Instagram's 'virtual' celebrities

Re:Instagram's 'virtual' celebrities by ponderatul on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:00AM (#16754726)

The commoditization of beauty. Or the next thing that will become cheap, by these providers of beauty. Hopefully the market will be oversaturated with beauty, computer generated perfection and after some time swimming in this junk, we will once again appreciate real people, with all their problems, inconsistencies, imperfections.

Until then let us all hail our gods of technological progress.

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Re:Instagram's 'virtual' celebrities by Vaskivo on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:39AM (#16755118)

And then we will have artificial problems, inconsistencies and imperfections.

There will always be capitalization and fabrication on what is popular and perceived to be "good". "Reality" TV is a thing :)

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Re:Instagram's 'virtual' celebrities by edgarvaldes on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:26AM (#16754968)

But then, we will have virtual beauty, with some human imperfections added here and there.

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Re:Instagram's 'virtual' celebrities by creep on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:54AM (#16755282)

I think this is a good thing. We all know models are heavily photoshopped and overlaid with CGI. But we also cannot separate that from the real person, even though the image isn't real. If this catches on in fashion I feel a weight can be lifted from our shoulders. We will know most of the images are completely computer-generated.

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Re:Instagram's 'virtual' celebrities by kbenson on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:46AM (#16755196)

I mean sure, that's what we saw with retouched playboy centerfolds a couple decades back, right?

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Re:Instagram's 'virtual' celebrities by gabept on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:49AM (#16755215)

It's commoditization of human beauty.

It's not commoditization of beauty.

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