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A TikTok trend centred around a latest filter effect is being called out for body shaming and fatphobia.
Often known as the ‘chubby face’ filter, the effect gives users the looks of a fuller face and folks have been using it to assume what they might appear like in the event that they were at a better weight, before reverting back to their original appearance seemingly relieved to be “thinner” again. Most of the videos are also accompanied by captions stating how the user’s self-esteem increased after the filter was taken off again.The trend has come under fire from many, who're hurt by the fatphobia involved within the videos and having their facial expression be seemingly made fun of. “I hate...
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Grimes is the queen of post-human aesthetics, from her experiments in bio-hacking to her (as yet unrealised) plans to get matching brain chips with Lil Uzi Vert. Her futuristic beauty looks have inspired a whole generation of terminally online alt-girls and emo faeries, who fuse tech and fantasy elements of their quest to higher resemble video-game characters.
Earlier this yr, the Canadian auteur took the subsequent step in her “long slow effort to have a full alien body” with a second white ink tattoo. The primary, a sprawling backpiece from 2021, was a collaboration between tattoo artist Tweakt and artist Nusi Quero. Described as “beautiful alien scars”, each tattoos resemble tribal tattoos from a martian technocracy; their white lines giving the...
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