00:00Okay guys, I don't know if you guys have been seeing some of the promoted posts on Instagram
00:04from some of these companies. I want to show you guys them because I'm actually like just appalled.
00:10Some of these companies who basically promise this idea of like the perfect figure and really
00:17what they're doing is they're telling everybody they're not perfect enough and then they kind
00:20of show you a picture of how you should look. I've seen things like this posted everywhere
00:25on Instagram. These are promoted posts and they're basically showing a normal looking girl who's
00:30actually looks really good and how she should look and promising that if you go to this app you can
00:36edit yourself and you can look like this. This is problematic on so many levels. They made her butt
00:41bigger. They made her waist tinier. They have made her look like a non-natural person and I've seen
00:47a lot of these apps lately and they're really they're pissing me off so badly because they're
00:52giving these like these ideals and they're putting these like very ridiculous standards
00:57in place. We already have ridiculous standards. We don't need standards that are worsening the way
01:02that people should feel about themselves and it's just really frustrating. I've seen so many of these
01:06posts but the beauty standards are already problematic. We already feel like we need to do so much and
01:11that's already an issue. Never mind these apps out there that are trying to promise an unattainable
01:16beauty standard that is quite frankly really unhealthy and I mean like I have a daughter like I can't
01:21imagine my daughter seeing something like this and thinking this is okay and normal completely normal
01:25and then questioning herself because of it. I am genuinely upset like personally like emotionally
01:32disturbed. I don't even know what to say. Please do not download these apps. Please do not promote
01:36them and if you if there is an option on Instagram to say please do not show me apps like this
01:40please click that app or that option because honestly like this is so problematic. This is a step in the
01:46it almost paints the picture that you're before which is your natural self which is the human self
01:52is not good enough. That is not okay. We need to stop that narrative right now. There are already
01:57problems with the beauty standards and the beauty narrative. We don't need that one on top of what's
02:01going on right now. I'm actually going to edit some of my photos that I have posted and show you guys
02:06with this editing when you edit it this way how unrealistic it looks. Like what is the problem with
02:11being natural? There's nothing wrong with looking human.
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