tyrazane
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Hey,
So i’ve been thinking about it. Media heavily impacts our views on what’s attractive. Mainstream media is mainly from the west- for example most male (and female) models are from the united states. This causes our brains to pair (mostly) the classic euro look- white skin, blue eyes and dark brown hair with attraction.
In the same way media effects our views it also (obviously) effects the way we feel about the people around us. When I was 10 and I saw someone who is inherently ugly I wouldn’t think of them as bad as I would now. Similarly, girls start seeing more attractive men on social media and movies and subconsciously compare men around them to the top 1% that they see online.
Knowing all of this I feel like blackpill and looksmaxxing cause more videos and attention to the top 1% of men (and women) which makes everyone else (many more then normal) compare the people around them and even themselves to these models and htn+’s posted online.
If you think about it 30-60 years ago (depending on how old you are) your parents were only influenced slightly by tv and a lot more by the people around them. This essentially grounds them- if you see more ugly and average people, the people who look slightly better then normal stand out more.
There is lots of evidence that this isn’t just a guess. A analysis of 24 experimental studies involving 3,816 participants found that exposure to appearance-ideal images on social media had a moderate negative effect on body image (Hedges’ g = −0.61). In other words, repeatedly showing people highly idealized appearances can actually influence how they perceive their own appearance.
Thanks for reading!
Conclusion is to not judge yourself too highly on what others think and just be yourself. Looks do matter but it’s really how good you think you look rather than some fat foid who thinks you don’t look close enough to marlon to date.
So i’ve been thinking about it. Media heavily impacts our views on what’s attractive. Mainstream media is mainly from the west- for example most male (and female) models are from the united states. This causes our brains to pair (mostly) the classic euro look- white skin, blue eyes and dark brown hair with attraction.
In the same way media effects our views it also (obviously) effects the way we feel about the people around us. When I was 10 and I saw someone who is inherently ugly I wouldn’t think of them as bad as I would now. Similarly, girls start seeing more attractive men on social media and movies and subconsciously compare men around them to the top 1% that they see online.
Knowing all of this I feel like blackpill and looksmaxxing cause more videos and attention to the top 1% of men (and women) which makes everyone else (many more then normal) compare the people around them and even themselves to these models and htn+’s posted online.
If you think about it 30-60 years ago (depending on how old you are) your parents were only influenced slightly by tv and a lot more by the people around them. This essentially grounds them- if you see more ugly and average people, the people who look slightly better then normal stand out more.
There is lots of evidence that this isn’t just a guess. A analysis of 24 experimental studies involving 3,816 participants found that exposure to appearance-ideal images on social media had a moderate negative effect on body image (Hedges’ g = −0.61). In other words, repeatedly showing people highly idealized appearances can actually influence how they perceive their own appearance.
Thanks for reading!
Conclusion is to not judge yourself too highly on what others think and just be yourself. Looks do matter but it’s really how good you think you look rather than some fat foid who thinks you don’t look close enough to marlon to date.