the faux freckle filter: everyone's latest aspiration... & insecurity
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- what do you think of the faux freckle filter and realistic beauty filters in general? where do you think filters will eventually progress to?
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0:00 intro
1:20 the progression of beauty filters
5:39 the glow look filter
7:06 the faux freckle filter
8:18 analogy break!
10:24 filters vs. makeup
13:36 the "silver medalist effect"
14:41 outro
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i hate beauty filters so much. they always get rid of my ethnic features(“wide” nose and lips) and they always make my skin so much lighter which is not right at alllll
I know right!!! I like the way I look and I don't want to change that!
I swear like one fliter literally made me white 💀
@@loloheakaufusi91 exactly!!
@@Flowersknows LMFAO SAME!! like the filter made my skin 10 shades lighter
It’s so gross that they lighten skin etc etc… like it’s 2021 and we’re still doing this? They also always give coloured eyes which is just like 😀
as a dark skinned black person with no eurocentric associated or “non black” facial features, these filters never work on me and always seem extremely unrealistic. they never really seem to work on my face and i always seem to look cartoonish so i never really get insecure when i use them bc it’s literally impossible for me to have looked like them
Same! Tho I'm latina, but damn do those filters make me look like a bratz doll
fr... im mexican and they make me look freakish... it always weirds me out how ALIENLY THIN AND TINY the filtered noses are.... honestly it's just ridiculous lol
As a ginger person with lots of natural freckles. It doesn’t match the freckles I already have, or fails to cover them.
@@hannahm.9881 yup
Vox has a really interesting video about racism and automation. These programs are written by people and their biases are reflected in the AI.
i stopped wearing filters a long time ago and it helped me get used to my face. i used to use them so much and it just didn’t help me. i would recommend to do the same but the internet is the internet.
I swear, I guess I became more content with my face. I look back at my snaps and be like damn can I find a picture without a filter 😂
Yeah when I first tried a filter I was disgruntled with how fake and weird it made my face look. It upsets me that people i know couldn’t take any pictures without one bc thats how they want to perceive their face
I never used them because of same reason.
me too, i refuse to add filters or edit my pictures (except for adjusting colors) and i am content with my fac
i did this last year in august as a confidence and self love experiment conducted by myself and I got so used to not using filters and it increased my confidence. Now I only use filters for fun and not depend on it :)
Now that freckles are trending really makes me feel horrible, since I was heavily bullied and harassed for them. But now everyone is complimenting me even the people who bullied me for them. I like that people are being more accepting but it’s hard for me to take a compliment and undo all that trauma. I’m a darker Asian and i have been brainwashed by beauty standards to not go in the sun so now I’m very pale. Im trying to go out and enjoy myself and embrace the melanin in my skin like my beautiful mother. But it takes time to undo the hurtful standards placed over us all.
True, while it’s good that things like freckles, darker & tanned skin, and asian features are ‘wanted’ now, it’ll never reverse the trauma. I feel the same, I avoid the sun or wear heavy sunscreen because of my skin colour being more tan, but now people come up to me and ask me how I get my skin such a pretty colour.
the freckles part, girl😭
as a chinese, so so soo many people especially the older ones don’t know people are born with natural freckles which most asians don’t. and for elders they get these spots on their faces so it’s “similar”. therefore, it’s not up to asian beauty standards. it’s so sad how offensive people can be without even knowing what freckles are.
Chaotic sad? Omg i saw your comment on a sub
honestly, you sound so pretty
Here in Japan these sorts of filters have become so commonplace it's kinda scary. Japanese people have always took issue with showing their faces in photos in public spaces, and with the rise of social media and stuff like tik tok, just the usual facial blur/sticker/unrelated avatar often doesn't cut it anymore. people are becoming only happy with their appearance if it's through a heavy filter and god forbid any pores show up... Honestly I don't think I know any japanese person who is confident about their face, to make matters worse with their strict beauty standards and filter culture I can only see this getting worse.
anyway, I hope this channel takes off!! I can definitely see that, and you already have a good chunk of videos on your belt. keep 'em coming :)
I never understood how they prefer the face deformation of purikura pictures, they look horrible lol.
@@TwitchCronos100 cuz they think it’s cute like snap makes u look like an alien
@@TwitchCronos100 Im japanese, grew up in japan. my friend(s) obsessed with purikura really comes down to euro standards.
pretty much you'll hear them say things like "i wish my eyes were bigger, legs longer, taller nose, lighter skin/hair" etc it was sad hearing these things being half white hearing part of my race makes them feel insecure :/
I was looking for this comment! Purikura culture existed much earlier than snapchat, and I'm guessing it is kind of the origin of these "cute" filters on all apps now, isn't it?
Purikura definitely started this and now we have Snow...
What is funny is that while growing up in Japan people always compared their skin tone to mine (putting their arms next to mine), usually out of boredom at school but it still messed with me.
I remember almost buying skin whitening cream that someone recommended to me after the sports festival.
Then a year later I went to Europe for three months. I started using Instagram which at the time wasn't popular in Japan yet and I got so insecure about my pale skin. I compared myself to all the tan and beautiful instagram models. I couldn't even look in the mirror anymore. Many in Europe said I looked like a dead person. When I went to buy medicine for my acne the lady behind the counter asked me if I was alright because I looked so ''pale''. I couldn't find foundation for myself either because in Europe brown skin is more ''desirable''.
