{"id":2415,"date":"2015-05-26T07:29:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T14:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2015-05-26T15:20:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T22:20:22","slug":"women-photoshop-their-own-bodies-on-an-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/26\/women-photoshop-their-own-bodies-on-an-app\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Women Photoshop Their Own Bodies On An App&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a three-minute tour of why beautification features are a touchy subject\u2014desired &amp; disturbing at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HUh1PJYE8KA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A few sample quotes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I feel really gross hitting this checkmark because it&#8217;s like I&#8217;m validating everything I&#8217;ve just done.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;It automatically gets rid of all these freckles like it&#8217;s something that&#8217;s a bad thing.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I was more affected by it than I thought I would be.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;If you start seeing your friends doing something like this, and you don&#8217;t know that they&#8217;re doing it, then you start to think that real people look like this.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You would be disappointed that you&#8217;re not a Photoshop.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course there was an entire <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hobbit_%28South_Park%29\">South Park episode<\/a> on just this subject\u2014biting &#038; hilarious. Too bad it&#8217;s apparently not online at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>[Update: FWIW on the list of top 50 free apps in Korea, 5 are for beautification. The list in China features three. The list in the US features zero. \u2014Via Eunyoung Kim]<\/p>\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zRlpIkH3b5I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HUh1PJYE8KA\">YouTube 1<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zRlpIkH3b5I\">2<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a three-minute tour of why beautification features are a touchy subject\u2014desired &amp; disturbing at the same time. A few sample quotes: &#8220;I feel really gross hitting this checkmark because it&#8217;s like I&#8217;m validating everything I&#8217;ve just done.&#8221; &#8220;It automatically gets rid of all these freckles like it&#8217;s something that&#8217;s a bad thing.&#8221; &#8220;I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2423,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions\/2423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}