Filters Ruin Our Self-Perception (Snapchat Dysmorphia)
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With last video’s discussion of Facetune, this week I wanted to explore how Snapchat and Instagram filters affect our self-perception and self-esteem. Some people love their edited photos so much they get plastic surgery or cosmetic procedures - this trend has been called Snapchat Dysmorphia. I also discuss Chinese social media trends, such as editing their photos with Meitu.
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black girl here. tiffany thank youuuu for bringing up the skin lightening filters and not tiptoeing around the issue. you didn't mince words at all and i appreciate that. believe me, lots of black girls (and dark-skinned folks in general) noticed and talked about how those filters were lightening our skin and slimming our noses. WE DEF NOTICED. when the filters first came on snapchat i'd use them quite a bit but after a while it felt *so* unsettling to think about how i was internalizing that eerie, unreal version of myself. a couple months later i deleted my snapchat.
i never use snapchat filters, but i did use the instagram one, for me that i don't want a tan those filters help me a lot to be more confortable while i take care of that. I can undertand the issue you're talking about.
Bruh I stopped using the filters for that very reason🤦🏾♀️ I stopped posting pictures altogether. Was using the flower crown filter until I realized it pretty much just bleached my skin. Made me really uncomfortable and had to address a lot of deeper skin color related self esteem issues within myself😪
Foreal! I don't want to take my fucking melanin away when I use certain Snapchat filters.
@blessing b YES! That dreaded flower crown filter! I'm already light skinned so when I use it I look sick and pale.
I'm an old black woman (40)and I really like her take on this🤣
I think one of the main differences between facetune and snapchat filters is that when you go into facetune you aren’t immediately told what to “fix”, you have to figure that out yourself. But with snapchat, there are these universal filters that changes everything about your face, and you might end up becoming unhappy with something you didn’t even know was a problem before you put that filter on.
TLDR; facetune fixes something you were already unhappy about, while snapchat creates things to be unhappy about
loonafanclub idk I feel like most people start using facetune to fix what they would consider small flaws at first but it almost always leads to them using more and more and starting to fix things that may not have even bothered them before they had the tools. Ask anyone that uses facetune regularly how much they use it now compared to when they first started. Then ask them how long it took them to go from fixing that one lil flaw that’s always bothered them to adjusting their whole face. Basically what I’m saying is filters and facetune are both just as damaging as the other...one is just instant, and the other happens in steps 🤷♀️ so those that rely on facetune are in just as much danger as those that rely on filters.
+Nicole Smith yeah of course!! but like you said facetune takes more time, and snapchat is instantly telling you “here are all your possible flaws”. Both are of course harmful in different ways though
+Se A I don’t mean universal as in “fits everyone” I mean universal as in, its the same filter for everyone (which means same changes in features), or else she wouldn’t have covered the topic of black women having their skin lightened in the video
actually when you first download facetune it shows you how to “fix you face” and what tools to use for this and that
Yea i never thought anything about my face shape till sc started having small faces for sc filters
I work as a portrait artist at a theme park (semi-realistic portrait sketches, not caricatures) and I cannot tell you how many girls I have come up who insist we draw their snapchat filter selfies. We usually tell them that we would really rather they just sit and model for us for their drawing, because we're trained to draw off of live models, not photos, and they always make a massive fuss over it. "My hair is messy", "I'm not wearing make-up", "I look bad", etc. A lot people will straight up leave if we won't draw their flower crown filter selfie.
And then if we do end up drawing their snapchat selfies, it end up looking nothing like them a lot of the time. It's an already stylized photo and that's getting filtered through the eye of artist, so the likeness to the actual original subject is getting further distilled. we sometimes will end up getting rejected sketches because of it.
@@tiffanyferg It's SO confounding to me. the whole intersection of art and self-image is really weird in the era of instagram and snapchat tbh. one of my (former) coworkers used to draw really smooth-skinned, borderline uncanny valley portraits that all had really really similar features. he was super resistant to constructive criticism and it didn't make sense to me until I looked at his instagram and realized the way he facetuned his photos looked remarkably similar to his portraits. thinking about that makes me wonder about all those instagram artists(ie. spirkitty, bluesssatan) whose feeds are just entirely portraits of instagrammers that are somehow even more idealized than the photos they referenced off 😬
Madison Perhaps it’s just me but I feel like I’ve seen this exact same comment on another video before 😶
@@EC-yw5hg I've never commented or written about this experience before, but it's totally possible some other portrait or caricature artists have ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My sister wanted me to draw her filterd self but then she is still nitpicking everything or saying it don’t looks like her.
Ugh, I refuse the filter ones because they're so distorted, blurry, and hard to copy. I've had people ask me for a "facetune" when they commission portraits though. I AM NOT PHOTOSHOP SHOO
i personally am kinda sick of seeing girls look almost exactly the same- same nose same lips same eyes same makeup similar style etc etc. it gets annoying to see + it's saddening in my opinion
ye, they have a poor taste to begin with OR are too young to notice and realize how media including their fav insta ppl and youtubers with fake personas created online brainwash them with tReNdS and whatnot eventually
I agree. This is one of the reasons why I don't follow too many makeup influencers or hair gurus, because the looks are just so common and unoriginal. Another reason why I don't buy from Fashion Nova. Everyone has a version of a Fashion Nova piece. Throw the same makeup on, the same 30 inch wig, it's clones. No on looks original.