After coming home to Japan tho, I realized how ridiculous all of that is.
I used to be mocked for having pale skin, red hair and a tone of freckles. Now it's an artsy aesthetic trend.
I am sorry that's not fair
ok and nobody gaf
sadly at least once, everything that was mocked goes in style and comes out of style and get mocked again, the cycle goes on. For example big lips, big butt, being skinny, being "thick", "Asian" eyes etc. those has all gone into style and is already out and being mocked or on the verge to.
There's also skin color trends too fake tans, being pale, being lightskin (in the black community), being darkskin (also in the blk community) has all been mocked at one point. Lightskins are being mocked now saying that they're all "feminist" and darkskins were mocked as well for being "too dark", which I seen more in the 2010s around 2013.
@@barbrat8yearsago229 It gets mocked but by 10 year olds. Adults don't usually make fun of people's looks. It's just that people who have a body type that's in style get more dates.
I'm ginger and have a face full of freckles, I was bullied my entire life for it but now it's trendy and people are even drawing them on. Beauty standards are so weird
would you rather ppl bully you for the freckles or,,
?????? That person just meant how crazy it is that something was deemed ugly and suddenly it's the prettiest thing ever and everyone wants it. The same with fucking dark eyebags, suddenly it became a trend. These dumbass trends are just literally too stupid for words. Instead of focusing on or following trends, just accept and love yourself for who you are instead of wanting to want something that you don't have or bringing someone else down for what they have/don't have
@@ongakira it's weird how big the difference between what she wrote and what you commented/understood..is
I hope you don't speak to yourself or children in such a way.. It doesn't seem healthy how you do the interpretation of what is said instead of listening what truly is said
@@ongakira r u gonna comment under every single comment abt being bullied bc of freckles,,, or are you gonna get a life
@@emma._.681 ur mom
I deleted snapchat and Instagram for the reasons of improving my self-esteem. Initially I thought keeping tiktok was a good idea but after deleting it as well, I realized that social media platforms promoting any sort of unachievable beauty standard or curation of a “perfect” life caused those insecurities in the first place. I strongly think that everyone should delete social media and just communicate through TH-cam and messages. Social media may be free, but at what cost? Your confidence?
This is true and you are very beautiful
Omg I saw you on a sub video a while ago the fact I had a similar reaction to your beauty then as now is so funny to me lmao😭🖐️
Everything you say was 100% right. Btw I'm stealing the last part.
You all are so kind and I am certain that you are extremely beautiful as well ❤️
omg same, over quarantine I realized that the amount of time I spent on social media was actually harming my mental health so I deleted basically everything except TH-cam, and I’ve felt so much better because of it. I really recommend it.
when you were talking about the differences in western & asian beauty standards i couldn’t help but think about the “belle filter” (i think) on tiktok and how it catered more to asian makeup styles, especially with the aegyosal, and majority of the tiktoks made with that filter were making fun of it or calling it the “eyebag filter”
oh wow
I just love the Eyebag effect of Korean makeup, I always do it. people complain too much🙄
I love the aegyosal look myself but that's also cause I tend to lean towards cute makeup that make my eyes look bigger (which fits the asian cute beauty standard), though western beauty definitely seems more sleek and sexy, so I can see why people may not like it
I like it personally, even though I am not asian myself (some people say this is asianfishing but I'd have to disagree a bit...). I have eye bags that make me look so tired all the time. Doing my makeup this way helps a lot, it makes my bags less noticable (cause concealer only does so much lol)
Plus it brings out my natural eye chub in a cuter way
I was bullied for my natural aegyosal
Yeah as a person with a lot of freckles I don’t think the ‘faux freckles’ filter will ever not annoy me. There are so few freckled people who actually look like the filter, most of us have freckles that cover more than just the nose and cheeks area, a lot have them all over their bodies yet I rarely see those kind of freckles being appreciated.
So true. I have freckles mainly on my arms, I was bullied for having them in school. My peers all had a dark tan and they excluded me just because of my melanin distribution. When I look back I find it hilarious how they segregated me just because of my skin, how shallow of them. 🤷♀️
Completely right about freckles and Chinese beauty standards. I remember a controversy a few years back because a major magazine, maybe Vogue, had a Chinese cover model who Chinese people considered ugly. People felt like it was slander to the nation and an intentional effort to portray Chinese women as ugly. The model had monolids and freckles among other features. Truthfully she had the look comparable to other cover models who are chosen for their district features (tooth gaps, wide set eyes, etc) but that wasn't a point that people wanted to acknowledge.
I actually like the makeup filters from Snow, 斗音，etc. I just *hate* how it completely washes out my skin and removes virtually any trace of my melanin.
Your face shape is so amazing!
Yeah, kinda jealous
Ifkr
This is not to say her face shape is bad it is stunning but the lighting angle and the camera angle help get that "sharp jaw face shape"
@@artemis3392 maybe your right lol
@@artemis3392 That angle for me would emphasize my double chins :))
This is honestly why I deleted SC I had a feeling it was going to cause problems long term glad i dodged that bullet
same here! After using filters for abit I started getting concerned that I would get into body/image dysmorphia issues in the long run and immediately deleted the app
Same, I started noticing that I got so sad having snapchat, so I just deleted it
I’d love to delete but I use it to text my friends and family. 😅
Really enjoy the content & commentary! Having long abandoned social media a few years ago, I still find it enlightening and important to get perspective on the harm it can do. Cheers and praise from Cali!
props to you for leading a social-media free life!
