faceiqlabs and the nuance of looksmaxxing
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the fact that there are so many people on here asking for ratings and improvements or if their harmony score is actually correct when the website is literally an app for exactly that just exemplifies the paradox with facial rating and making looks completely objective. People want to see how other people perceive them, rather than trusting a software. Also, people all have their own preferences and eyes and while facial harmony and stuff like that is interesting and useful if you maybe want to appeal to the widest audience of people, it is fundamentally built on the data of a bunch of attractive people, and everyone is just trying to squash and stretch their faces into that mold when at a certain point you look just fine and you are just looking less like yourself and more uncanny. If everyone had a button that each time you pressed it your face would morph closer to a "true adam" how many times would you press it? Like in FaceIQ's example, i feel like "fixing" his canthal tilt would make him look more generic and remove the certain look and feel his face has that harmonizes with his voice and personality(plus the jokes are funny). In my case I got into looksmaxxing because of low self confidence rather than dating so take this all with a grain of salt.
its all a question of roi from the "rate me" posts they are probably aware it diminishes the quality of the community however they have no intrinsic gain (and frankly no one exept the founders) from "improving the community" - therefore they are investing relativley little assuming they are ok with their face online, to save $$ - and if you further extrapolate majority of the rate me posts are f…
No it is just that many people can't afford the rating score
Absolutely right and sad at the same time. I really hope this improves