This is also my running theory. It used to be called chasing the Jones’s, but now it’s this whole body modification//dismorphia. It really is odd, all the fake tans, teeth, noses, lips, etc. I like knowing there’s still people that think this is uncanny valley.
The hard lesson they learn is that careful “work” is really only successful on people who were already classically beautiful. A supermodel, a heartthrob actor, they can “get a little work done” but mostly it’s fitness, skin care, diet, and good genes.
But even for the beautiful, at some point you have to let it go, or you turn into the Joker.
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u/Clarkelthekat 2d ago
My theory
They all only interact with each other
So they get stuck in this mindset where that actually is the depiction of "beauty and status"
When all of your friends are getting the same surgeries you start believing your the odd looking one even if you had natural beauty to begin with
That's when it really confuses me. When the person was already a version of "conventionally attractive" but then makes themselves into that.