@@oliSUNvia it’s not the worst thing in the world!
Look up “seven hunnid” on TH-cam, you won’t regret it, he’s lowkey underrated, idk why more people don’t watch him🤔
i also left social media around a year back and it feels so much more liberating, as if social media was forcing me to think about others' opinions before my own
I think TH-cam is also social media though, like being in the comments on a small creator's video, surely this is a social media, not a mass media?
You're absolutely stunning. How you even pull off this universally unflattering angle is beyond me.
Lighting. She has a clear and defined shadow which separates her face/chin from her neck.
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I agree!
One of the biggest problems I have with filters is that they often lighten your skin complection. This sends a really toxic message and reinforces ideals that to me seem pretty colorist
It does it for a reason!
(It's very colorist 😓)
Yet you have a k-pop pfp.
@@aa_rav Liking K-pop = Ok with colorism?
@b-pr
But plenty of other entertainment industries are rooted or divulged in problematic and offensive behavior. Unless you refrain from watching or enjoying other kinds of media from industries that also have a history of doing the things you’ve listed or have done worse, what makes k-pop as a whole an outlier?
@@hbomax6542 kinda tbh
I still feel like even if a person is extremly talented at makeup, it STILL wont resemble the 'airbrushed perfect finnish' of a filter. Like...at this point filters even distort our perception of how makeup should look. Especially when celebrities and gurus airbrush and edit their pics while having a full mug on...like its unachievable standards for the physical world
side note, youre cute af i crusshh
YES TO EVERYTHING YOU SAID!!! I came to a point that I cannot upload a picture without altering it bc I hate my face so much. I was bull*ed at school and by my own family, that may be the reason… but social media made it worse. If someone tells me that I am pretty I truly cannot believe it at this point
I think I feel the same way, but I want to at least change my appearance a little bit without feeling guilty. To have a moment where I feel really beautiful, but people spoil it too.
@@Mari_011 Hey so I read both of yours and her comments and I thought could provide a perspective that might be helpful.
Now, something that I've noticed about beauty is that a majority of it is subjective. There are people who have physical or facial features that are a pleasure to look at, but with such insubstantial personalities and characters, that their external beauty often gets over looked. The truth about beauty as I see it, is that though you can attain people's attention just by how you look, it is *who you are* that not only retains but even motivates other people's positive perception of yourselves.
So for example, if you are a confident, kind, respectful and respectable person, there'd be a lot less people trying to tell you how unpretty they think you are, largely because they would notice the true friendship, acceptance and purpose your characters would earn you that simple physical beauty could never have, but also because they would know that their opinions are of little importance to you as you are secure in and about yourself.
Another thing I think would be helpful to consider is that you should find challenging but meaningful goals that you can earnestly and patiently immerse yourselves in, because as you fail and succeed in pursuit of those goals, you will find your self confidence improving, through your perseverance and discipline, and other people's comments will start affecting you less and less.
The reason I believe that doing this is effective, is because I think that the worry of superficial things like our looks, are a manifestation of a deep rooted need to have some form of control in our lives and the looks department seems to be the easiest. But when others effortlessly look better than we do, it gets to us to the point that we might even bully others to just make ourselves feel good.... working towards truly earnestly developing yourselves consistently, gives you real control that cannot be shaken by the mere words of others.
I used to find joy in playing around with filters, not for catfishing, but since it was fun. But at one point, I had gotten used to looking at myself with filters that it gave me body dysmorphia and an existential crisis lol. So I took an oath to only use color grading filters, and not morphing filters. It has helped me love my features a lot. And get used to REAL human features, being imperfect skin, uneven face shape, tired eyes, etc. Thanks for making this discussion!
I am naturally freckled and my face is covered in them, but I was heavily bullied about them growing up. The things people would say and do because of them were cruel and scarring. Seeing them become popularised isn’t as heartwarming as one might think because of these reasons. I’m not flattered by people giving themselves fake freckles, especially since they only put them over their cheeks and nose (maybe one or two out of place), because it reinforces the idea that having freckles all over is still ugly. It’s also just uncomfortable to see the people who bullied me so badly for them, suddenly faking them and acting as if they have always loved them. I don’t know, this whole fake freckles trend is kinda weird for me
finally someone who gets it!
Tbh, I sort of sympathize but not with freckles. I have no freckles what so ever (but never saw freckles as an imperfection. They are literally just different looking skin, people overreact by bullying) but I always got bullied for looking asian (im mixed) but now, everyone wants to be east asian and it sort of makes me mad, not accepted. I never understood why I had to get bullied and cry over literally just existing and doing horrible things to myself just to be called “cute” and “beautiful” today for the same thing they used to call honestly really racist things.
I feel like the best way to live through this world at this point is to stop caring about what others thing, especially in America where so many different races and cultures live amongst themselves.
Yess!
