The Marketing Bestie Podcast with zoeunlimited - "this filter cured my body dysmorphia"

Episode Date: August 4, 2024

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Gonna use this filter every day to cure my body dysmorphia. That we live in a society that made me hate my body when I sit. And I've gone to a place where I don't hate it anymore, but still, you're kidding me? I'm just sitting. I'm just sitting. I'm eating and I'm chilling. Seasonal depression? No, I'm a bad bitch seasoned with depression. It stays all year long. What I love most about TikTok is that it always never fails to refresh my understanding of the world and challenges me to think in, well, new perspectives, like how a filter can cure body dysmorphia. Yes, ladies and jeds, the solution to a messed up healthcare system in America is, after all, a filter.

You have to try this filter. I went from disgusting to a baddie real quick. What this cured my body dysmorphia? Hello and welcome back to another commentary video. The discussion today is inspired by a TikTok trend that popped off over a year ago, but it's still very much relevant in today's terms. And it is the body dysmorphia filter. Honestly, just by the sound of that, you already know that this is a purely golden trend. We'll talk about what is body dysmorphia,

a breakdown of all the quote-unquote body dysmorphic filters, as well as the unfiltered reality of conditional self-acceptance. What is body dysmorphia? What? What this? Eno-Sima Junco, your makke. Mackete?

Mockete? What I? According to the Mayo Clinic, the body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD, is a mental health condition in which you can't stop thinking about one or more perceived defects or flaws in your appearance. A flaw that appears, minor or can't even be seen by others, but you feel so embarrassed, ashamed, and anxious that you

may avoid many social situations. People of any age can have BDD, but it's most common in teenagers and young adults, which honestly isn't really a surprise considering that these are the largest consumer groups on social media and are still developing the perceptions of themselves. Multiple studies indicate that body dysmorphic disorder impacts between 2.3% to 7% to 7% of the general population. BDD is commonly found in clinical settings with studies reporting a prevalence of 9% to 12% in dermatology settings, 3% to 53% in cosmetic surgery settings, 8% to 37% in individuals with OCD, and 11% to 13% in social phobia. These estimates may underreport its prevalence. Many individuals with BDD feel ashamed of their

appearance and the fact that they are so focused on it. As a consequence they may not report their BDD symptoms to clinicians. When I first discovered this body dysmorphia curing filter trend on TikTok, I was really taken aback because when my understanding of the platform TikTok seems to be more of a contributor to the issue rather than a cure. He heard this filter cures your body dysmorphia. Oh thank god I don't actually look like that. Could you imagine? It's a bit a sound. So how in the world? does a filter cure body dysmorphia.

So I ducked through this trend and found three general filters that supposedly cured people's body dysmorphia. The first one being... Have you ever spotted McDonald's hot, crispy fries right as they're being scooped into the carton? And time just stands still. Bada-b-p-p-p-p-pah. Your data is like gold to hackers. gold to hackers. They're selling your passwords, bank details, and private messages. McAfee helps stop them. Secure VPN keeps your online activity private.

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which is a scratch through the issue and does not cure your ultimate perception of yourself. Next we have our old friend, the inverted filter, which I talk more extensively in my pretty privileged commentary video, to be very honest. The camera flipped versus not flipped looks quite the same, no matter how symmetric you look. The real reason behind why we think the inverted version of ourselves looks so much better is in relation to the mirror exposure effect.

A psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things or people that are more familiar to them than others. We tend to prefer our mirror faces because that's the face we see the most often. Because we see ourselves most often through a mirror or reflection. We grow accustomed to that image of ourselves and develop a preference for it. On the flip side, the inverted filter has also gone to the toxic side, where girls cried about having their faces not being perfectly symmetrical, which is honestly more than natural. And the last filter that is proclaimed to cure body dysmorphia is fake muscles.

I honestly cannot understand the logic to this one. People have fake abs added onto their bodies and feel great on camera, but a brief few seconds living in a filter frame doesn't actually change someone's body, nor the level of acceptance of their bodies. If they only start to accept their body in relation to the filter, then it's kind of like putting a band-aid on a fractured bone. It gives the illusion of healing and fixing the problem. I'm just saying this filter should not be allowed.

Like, I like the way I look, but this is, this makes me not like the way I normally look. because I want to look like this. This is crazy. Now back to the unfiltered topic of genuine self-acceptance versus conditional self-acceptance. From my perspective, none of these filters can cure any body dysmorphic symptoms. The fact that one is using a filter to either make the part of themselves they are insecure about a less ideal state or a more ideal state through a filter

just shows how much attention they are putting on that part. part of their body. I'm ready for my life to change. ABC Sunday, American Idol returned. Give it your all good luck. Come out of the golden ticket. Let's hear it. This is a man's word.

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That's why there are so many face filters who make your eyes bigger, lips thicker, skin brighter, face smaller or way skinnier. If there were no demand, there won't be any supply. Other than the fact that some filters are fun to play with. Why would someone intentionally put on a filter that would morph a part of their natural body into something else? And here's why I have an issue with filters. I have hated my body nearly my whole entire life. But I've never had an issue with my face. Never.

But then I put this filter on and now I want a face like this. I actually look like this. And here's the weird thing about filters. Because it's becoming so prevalent, our eyes from a media consumer perspective almost got accustomed to the filter faces, the near quote unquote perfect complexions and so on.

In this augmented filter reality, reality, the benchmark for beauty or normal shifted to a new look, where without any filters or some kind of change to your natural complexion, you will look different from the rest of the faces or bodies on social media. And in turn, these filters make you pay more attention to a certain part of your appearance, where the discrepancy between your filtered and unfiltered face and body becomes a fuel that lights up a feeling called inadequacy or insecurity. So no. I think quite opposite from how the trend claims, filters don't actually cure body's morphia.

They only alter yours and others' perspectives on how your face and body should look, which could become very dangerous if one only accepts the filter version of themselves. I have nothing against people who use or don't use filters. It's a personal choice of if you need to wear or not wear makeup. But true self-acceptance shouldn't be conditional and should be able to withstand Any filters or lack thereof. So that is all I wanted to talk about today. Let me know in the comment section of your thoughts on using filters.

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