We're All Getting Social Media Dysmorphia: The Dangers of Beautifying Filters

With the reigns of Snapchat, TikTok and Instagram, it’s never been so easy to filter, contour, smooth and shape our selfies into something completely different from the raw material. But social media doesn’t just influence the way we look online. It may be permanently rewiring our brains to alter what we think we look like in real life – and messing with our body images in deep ways. What’s being called Selfie Dysmorphia, Social Media Dysmorphia, or Snapchat Dysmorphia, is leading people to sometimes get extreme surgeries on their faces to resemble something that’s not actually naturally occurring.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Can you still recognize your selfies?
01:27 What these filters do to our brains
04:52 The real world consequences
07:15 Chasing fleeting trends
09:36 Looking past these warped selfies

CREDITS
Executive Producers: Debra Minoff & Susannah Mccullough
Chief Creative Director: Susannah Mccullough
Associate Producer: Tyler Browner
Writer: Harry Harris
Narrator: Kayah Franklin
Video Editor: Travis Martin