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Photoshop was Yesterday: The New Reality of Female Image Manipulation

I was first made aware of how women manipulate images of themselves when I dipped my toes into online dating well over a decade ago. I had one encounter where I was supposed to meet up with a total stunner. She had breathtaking pictures on her profile. What I got to see in real life, however, I found hard to stomach. Quite frankly, I got quite annoyed by that so I openly asked her if that kind of trickery normally works for her. In her boundless delusion, she told me that she does not know what I am talking about because what I had seen were “pictures of her”, conveniently leaving out the part where she heavily edits them. Of course, I was an “asshole” and “fickle” because I turned around and walked away.

In my naivety, I assumed the worst you could get via online dating are women who put up pictures of themselves that are a few years old or trickery with flattering angles, which was back then referred to as “MySpace angles”. Little did I know that there was a vanguard of women with a modicum of technical skills who used professional photo editing tools to make themselves look more appealing. A few years later, a girl I was dating introduced me to the next level. She was a bit of an airhead and probably could not have wrapped her head around using a complex tool like Photoshop. Yet, she gave me a primer on how to use the standard tools in Apple OSX to make her pictures look better. Using contrast and blurs did not really impress me, but she knew how to give herself a virtual tan with a few mouse clicks. I found that quite remarkable. Nowadays, this is standard.

What the current crop of apps is able to do is nothing compared to any of that. They essentially provide women with the power of Photoshop but make it accessible to the computer-illiterate generation that is only able to move their thumb across a touch screen. There are apps like FaceTune, which turn an ugly duckling into a princess. Besides improving skin tone or removing blemishes, women can now reshape their entire face with ease: bigger eyes, fuller lips, narrower chin, smaller nose? It’s all just a few clicks away. Similar features can also be found in popular apps like Snapchat.

But wait, it gets worse: there are now cameras that automatically enhance people’s faces. It’s in-built and happens automatically. This now leads to an entirely new problem: real-life video manipulation. We are moving towards a world in which how people, in particular women, live in two, no three, entirely different spheres. Sphere one is what they really look like, sphere 2 is what they look like with makeup on, and sphere 3 is their virtual avatar for social media that has looks nothing like them. You should see this in action, so I’d like you to watch two brief videos.

Here is a video covering the basic features of the first version of FaceTune. This was the status quo of mass market apps in 2013. The later versions of their apps can do a lot more, like turning women from a 7 to a 9 in real-time with ease. A complete moron could do it.

Now watch the same happening in HD video and in real time. It’s a relatively ugly dude that transforms into a young Chad, shaving a solid 15 years off his looks and giving him a big bump in sexual market value. If you are pressed for time, watch around ten seconds from 2:30 onward:

The new reality is a fake one. I predict that if the situation gets a lot worse, online dating will take a serious hit. Of course, from a wider societal perspective, there are other implications. It could well be that women manipulating pictures and videos of themselves will lead to men getting evermore disappointed and prefer to beat their meat to entirely virtual women instead because if you’re only dealing with fake women, then why not go for completely virtual ones?


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17 thoughts on “Photoshop was Yesterday: The New Reality of Female Image Manipulation

  1. yo this is crazy.
    all those chicks what are they thinking the guy is gonna think when he sees them?
    hi bitch why are you a 3 and not a 6 like in a pic
    fuck you.
    lmao. damn online dating is a shit show.

    1. I think you’re right. When I researched that topic, I had too many fake faces plastered all over my screen, so the one real dude struck me, in comparison, indeed as somewhat substandard looking.

  2. A couple years back I got a new phone, and while taking a few selfies during the first days I noticed something was off, but I could not quite put my finger on it. I somehow looked funny. I finally figured out that for some reason the camera was by default set to make me slimmer.

    Explains why a few tinder dates seem to put on between 5 to 10kg between profile and meetup. In some cases they even put on the weight across different photos in their profile ?

    1. Thanks for the hint! That app seems to target a different use case, though, i.e. giving women a chance to explore certain looks. I think it would take a singularly deluded woman to give herself a big blonde mane with the powers of AI and use that for her online dating profile. On the other hand, with FaceTune, I can easily see women tell themselves that they “basically” look like that, and that they are just, “maybe”, tweaking a few percent here and there so, of course, in the end they are not really cheating, just like when they accidentally cheat on their boyfriend.

    1. That’s just her face tho. If I don’t remember wrong, when I saw this story it featured vids of her bathing etc… She actually had a banging body. These thots are primarily about selling their bodies.

    2. Yea, she has a hot body. Thing is with all the makeup and the wigs she looks like an anime chick and it’s a niche that a lot of guys go nuts for. Her IG reportedly got deleted. Hope she enjoys her youth. Maybe she’ll do porn soon.

    3. I did a Patreon search of her out of curiosity. She has almost 4,500 followers, and also a God tier subscription of $2,500 or more. It looks like she may possibly be hinting at sexual favors at this level, but I could be wrong.

      Either way, this chick is probably making more than 6 figures using Patreon incentives alone. I’d say this puts her leagues ahead of thots like Kendra Sunderland.

    4. I think she’s a massive cock-tease. Yes, she’s hinting at sexual favors, but I don’t think she’d put out. Cock-teasing is an art she has down to a T and she’ll ride that train for as long as possible. However, should her income drop by half or so, I bet she’d at least seriously consider banging dudes, and most likely for less than 2.5k.

      The big problem Belle Delphine has is that she’s building her brand on the jailbait look. I’ve seen some recent pictures of her and it’s not really working in some of them. I think she messed up some of her filters, so you could see that she looks like she’s in her early to mid-twenties. She’s in for a big surprise. Oh, I looked up early pictures and videos of her (2016) and on those she’s like a different person. I bet she’s had massive amount of cosmetic surgery done.

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