@newyorker: Today, everyone is hot and nothing is erotic. “The face is separating from the person, and the person is separating from the soul, and all of this is happening in front of us, on our phones, in the most banal ways, every day,” Jia Tolentino writes, in a new essay about how the prevalence of artificial and augmented beauty has changed how we relate to one another—and ourselves. Read it at the link in our bio. #essay #culturalcriticsm

slimjim89 :

“Everyone is hot, and nothing is erotic”

sawah :

read the essay “Everyone is Beautiful, No One is Horny”

J05 :

I miss normal faces in movies. Like the 90s. Everyone was so unique.

RootedLiving :

“Treating aging like a disease”😭 ugh this is so true

Mountain Mama Flaherty :

“Everything is hot and nothing is erotic”

livinglavidaamanda :

Aging is a privilege. I’m gonna age. I’m gonna love myself at every age.

The Nihilist Penguin :

ʝʊʂt ʝ⟑ɳ ♊︎ ♋︎ ♐︎ :

“slow down the ageing process as a 14 yr old” is wild 😭

Ash 🧿 :

“The grave doesn’t care what you look like” one of my favorite quotes ❤️❤️

dominique.baker :

“…the person is separating from the soul…” 💯

aisha.muso :

WTF would a 19 year old need botox for 😫

Adrián Bello :

remember when the future used to be exciting? now it’s so bleak everything feels depressing 😔

softandfluffy :

I love Gia Tolentino. Such a great thinker. I feel smarter by watching this Tik Tok. Think how much smarter I would be if I read her?

It's me :

As a MUA, yes! Naturally beauty all around us!

Lee🇿🇦 :

people dont look human anymore. everyone online looks exactly the same and i dont know why you'd want to look like everyone else

meats! :

y'all are so worried about trans surgery but I got top surgery and I'm good. no fillers, no botox, no panic over aging.

Coffee with Izzy :

We’ve become so sick.

Psychedelic coopcake :

It’s teeth I miss! i watch old music videos and films and just love that everyone had normal teeth !

S I D R A :

"Slowing down the aging process at 14" HUH?

Neetika Bhargava :

This is one of the most intelligent things I’ve seen on tik tok in a while. Thank you to media for bolstering voices like this!!!

Abbi Block :

We live in an actual fucking hellscape

Kendall Sinclair :

“It feels like the face is separating from the person and the person is separating from the soul” 🙌🏻 preach sis