Indiegirl007 yeah, at some point i think our eyes just long for originality lol
I agree
@@spiritualkid722 000p7l
Something that really grinds my gears is seeing celebrities use the beauty filters on their babies/young children (*cough* Kardashians) it just looks to me like they already don't think their kid is cute enough and they need a filter
mackenzie r GIRL YES, Khloe kardashian for awhile literally never posted a photo of her daughter without a filter and it confused me so much. Like it’s a baby, and most of the time it wasn’t even the funny silly ones it was just the beautifying ones.
@@ashleyg.7540 may be she thought ppl would make fun of her newborn
I thought it was because of a privacy thing
mackenzie r they’re probably playing around or trying to hide their faces
if i remeber well, i once saw a picture of a baby with pink checks (she was black) ,glossy lips, and big eyelashes and it was makeup.
It was so uncanny and many people were complaining about it
I'M SO GLAD YOU INCLUDED THE MARK ZUCKERBERG MEME OH MY GOD
Every time I see Zuckerberg I now think of the SNL Zuckerberg and this meme is that IRL
Yeah I nearly shat myself
_Z U C C_
*great job team*
I'd like to hear you talk about effects of influencer's and their ads. They'll already have super long hair and promote sugar bear hair shamelessly, or already be fit and promote fit tea or other diet pills. Their influence led to catastrophes like Fyre fest. I'm curious about how you feel about this..
Yoo seriously. Kylies hair has been the same length for years but whenever she promotes sugar bear hair she has on a wig or weave and like girl that pill is clearly not making your hair grow
and the fact that sugar bear hair pills dont work is just... wow lmao
Lorraine Gold ah dude I just watched the fyre documentary on Netflix the other day! I recommend it.
Well if a fat person would promote "fit tea" or someone bald would promote hair products it wouldn't sell, lol
Nicole Smith and I recommend Internet Historian's video about Fyre Festival, to have some laughs.
A video about angles and the differences between a mirror and a picture sounds so interesting
Yesss
Melodie Vercier yesssss please.
Yes! It's definitely interesting!
There's a video by a RUclips photographer, can't remember her name on why you see yourself as ugly through a camera rather than a mirror. And it was about the lenses, how they subtlety distort your face
Yes!!
Around the time I was pursuing my doctorate in neuropsychology, I realized I needed to get away from social media. I began viewing myself in a different light, feeling inadequate and seeing the people around me becoming addicted to image.
This led me to studying the effect of filters and photo editing on perceived happiness, which I tracked via functional MRI. The areas of the brain that would light up when toggling between a filtered or altered picture (done by the patient in the studies themselves) and an unfiltered, raw, or slightly unflattering picture of themself showed that areas of the brain related to trauma would light up. It was interesting to see how filtered versions of yourself could spark a light within us, which could be immediately extinguished upon viewing our real natural selves.
On a more personal note, I remember last summer when I was in Indonesia on a beach. I overheard a girl next to me explaining to her friend that the “view is beautiful, sure, but it’s not like the pictures she’s seen of it on Instagram... it looks less alive in person.”
I know I’m ranting here but I think we’re creating a really dangerous environment that is expecting too much from everything around us. We expect to look flawless, to have chiseled cheek bones, full lips, and a thin nose. We’re expected to see striking blue water, unnaturally green trees, and picturesque views around every corner. It’s creating an air of disappointment and unhappiness because reality physically cannot live up to our expectations.
I love this comment
Spot on
Melody Schnapp this is an interesting comment. Could you explain more about the trauma part of the brain lighting up? Trying to figure out why our brain would associate trauma with altered versions of ourselves?
I 100% agree with you I was part of a large research group working for the UC system here in California! Let me find the finished product, I will link it.
Marshaa Brady I phrased it in fairly simple terms for the sake of the comment, but ultimately it’s not the altered version that peaks trauma within the brain. It’s the flashing comparison between an unflattering portrait and a personally altered or photoshopped image. One example from the study was a young woman who had an insecurity regarding her nose. The unflattering picture, in her mind, highlighted the root of her insecurity, while the photo she altered presented an image of herself she much preferred. When toggling between the two, her mind fixated on the shocking difference between the two versions of her nose, one real and one not. Upon viewing this, functional MRI showed her ACC and Amygdala (both respectively responsible for emotional regulation and fear) were highly active. To link this brain activity as closely to trauma as possible, we (with the patients utmost consent, of course) flashed images relating to trauma buried within their life, some of which was jarring and quite excruciating. Those images provided us with nearly the exact same brain reaction as when shown those pictures of her nose.
Of course research digs far deeper than this, and this is still a fairly surface level response, but I hope it brings some clarification to my original post and I’d love to answer anything else you’d like to know about it!!
One thing I've noticed recently: Snapchat filters on babies. Seriously lots of people I know only upload pics of themselves and their babies with matching filters. Babies already have most of the features of filters (big eyes, round face, vacant stare) so babies with filters just look extra creepy. Imagine looking at your baby photos and only having flower crown pics.
My cousin does that, it seems like she thinks her daughter can only be beautiful with a filter
I think about this far more than I should. I don't think I have seen recent babies without those creepy filters. I'm like why does a 3 day old infant need a filter. Also I noticed the filters are becoming more and more distorted and no one seems to even notice when they post a photo.
whenever you say "do you guys want me to make a video on ______?" the answer is yes. your eloquent and well researched videos are so satisfying to watch! thank you for making these!
