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I believe that this article is meant to invoke horror and show how artificial the penthouse and the industry it upholds by using words like "picture perfect" or

I believe that this article is meant to invoke horror and show how artificial the penthouse and the industry it upholds by using words like "picture perfect" or "spotless". Personally, I'm all for it because the penthouse is just another step to making professional looking shots more accessible and attainable for the average person. As the article notes: "some were even booking hotel rooms or making covert visits to furniture stores to get their work done." Instagram is no longer a platform for uploading amateur photos. It's become its own industry now and we should be treating it as such, and not just shaking our heads.

wccrawford 8y ago
Lately I've heard a lot of people complaining about magazines photoshopping women and Facebook posts that depress people because they just show how great other people's lives are. This is the same thing. This is people deliberately creating an unrealistic scene and trying to play it off as real. People can do whatever they want, but I'd much rather follow someone who showing their own home instead of faking it to this extent. (And that goes for the people who rent a hotel room or pose in furniture stores, too.)
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
  What's so "unrealistic" about it? Unlike the Photoshopped fabrications you talk about it does indeed exist.
  - PhasmaFelis 8y ago
    It sells the lie "I am an ordinary person and this is how I live," just like airbrushed models sell the model "this is how a person is supposed to look." Don't get too hung up on the literal meaning of "realistic."
PhasmaFelis 8y ago
> Personally, I'm all for it because the penthouse is just another step to making professional looking shots more accessible and attainable for the average person. "The average person" doesn't make a living doing stealth advertising for lifestyle brands. This is a marketing service; it's not about accessibility.

wccrawford 8y ago

Lately I've heard a lot of people complaining about magazines photoshopping women and Facebook posts that depress people because they just show how great other people's lives are. This is the same thing. This is people deliberately creating an unrealistic scene and trying to play it off as real. People can do whatever they want, but I'd much rather follow someone who showing their own home instead of faking it to this extent. (And that goes for the people who rent a hotel room or pose in furniture stores, too.)

SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
What's so "unrealistic" about it? Unlike the Photoshopped fabrications you talk about it does indeed exist.
- PhasmaFelis 8y ago
  It sells the lie "I am an ordinary person and this is how I live," just like airbrushed models sell the model "this is how a person is supposed to look." Don't get too hung up on the literal meaning of "realistic."

PhasmaFelis 8y ago

> Personally, I'm all for it because the penthouse is just another step to making professional looking shots more accessible and attainable for the average person. "The average person" doesn't make a living doing stealth advertising for lifestyle brands. This is a marketing service; it's not about accessibility.