Millions of people see pictures from the media every day, and we all know how much the media influences us in almost all, if not everything we do. Now, this is already wrong enough, but what makes it worse is the fact that almost all of these pictures we see aren't even real themselves.
Now, these pictures may not be completely fake, but, they really do stretch the truth on how things, or people look.
The question I have is, why? why do people have to look a certain way to be famous, then their pictures are edited even further? Cant people just be happy with what's in front of them anymore?
This commercial by Dove, shows the effects of photo manipulation
In the commercial, not only do they cover her in makeup, and change her hairstyle to make her look "more beautiful" but even after that, they continue to change her appearance in ways that aren't physically possible, making her neck thinner and longer, her eyes bigger. In the end, we're not even looking at a photo anymore, it's an illustration, an illustration of a fake person who looks too perfect to be real
Photo manipulation is just plain wrong, all it does is try to make something good out of nothing special, then it makes a bunch of people mad when they find out that they were tricked into believing it was real. People and things should be portrayed how they are, not "how they should be." It creates a degrading standard of what things should be like, and it deserves to be stopped.
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