PEOPLE EMILY CLARKSON
FORMER Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson’s daughter, Emily, took to Instagram to warn users of the dangers of filters on the app.
The writer, blogger and Instagrammer, posted a video with a few “Hollywood” pictures of herself versus the reality of what she actually looks like, saying that people need to be aware of “how warped Instagram really is”.
In the long drawn out caption, she describes how filter apps have changed the way she looks, smoothing out her skin, buffering out her lines and eradicating blemishes.
She said in the caption: “YOU NEED TO BE AWARE OF HOW WARPED YOUR INSTAGRAM REALITY IS. The skin that you see has been smoothed. The lines buffed out. The blemishes eradicated. The eyes are brightened. The tones are softer. Some bits are smaller. Others are bigger. There are not just a “couple of filters” out there that you gotta keep your eyes peeled for. There are a PLETHORA of apps out there, and they’re doing everything you can think of and more. And the worst thing about that is, you have NO idea who is using what to do what”.
She continued saying that she would never blame an individual for editing themselves, but we do need to “address the behaviour of some of the people that we look up to on these apps”.
“While I will never blame an individual for editing themselves (most people are driven to it out of insecurity), we do need to address the behaviour of some of the people that we look up to on these apps. Because the fact that people can entirely alter their reality AND NOT EVEN NOT TO DECLARE IT will be causing more issues than any of us perhaps realise. We are comparing ourselves to people that simply DO NOT EXIST. I look at these edited photos of myself, and I barely know the person, and yet it’s “me” – just the “Hollywood” version available in some app. How am I meant to then be OK then with the person I see in the mirror if she doesn’t look anything like the reflection I’ve curated for myself online?”
Clarkson said in the long run, no one wins with these apps.
“The external validation the altered images receive in the shape of Instagram likes will not be worth it to the individual who cannot compete with their online persona.
“And the consumers will never be happy if they are perpetually comparing themselves to people that literally don’t exist. I know I’m banging on about this.
“But so long as the apps are relentless, so must we be,” she said. Lifestyle Reporter