The Sleepover Club: The Yassification Of The Internet
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Over the past few weeks, the internet has been overrun with yassified edits of our faves. Perhaps you've seen Toni Collette with smoothed out skin, Fiona from Shrek sporting a gorgeous smokey eye, or the 'oi mista, you me dad?' doll looking like she's about to head out for a night at Vodka Revs. But while we all become obsessed with yassifying our faves, Ione and Halima are going deep on what the meme really means, and how beauty standards have changed throughout the course of the internet.
Most of us feel like beauty standards are being broken down, if not obliterated altogether. But from Instagram face, to FaceTune Pro, we're still trapped searching for the best version of ourselves and buying into whichever editing app can get us there the quickest. Is the Yassification meme the only thing that can save us from airbrushed hell?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Halima. |
| 0:01.4 | Hi, Ioni. |
| 0:02.8 | And hello to the listeners. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to the Polyester podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | I am Ioni and I am the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester Zene. |
| 0:12.1 | I am joined today by Halima, who is our community editor and podcast co-host. |
| 0:18.7 | This week, it is the Sleepover club where Halima and I have all those |
| 0:22.9 | gorge conversations you would usually have at a sleepover. And then soon enough, we will have |
| 0:28.2 | an obsessions episode where we speak to a creative we admire about something they're obsessed |
| 0:32.6 | with that has absolutely nothing to do of how they generate their income. And I just |
| 0:36.2 | have to do that whole intro by myself because Halima has not learned it yet. |
| 0:39.5 | Yars, what can I say? |
| 0:40.8 | On the pretty face. |
| 0:43.2 | Speaking of pretty faces, bum, bum, bum. |
| 0:47.0 | What are we talking about today, Helima? |
| 0:49.4 | The justification of the internet. |
| 0:54.2 | So, for anyone who may not be on the internet, |
| 0:59.5 | what is the yastification meme? |
| 1:02.5 | So the yastification meme involves like the editing of like photos of like pop figures |
| 1:07.6 | or historical figures or political figures to resemble like glamazons |
| 1:12.7 | with smoky eyes and very fabulous hair and like very like white-esque faces. |
| 1:18.1 | Yeah, when I think of it like when I've seen just random, because people have just started |
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