG live talking about this exact things a few months back. It’s very dangerous & mentally unhealthy in my opinion.
Some people think I’m so dramatic but even back when Snapchat was out I didn’t and still don’t use face featuring offering filters for that reason like you said ... I can’t imagine becoming dependent on them and then looking at my self in the mirror confused b/c I’m so used to this “AI” version of myself
Whole time i was watching this, i was thinking...”Yes, Professor Jouelzy.”