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Young British women: 90% do not post without filters or without editing photos

It is alarm about the social pressure young people are subjected to: a study shows that 90% of young women in the UK do not publish without changing photos of their face

Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
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The teacher Rosalind Gill of the University of London Research Center on Gender and Sexuality, yesterday released a new report on the occasion of International Women's Day. “Changing the perfect image: smartphones, social media and pressure on appearance”, this is her name, stems from a research carried out on 175 young British women in the United Kingdom.

The report addresses several issues. In particular, it documents the persistent anger of young people with media that they deem 'too white', 'too heterosexual' and too focused on very narrow definitions of beauty. A system that forces you to edit photos: anything but without filters, in short.

Criticism of perfection runs through research like a bass track. Young people told me they felt overwhelmed by images that were too perfect. They tell me they rarely see women of color, disabled or "gender nonconforming" women in the media.

Rosalind Gill , Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality - University of London
Editing photos: an unfiltered social pressure
Rosalind Gill: "90% of young women interviewed use filters to edit photos of their face"

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The research raises particular questions about how standards of appearance are shrinking. The tech offering of smartphones (with a plethora of editing and filtering apps like Facetune) are contributing to a society where young people constantly feel under the scrutiny and judgment of their peers.

90% of young women in the UK report using a filter or editing body and face photos before posting. Never without filters, why? To even out skin tone, reshape your jaw or nose, remove weight, brighten or tan your skin, and whiten your teeth.

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The young women involved in the study also said they regularly watch advertisements or notifications for cosmetic procedures. Especially for teeth whitening, lip fillers and surgery to improve the butt, breast or nose.

The algorithms of SOCIAL MEDIA they do the rest, "chasing them". As a 21-year-old interviewee put it: "Once you look at these things, you will never be allowed to forget."

Visual domain: forced to edit photos

With nearly 100 million photos posted every day on Instagram alone, we have never been a society so prisoner of images. Posting on social media changes our social mechanisms. It produces a brief and fleeting gratification in getting attention (and Likes), but it is also a source of enormous anxiety. Especially for most young women. To the point of feeling compelled to edit photos of herself.

I was struck by young women who said to me over and over again: 'I feel judged'

This research would have been important at any time. It is clear, however, that the context of the pandemic gives it a particular chrism of importance.

The problems overlap

Day after day, reports are published highlighting the devastating impacts of the pandemic on the mental health of young people. Their education suddenly stopped, their freedoms shrunk. Many experience economic and emotional difficulties, or bereavement. For this reason, the report helps shed light on how young people live this moment.

In some ways, young people's familiarity with online tools and platforms prepared them better for lockdown than older people. So many aspects of life have moved online: work, education, health and psychological services. Social life. However, this has also brought them more pressure and more anguish.

Maximizing a phenomenon already underway due to social networks. And so we see the paradox of young people exposed 24 hours a day in a mechanism of social approval, that is, without filters.

And for this reason, perhaps forced to protect themselves, to modify photos of the face and their appearance in order not to suffer a judgment that they feel oppressive and incessant.

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