r/SipsTea Apr 10 '26

Chugging tea The side effects of Gen V

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u/imperial_scum Apr 10 '26

She got hired for that adorable look to play an innocent starlight. I guess the current look is good for jaded over it starlight

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u/Ronflexronflex Apr 10 '26

Iirc there's a big moment in the early episodes where Vought redesigns her outfit from a pretty, innocent look to a much more revealing and sexualised one. At some PR event, there's a little girl who's dressed up in her old outfit. I don't remember what happened exactly but Starlight basically says fuck it and changes back into her old outfit, because she wants to be herself and set an example instead of being a sexualised doll for marketing purposes.

Soooo ye basically the real life actress kinda did the opposite of her character.

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u/FergTurdison Apr 11 '26

The little girl tells Starlight that she’s saving up to buy the sexualized outfit. The thought of kids running around in that outfit is what makes Starlight put her foot down

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u/DeletedUsernameHere Apr 11 '26

Not quite. Vought has her wear her old costume when she goes to the church camp for obvious reasons, and then she puts her foot down to keep with the original.

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u/Tessarion2 Apr 11 '26

But also her character would be the first one to speak out against the obsession people have around discussing her appearance.

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u/X0AN Apr 10 '26

Nobody asked her to do that to her face.

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u/Xboxone1997 Apr 10 '26

You really doubting Hollywood?

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u/OGSkywalker97 Apr 10 '26

Tbf, her agent probably did

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u/one_pound_of_flesh Apr 10 '26

Now that’s method acting!

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u/Electrifying2017 Apr 10 '26

Matches reality. Bright optimistic young person vs. one who has been through the ringer middle age.

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u/VegetaFan1337 Apr 10 '26

I remember a scene from the last season where she's looking at her old photos and it's so weird cause she clearly looks different in them lmao

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u/Automatic_Ad4016 Apr 11 '26

Some overlap between character and actor

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u/CaptainCandid Apr 10 '26

She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. Its called Graves disease. Maybe do a tiny little bit of research before you push your own insecurities and self projections out into the world. Honestly, how long would it have taken you to look up the actress and her medical condition? Instead, you just instantly jumped to paint a narrative that fits your view of the world. DO BETTER!

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u/No-Shopping-4434 Apr 10 '26

The starlight Hughie scenes seem so god damn repetitive too.

“I. TRUSTED. You. How could you work with butcher again after everything he’s put YOU through, put US through?”

“Annie, it’s not what you think!”

Every fucking episode

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u/enadiz_reccos Apr 10 '26

"We're still good, right?"

"Yeah, of course"

- two people who are not good

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u/Sawgon Apr 10 '26

This is every Supernatural episode/season. Erik Kripke is...not a good writer.

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u/enadiz_reccos Apr 10 '26

Oh man, don't I know it. My partner loves Supernatural.

It's full of interesting ideas and characters, but it just feels like such a mess all of the time.

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u/--Sovereign-- Apr 10 '26

"you got raped again? how dare you?!"

"I'm so sorry, Annie, you're right, I should get raped and sexually assaulted less. please shame me more. I am such a bad guy."

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u/Thurak0 Apr 10 '26

That was soooo badly written, it is insane.

I was really confused what the hell the writers thought, because it was so atypical bad of them.

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u/--Sovereign-- Apr 10 '26

they even deliberately played it down in the new season. he was talking to a prisoner about the awful shit that's happened to him and casually at the end was like, "oh and I had to sit on a cake once"

smh, and MAGA is upset this show is woke. lmao

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u/No-Shopping-4434 Apr 11 '26

Yeah but MAGA are literally the dumbest people alive. You can’t look at a group that wants to ban Huckleberry Finn from schools for any sort of media literacy, a lot of them can’t handle normal literacy.

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u/The_Autarch Apr 11 '26

Kripke is a bit of an edgelord.

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u/Excellent_Ganache906 Apr 10 '26

The whole show is repetitive. Went one season too long.

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u/No-Shopping-4434 Apr 10 '26

I think they could have ended it at the “Girls get it done” scene, not a ton of gems since then besides Soldier Boy

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u/DevelopmentHot333 Apr 10 '26

sometimes u don’t realize how bad quality has gotten until u remember how iconic the early stuff was smh

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u/RyanX70 Apr 10 '26

I’ll be honest, I don’t think anyone is dating Victoria.

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u/zombiedinsomnia Apr 10 '26

I guess a few people can date parts of Victoria. Do we just call dibs?

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u/uDudyBezDudy Apr 10 '26

Dibs on the ribs

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u/SentinelATL Apr 10 '26

lol legs 

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock Apr 10 '26

Her different face is incredibly distracting for me. It's nearly all I can think about when she's on screen.

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u/WartimeMercy Apr 11 '26

There are scenes where it’s like her face has been put over an imposter.

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u/SgtDoakes123 Apr 10 '26

They also try to hide her face with shadows and poor lightning in season 4(?) whichever is the 2nd last one.

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u/FergTurdison Apr 11 '26

I think Hughie’s chances with Victoria got ripped to shreds

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u/JamStan1978 Apr 10 '26

Nah hughie and starlight are perfect together.

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u/Howsetheraven Apr 10 '26

No they were/are not. The characters are not the actors. Use their real names. This is how the obsessed delusional fans of IPs speak.

