I think social media makes it worse. Before the advent of online dating and mass adoption of social media, seeing someone that was very attractive, for lack of a better way of saying it, was rare. Nowadays people that straight up look unreal (and are probably using drugs to look like that, be it appetite suppressants or steroids) are just a click away and it's really warped people's perceptions and standards, especially in the online dating game, and especially when a majority of adults in the real world are overweight or obese. None of this was the case in the past.
Leads to a massive dissonance and disconnect between what people want and what they can realistically achieve, for both men and women. Both for themselves and their potential partners.
Doesn't help that seeing people only through their curated, likely touched up, photo galleries puts everyone in competition with models who have teams of professionals to make them up, take photos and photoshop them.
Maybe people in their early 20s or so but I think most people eventually figure out they're not going to be dating a perfectly hot 10/10 with zero physical flaws.
Sure there are the general societal brainworms that tell you only skinny people are attractive and whatever but I think that always existed.
There are filters that will slim you down or bulk you up, remove all your moles, change your eyes, hair, or facial structure, and nearly anything else. There are whole twitter accounts devoted to the really obvious tell tales left behind by bad filter or photoshop jobs.
I think social media makes it worse. Before the advent of online dating and mass adoption of social media, seeing someone that was very attractive, for lack of a better way of saying it, was rare. Nowadays people that straight up look unreal (and are probably using drugs to look like that, be it appetite suppressants or steroids) are just a click away and it's really warped people's perceptions and standards, especially in the online dating game, and especially when a majority of adults in the real world are overweight or obese. None of this was the case in the past.
Leads to a massive dissonance and disconnect between what people want and what they can realistically achieve, for both men and women. Both for themselves and their potential partners.
Doesn't help that seeing people only through their curated, likely touched up, photo galleries puts everyone in competition with models who have teams of professionals to make them up, take photos and photoshop them.
Maybe people in their early 20s or so but I think most people eventually figure out they're not going to be dating a perfectly hot 10/10 with zero physical flaws.
Sure there are the general societal brainworms that tell you only skinny people are attractive and whatever but I think that always existed.
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Do they really take hours to photoshop their TikToks though? Sure there are filters, but those don't really make women slimmer or put muscles on men.
They can make your face look really good tho.
There are filters that will slim you down or bulk you up, remove all your moles, change your eyes, hair, or facial structure, and nearly anything else. There are whole twitter accounts devoted to the really obvious tell tales left behind by bad filter or photoshop jobs.