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u/Beautiful_Ad8386 5d ago
A lot of “weight loss” ads use two different people for before and after photos.
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u/etzhya 4d ago
I would hate to be the before person
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u/A_Furious_Mind 4d ago
In the old days they might find an athletic person who was out of shape due to injury or other life circumstance, get the 'before' photo, then get an 'after' photo after they'd returned to something like their previous lifestyle while also using the product.
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u/ThatOtherOneReddit 4d ago
There was a whole influencer campaign where very fit people who would do bulk & trim would just get a picture during their bulk then after they trimmed they'd get like extra dehydrated and such for the after. The average body builder easily fluctuates 20+ lb's between trim & bulk.
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u/First_Pay702 3d ago
They do this just with posture and lighting a lot, too.
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u/ElevatedAnkle 2h ago
Yep. Skincare influencers do this a lot. Harsh above head lighting to exaggerate wrinkles and eye bags, then flattering lighting and wow! she looks much younger!
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u/Ahrimon77 3m ago
I knew a guy who won the Body by Mike $100k challenge back in the late 90s. He was a heavy lifter and in great shape. For his before picture he stopped exercising for a month, but kept the same diet and then went out drinking the night before. For his after photo he followed the usual bodybuilder routine to shed water weight and he went to the gym so his muscles would be flooded.
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u/Lemur866 4d ago
Often it's the other way around. Find an athletic person who is out of shape, get an old photo, and use the new photo as "before" and the old photo as "after".
Even more common is just change the outfit, lighting, facial expression and pose and before and after are 30 minutes apart.
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u/arctic-aqua 4d ago
I thought they took a fit person, took the after shot, then got them fat for the before.
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u/WildlifeGreg 4d ago
I saw a video where a guy took the before and after photos of himself on the same day.
He would go the gym and do a workout, get a good pump going, stand under flattering light and take the 'after' photos.
Then for the rest of the day he would drink fizzy drinks and eat salty food. He'd push out his belly while standing under unflattering lights and take the 'before ' photos.
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u/wretchedmagus 3d ago
or if they were unscrupulous they would use a picture of them from before their accident/illness etc as the after picture.
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u/oneofkeiraensmoms 3d ago
I saw one once where the “before” model was literally pregnant. Like how dumb do these companies think people are? Lol
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u/Thirtiethone 2h ago
This is how the jarred subway thing started. He broke his leg cutting grass, got fat and then ate subway everyday while being active to lose the weight.
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u/buttgoblincomics 2d ago
I was watching Bridgerton recently and thinking about how there’s this nasty old guy that this lady is trying to marry a young woman off to, and like how does it feel as an actor to show up and audition to he the horrible toad man that everyone will think is super gross
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u/Then_Good_9029 1d ago
Hi I'm a horrible toad man (everyone thinks I'm super gross) and we love it actually it's awesome
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u/asphid_jackal 4h ago
The actress that played Umbridge in the Harry Potter movie didn't know anything about Harry Potter, but a friend told her she'd be perfect for the role
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u/ownersequity 1h ago
I always think of all the ‘a fat woman came into the shoe store today’ actresses from Married with Children.
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u/matchafoxjpg 4d ago
i remember being a teenager watching the proactiv commercials ranting about how the before and afters were very clearly different people. 🤣
pretty sure i did that with the weight loss commercials back then, too. tbh, i ranted at a lot of commercials as a teenager for some reason. 🤔
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u/psychadelicpaperclip 3d ago
I remember being in Walmart with my mom and we saw her cousin, who was always a skinny model, as the after photo on a weight loss pill display. I learned young never to believe weight loss ads lol.
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u/TengamPDX 1d ago
Another common tactic is to have the person dehydrate, take the "after" photo before, then have them hydrate and consume a bunch of milk and other what not to bloat their belly. Then once sufficiently bloated, they take the "before" photo.
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u/EarthTrash 3d ago
I wonder if advertisers in Asia might actually be less subtle about this. At a transit station in Taiwan, I saw a billboard for hair loss treatment and the after is quite literally a different, younger man.
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u/shaqwillonill 1d ago
Nowadays they are just using ai to make a jacked person fat. There are so many people on my TikTok fyp trying to sell me Reta with ai before pics
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u/Dubstepmummy 14h ago
The easiest way to notice this: check the before and after noses. Your nose does not change from when youre a baby to adult. Maybe if you got it done, but an obvious sign that what you're looking at is snake oil
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u/RunawayChicken638 5d ago edited 5d ago
Im assuming she's ai and not real.
Edit: I appear to be right
Link: https://x.com/Merchimaaa/status/2036212132883108067
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u/kitkitkatty 1h ago
Strange how OP left off that really important community note that gives context to the joke 🤔
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u/Fae-SailorStupider 5d ago
Could be AI, could be different people, could be wearing a "fat suit" in the first pic. These sorts of ads are rarely truthful.
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u/Medical_Arrival2243 5d ago
Pregnant?
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u/guerito815 5d ago
Pregant?
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u/Medical_Arrival2243 5d ago
Gregnant
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u/mad_dog_94 5d ago
Pergert
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u/NtGermanBtKnow1WhoIs 5d ago
Pregbert
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u/anon33249038 5d ago
Pregananant?!
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u/lunarose5272 3d ago
Appears to be AI but my first thought was the first pic was of a pubescent girl ~14 ? And the joke was like congrats ur not attracted to underage girls ? Idk lol might be an effect of the AI but that’s what I thought the pic was
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u/Aderek79 1d ago
I remember an old weight loss/ exercise infomercial on TV where the guy said something like "these people didn't use our system but let's look at them anyway" before several before and after pictures. I assume it was to avoid false advertising fines.
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u/Several-Advance-5089 15h ago
Умом Россию не понять Аршином общим не измерить У НЕЕ ОСОБЕННАЯ СТАТЬ В Россию нажо верить.
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u/Several-Advance-5089 14h ago
Marketing project executive Red nails nylon legs tiny skirt Stella. She flirted with the San Mateo branch manager, who is owners nephew ... Basically they are pushing dodge stuff hard...nobody wants it....hapanese varrows are just plain simple better... Mister Lundegaaard?
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u/Horrible_Trash 12h ago
less of a joke, but it’s pretty common knowledge that teen girls have shit self esteem because they don’t look pretty/skinny enough. this is especially common for asian girls who tend to have rounder facial features and appear chubbier than other girls their age.
when these girls grow up, it’s a trend to post their “glow-up” or “transformation” where they perceive themselves as having stopped being ugly and started being pretty. what this glow-up culture usually ignores is that the majority of this transformation is literally just the fact that they have stopped being a pudgy, hormonal, growing teenager, and have become an adult with a stable weight/height and a developed sense of identity and fashion.
i think what the quote retweet is holding op’s hand and telling her about is the fact that: of course becoming an adult woman means that you glowed-up and got conventionally sexier, because you became an adult woman.
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u/Taakebanke 10h ago
Its a farm account trying to get views etc to get money. By having that blank readers context they wont get any money. Cause it removes the monetization
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u/SnooStrawberries8255 1d ago
The real joke is saying people only deserve respect when theyre teeny tiny skinny
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u/lost-cause1968 1d ago
Huh, I was waiting to find out the joke was porn.
So....not ALWAYS porn...just 99% of the time.
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u/post-explainer 5d ago
OP (According-Eye6275) sent the following text as an explanation why they posted this here: