DrBob, 🧠 MechanicMar 14, 2024

#Algorithms Hijacked My Generation.
I Fear For #GenAlpha

“What happened? We need to know.

#InstagramFace, I have come to believe, is just one symptom of something far larger and more pernicious. It is one manifestation of what I see as the driving force behind much of #GenZ’s growing and global mental health crisis. It is the end result—the inevitable end-point—of what I think of as the algorithmic conveyor belt. Let me explain”

#Instagram #Facebook #socialmedia
https://www.after-babel.com/p/algorithms-hijacked-my-generation

bs2Jun 30, 2023
> ... the only difference we have with our medieval European counterparts is that we come up with new beauty standards that everyone is supposed to live up to much more quickly. So, hooray?
https://going-medieval.com/2023/06/20/on-the-11000-virgin-martyrs-iconography-and-beauty-standards/#more-5716
#EleanorJanega on #GoingMedieval #BeautyStandards and #InstagramFace? #OnceAndFutureSex
On the 11,000 virgin martyrs, iconography, and beauty standards

The other week while wandering around the Cologne Cathedral (shout out to a legend) I came upon an extremely excellent altar in one of the side chapels. Built into its base were several perfectly i…

Going Medieval
pablolarahApr 1, 2023

👛 The age of average
by Alex Murrell @alexjmurrell
#homogeneity #InternationalAirBNBStyle #AirSpace #GenericCity #America5over1architecture #AutomotiveBlandingBrandIdentities #InstagramFace #FilmPosters #SwearySelfHelpBooks #Shelfies #moodboardeffect

https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average

The age of average — Alex Murrell

In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market research firm to survey the public on what they wanted in a work of art. Across 11 countries they then set about painting a piece that reflected the results. Each piece was intended to be a unique a colla

Alex Murrell
Blake (Pandora Blake)Mar 25, 2023
This longread on #InstagramFace is simultaneously fascinating and kind of depressing. As someone who has never had plastic surgery, it's somewhat gratifying to read about the growing movement to dissolve #Botox. Botox has become ubiquitous - and rich women have never wanted to look like everyone else. But the #beauty industry will continue to find new and unattainable standards for us to aspire to.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/class-politics-instagram-face
The Class Politics of Instagram Face

Plastic surgery is changing, and for an obvious reason: When in history have rich women ever wanted to look like regular ones?

Tablet Magazine