*IM EXHAUSTED SEEING PPLE WITH THESE SNAP CHAT FILTERS ON 75% OF THEIR PICS* it screams I hate myself
What I find interesting is that they're often seen as a teen or millennial thing ("kids these days") but I notice a LOT of older women (40s and 50s) who only use Snapchat filtered profile photos. That age group seems to abuse the smoothing filters the most too. Whereas the younger girls may spend 45 minutes lightly tweaking their faces the older women just set the smoothing filter to max and call it a day. It's especially awkward when they do it to a group photo and everyone has freakishly smoothed skin and overly whitened eyes. As I type this I remember Donald Trump Jr's girlfriend posted a photo of them recently where she had done this and it filtered him too!
@@ThisPugLife OOMMGGG UUGHH!! yes the older women abuse it..I've literally had to unfollow pple bc of this annoying shit 🤬🤮🚫🚮😂😂
@@valeriavagapova 🤣🤣🤣😂😂🏃♀️🏃♀️ ikr
Valeria Vagapova wat I thought they said Trump Jr. but maybe he’s in the picture too? 🤷🏻♀️
No it doesn't lmao omg you guys take it so seriously
The beautifying filters really piss me off, I was made fun of for my eye shape growing up but I love how unique my eyes are, and filters make me look so generic, it's like the bullies have won. Filters blah me out, I hate them, I just want silly animal ears or a flower crown I don't want someone else's eyes in the process!
I'm curious. What's your eye shape?
Just give it a few years and your unique features *will* be sought after. (I promise)😊
Growing up ppl always made fun of my big eyes and now those are "in". The other day I was watching Witches of Eastwick (w/ the beautiful singer Cher) and noticed how her face was the epitome of the "Instagram baddie". But 30 years ago the world was singing a different tune. She's always been gorgeous, but now her look is "in" (tan skin, dark hair, thick brows, high cheek bones, deep set eyes).
In a world where insecurity causes many to seek plastic surgery, your unique features is what will continue to make you beautiful and set you apart, sis!💓
What is your eye shape?
Ah same, I’m East Asian (korean) so I get you bro
mia morales don’t worry about it it’s all a trend sadly. I have almond shape eyes, curly hair, big lips, freckles, big brows and a curvy figure. All this is in style now but back then I got bullied for these looks. I don’t let the hype get to me because I know in a little people will hope into a new trend like they always do. Just give it time one day everyones gonna want ur big round eyes. 🤷🏻♀️
I think snapchat was influenced by those Japanese Purikura photobooths that started in the 90s. They use very strong filters and wash out every feature but the eyes. The mental effects are not as bad as snapchat because the photos are so tiny you can't really compare it to your real face. In a way though, people in parts of Asia have been using filters since the 90s.
I remember taking pictures with my friends in those Purikura photo booths and not even being able to recognize us in the filtered pics
I feel like purikura filters make you look like an alien
I remember a few years ago Buzzfeed-like channels were making videos like "Americans/non-Asians react to Asian beauty apps" and they would be so shocked that Asians are slimming their faces out and smoothing skin etc. with Snow and BeautyPlus. Now EVERYONE uses FaceTune and filters and it's interesting to see how things change
I had a nose job before filters were a huge thing. I was so happy with it. It was perfectly proportionate for my face. However, over time, my brain has adjusted to it and now I see it and think its huge. Same with lip fillers. I had lip fillers, they seemed HUGE at first. Yet after a few weeks I wanted them bigger. I didn't end up doing it because I knew it was my mind playing tricks on me. We will always compare and want more. I love these videos you are doing
kait you're beautiful. Don't believe the hype girl. You're stunning.
That's really interesting. I've noticed with certain celebrities after a while you actually forget what their old faces look like, and when you see photos side by side it's really jarring. You think, "I don't remember her nose being that big", or whatever.
This Pug Life I know exactly what you mean... specifically the nose thing
This kind of makes me realize how subjective beauty truly is. I’m looking to get surgery so my lips are thinner, while you’re getting surgery to get them bigger.
Lighter skin = reinforcing colorism
i removed both snapchat and instagram because i started getting so insecure about myself, started getting very uncomfortable in my skin, and had to stop it
@aga cie 100% agree with you on "it's the way we're using it"! I personally haven't opened IG app in way too many months tbh, but there's so many great accounts to follow: countless super talanted artists (not makeup gurus lol) and photographers, simply cute animals, mindful and inspiring people, body-positive people, just honestly so many interesting people of all kinds and walks of life. Tons of ultra positive and nice content. Of course if you just go to the default recommended page and follow all the suggested toxic shit it's gonna affect you negatively, but you can easity choose to make it positive!
@@tiffanyferg they should get rid of mirrors as well
aga cie what are there instagram names?? :) I got rid of all my social media for 4 months and now that I’ve reopened my IG I want to follow people like that :)
Catta Bonata same here 🥰 idek how long i dont use both of them anymore.. more than 7 months i guess and it really isnt hard 🤷🏽♀️
Same this is what I’ve been struggling !!
I’ve unfortunately seen missing persons in newspapers where some of the pictures chosen for these young girls have filters on, like the flower crown and dog 😔
seriously what
J L possibly the only recent pictures the family has
Yes! There was a huge case in Germany about two years ago now, where the main search picture they used completely changed the girl's features. Much later they also used unfiltered ones, and I would not have recognized her.
