the ethics of facetune [video]

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emma chamberlain

Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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[video available on Spotify] today i want to discuss the ethics of photo editing on social media. i'm not talking about upping the brightness or turning down the contrast on the photo a little bit. i'm talking about going in and changing the image completely. smoothing out your skin, making your waist a little smaller or your jaw line a little sharper. you used to have to know how to use professional photo editing software like photoshop to edit photos, and it wasn’t easy. but photo editing apps are incredibly accessible now and easy to use. it's so tempting to want to go in and tweak little things about an image so that you love it. and i think the most dangerous part about photo editing these days is that it can be impossible to spot. social media in general has had catastrophic effects on people's mental health, and that's ignoring the retouching side of things. so i'm facing a sort of moral dilemma. what I'm trying to figure out is, is it ever okay to alter your appearance in imagery? because when i look at this dilemma at face value, i think we should probably avoid this at all costs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today I want to discuss the ethics of photo editing on social media.
0:06.0	I'm not talking about upping the brightness of a photo a little bit
0:09.7	or turning down the contrast on the photo a little bit or changing the temperature of the photo a little bit.
0:15.4	No, I'm talking about retouching the image. I'm talking about going in and changing the image. I'm talking about going in and changing the image completely.
0:26.0	Smoothing out your skin, making your waist a little smaller, making your toes a little less wide, making your jawline a little sharper.
0:37.6	I'm talking about going in and retouching an image. Prior to apps like Facetoon, you had to know how to use a
0:47.4	professional photo editing software like Photoshop in order to truly change an image and make it look believable.
0:58.0	You needed to open up your computer, open up Photoshop and like get in there.
1:03.2	It was not easy.
1:04.5	Photoshop is not easy.
1:05.8	I to this day don't know how to use Photoshop.
1:08.0	It is really challenging and time consuming to use.
1:12.1	So I think for a while there,
1:15.0	social media was pretty real, right?
1:20.0	There wasn't really an option for the everyday person to retouch their images
1:26.7	But now with apps like face tune anyone can go in and make their lips bigger, make their jawline sharper, make their toes longer,
1:36.5	smooth out their skin, do whatever they can possibly imagine to an image, and it's never been easier.
1:44.0	Photo editing apps in general are incredibly accessible now and incredibly easy to use.
1:52.0	I mean don't get me wrong, there are some people that
1:55.4	don't have the magic thumb when it comes to
1:59.9	using Face-Tune and you can tell that they face-Tune the image, but there are some people out there
2:05.2	that are so fucking good at it that you can't even tell they used an app like Face-Tune.
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