maybe its time people get a grip and realize photoshopped stuff is not real, movies are not real, cartoons are not real. Get a grip and do not attempt to run into the huge boulder just because a cartoon showed the roadrunner being able to.
> “Results showed that exposure to manipulated Instagram photos directly led to lower body image.” Engeln, Loach, Imundo, & Zola (2020)
Children with vulnerable developing brains being targeted by algorithms designed by teams of engineers and PhDs to exploit human psychology don't stand a chance. You may as well be telling heroin addicts to "just don't get addicted bro".
You can show kids /r/Instagramreality/ [1]. I doubt it will help.
that makes no sense, it would be more like telling people that are not yet addicted: "dont get addicted bro".
and yes, dont fucking get addicted
edit: humans are also attracted to fire, we tell kids, "dont stick your fingers into the fire", they learn.
It's the job of the parents to teach kids how the world works, including what are fictional constructs that should not be used for any kind of measurement.
If "just don't do X" worked, no one would be fat, corrupt, addicted, or injured in workplace accidents.
But people don't work that way, and "don't do X" is hopelessly reductive -- it leaves out all of the (often very strong) factors that drive people to actually do 'X', such as non-stop marketing on TV, movies, radio, and internet apps pushing them to look, think, act, and buy the same things.
That's not even considering that fact that the sheer volume of fake that gets dumped on people completely skews the logic aspect too. Even if you wanted to be rational about you successes and failures, how are you even supposed to know where you really stand?
I am reminded of the study that found that placebos "worked" (had positive effects) even when the patient knew it was a placebo[1]. Unrealistic standards of beauty perpetuated by digitally manipulated images in advertising and social media can mess you up the same way, even when you know what is at play. You can be manipulated by an ad even when you know it is an ad trying to sell you something you likely don't need.
Do you mean that anything projected onto a display isn't palpable, so it isn't real? That seems odd: what about my bank statement, or the comment you just left?
Or are you saying that people shouldn't care if they are misled by things on the internet? I get that people shouldn't believe Hollywood movies are real, but what about a video that someone makes which purports to be their real life?
I am trying to interpret your statement, but having trouble parsing it.
I am saying that people must exercise some thoughts about what is natural. I could pay someone to put my face in a tom cruise movie, and be just like him. Also, I dont believe that people make videos that "purports to be their real life" as such, I mean sure, they produce a video, but do they explicitly say "this is my real face with no makeup, and this is the entirety of my life, ONLY these glamerous things you see" ? and EVEN if they do, people must simply understand what medium they are watching. Find the latest John Wick movie, and it will claim hard to be real life, claim shit is real, but its not. If someone on instagram or tiktok makes claims, judge them for what they are.
Now sometimes it might be hard, but the obvious cases are EASY. its extremely easy to see when someone has industrial strength makeup, uses smoothening filters that takes away ALL details etc