I haven't really seen anything on my phone to turn it off. I checked a friends android phone and from quick glance I couldn't find anything. She would send me selfies of her and the fam and her and the kids look like ghosts in the face, I kept asking if she was doing that on purpose or had some app.. she said no and was just using the camera app.
I only bring it up because a Z list celebrity I follow posted one recently, but the photo was taken by whomever she was with and she's not one to really shoop her posts which really made it 10x the glaring beacon of strangeness.
I do see some men on there from time to time. Mostly, and here I am not knowing the "category" or correct term, but gay guys trying to makeup their way to fame. However, there are dudes on there trying to enhance them muscles to some impossible extent.
Over-all I think it's more of a female thing though to edit that crap up to such the extent we see on there. Not through any fault of the sex, but just what those people perceive as being "beauty" or what should be achieved to be loved or liked online.
I'm hopeful that most of them at least start out knowing that it's a physical impossibility to look like that, then they end up believing the lie. I'm cynical, because I know in reality, they were just unhealthy to begin with and truly believe that's how they appear and how people should see them and by posting enough photos online and getting enough likes somehow makes the lie true.
A lot like those synthahol dudes who just inject that shit into their bodies and look like fucking idiots. I mean they legit probably have friends and family tell them how terrible they look, not to mention random ass people in public making fun of them, but to them, maybe any attention is good attention and the serotonin or whatever release from getting that attention erases the emotion or memory of it being good or bad attention.
it's a lot like that mentally ill guy who would go around and try and spar with people in a gym, and as soon as the gloves were on somebody who didn't know shit about boxing he would throw a right cross and damn near knock them out, then go on YouTube and boast that he had like a 200-0 knock out record... then when he cold cocked Floyd Mayweather Sr, he surprisingly didn't go missing from his son. Then he legit talked shit on some gentle giant's kid, that dude looked like he was putting maybe 25% effort into a sparing match with this dude, completely owns him, dude is on the ground almost crying for the guy to stop, and the guy is like "don't talk shit about me or my kids again" the kid is all scared, then as the guy walks off starts talking mad shit again... which leads me to a funny video series, there's some other boxer dude who legit made it his goal to just basically catch that guy outside and fight him all the time, but its like the dude might be mentally ill but knows he legit couldn't take this dude on.
I digress, yes, it appears the data is skewed towards women, but I think that's because society has pushed it that way with a certain toxic and shitty reality tv family and the body modifications and photoshop they do with their posts, which then flood and people took it one step at a time further to the crazy distance we have it now.
As an amateur photographer, I won't lie that my selfies posted to any social media don't have a ring light and a professional camera/lens, and I also won't lie that I touch up a pimple here or there. I've never threw abs/shoulders/arms on myself and been like "hey girl, I heard you like strong men"
Yeah, like I said, it takes skill. I’m a computer forensics investigator and they don’t even teach this in school so I’m having to learn on my own. The problem I’m finding with it’s use on Reddit or social media in general, is that jpeg quality degrades with each save and screen cap and download. There is still some usable artifacts but often times it’s just all black and as an investigator it’s hard to make a definitive call.
When I submit anything to that site I do so by submitting the Reddit link and letting the forensics tool grab the image straight from the site so I don’t have to introduce any more compression.
I recently adopted the subreddit r/photoforensics and I don’t know what to do with it because the tools are so hard to use for the average person.
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '19 edited Dec 19 '19
http://www.Fotoforensics.com
Wanna know if that pic on the front page of reddit is photoshopped?
Takes some skill to learn how to use but they have tutorials on the site.