Today's #dailysignal looks at how increasing numbers of young men are getting jaw surgery to look for "alpha male" - and how that follows on from the leg-breaking "height extension" trend - and how that, in turn links to "snapchat dysmorphia" and other very-online plastic surgery trends. Furthermore, these extreme self-alteration trends to make one look more like your perfect, filtered, avatar self make sense - from an economic and asocial status point of view - since our society does place an economic premium on tall and beautiful people.
Can we change these incentives? Or do we need to change ourselves to fit in with the "perfect avatar" always-on-filter world?
Why do we pay tall, attractive people more attention and money?
What price would you put on altering yourself? (If any)
Are you envious of your own avatar?
Have you indulged in fancy AI filters to give yourself an economic advantage in the dating and or "real" economy?
(Disclaimer : This video was made filter free, but with makeup on - is not makeup also "cheating"? And if so why do filters and surgery make us so much more uncomfortable/ outraged?)
Read more:
Jawbreakers : https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/jaw-surgery-men
Break your legs to get ahead : https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/men-are-spending-200k-and-enduring-the-worst-pain-imaginable-to-grow-three-inches (good news is, the surgery has got cheaper...)
Snapchat dysmorphia and how it's evolved since! https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/669/175799.html
Zoom-facials : https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2021/06/10481534/zoom-boom-plastic-cosmetic-surgery-pandemic
Tempting filters today :
Tall privilege has an economic price : https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/the-financial-perks-of-being-tall/393518/
Sex, drugs and AI Eurovision : https://www.fluxtrends.com/sex-drugs-and-ai-eurovision/
Painful incentives