Can you please talk about makeup and the expectations on women and girls to wear it all the time to look professional/put together. I dont have a problem with it but it really is a problem that you dont see makeup free women in the media or even in real life. ✌❤❤
Turquoise Cheetah You are like my hero ;,)
It feels so good to know I’m not the only one
@Turquoise Cheetah Even my sister, who's very much a feminist, thinks it's gross when I don't shave my legs or underarms for awhile. I just shaved for the first time in over 3 months, a few days ago, but she always gave me grief about having caveman legs and shit. Like it's winter, why would I waste time in the shower shaving parts of me that nobody is going to see anyway? I'm not confident enough to not shave in the summer though.
@@emilyb.8219 You can't be a feminist if you're not allowing your own sister to do the same thing almost all men do (don't shave their legs). Unless she also has a problem with men having "cave men legs" she's very much sexist. Don't feel like you have to shave because of her ideology.
@@unusunus4613 She doesn't make me shave, I did of my own accord. She doesn't like really hairy guys either, actually. I appreciate the concern though
What about older women, butch women or granola/natural women? Many women don't wear makeup. Or just cannot wear it due to sensitive skin. They're around if you choose to notice them.
i think people are too obsessed with being beautiful. like if you're not "beautiful" you have to be constantly trying to become as beautiful as you can and if you're not trying to do that there's something wrong with you. for example it's the same thing with clothing, when i was younger and shopping with my mom i was supposed to pick clothes that make me look more attractive and presentable, and when i was picking clothes i actually like my mom would tell me that it doesn't flatter me. or when a girl doesn't wear make up to fix her "flaws" everyone seems surprised and irritated because she is supposed to be fixing her flaws. you literally don't have to be beautiful. you look the way you look, you don't have to be trying to change your appearance. my point is that everyone expects you to be trying to reach the image of beauty and it's stupid and unnecessary
I REALLY dont like when make up companies use a beauty guru facetooned to the heaven to promote themselves. It looks fake af and makes me not want the product. Also in my online/dating app days I didn`t linger on the photos of people who had a ton of filtered photos because they seemed fake to me. Nothing with doing it for fun but when you just see it everywhere it gets boring so quick.
Interestingly, CVS just launched a campaign to not use edited photos in their marketing materials (and I think in-store too), focusing mainly on beauty product ads. Whether it will be a marketing gimmick or start a trend remains to be seen, but I like the idea. If it becomes an industry thing will it trickle down to the beauty guru set? I know it's frustrating when a person is reviewing a foundation and talking about the effects on their skin but their beauty lights are jacked up to max and you can't see any difference. I'm a pretty media savvy person and even I started to feel like my skin must look like shit because even with foundation I still have bumps or lines, whatever, then you catch a glimpse of them in natural light and you're like ohhhh. I'm 33 I'm not following grown women reviewers because I want to know how something performs on perfect baby skin.
I never put filtered selfies on Tinder because it seems like I'm trying to hide something, and if I don't want any dudes I'm looking at to do that, then I shouldn't either. Also I have a hard time putting any selfies at all on Tinder, instead of pics other people took of me, because it always feels so vain even though that's the point of pics on Tinder
I know a girl who puts beauty filter on everything. Like literally her whole instagram feed is bunch of filters. When she added me on Instagram i was so confused because i didn't recognise her at first
I’m one of the lucky ones in that the beauty filters actually make me look ugly. They don’t work with my facial features for some reason. So I never really used them and now I don’t have an attachment to them. But this is extremely important to talk about! Love u tiff
same, i look really off, so i dont bother using them
Same I already have big lips so all the lipstick filters look wonky
I feel like filters are a no go for me as well
I thought I was the only one!!!
Depends on the filter for me but 90% of them make me look weird lmao
I always thought the filters were racist, as someone with Afrocentric features the filters tried to diminish those features by making my skin appear lighter, sliming my nose, etc.
Hannah M I feel like it’s more to appeal to the “universal” beauty standard.
Mitzuki Queen which are “coincidentally” western Eurocentric.
@@mitzukiqueen446 the universal beauty standard was made by colonialism...
Then make your own apps that do the opposite if you dont like it :)
When discussing problems within society the correct response isn't "oh well then make your own society then if mine is so bad gosh"
What I like about these videos is you coming back while your editing and adding clips. It’s really hard to explain yourself in one go and seeing you coming back shows that you actually think a lot about these topics and that you realize what you’ve said in the past wasn’t super clear. Idk I just appreciate it.
I’ve been thinking the same thing!
Beautifying filters have made me pretty much unable to send a "normal" photo (unless I'm trying to look ugly for a friend) because I absolutely abhor the way I look in comparison. They fix all the flaws that riddle me with anxiety and when the filter is gone I am absolutely disgusted.
Katie Sumpter Same 🙃🙃
samee
I haven't watched the video yet, but just from reading the title a couple bells are ringing in my head. I personally feel like snapchat filters have changed my perception of myself, when I have a sc filter I feel great, but my image of myself in my head is completely different to my actual appearance, so when I see a picture of me I think "wow that's... not great."
The moment when the filter glitches off or disappears for a second is not fun sis.
Are you kidding me? Judging by your profile picture, you look like a very handsome Australian young man
Dismissing If I’m not mistaken, that’s a photo of Luke Hemmings from 5SOS?
@@astoldbynickgerr yes, you are correct. Which is why I tried to be specific and say, "handsome *Australian* young man"
Tbh iPhone cameras textures ur skin WAY TO MUCH. So when I take selfies I use the app SNOW and put the skin filter on 40% so it looks like what I see in the mirror
tiffanyferg omg the woke legend has replied to my post teehee
i used to have snow and it did that too! i recently got a new filter app called ''bt21'' and it whites up your face to the point you look dead, and makes your face look like an alien.