I used to have freckles because of sun exposure when I was little and I people made fun of them every now and then. As I grew older I also started to dislike sitting in the sun too much because of my tan lines and how they looked terrible with certain clothes paired with my growing fear of getting cancer (I’m kinda white but with the kind of skin that tans rather than just redden (I am latina, so it may be because I’m not fully white or maybe I’m just fair but not that white white, I truly don’t know) so it was harder to realize if I had exposed myself too much) and I essentially lost the freckles completely alongside the tan lines and people said I looked much more mature and that my skin looked cleaner afterwards, which was quite awful to hear.
Nowadays I feel very uncomfortable with the trend of fake freckles and I couldn’t quite pinpoint why until midway through the video I realized that I felt off about it because what people find beautiful now are completely even, strategically placed, and perfectly numbered and colored freckles rather than the ones that naturally occur on a person’s face. I am almost sure that if I still had the kind of freckles I used to have on my face that people would still not see them as beautiful because of their flawed placement/shape/color or they may even think it’s a botched first attempt at giving myself fake ones.
The problem with this whole trend and many others is that natural is rarely perfect, so it’s impossible to truly achieve the looks people want without some sort of intervention done by doctors, technology, or makeup 🤷🏻♀️
I think the same!!! I'm a pale person but My mom and I have freckles. She has them on the face and body, and I have them just on my face. My mom taught me to avoid the sun, she always was like 'The sun did this to your face, now you have more freckles and that's ugly'. But I always thought it was pretty, I love her freckles and mine as well. Also, when I was a kid everyone made fun of my freckles, kids and adult, even my own family. Now they're a trend, a lot of people wants freckles and make some fake freckles on their face. It makes me feel uncomfortable when they fake them. Like yeah you can use them just where you want them and when you want, not everyday in all over the face or body. Is like if they just want the trendy and cute part, not all. I'm sure that they won't be trendy forever, maybe more acceptable, and those who were adding them to their make up will stop to do that because, as I said, they can decide when they will have it. I feel different when I see a person with real freckles, I feel happy when they love it and don't cover it with makeup. But hey, everyone can do whatever they want with their make up, I'm not gonna stop anybody. I just wanted to share my opinion here too ;^; And I'm sorry if is too long.
@@SaintAcromo I always thought freckles were pretty. Even messy natural freckles. I'd be ok with having them all the time, even after they go out of fashion. I really don't understand why people used to make fun of it. Then again, I don't understand making fun of people's appearance in general, but that's besides the point xD
y do y’all think ur oppressed for having freckles😭 no one was gnna come to ur house and burn it down bc u had freckles calm down
@@ongakira I never said I felt oppressed, we are simply talking about the topic of the video...
It would be one thing to bring it up unprovoked but the conversation here has a valid reason to exist too.
Also, we are talking about personal experiences here, meaning that it is something that happens in real life and not an idea we deluded ourselves into having. It’s simply to add to the conversation, but I don’t understand why you needed to make it seem like we are being unnecessarily dramatic about it when it is literally the topic of discussion here.
Call us out if we dismiss an important topic with something lighter like this, but rn we are adding something completely valid and that reflects what we have personally witnessed and felt.
@@Someonev ok and i don’t care ? u have little spots on ur faces oh no
Your analogy just hit the nail on the head. I agree with what you said. Especially as a poc (east Asian) I'm tired with all these filters trying to make my eyes bigger.
I think at the end of the day physical features should stop being made into trends. At first I was happy that freckles where finally appreciated, having hated mine for a large chunk of my life. But now with all the hype around them i find myself comparing how my freckles look to others, (which most of the time they're faux) I find myself thinking they're not defined enough or not in an aesthetically pleasing position. It's so ironic that even in a trend I'm part of naturally I'm still unsatisfied
Filters have always been really interesting to me I don't use them personally I just never really got into them I've tried using one but they creep me out I'm a teen and most people who use them are kids or teens one thing I've noticed is that they make you look waaaay older I know makeup in general makes you look older but its really weird because I believe it starts to make teens and kids think they should look like an adult which isn't the sole reason teens want to look like adults but it does kinda involve a bigger conversation about teens and kids growing up faster in terms of looks at least
(sorry if this is jumbled or hard to read I don't explain my thoughts very well lol)
don’t worry you made perfect sense, and i agree!
That’s actually a really good point
As a pretty typical male, videos like these are super helpful in understanding the nuances of important issues that I personally not grappel with. Thank you for helping to build understanding, and informing the way I think about stuff like this. It is appreciated!
Hiiii!!!!! I absolutely love how you word everything, thank you for covering topics that no one really talks about ♡♡♡♡♡
This was actually very helpful, ive never been able to articulate why beauty filters, even if they only make slight changes, are so harmful. I recently cut out beauty filters all together on my social media and it helps me remember that i am human, and that we dont all have to be carbon copies of eurocentric beauty standards to be valid in our bodies. Thank you for your perspective 💖
I honestly don't really feel bad by filters since I'm fine with the way I look, but it's very obvious how it affects some people especially ones who aren't very confident in themselves. It gives them "you need to change this so you'll become prettier" when they're already perfectly fine.. eh idont have a solution since I don't think suddenly filters like these will be removed or smthn :/ I guess all I could hope for is for people to stop believing that you have to look a certain way to be pretty..
Some people need filters and some don't
@@ham-sley1308 why would anyone "need" a filter?