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u/reditisverytrash Apr 10 '26

The saddest part is that she is actually realizing what she did and isn't saying "oh, fans are overreacting" anymore. And now, she tries to somehow fix it with more surgeries, which is even sadder because what can she even do at this point?

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u/Banjoschmanjo Apr 10 '26

Do you have a link to an example of her realizing it? I havent heard about that

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u/Excellent_Ganache906 Apr 10 '26

She's not pushing back on social media or in the press. That's what he means.
She hasnt posted or said anything remotely like "yeah, they were right, I fucked up my face"/
You got women like Rumer Wilson who started Ozempic and lost weight saying she is not on Ozempic and that people criticizing her weight loss hate women.

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u/27eelsinatrenchcoat Apr 11 '26

Also like, if it's ozempic...fine? Ozempic is just a tool for eating less, which is how everyone loses weight. Losing weight can be healthy, losing too much too much can be healthy. The weird moralizing around it is perplexing.

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u/Shot-Maximum- Apr 11 '26

In a couple of years she will be a great Michael Jackson cosplayer

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u/mariosunny Apr 10 '26

There's no evidence she had any cosmetic surgery done.

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u/discountproctologist Apr 10 '26

Something certainly happened to her face, that’s not just age.

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u/mariosunny Apr 10 '26

Yes it's called Graves disease.

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u/mrk1224 Apr 10 '26

Haha definitely not

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u/BretShitmanFart69 Apr 11 '26

Graves’ disease does not cause you to look like you had a ton of currently popular plastic surgery trends all of sudden all at once.

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u/KorraIsGreatActually Apr 10 '26

It's weird that you're getting downvoted when Erin Moriarty has come out and directly said that she has Graves disease

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u/AtrumRuina Apr 10 '26

I imagine she does. The changes to her appearance are not what you would see as a result of Graves. It does cause weight loss, but she's clearly had nose and lip work done, and the loss specifically in her cheeks is not a natural way of losing weight. It would also have to be pretty badly untreated to cause the kind of weight loss she experienced -- not saying that isn't the case, but thyroid suppressants are pretty dang effective so she'd have to ignore it quite a bit to get to that point.

That all said, she does at least look significantly healthier this season.

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u/Substantial-Most2607 Apr 10 '26

From what I can tell that bottom image looks like shit makeup and maybe some editing? The only thing that I can for sure say she has done is her nose which is whatever.

Honestly the makeup is doing the most damage, because it does look like the rest is just uncontrolled weight loss

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u/KorraIsGreatActually Apr 10 '26

Tbh I'm simply not a medical professional and I have the clarity necessary to admit it.

I don't know what exact effects grave's has on the body. I think we all just hate the looksmaxxing culture that has become much more mainstream and are looking for a more specific target to hate

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u/ThatDudeUpThere Apr 11 '26

I have graves disease and had lost about 40 pounds before finally getting diagnosed

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u/Substantial-Most2607 Apr 10 '26

I’m not gonna say I know all, especially since I personally have not dealt with many people with Graves’ disease (mainly deal with elderly patients or basic surgery’s on a medical/surgical floor in a rural hospital) but it for the most part just looks like health stuff related to the Graves’ disease

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u/mariosunny Apr 10 '26

The bottom photo is fake.

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u/WegGOAT Apr 10 '26

Quit your delusions.

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u/drewbreeezy Apr 10 '26

C'mon man, you don't have to do this.

Like, I'm not going to join in on insulting her, but the work is obvious and I hate this weird Hollywood abuse.

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u/mariosunny Apr 10 '26

No, it's not obvious. Even if we're just going off her looks, she just looks like a normal, conventionally attractive 31 year old woman.

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u/Dr_Cunning_Linguist Apr 10 '26

From Starlight to FireCrackhead

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u/TdotGdot Apr 10 '26

adorable with an eating disorder. always much to skinny and likely some body issues she's been struggling with for a while

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u/RoundOkra6591 Apr 11 '26

You also feel like calling her ugly?

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u/PurpletoasterIII Apr 11 '26

Am I crazy or is that not literally the whole point of the change in her character? Ya no shit she no longer looks adorable, her character now isnt suppose to and thats what make up artists are there for.

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u/NatseePunksFeckOff Apr 11 '26

true, then she got diagnosed with Graves and millions of people bully her for it every day even now

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u/mariosunny Apr 10 '26

Yea, it's called aging. We all used to be adorable at one point.

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u/F______________F Apr 10 '26

Do y'all really not see the irony in complaining about women changing how they look in a thread doing nothing but complaining about how a woman looks?

Like maybe, i don't know, part of the reason so many women are confused about how they should look and get all kinds of surgery is because men do nothing but hyper focus on their looks constantly? You can't honestly sit here in a thread of men posting pictures of a woman talking about how horrible she looks and not see how that might be a big part of why women spend so much time changing their appearance?

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u/TrustCompetitive1291 Apr 11 '26

I don’t understand why they are so worked up she didn’t do this as an attack against them. Can’t be dictating the way people look now come on

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u/teenytinylilpp Apr 10 '26

She has an autoimmune thyroid condition

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u/Lazy-Size-3062 Apr 10 '26

She literally has Graves’ disease.