It adds sharpness and saturation to reds. It's the most unrealistic color yet people still say apple does best with skin color when they really dont.
The iPhone camera's main selling point is that it's realistic. This translates well if you're taking a picture of a landscape or something but when it comes to taking selfies and stuff you don't really want that crazy amount of texture.
@@ANTH0NY.VII. It's still not as bad as Samsung though. I have a Samsung mainly because it looks cute but the frontal camera sucks, it blurs out all your skin texture and lightens your skin up.
I've found myself unable to like any picture of myself without a snapchat filter that makes my nose smaller, skin smooth, and lips plumper. it's ruined my self esteem
if something that small ruined your self esteem, it was probably already low to begin with.
twicevelvet no kidding
I was the same, then I just stopped using them and my self esteem got so much better
Jennifer Ray i’m trying my hardest to stay away from snapchat, hopefully i’ll start to feel better about myself soon :)
@Sami Rowland Agreed! I found I was starting to hate my face on Snapchat without filters. So I deleted my Snapchat (and ALL of my other social media other than RUclips) and am doing a lot better.
Mark Zuckerberg sounds like a robot. Beep boo boo bop, boo boo bop.
Ryan, omgoodness girl take a joke.
Hahahahaha
Zucker-borg.
I have body dysmorphia, so seeing you say this out loud is so refreshing! I also have dark skin, so seeing my skin tone lightened up by filters really fucks me up. I've never seen anyone else mention it before, so thank you for opening a discussion about this topic :)
It's not to lighten but brighten but it does make is seem like your skin is lighter if you are darker.
@@lovezys1235 I feel like the issue is that brightening through pixels isn't translated well and ends up just lightening your skin, in person the difference of lightening and brightening can be seen, on a camera and screen not so much
@@thepeopleslast2579 yeah you are right the technology isn't there yet.
Yess i agree! Also love your profile pic i see a fellow jojo fan lol
I loved that you talked about colorism and racism in the media and beauty in general. As you can see, I have a filter in my photo but I can take one and put it up, I just like the dog ears! It's like the only one that doesn't change too much, just adds ears and the nose. Anyways, as a dark skin (black) young women, often times black women are replaced with lighter mixed women or lighter black women in general. Often the lighter women are portrayed as feminine, submissive and weak, while darker skin is masculine, dominant and strong. It also has to do with how we look at black women, that being strong and dominant makes masculine or a man, and if you do submit you're feminine.
Bust down thotatiana or when they promote fitness routines or challenges but have plastic surgery done 😂
I wanna see one about plastic surgery pls :3
Dam so many likes I'm screenshoting this
frankie harlow same
I feel like a subject that would be really interesting and necessary to approach would be how social media exposure also contributes to the hypersexualization of pre-teens and teens. I am brazilian and there's definetely a culture of younger girls trying to look older, more mature and sexier and those get a LOT of attention on social media here especially from older men. It's a predatory behaviour that I feel like it has been normalized and that it's very "encouraged" by social media in general. Idk.
This!!!! This started with musically and is now continuing with TikTok!
Meu Deus, sim!! Você escreveu e eu li Melody. Mas claro que existem muitas outras também
have u ever studied anthropology? cuz u are spitting out some social truths. srsly, im anthro major and i think ur internet analysis vids r brilliant! u should do a vid about RUclips comment culture. it's always interesting to see the different types and formats of comments for diff channels.
Abby Price ooh that would be an interesting one. Good idea
@@tiffanyferg I hope that it is there now that I see this 5 months later o.o
I’ve literally binged watched about 7 of your videos
PLEASE continue that discussion about seeing ourselves in mirrors vs cameras vs real life in another video bc i think about that ALL the time!
I’d like to see an analysis about why there’s a difference between seeing yourself in a mirror and then in a photo and looking so dramatically different.
So many people only post photos with filters, it’s to the point where they don’t seem comfortable displaying their own unedited face
I’ve never been insecure about my face shape but a majority of the filters on snap make my jaw look really round and thin (my face is heart shaped) and it’s actually really started messing with how I look at myself.
I know this comment is months old, but I totally feel that!! I immediately stopped using those filters as soon as I noticed it changing my jaw so much. It has been a JOURNEY to not hate my heart(ish?) shaped face, but I can see that they are so beautiful on other people!
Strong jaws are just as beautiful as soft ones 💛💛
@@twinklybones8952 I always feel bad for that, I always think that I look fat.
Wow. I love how you mentioned the problem that people of color have with filters when they lighten our skin. Especially coming from someone like you, I'm glad you recognize that.
This is very well thought out and you've covered a lot of bases! One thing I find interesting is that, as an Indian girl, whenever I see it hear about my peers (in real life or on social media) talking about wanting to get cosmetic surgery, it's always about enhancing a feature to make it more fitting with the "Eurocentric" standards of beauty (MOST LIKELY the nose- removing the bulges, or straightening it). It was very saddening to note that and that's when I read about colonialism and it's impact on beauty standards to this date (which you mentioned)
In your next video you could maybe touch on that a little more? maybe get some PoC and their points of view as well? Anyway enjoyed the video a lot :)
I’ve always noticed this and it drives me nuts! Every time I use beauty filters in Snapchat it always makes my chocolate skin multiple shades lighter, nose drastically smaller and finer, and eyes huge as, looking nothing like myself. It’s so unfortunate that they don’t have more divers beauty filters as you said. Smh.