@@jaeminok8544 cuz some people are ugly and some aren't😂 don't act like u never found someone ugly. Beauty is subjective this is facts. This is not to say the people I personally find ugly should use filters. All I'm saying if someone personally thinks they're ugly, then they should be allowed to use filters. And don't come at me with that "everyone is beautiful" bs because that's just being emotional instead of rational
@@ham-sley1308 huh? And why does anyone need to look beautiful? If people want to use filters for aesthetics or it makes them more confident then whatever. even tho they shouldn't feel like they have to look a certain way to feel confident.. also yeah actually everyone is beautiful atleast to someone idk why you're thinking this way like really? does the way people look matter?
@@jaeminok8544 no i never said the way ppl look matter. A person's worth isn't determined on their looks. All I'm saying is, what I think is pretty & ugly might not be what you and other think is pretty and ugly. Which is true. Therefore, someone is pretty or not depending on who's looking at them. That's why i brought up the last part. Because everytime you bring up beauty is subjective someone alwayssss has to say "no everyone is beautiful" which is total bs because beauty isn't the same for everyone. Saying "everyone is beautiful" just plays into people's emotions and ur making some people feel better about their looks, when in reality you think they're ugly. You can not deny beauty is subjective, it's the irrational thing to do
Honestly, you can argue the same thing about make-up. Make-up is just a filter but in real life (which might even be worse?). If you think about it, wearing make-up is actually a very weird concept (to literally paint your face and change your natural look). I've felt way more beautiful when I stopped wearing make-up because I don't look at my face in terms of what can I paint on it to improve it anymore, I look at my face as just that, my face. Nothing I can do will change my face, so I just accept it and enjoy it as it is.
The more you give yourself access to change your face (from make-up to filters to surgery) the more you'll look at it as something that needs improving, when it's not!!! it's just a face!!
The only correct answer.
Some people just wear it for fun 😉
Growing up, I refused to use any filters or makeup until I start accepting my natural features. I m so glad that I did because now I more confident than ever, and makeup and filter do nothing but enhance that acceptance and self love.
growing up as a kid in the Bronx my mom used to bat me with this wooden spoon
i loved the lil analogy bit it was a nice touch in the video!
thanks lauren!
i cant stress this enough
i wish they'd display the used filter above the screen with no way to edit it out. for both art credit and awareness
God I love her face shape and that hairstyle suits her so well, but most importantly she is so smart and make such interesting videos
As someone who has freckles all over my face and grew up feeling ugly for it because, in Ireland, freckles used to be seen as undesirable, I feel really weird when people put fake freckles on their faces. It's more of a micro-aggression but when I see people with beautiful clear skin putting perfectly placed freckles in light shades, I can't help but think how they have no idea how ridiculous these phenotypic trends are. If a trend is based on something somebody else has and can't change, I don't think it should become a trend at all. I worked for many years to look in the mirror and see my skin as beautiful and accept it, I don't need some shallow FAUX freckle beauty trend to give me acceptance.
Filters are a joke though and how they warp your face - especially when the word beauty is attached to them..
How do they make the face look more beautiful? Who are these weird people that think those filters that make a person look computer animated look more beautiful?
I’m so glad you brought attention to this- you explain everything so well
Dude I just found this account and small creators are the best. You do such good research for all your videos and explain your thoughts SO CLEARLY. So envious at how well you can communicate such layered and nuanced topics. Every video is 10/10!!!! I cant wait to watch you cover more topics, you’re one of my fav analysis youtubers!! You’re definitely gonna blow up soon😭😭 just glad to be here before it happens😎
im so glad im learning about this through a video and not through experience. filters always skeeved the shit out of me and being shy helped not take the bad leap
I genuinely wish you had a bigger audience. I totally get your point and I've seen very few people putting it into words as cleverly as you did. I'm not usually part of the comment section but hey, new sub!
thank you so much!!
you're so well spoken! i have a feeling your channel will be super big one day :)
i’m so happy i literally thought something was wrong w me i can not take a picture without some sort of snap filters on and it’s really gotten to me ive even looked into literal jaw defining surgery and one of my biggest insecurities now is my lips, something that i used to think was one of my best features lmfao. from someone who already had severe body dysmorphia, this shit is incredibly dangerous and it happens so quick i don’t even know what to do.
I know I’m just a stranger, but you’re very pretty and I want you to know that. If you want surgery, the choice is yours. Just remember that you shouldn’t feel pressure from society to change your face if it’s not something that you want to do! (Sorry if this is weird, I usually don’t comment.) Have a nice day
Have you tried uninstalling Snapchat?
If people can quit heroin you can quit Snapchat
@@kiwifit620 cringe
I love your channel so much. I admire how you talk about very important issues that people need to be more aware of. Most people that call themselves "influencers" don't even talk about important things such as this. Thank you so much!!!!
Im very happy there is someone like you out here doing the good work and actually having conversations about topics instead of going along with whatever is popular to say or think
so happy I found your channel! your commentary is so well rounded, balanced, and intelligent!!
