Re:Instagram's 'virtual' celebrities
by mkirklions on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:14AM
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I'm going with unrealistic expectations.
Instagram celebs are either hot girls, or guys with lots of money to pay for promoted content.
They dont take their own photos, they use professional photographers. Anyone without the professional style or not willing to play facebook's algorithm game loses out.
The internet is getting very specialized and content quality is skyrocketing.
Re:Instagram's 'virtual' celebrities
by rainbowmverse on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @04:18PM
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>> Instagram celebs are either hot girls, or guys with lots of money to pay for promoted content.
Guys are hot, too. Not all of them need to pay for ads, and not all the women got there without it.
Why bother when you could have normal people too? I mean I guess the main thing why you'd want a virtual model is to give them an unnatural appearance, like the Miquela character mentioned in the article, or err, the one with the huge eyes in a recent or upcoming movie.
However, I feel like this could be a whole new ball game in terms of setting unrealistic expectations (not that they aren't doing that anyway with photoshop). But if it is transparent that these IG models are virtual and not real, maybe that will help kids understand that real humans can't look as perfect as a virtual model and that helps them create realistic expectations?
edit: I suppose they could also use virtual models and fatten them up / give them more acne to make them more 'realistic'