Summary
Why isn’t “airbrushed skin for all” written in the constitution? For years, photoshop was a professional’s game, gatekept, if you will, from the masses. But then Facetune came about and forever changed the course of history, democratizing photoshop to the dysmorphic masses. The promise of a user-friendly photoshop experience, where anybody could fabricate their appearance, was more seductive than anything because, by the year 2017, Facetune was the most popular paid app around. But as people begin to hide behind their social media avatars, and as our avatars become less realistic by the day, we can’t help but wonder whether Facetune has damaged our self-perception forever. In this finale episode, Hannah and Maia discuss the impact of Facetune - from the advent of “no face,” to Celebface turning “facetune-spotting” into a sport, to plastic surgeons using it as a conditioning tool. Has our vain, over-stimulated visual culture raised the ceiling so high that we now aspire to look like aliens? Tangents include: Lena Dunham’s new show, and Mary M. Cosby’s photoshop skills.
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| 0:00.0 | This is old news. But Lena Dunham came out with a new show. And, you know, people have been |
| 0:07.3 | waiting. They've been in anticipation. She's having her Renaissance. People are like, we're so sorry. |
| 0:11.9 | Not everyone is like, we're so sorry, Lena Dunham. If you see one of her interviews make it to like |
| 0:16.6 | the wrong part of the internet, you're like, oh no, people are still really horrible about Lena Dunham. But for the most part, the people who matter like her have been anticipating. |
| 0:27.2 | We've been anticipating. So the show's called Too Much, blah, blah, blah, you've probably |
| 0:30.2 | heard of it. And it stars Meg Stalter of Hacks, a comedian. And it's hard for me to say it's on |
| 0:37.2 | the level of girls by any means. I do think |
| 0:39.8 | that it's like lacking Lena Dunham. Like I do think Lena Dunham on top of being an amazing |
| 0:44.2 | writer is a really great actress for these specific types of roles. And yeah, it's hard not to have her |
| 0:50.8 | in there. She just has this kind of naturalism. And she knows how to recite her dialogue |
| 0:55.0 | in the exact right way that sometimes I can hear Meg Stultor doing it and it kind of sounds like a Lena Dunham impression of the way she like recites the lines. But that's not her fault. I think she's still doing a great job. But no, I've been liking it so far. Okay, that's so interesting because So I've only seen the first episode. |
| 1:11.0 | I watched it with some friends here. |
| 1:12.5 | And we were all kind of iffy about it. been looking it so far. Okay, that's so interesting because I've only seen the first episode. |
| 1:15.0 | I've watched it with some friends here and we were all kind of iffy about it. |
| 1:22.6 | I think for me because you can hear the voice, like the girl's voice, but it does feel like it's not, I don't know, I think that the genius of girls or like the strength of it comes from how ingrained |
| 1:29.3 | its actors and like creators and everyone were in the world that it was reproducing and commenting on |
| 1:35.3 | that it felt like there was so much truth in there that it like hit in a much more immediate way. |
| 1:41.6 | It was real to them. Yeah. Yeah. Whereas I've only seen an episode, so I'm probably speaking too soon. |
| 1:48.7 | But I think I found that like with too much, it wasn't quite doing that for me yet. |
| 1:56.2 | I think like the pilot of girls is just so hard to compete with. |
| 2:00.5 | Like that's such an insane standard to |
| 2:02.7 | try and live up to, maybe. But I think you're right. I really enjoy Meg Stalter as a |
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