Such a smart analysis, especially the analogy segment. I'm omw to binging your channel because the topics you choose are so interesting and your takes are so smart 😭
Loved this video!! A lot of connections to what Contrapoints talked about in her recent envy video, with this being more of a deep dive into one specific aspect of it. Love it!!
so underrated :'( you are so eloquent and the things you said are so reasonable. How do you have this kind of self awareness and make it "logical"?
another difference between makeup and a filter is a filter will do the same thing to every. single. face. you could already have a slim face or a slim nose and “fit” the beauty standard, but because of what the filter is made to do, it’s going to still give you a slimmer face and nose. so you could already be what is considered “beautiful” and the filter will STILL change you. which sucks because it will cause insecurities for everyone no matter their appearance. and no one deserves to feel more insecure due to a filter that represents unrealistic beauty standards.
I recently discovered your channel and your commentary is great, the topics you cover are hard to find online at the moment!
Who is that in your pfp
@@szzzs Sunoo from enhypen :))
I really like the effort and research you put into this video! Just love hearing people’s opinions and your videos are really nice ^^ keep it up !
I loved this video! The thesis is well put and explained; the distorted sound effect brought me on board and the exercise example/metaphor only made it even better! This is one of the best explanation/video essays I've seen on youtube.
I remember going on Snapchat and looking at myself in the camera like “Hey I look not completely unattractive today”, then I turn on a filter and go “Oh, it didn’t even change that much” and then I turn it off and it’s “Holy sh*t, I am completely abhorrent”. Deleted Snap and never looked back.
Growing up in a time where freckles were considered "ugly", I am a little salty hat they've all of a sudden become trendy to the point of people faking them. Don't get me wrong, I love that we are slowly expanding our standards of beauty as a society, I just wish it were the case when I was a kid/teenager.. would have saved me alot of insecurities..
I honestly don't relate to why you feel salty, shouldn't you be happy that people now consider it beautiful?
I grew up with curly hair being considered "ugly", fast forward to now almost everyone I meet compliments my hair, and I'm so happy about it. I still have some insecurities regarding my hair but if anything the curly hair trend made me appreciate my hair AND other features, because I realised that even our "ugly" natural features are actually cool and part of the package of "natural" beauty. I have a big nose, but it's part of the package of my natural beauty. I have features that are considered beautiful now that were considered ugly then and vice versa, so if anything it only shows that beauty standards are an illusion. An illusion that is not worth us getting insecure for. But, I know that most of the damage is already done because what sticks is what happened when we were young. But I'll teach my kids in the future what I learned , that beauty standards change and what you consider ugly today might be beautiful in another timeline, so you need to look at yourself as a "full package" and not separate features.
@@yuzan3607 Are you kidding me?
@@ChildrenUnder30 no?
@@yuzan3607 You are awfully dense then.
While I like freckles, I hate fake freckles. They always look fake as hell and make the person using them seem vain.
Your show is one of the greatest on TH-cam. No joke. Every little piece of the puzzle is looked at and explained. Can’t wait to see some more episodes. I’ve always been very counter culture and against beauty standards and the like so this is like exploring a different cultures world.
I really like your video on this topic and I agree with everything you said. Just becouse filters makes us feel like the dream image of our perfect appearence is right in front of us it doesn't mean that is more possible or attenaible to be like that, we just have a more direct way to see it.
Also, you're last senteces "I hope i'm not crazy" is so relatable and sums up perfectly my thoghts when I express my opinion.
I loved your mention of the silver medalist thing, given the imput i had already watched on contrapoints's Envy video.
Loving your videos so far and ur so pretty also uwu
okay but lemme just appreciate your narration real quick :)
I am so grateful for your videos. Your knowledge of politics, philosophy and psychology is really helping me navigate my literary writing assignments. You have in the past few week encouraged me to challenge many of my perspectives. Thank you.
olivia thank you, i have a younger sister who's imagine and personality is being shaped by a variety of apps on her phone.
your content allows me to get a better perspective on a world that i genuinely have zero contact with.
I am so surprised why you don’t have more views. Literally one of the best commentary channels
i never thought about it this way, you're so right!!!!
You're so well spoken and have such interesting takes
I love how clearly you speak it’s hard to miss a single word 😅
You are really underrated, your content is always amazing
the angle made me feel like i was a pencil on your desk
this video is great, thank you very much for filming it! the analogies you used definitely helped me to relate these situations to my own struggles with my appearance. also i love your one piece skechers!! i have the same pair and they're so cool...
I just watched the gen z humor video, then this one. Such good thought provoking content and research and the editing is so good w examples given on screen and that analogy was genius omg subscribed.
I love your topics ♥️ I interact so you can grow more
aww thank you michu
Love the info and style of the videos ✨
Olivia, everything you said is true and well structured... but my mind still has that negative and hypocrites thoughts like ''that’s easy for her to say because she is already pretty, she films herself and post on youtube so she probably doesn’t know how it feels to hate yourself at looking in the mirror since 9 years old''
Filters really are increasing my insecurities and giving me dysmorphia, that's why i barely take pictures anymore :( but that’s good to see someone spreading these words of how harmful it can be and how it can disassociate from reality. You seem to be a very Intelligent and humble person, giving you virtual hugs.
The quality of your videos are amazing
I just want to thank you, lately I've been insecure because of the high beauty standards set, I got a better understanding of how filters work and make others insecure aswell, forcing them to change themselves so I wasnt the only one. I felt guilty if I ate anything that had sugar in it, but I never thought of it like that, my mindset was set at how I need to work out all the time and eat no sugar/snacks but meals. Before that I suffered with an eating disorder which I eventually recovered from but I still was insecure about myself and only had meals and forced myself to not eat anything w high calories, so yes thank you :D
i'm so sorry you ever felt that way, and i really hope your relationship with yourself only improves from here :(
@@3g0st I've recovered, everything's better right now. But it still is there somewhere, sometimes. I'm getting better so that's all matters right now, i hope you're doing well :)
I think that all beautiful filters are inherently harmful, because it’s impossible to perfectly replicate a filter in real life.
