Photoshop, Facetune, and filters are just some of the ways we tend to spruce up our photos before we put them online. But sometimes people don’t realize that almost all photo manipulation is obvious to the keen eye.
Nevertheless, people still have lower self-esteem when they spend too much time on Instagram looking at these photos of fake perfection.
Next time you think Instagram is real, just look through these photos to see just how warped people can get when they strive for perfection:
1) “The longer you look, the stranger it gets.”
And why pose next to a pizza you’re clearly not interested in eating? Just to make people feel like they can have it all?
2) Ghost of her real self
@eternalrefuge86:
“It’s like she just photoshopped an entirely different person in her place.”
@sdbct1:
“Everyone knows reflections add 20 pounds.”
3) “Legend”
So this guy looks like he might have actually worked hard for his ripped body, but perhaps it wasn’t quite to his standards. You know your quest for perfection has taken a turn for the worst when you turn to Photoshop. The warped closet gives it all away. Sir, you probably look great without it!
4) “3 years on Instagram turned a lovely girl into this”
5) “All of her photos are heavily Facetuned, but this one is just beyond”
@rhiiii:
“They look like low rendered video game characters.”
@sheeana407:
“We made a full cricle, 15 years ago people had phones with sh*tty cameras so they took potato quality pictures, now they have fancy phones that can take good pictures and use them to facetune pictures into potato quality.”
6) “Lady on Facebook insists that there’s no editing, and any comments saying otherwise are blocked.”
@SquintWestweed:
“Ultra Karen 9000, now available with night vision.”
@Agh-Bee:
“She looks like she can smell the colour three.”
7) “Maybe they wouldn’t notice”
@TheMightyWill:
“Maybe she cut her nose real bad.”
@SansCitizen:
“So she covered it up with her own eye?”
8) Shocking “catfish” transformation
@Agh-Bee:
“Jeeeeeze. If she went missing and they used her insta pics she would neverrrr be found, even if she walked into a police station!”
9) “The longer you look the stranger it gets
@EfficientCicada:
“Early marsupial model, judging on how the right hand thumb is apparently hooked into a flesh pocket.”
10) “Nothing normal about this picture.. at all..”
@PerilousAll:
“Looks like one of those creepy dolls that’ll kill you in your sleep.”
11) “She’s back and her eyes are even bigger”
@little_missHOTdice:
“She looks like how I feel when I’m trying to not look high in front of the cashier…”
12) “Saw this while looking up hairstyle references.”
@MellyBee94:
“Imagine taking this into the salon. Like ‘Yes Cheryl, this is the hairstyle I’ve wanted for YEAARS. Gimme the Darth Vader helmet!'”
13) “I’m scared”
@questionablequeef:
“I’m not seeing any actual happiness in those smiles.”
@katasia:
“Smile like you’re dead inside.”
14) “Left is from the official show account, right is the one she posted.”
@electrodiva69:
“Do these people not realise that they are on television, ie. everyone already knows what they look like?”
15) “Smooth criminal”
@maggoonie:
“What’s a real crime is the old lady behind him that’s fused to his face…”
16) “Caught one in the wild as they say. He’s a very corrupt lawyer in my country.”
@Swooty:
“Someone needs to tell him his abs are migrating.”
17) “I mean… Who needs organs anyway”
@MoodySpider:
“She’s an ant. Most of the organs is in the ass.”
@CoughCoolCoolCool:
“She smells with her legs.”
18) “This girl is known for calling people ugly on Facebook and says she doesn’t edit her pics….lol”
@MicahMysiuk:
“She used the ‘Michael Jackson’ filter.”
19) “I call this the Dorito Body”
@TheRedditReportShow:
“By 2029 he going to be legs and hips with a levitating torso above them.”
20) “How is this supposed to resemble her behind?! Just looks like 2 balloons at this point.”
so_not_reddit:
“All she could afford for her editing was MSPaint.”
@AnnAufnBaggn:
“What the heck am I looking at?”
@Moist_Cheeki:
“Party balloons.”
21) “My sims look more realistic”
22) “That dog is smooth as hell”
@CookieMonstress:
“Snoop Dogg’s cousin Smooth Dogg?”
@jesslray:
“No one wants to see a dog with big pores anyway.”
@diarrhea_shnitzel:
“Tbh I can’t stand dogs with visible 3rd dimensional qualities.”
23) “This is the mother of a girl I grew up near. Her Instagram is full of this sort of stuff.”
@Trash-kitty:
“If you’re gonna edit your ass to look like a diaper, at least edit your thighs to match.”
@anabeeverhousen:
“There’s just so much to dissect here. My favorite is 100% the floating glasses. Who are you, Morpheus? You couldn’t even be bothered to wear real sunglasses?”
