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… because influencers also don’t “look like influencers” if you don’t do proper lighting and posing plus a bit of photo/video shop... additionally, only take pi

… because influencers also don’t “look like influencers” if you don’t do proper lighting and posing plus a bit of photo/video shop... additionally, only take pictures and video footage after hungering periods, then use the picture material over the next few month..

safety1st 3y ago
Yeah this was a pretty stupid article. I mean I go to the gym regularly and see some amazingly good looking people, some of whom are no doubt fitness influencers, and guess what... none of them look like fitness influencers on Instagram. Because it's all fake. It's all doctored. It's lighting, airbrushing, filters, and whatever other increasingly advanced AI-augmented techniques are being used to make digital images look hyper-real and impossibly good. If anything amazes me it's how many people fail to understand this. I guess the millions doomscrolling on the couch in their underwear have not seen what an actual great body looks like, so they believe the fitness "photos" on IG are real. Thus the scrolls continue and the money flows...
- bradlys 3y ago
  Not all of it is “fake”. Getting a pump, having good downlighting, and being picky about what you eat that day are all things that will make a lot of people who appear soft in other conditions look freaky. I’ve seen it for myself. Downlighting and a pump is your real body.
- red-iron-pine 3y ago
  > I guess the millions doomscrolling on the couch in their underwear have not seen what an actual great body looks like, so they believe the fitness "photos" on IG are real. perception is reality, and most people are bombarded by these images in TV, movies, video games, and social media. that is their normal, and they've been getting those images since they were kids, when He-Man and Barbie were their role models. I believe the term is "hypernormalization"

safety1st 3y ago

Yeah this was a pretty stupid article. I mean I go to the gym regularly and see some amazingly good looking people, some of whom are no doubt fitness influencers, and guess what... none of them look like fitness influencers on Instagram. Because it's all fake. It's all doctored. It's lighting, airbrushing, filters, and whatever other increasingly advanced AI-augmented techniques are being used to make digital images look hyper-real and impossibly good. If anything amazes me it's how many people fail to understand this. I guess the millions doomscrolling on the couch in their underwear have not seen what an actual great body looks like, so they believe the fitness "photos" on IG are real. Thus the scrolls continue and the money flows...

bradlys 3y ago
Not all of it is “fake”. Getting a pump, having good downlighting, and being picky about what you eat that day are all things that will make a lot of people who appear soft in other conditions look freaky. I’ve seen it for myself. Downlighting and a pump is your real body.
red-iron-pine 3y ago
> I guess the millions doomscrolling on the couch in their underwear have not seen what an actual great body looks like, so they believe the fitness "photos" on IG are real. perception is reality, and most people are bombarded by these images in TV, movies, video games, and social media. that is their normal, and they've been getting those images since they were kids, when He-Man and Barbie were their role models. I believe the term is "hypernormalization"