But for me the filters that drastically change your facial features are more harmful.
If you try to do your make up, or get plastic surgery, to look like these crazy Snapchat filters, you are only setting yourself up for disaster. This look is so much more impossible than the TikTok freckle filter.
And even though the TikTok filter is also unachievable to have permanently, it’s so much easier to do.
When I was younger I used to take my moms foundation (which was lighter than my skin tone) and I would put on copious amounts of contour trying to obtain the unrealistic look of Snapchat filters. I desperately wanted false eyelashes, and fancy expensive makeup because I thought that it would make me look more like the filters. When I would look at my skin with foundation on I would always feel so bad, because I thought that I had applied it wrong, or I needed something more expensive, because I could still see my skin texture.
When I was doing this, I was about 12, and inexperienced with makeup. So I think that people who where in my position, but with the TikTok filters would be more crushed if they couldn’t attain that look, but the chances of that happening is lower, because it’s also a lot easier to do.
I’m 16 now, and have been learning about make up for quite some time, so even with cheep products that I got from Walmart and CVS, I was able to recreate the look.
I guess the main thing about trying to look like the filters in real life, is that it’s impossible to do easily, and perfectly maintain.
It’s easier to replicate the make up if the filter is more natural.
If you still can’t replicate the more natural one, it’s more crushing than being unable to replicate the unnatural one.
You are so prettyyyy I love your dimples 🥺💗
you made such good points! loved the analogy, great video:D
I legit tweeted about filters like 2 days ago, i was on SC just trying out some recommended filters and one warped my face so much i was staring at my screen like "who is that?" because the person looked nothing like me! but the filters i hate the most are the popular instagram ones that have "baby" or whatever in their title, usually i just steal filters i like from people i follow but when i go try them on my face it makes my lips look so weird. like the filter would look good on the person but not on me which is why i don't really like some filters because it comes like it's telling me "your face should already be a certain way for you to look good with this filter"... at one point i deleted SC because i had forgotten what i looked like and that forced me to take camera selfies.
lemme stop rambling. love your video btw
When I saw the title, I thought there was a bug in the title translation because my phone is in French and, in French, "faux" means "false. So to me, the filter name is a strange mix :')
Thank you for this video! Lately there are many videos on social media and filters impacts, but you said things I had never heard anywhere else, and always accurate! Thanks again.
I enjoyed your perspective. I personally don't wear makeup so I don't think how hard recreation the filter look can be. ❤️💕
Your makeup looks so good on you !
Kinda funny how people want freckles after this filter came out. 🥲 while my v e r y Asian family tried to get rid of my freckles using weird methods. I remember my face getting red from all the scrubbing too 😭😭
oh yeesh T_T im sorry they did that to u
@@Ceciliaqq it’s considered ugly for Asians 🥲
I’m white and still trying to get rid of my Irish freckles, always was bullied and have always wanted them off my face because of it.
Thats absolutely toxic and disgusting. Freckles are adorable and deserve love.
I always though freckles were beautiful, it's like the sun blessed you! So don't be ashamed of them , you're beautiful
I think another unattainable part of "realistic" filters such as this is the perfect, clear skin. We are living creatures and our skin is always going to reflect that. All skin has some sort of texture which even makeup can't hide. Yes these filters appear to be attainable in real life, but they just aren't and this just creates more disappointment and exacerbates feelings of inadequacy.
Just found your channel and watched all of your commentary videos, I’m Chinese too! I love your content and personality :) ps you’re also the most beautiful person i’ve ever seen
wow, thank you so much!
i always love your takes!
okay but skincare routine omg you're glowing
Omg look at those cheekbones Jesus theyre beautiful
filters are destroying natural beauty imo. they’re convincing girls to cast away their own beauty for something that is fictional and just doesn’t work irl. gigantic lips, dorito chins, shrunken heads, hips twice the width of their shoulders, no ribs, the works. it’s like a caricature of humans, half-human and half-cartoon. it’s disconcerting when i see people i know irl posting photos of themselves that are not really themselves, like AI versions of their natural body. it’s terrifying, welcome to dystopia i guess.
Honestly, you can argue the same thing about make-up. Make-up is just a filter but in real life (which might even be worse?). If you think about it, wearing make-up is actually a very weird concept (to literally paint your face and change your natural look). I've felt way more beautiful when I stopped wearing make-up because I don't look at my face in terms of what can I paint on it to improve it anymore, I look at my face as just that, my face. Nothing I can do will change my face, so I just accept it and enjoy it as it is.
The more you give yourself access to change your face (from make-up to filters to surgery) the more you'll look at it as something that needs improving, when it's not!!! it's just a face!!
YOU ARE SO PRETTY THO
i was literallg just thinking about that today!! love your commentary
I always thought it was odd that people started drawing on freckles or whatever- absolutely nothing wrong with freckles, but my friends who had them used to complain about it and it's odd seeing it as a "desirable feature" now.