24) “Beautiful girl… I don’t know why she does this.”
25) “Saw this on Pinterest. Girl went crazy with the smoothing tool. Her face literally looks like a sim to me.”
@durianisking:
“I thought why was i looking at some PS2 character.”
26) “I personally hate the “snatched waist” look. It looks so weird and unneeded. We’re humans not plastic barbies, no need for unrealistic expectations.”
@gayangst666:
“Man I used to wear a waist trainer like every day to achieve this dumb look. Now I don’t care lol.”
27) “Hot dog fingers strikes again”
@artesian-cement:
“How do these people not understand that without the wrinkles on your fingers they would literally not bend.”
28) “Oh no”
@Scrummycrummyday:
“Like, wtf is the desire here? She’s wearing a cheap looking Foot Locker onesie and has a red nose. Why even.”
29) “Proportions out of whack”
@bk2705:
“This has the same shape as a suit coat on a hangar.”
@MeyerOfLemonTown:
“Yet they couldn’t photoshop that terribly fitted bra into place. Whack.”
30) “girl what”
@peachapatchi:
“I read a comment once asking how people still believe she looks like the right every day. That’s honestly what I thought she looked like. I don’t watch her on TV or follow her social media, this sub is really the only place I realized how she looks in real life.”
31) “My hair stylist was warning me about unrealistic hair expectations due to photoshopped photos on Instagram like this one.”
32) “I just can’t deal with this one particular girl, I just had to follow her because of the crazy editing.”
@Khajiit_Has_Upvotes:
“I’m gonna be honest if I encountered somebody who actually looked like this I would be curious what genetic/congenital defect(s) s/he has. Why do people want to look like this lol.”
33) “This girl and her demon eyed family keeps popping up on my explore page”
@chachkita:
“My god, FaceTuning your grandparents is a whole other level.”
@grllkit:
“What is the point of all this crap. Why don’t people just have a cartoon of themselves. It’s way more honest and way less sad.”
34) “Good old-fashioned Facebook. These are going to give me nightmares.”
@dawgk4:
“How can people comment on these pics seriously without mentioning it? Don’t her Facebook friends call her out?!!”
@evange:
“Old people with poor vision.”
35) “Excuse me what…”
@OuijaAllin:
“When your shoes are bigger than your f**king head.”
@iheartbags:
“Instead of legs for days she wanted legs for months.”
36) “Instagram vs court date”
@listenbuddy125:
“Are the photos… taken years apart ??”
@anonymous:
“Yes. Before… And waay before.”
37) “This girl creeps me out.”
@PurpleMuskogee:
“25% girl, 75% legs.”
38) “She is always making her waist tiny and editing her arms to create a muscular build.”
@koshka69:
“She looks like a action figure from Robot Chicken.”
39) “I can’t get over the difference! Don’t believe what you see on Instagram folks.”
@anonymous:
“I’m so glad I found this sub, I used to believe the images were real and made myself feel shitty for not looking like it.”
@playmakeup:
“For real. Like holy sh*t my body is normal.”
40) “Photo on left is from when she first joined Instagram. Photo on right is recent and after influencer fame. Might as well be a different person.”
@BelleLorage:
“I know this might sound a bit weird, but it seems like she’s in that wave of “influencers” trying to be ambiguously racially diverse?”
@GailaMonster:
“It’s called “blackfishing” (like catfishing), and it’s like modern day blackface in a way. Super uncomfortable.”
41) “This person is running for mayor where I live.”
@MadamKrosis:
“Her campaign photo should have been the second one to start with.”
@bettinatea:
“Agree. She looks cool and fun and relatable in the second one. The first one reminds me of the style books that salons keep in the lounge area.”
42) “Selfie filter queen”
@Pineapple_Herder:
“I know filters and edits can make someone feel better about themselves or in this case remember a time when they were more youthful… But this is just sad.”
43) “When you’re influencing so hard you grow a second bellybutton.”
@aya-b:
“When your belly button faces a different direction than your torso.”
@uberduger:
“This is truly bizarre, because it must have taken at least a minute or two to do the actual photoshopping, and she didn’t f**king notice the double bellybutton? Absolutely baffling.”
44) “Claims to naturally look like the picture on the left. Picture on the right is from a tagged video.”
@bellabelial97:
“She bothers me soooooo much. The fact she blocks anyone who questions it is the worst part.”
@HolyHandPotato:
“She wants to look like a Bratz doll. I guess it isn’t surprising that she acts like one too.”
45) “Apparently he dropped out of college to model.”
At least he’s only anorexic in his fake picture and not in real life. There’s that.
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