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>According to the make-up artist Colby Smith, Kim Kardashian is patient-zero of Instagram face. Ultimately, he says, every social media star’s goal is to look l
by 0xDEAFBEAD 2y ago
>According to the make-up artist Colby Smith, Kim Kardashian is patient-zero of Instagram face. Ultimately, he says, every social media star’s goal is to look like her.
Pretty sure Kim K's look is itself highly artificial. Here are some of her old photos:
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https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/kim-k-a-interview-1563226220.jpg?crop=0.502xw:1.00xh;0.352xw,0&resize=980:\ https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/kim-k-a-intervie...*
>We are so conformist, nobody is thinking.
I continue to believe this is downstream of the like/upvote/share architecture of modern social media.
The early internet was a space for nonconformist weirdos. The early internet was also a space where the like, the upvote, and the share hadn't yet been invented. Maybe that's not a coincidence.