I wouldn’t complain if this series was an endless thing! I’m loving how well put together and logical your analyses are!
Hey Tiffany! Mandarin speaker here :) 美图 is not pronounced ‘my-too’ but how English speakers pronounce ‘may-to’ ... but irrespective, I also have some thoughts on mainland Chinese social media too. It’s interesting that you said that Chinese people with editing apps are chasing after the same western ideals we do... I’ve always thought growing up that Eastern media and aesthetic ideals are SO different, so much ‘softer’, ‘cuter’, ‘smaller’ whilst I see western media promotes more of a harsher and mature standard hmmm, interesting! Another great video ❤️
Agree with you, I also thought the same thing while watching, beauty standards in East Asia are actually pretty different. I think even just having a look at popular celebrities in East Asian countries and comparing them to Western celebs already makes it easy to see the difference. Asian ideal is more traditionally feminie, soft, cute, "frail" so to speak, while Western is a lot more bold, sexy, mature perhaps. The features that are considered attractive are different as well, for example Asia has a big emphasis on having "small face", so prominent cheekbones are considered to be undesireable and jaw shaving surgeries are a thing; while in the West prominent, sharp jawline and cheekbones are actually considered to be attractive and no one cares about the size of your face, unless it's extreme.
I also think that the Snapchat-like filters mostly came from East Asia, with the rise of Chinese technology market. I would guess that Western companies just picked up the existing Chinese technology, tweaked it here and there and made it popular in the West with apps like Snapchat. But idk, that's just my guess to be fair.
Valeria Vagapova totally, I completely agree. I also want to point out that a lot of East Asians want a lighter skin tone not to be seen are more ‘European’ or white, but rather that ideal has been ingrained in their history explicitly for hundreds of thousands of years. That, along with a plethora of other East Asian beauty standard are definitely not predominantly rooted in wanting to look European/western.
Sunni Yun To add on to the skin tone thing, I think it’s because the farmers who spent all day in the sun got pretty tanned, while the aristocrats stayed pale, associating paleness with money and desirability. Also, my cousins in China don’t really aspire to be a western type of white,but like paper white. I think some people there referred to the skin tone of caucasians as more red or pink than white too.
Hm I think I won't ever be able to love my big nose
I took a social media break for a few weeks from Twitter and Facebook and unfollow/unfriended loads of accounts and it has completely changed my view of social media
Your vids are so thought out! Nice work.
YOOOO text me before u film that "plastic surgery" vid cuz I have A TON of things to say/add to the conversation! I have so many pals who share openly that they want cosmetic procedures just because they think they "need it" or "aren't ok" with the way their bodies look now so they feel they need to modify.... I have SO much to say! lol
snapchat filters are so annoying! they make my skin lighter and i hate that. that’s why i don’t use filters. i don’t look good with light skin, i wish they could just skip that feature? it’s so unneeded and doesn’t bring any meaning to the filters ie. does it make sense that if i wear a flower crown i should have light skin? no
this is so true. i'm a young girl (i'm about to turn 14) and i spend some time on snapchat everyday and i use the filters. when ever i see myself in the filters i feel better about myself, i have a smaller face and i just feel like i look prettier. then when i go to the regular camera i feel like i'm not pretty enough. it just gives me this idea in my head at what a pretty girl should look like and i don't look like that and then it makes me feel bad about my looks.
Yes I would love a video about cosmetic surgery and social media
I’m loving the depth we get out of these videos, I love sociology, and you touch upon a few textbook words. Globalization for example. You are the bomb. I like your internet analysis, but I would also like to see something else.... I just want more content because you’re awesome thank you!
tiffanyferg I’m excited!!! Goodluck with everything 🙏🏼 I know school can get consuming I’m in school as well!
Honestly the globalization of beauty standards is probably gonna be an APWorld DBQ in 10 yrs
9:35 “there are no procedures that can change your entire face shape”
Korean plastic surgeons: silly girl
Growing up in the 80s in South East Asia a lot of us watched American produced tv programs. That has had a lot of influence on us when it comes to the perception of beauty. High cheek bones, tall and sharp noses and big bright eyes become something we wished we have.
I'm really glad you're making these videos. I feel like so many people are unwilling to criticize these things because we've gotten to a point where there's this idea that what everyone does with their own bodies is entirely their business and can't be critiqued which is true to a certain extent but at a certain point I think we all need to acknowledge when there is this very damaging movement of sorts so it's good that you're calling attention to this and questioning it.
Another well-researched and thought provoking video. You’re very articulate and I appreciate that you are careful in your wording and clearly think a lot about how your words can make people feel. You’re still speaking your mind but you do it in a way meant to spark dialogue- not to make people feel bad or bash them. I wish more people put this kind of thought into their videos. Keep it up! Loving your channel!
tiffanyferg Im glad you saw it! 😍 Keep it up!!
@@Ecanbee well she lucky to be born with natural beauty, just accept your ugliness and move on
sergio garcia c. LOL. Did you just feel the need to try and be mean to a stranger? I think this is the first time I’ve ever gotten a hate comment on YT and I didn’t even say anything mean. Does this make you feel better about your life? Saying hateful things to people you don’t know online? I’m genuinely curious what you get from this. You clearly just troll for people to say rude things to while not actually adding anything constructive to the conversation. Man, what a time to be alive.
