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Beauty filters on social media which subtly change facial features such as lip and eye size are already leading to widespread body dysmorphia issues.

I wouldn't be surprised if the number of augmentative elective surgeries is also skyrocketing.

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Hopefully we get to a future where people just customize their avatar instead of feeling the need to change their physical body. I like to be optimistic

Optimistic: https://youtu.be/jX71XvnMDys

any examples of such filters?

Just take a scroll through the InstagramReality subreddit.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Instagramreality/

Warning: Disturbing

A popular one is making your head smaller(more narrow, smaller jaw) in south korea.

Another example is Japan that has had purikura filters that increase eye size for a long time.

It's so widespread in Japan that most puri photo booths actually default to making your face flat and white like a paper plate, and making your eyes cartoonishly big. People just expect them to do that.

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