Thread by @justinhendrix

TikTok’s Confidence-Destroying Bold Glamour Filter is the Logical Product of Platforms Built for Consumerism

Rachel Griffin (@rachel_grfn) sees the beauty filter as the obvious endpoint of the underlying structural dynamics of the social media industry.
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With reference to @KathyCastorFL's comments in yesterday's #TikTok hearing in the House Energy & Commerce Committee:

"...criticizing TikTok as irresponsible or calling for it to add labels to videos where a filter is used – essentially suggesting that properly-informed users should be capable of resisting the unattainable beauty ideals they’re bombarded with – misses the bigger picture."

"For as long as social media are built for marketing and e-commerce, they will promote exclusionary beauty standards, reductive gender stereotypes and shallow, consumerist attitudes."

With reference to work by @random_walker, @TateRyMo, @rebexxxxa, @OrbenAmy, Memo Atken, Sophie Bishop et al.
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