Except for the novelty when they very first came out I’ve never liked the look of filters - it’s cute to send in between friends but I don’t understand why people post it to their social media much less use it as profile pictures or on dating sites. Like you obviously do not look like that
It's so bad on dating sites, I want to see what you actually look like not 3 pictures of you as a dog and one with a horrifyingly babyish face with huge creepy eyes! Unless you're a terrifying baby-person irl, you don't have to put it on your dating profile.
Yes! Please make a video about plastic surgery. You’re videos are well thought out and very well made
Yes to ALL OF THIS! I feel like such an anomaly to be 26 and DESPISE filters! I used to use them up until 2 years ago when I realized we just look dumb lol. Filters can be fun of course, but when people are heavily relying on them for EVERY photo it's a cry for help. I can't tell you how many times i've swiped through Tinder and saw nothing but people my age with filters on every photo! That's an automatic turn off for me. Not only does it reek of insecurity but it's incredibly juvenile. I even saw on the news the search for a missing young woman and the photo they showed us was her with the flower crown filter! Her parents didn't have a recent photo of her without one? Where do we draw the line? I don't want a giant photo at my funeral of me with the dog filter--somethings gotta give.
In all honesty I find the filters to look super creepy and ugly
Also I’m a huge fan of anime as well for those who think I just hate that type of media.
It's so true. I've always had masculine features that aren't considered beautiful in the mainstream. With these filters that make my face look more feminine and "cute" I can look more like what most consider attractive. When the filters come off I feel less than happy about my appearance compared to how I did two seconds prior.
I remember first finding out about you from your "how to be cara delevingne" video waayyy back and recently your videos have popped up on my suggested, I love this internet analysis series!!
The thing about filters is they always make your nose slimmer and you eyelashes thicker, whether you want them to or not, whereas with facetune you have to do it yourself.
I'm glad you spoke about the skin coloring issue. I've never had snapchat and i've always found it to be really annoying when people use snapchat selfies on other forms of social media. The photo doesn't even look like the person anymore
Tiffany, you’re officially one of my top favorite RUclipsrs. When I’m able to support you on Patreon I definitely will.
I personally used to think that I looked awful and hated a lot of my features. It wasn’t until I was 25 that I started to appreciate my looks and my body (I’m 27 now so it’s only been 2 years). I still suffer with a lot of insecurities, though. Even now I’m at the gym preparing to do some intense cardio to get rid of my small pouch of a tummy. I know it isn’t bad, but I can’t help but be disgusted with myself when I see it. I don’t fat shame anyone but myself, which says a lot. Idk I’m rambling now, but keep it up.
Very much looking forward to the camera vs mirror vs in person video! that's a great idea!
I'm 32 so I have learned to accept myself and feel self confident ✌ I tried filters months ago. My complexion looked so perfect. It makes you think you are like that but if you compare with the real version, you feel so depressed and see all your flaws. I can't imagine how it may feel if you have self esteem issues in the first place.
filters made me have low self-esteem so I stopped using them all together and I honestly feel much much better
Snap chat makes me feel terrible bc I will never “look as good” as I “should” IRL, and Instagram is worse bc then I stop comparing myself to myself, and compare myself to other younger, gorgeous seemingly perfect women
I subscribed after I saw the facetune video. I had literally been saying that to my brother the week before you published that video. I hate that my youngest siblings are on the internet seeing people facetuning, with filters, or photoshopping bc they're going to believe that that's how they're supposed to look. It's unrealistic and toxic.
I started studying journalism a few months ago and getting to know the science behind media and how it influences and shapes the society really fascinates me! I'm glad I found your channel! ❤️ Honestly, I believe people need to be more aware of just how big is the effect of what we see online.
oh man, i actually don’t like the way i look with filters on - it’s just creepy and alien,,, can’t deal
basically my facial structure doesn’t work well with filters At All
I struggled so badly with this in 2017/2018. I’m finally just starting to love how I really look again, and not my filtered self.
seriously tiffany...this series just KEEPS GETTIN' BETTER.
I disabled all of my social media accounts a week ago and I’ve already noticed a huge difference in my confidence. It’s amazing
Lady: I would like my face to look like how it looks in this filter.
Doctor: mam I can’t put dog ears on u
i was just about to comment about how snapchat/beauty/body+facial editing are both products of and perpetuating racist beauty standards and then you started talking about! really glad you went into this and international differences. i hadn't ever heard of meitu until a try guys video where they tried different editing apps and then i downloaded it to see what it was all about b/c i hadn't ever tried facial editing and after about a half hour of playing around i deleted it b/c i could immediately feel the dysmorphia creeping up.
Exactly! I use Instagram photo filters (I didn't know they had beautifying filters like Snapchat, I'm so behind in life) to brighten my photos if the lighting was a little dark but I'm not a fan of Snapchat filters being used as profile pictures. Like we know what you look like in real life 😂
I think it was super interesting how you said how people get used to seeing themselves with a filter on, and so they don't like their normal faces anymore... because it's exactly the same with makeup. I realized how much I am dependent on makeup to make myself feel presentable or pretty, and it's an insane crutch! I've recently been trying to scale down how much I use and actually not put on any at all on weekdays when I don't have professional appointments. It's. CRAZY. how crappy I feel sometimes when I look at my un-made-up face in the mirror and just want to grab some concealer for under my eyes (new mom!) or mascara for my pale lashes or blush for my blue-white skin... I so wish I could just look at my un-made-up self and be like, dang girl! But I'm definitely not there yet. And when you're walking around in everyday life comparing your COMPLETELY. NORMAL. HUMAN. FACE. to other girls who are made up, it doesn't help. Definitely a parallel problem to face filters!
