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Performing quite a lot of surgical procedures digitally, the Instagram and TikTok accounts promote an unsettling definition of beauty Cultural turning points are rarely the grand, seismic events you examine in textbooks. Sure – there’s 9/11 or Obama being elected to office, but there’s also the iPhone, Caitlyn Jenner coming out, and Beyoncé’s Lemonade. And whether we prefer it or not, there are many smaller (more trivial) moments which work just as hard to maintain culture ticking. Think that Snapchat dog filter or Bella Hadid’s alleged nose job. It’s on the intersection of those two particular phenomena that a disturbing recent trend has emerged: Instagram accounts dedicated to photoshopping celebrities and giving them imagined...