You deserve more subscribers
UR SO STUNNING... im obsessed
This is so true. Back then when someone that never saw me in real life commented a stories of mine in Instagram without a filter I felt really great. But now, when someone comments a stories that I’m using a “natural filter” I don’t feel confident at all, because I know that’s not the true me with eye bags and pimples at the moment.
I have hazel eyes, freckles, and even smooth skin. If I’ve “attained” these standards, why do I look like an entirely different person with the filter?
We both think very similarly, I’m starting to watch all of your videos and I enjoy them very much, You are so well spoken. When i talk like this i swear i sound like an old woman haha i swear I’m not but you are one of the first you tubers that i can listen to and actually gain something from ur videos, keep up the good work sis :D
You are not crazy! The silver medalist effect hit me hard, as I have been feeling that way about my looks throughout my teenage & adult life anyway. Then came along the filters, and now I'm saving up for botox and fillers. It's sort of like a parasite in my brain, and this is not spoken of, so thank you for speaking about it. Perhaps we all feel crazy about how insecure we suddenly feel about our looks, and your video spoke the first sane words about this trend.
to be honest, i think that almost anything can become toxic if its taken too far. if someone only puts on the faux freckle filter for a bit, they might be like "oh, i could actually look like that" and then forget about it, then it wont do much harm.
i dont see this as a problem tbh. if filters fuel your insecurities just don't use them. if others want to then let them be. sure i agree that we need to be educated on how we should be content with ourselves and love ourselves for who we are, but blaming filters and social media is just not it imho.
i think of this issue kind of like going to an amusement park ride. it's meant to be a fun, out-of-this world experience for people to enjoy, exactly because it is unlike one's normal day-to-day life. a person who takes the ride won't go, jeez after the ride ends i feel so disappointed my life is so miserable. and neither do people go, this ride is so not inclusive for people who are afraid of heights and thus can't enjoy it smh. i guess my point is that, filters, like amusement park rides, are NOT necessities and just fun little "extras" that brings fun and interesting "elements" to our lives so if it feels like an exclusive thing that can't satisfy everyone, that's coz it was never meant to!!?? when we try and satisfy everybody, it just takes away from the original thing. eg making the amusement park less thrilling and more ordinary just makes it boring, and filters becoming more realistic just makes it seem more "unattainable". i feel like we are just finding faults with everything and its honestly so unnecessary. if people complain about rides not being fun, that's on them. so if people complain about filters, isn't it just a personal problem? sorry if this comes off as offensive, and i apologise if im misinterpreting, just sharing my honest thoughts!!
I think what she is trying to say is that we need to know how real people look like, cause filters are giving us an easy unrealistic fix, and more people (teens, children) are watching this people with filters and accepting it as the norm..... .... Like most guys I know have no idea what make-up is, they believe a woman in a magazine without red lips is a 'natural beauty', none of my friends/ coworkers have a picture without a visible filter like, no one does, I agree we all trying to look our best but every single photo /video thing that people upload online needs to be edited/photoshopped??? (I had 280 people in my online class yet nobody has a unedited real pic of themselves, they either have a anime character, they heavily edited with a face mask,a popular character that is not them, like the standard is so high they feel as if they can't put a real picture of themselves)
you need to agree that is just twisted cause you are erasing your true self. Sorry for the long rant
Here’s the problem with all of this and plastic surgery for aesthetic purposes. When many people are doing it does matter because it distorts the image of reality which in turn makes even more people have it since it makes you feel out of place. Also the argument that someone is “doing it for themselves” is not valid, considering simple concepts of sociology. You cannot say that you are not influenced by society when you live in a society, and moreover when you change yourself into a version that’s more highly deemed in said society (this is a largely applied concept to any moral, mental and physical aspect or institutions part of a society) . It’s absolutely baffling when I see these kind of arguments, there is no logic behind any of them.
@@mariakiwi1428 many people =\= society and according to your argument, does many people (whatever this means) doing something distort reality? doesn’t this sound like a slippery slope fallacy? perhaps we have different definitions of logic :) plus i said, education is the solution, understanding self love and worth so we don’t feel inferior and compelled to change our appearance under peer pressure or social media influence. even if we get to the absurd point of 95% of society doing plastic surgery or conforming to unrealistic beauty standards, if people understand their worth enough, dont you think they will appreciate how they look and thus not view society as “distorted”? also, if the “do it for themselves” argument isn’t valid because individuals do not exist and only societies do, then why is the rise in plastic surgery and use of filters problematic if it is just society changing its beauty standards? are you sure that the individual has absolutely no agency to act upon their own will? propensity to influence =\= completely remove agency and the potential of education !! hope this helps :/
@@SieMiezekatze yeah but i think the problem lies in a lack of education, not the existence of social media influencers and filters coz they don’t exist to spark negativity and blaming them for doing so unnecessarily destroys their purpose and any positivity they produce (eg fun!!)
you were was def the top student in psychological and analogical work!!
Appreciating the Caroline Girvan reference :) I love working out with her videos. I loved this video too, super interesting to hear your take on this!
my whole body is covered in freckles and I used to get heavily made fun of for them but now its all "trendy" and it really sucks to see. plus you only see girls with freckles on the nose and cheeks, the "cute" places but never full body like me. it's like tik tok will only make really specific parts trendy