Hey Tiffany! Love your videos! I think it would be interesting if you tackled the recently popular videos going around in Tik Tok of these women changing their faces (usually asian women) using only makeup and looking like completely different people when they take it off. I'd love to know your thoughts on this or see you tackle this topic keep up with the great content!
I had the same affect with wearing makeup, especially natural (invisible) makeup. I can contour my nose, cheeks, and even lips. Add certain eye shadow, create a natural cat eye.....
And then, you start to prefer your madeup version than the real self. I caught myself getting so dissappointed everyday after washing my face before bed. My brain would be literally thinking: "why do I have to go to bed ugly?" I would feel ugly every night and every moment without makeup. So, I stopped relying on makeup. I slowly started using less and less of it UNTIL I learned to love myself without makeup ....but it was sooo excruciatingly hard to do. That habit is dangerous in how it distracts us from reality while keeping our minds chasing after illusion.
someones finally talking about it, thank you
I wanted to let you know my teacher actually put this in the presentation for our Communications Class!
Hello my dude! I've never used a filter, but I do put on concealer sometimes to look more perfect. The main thing I know about filters is that they're racist AF, thanks for further exploring the topic.
Years ago I stopped using full make-up and starting learning to accept my actual skin tone, but about 6 months ago I let myself be talked into getting snapchat and very quickly I found myself feeling upset when I looked at my own face in the mirror. I appreciate you making this video it makes me feel less alone and I'm going to be staying away from filters from now on. You're amazing keep being your amazing self.
This was SUCH a good video omggg but I thought it would be cool if you mentioned the change in the ever-popular dog filter on snap bc they changed its design. Before it used to be just the ears and the nose but since then they’ve added more beauty-centric changes like blush, a hanger in eye size (basically everything their other beauty filters have) and it made me a lil sad bc I loved the way it was before and now it’s just another beauty filter. I really can’t wait to see what other vids you have coming and it’s been amazing to see how far your channel has come!💛💛
I'm glad I didnt grow up with Snapchat / Instagram, MySpace had its own issues but for the most part you could express yourself and feel good about yourself
I like the ones that make me look ugly.
I was diagnosed with BDD and anorexia a few weeks ago and it’s made me realise so much about how I see myself. Things like snapchat and Instagram (even though there are some amazing things that these platforms give us) DESTROY me sometimes. There is a disconnect between me and the girl on my phone, and even though I see some friends’ beautiful images on Instagram and think ‘that’s not even what you look like in real life’ but it still upsets my self esteem.
I knew I had to stop using filters/facetune when it ended being just funny to actually not being able to recognise myself without them.
One example of this destroyed perception that blew my mind was when I used facetune to change absolutely everything about my best friend's face as a joke (large eyes and lips, small face and nose, every single feature) then, I saved the edited photo and used to go through the same procedure again (so it made everything absurdly distorted). So I had the original picture, the first edited one, and the second, distorted one. And the crazy thing is that when I finished editing the second photo, I looked at the first edited photo I was like... Actually this looks just like my friend, it didn't change that much (?). And after that, I looked at the original and I was so shocked because I couldn't "recognise" my friend. I felt as if the edited one was the real one. I think that my friend is absolutely gorgeous and this made me see her real face as something... ugly. I deleted the app.
When I was growing up the hot topic of unhealthy beauty standards was focused on the magazines and how models not only starved themselves but also were photoshopped. And so the reaction was to educate ppl on how the photos been changed in the hope of combating the desire to look like them. Now it’s not only celebrities that are changed it’s ourselves and we know it’s changed but it doesn’t help where do we go from here? We think we all should look a certain way but it’s not possible.
Regarding the Asian Culture in China (I think I'm too lazy to look it up) most of the streamers use beauty filters which is normal but then while this one lady was live her beauty filter malfunctioned and revealed that she was a middle aged woman and had been lying about her age to get people to donate to her. And now I think some people are starting to change their opinions about beauty filters but I'm not sure.
I'm binging all your videos at the moment, they're so good ! Also, your comment on how Chinese and Asian culture has affected those filters is really on point. I've been an exchange student, and I'm still in China right now, and everything is true, you wouldn't post an unedited picture, most of the pictures they're posting are heavily posed, and you have videos everywhere teaching you angles, and how to edit your photos, that was quite shocking when I first arrived, and they were shocked at how random I was when posting any photo. Many of my friends don't even look like themselves when they post a photo, but that's how it is here.
Please do a video on plastic surgery it will be so interesting x
I’m so glad you made this video cause I’ve been thinking this for a while!! It’s normalized af and give you an unrealistic ideal of what you could and should look like. I notice a lot of people using these on their dating profiles, some people even EXCLUSIVELY using these for all their dating pics. It’s sad cause people think no one wants them for their unfiltered self.
12:15 this is exactly why I don't like the flower crown filter. I don't get the hype around it. I am a light skinned black girl with a yellow/golden undertone and when I use the filter, it takes away my undertone and I end up looking like Casper the friendly fucking ghost smh 😒
Everything you said is so true. This is exactly why I stopped using filters altogether, because I hated the way I felt once I saw my face go back to normal after using a beauty filter. Thank goodness I stopped, because I definitely could see my self esteem being really hurt and becoming obsessed with trying to look like my filter self.
can you do a video on stan culture and people being unhealthily obsessed with celebrities?