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Week 9 : The Magic of Instagram Filters

hi~ welcome back to my blog! in this blog, i will be talking about Instagram filters, i'm pretty sure most of you use it quite often right?whether you're a hardcore filter user or a #nofilter person, there's no denying that these little digital enhancements have a massive impact on how we present our lives to the world. so let's dive into it!

The Role of Instagram Filters

Digital citizenship is about using technology ethically, safely, and responsibly, understanding our online impact, protecting privacy, respecting others, and being critical of the information we share. While software literacy involves understanding how digital tools work, beyond just using them, making us informed creators and responsible consumers.

Instagram filters are a perfect example of where digital citizenship and software literacy intersect. Augmented Reality (AR) plays a big role in Instagram Filters. All it takes to create a combined image with an Instagram Stories AR Filter is to overlay virtual computer-generated and/or video effects on top of an actual photograph. (Geyser, 2024) To make it easier to understand, basically, that's how Instagram filters are made!

psst.. did you know that the first social media platform whose primary product is an augmented reality filter is Snapchat. They called it Snapchat Lenses. Snapchat's AR is a little different from those on Instagram due to a few different features. (Annica, 2022)

everyone used to be obsessed with using the dog filter on Snapchat in 2015, i'm sure you guys are familiar with it too hehe

Facebook launched Camera Effects, an augmented reality tool, a few hours after Snapchat launched World Lenses in April 2017. Camera Effects was eventually renamed Spark AR and expanded to include Instagram, which quickly became popular. (INDE, 2023)

However, Instagram Filters have more options than Snapchat Lenses. Instagram filters have contributed to the rise of visual trends and digital aesthetics. Trends like the "90's film" or the "cottagecore" aesthetic often revolve around specific filter styles that create a unified look and feel. Moreover, with AR, besides filters that make you pretty or flawless, users can create filters that are funny and relatable as well. (these are my personal favs hahaha)

These filters can transform our photos in fun and creative ways, but there’s more to them than meets the eye:

Filters allow us to express ourselves creatively. However, they can also distort reality, creating unrealistic beauty standards. The development of unnatural beauty standards is one of the biggest issues with social media filters. We can make our lips bigger, our eyes brighter, and our skin smoother with a single tap on a screen. These filters would distort our ideals of beauty, making it hard to achieve in real life. Because of this, we could feel self-conscious about the way we look and feel unjustified pressure to adopt a particular appearance. (Sofya, 2023)

Cultural Sensitivity is also important as some filters borrow elements from different cultures. It’s important to use them respectfully and be aware of cultural appropriation. Understanding this helps us use filters to enhance creativity rather than perpetuate harmful stereotypes!

here are some tips that help in being a thoughtful digital citizen!

Stay Curious: explore how your favorite filters work and what data they access.

Be Mindful: consider the effects of altered images on your mental health and self-esteem.

Respect Others: use filters and share images responsibly, without distorting reality in harmful ways.

Learn Continuously: software literacy is an ongoing journey—keep learning and adapting!

To conclude, embracing digital citizenship and software literacy empowers us to navigate the digital world with confidence and integrity. By understanding the tools we use, like Instagram filters, we become more thoughtful and responsible digital citizens. Let’s continue to explore, create, and share in ways that uplift and respect our online community.

stay informed, stay critical, and always filter wisely! thank you, xie xie, kamsahamida, arigato! hope to meet you in my next blog! goodnight! ╰(*´︶`*)╯♡

References:

Annica 2022, ‘WebAR - augmented reality for nfts’, Mazing, viewed 19 June, 2024, <https://mazingxr.com/en/snapchat-lens-vs-instagram-filter/>.

Geyser, W 2024, ‘Instagram stories Ar Filters: What are they and how are brands using them?’, Influencer Marketing Hub, viewed 19 June, 2024, <https://influencermarketinghub.com/instagram-stories-ar-filters/>.

INDE, T 2023, ‘The brief history of social media augmented reality filters’, INDE, INDE - The Leading Augmented Reality Agency, viewed 19 June, 2024, <https://www.indestry.com/blog/the-brief-history-of-social-media-ar-filters#:~:text=Snapchat%20acquired%20Looksery%20in%202015%20for%20a%20hefty,Snapchat%20Lenses%20was%20an%20instant%20hit%20among%20users.>.

Sofya 2023, ‘The harmful influence of using social media filters’, Medium, Medium, viewed 19 June, 2024, <https://medium.com/@sofya_RTA402/the-harmful-influence-of-using-social-media-filters-dede70e85e59>.

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Snap Like a Pro: Unlocking the Secrets of Snapchat Mastery

Unlocking the Secrets of Snapchat. Snapchat – the land of fleeting moments, vanishing faces, and augmented reality shenanigans. But within this ephemeral realm lies a hidden treasure trove of tricks and tips that can elevate your Snaps from basic to bae-sic. So, gather your creative courage, fellow Snapchatters, and prepare to unlock the secrets of Snapping like a true master! Continue reading…

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In memory of my brown contacts 🫥

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Snapchats Unhealthy Obsession With AI

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Week 8: Digital Citizenship and Software Literacy: Snapchat lenses

When Snapchat first introduced lenses, I remember that it felt as if they were fun and playful with many of them being animal themed. They were not to be taken too seriously as they were funny filters you could use to send to your friends. However, once you critically analyze what these filters are really doing to users faces it becomes quite problematic. For instance, it was noted that many filters would whitewash users faces and “people of colour find their complexions unnaturally and undesirably lightened by Snapchat’s filters” (Barker, 2020, p. 209). Many lenses “that apply makeup, rhinestones, and flower crowns – characteristics generally associated with performances of beauty and femininity” white-wash users faces (Barker, 2020, p. 214). Whitening skin for beautification purposes is extremely racist and encourages a western beauty standard that claims whiteness means beautiful.

For those of you who remember when Snapchat lenses were first introduced, one of the most popular filters was the cute puppy filter. This filter would add puppy ears, a puppy nose and if you moved a puppy tongue to your face. It had become extremely popular and widely used. Many of us must have used it sending snapchats to our friends without really noticing that “the puppy filter [...] smooths your skin, widens your eyes, and visibly thins your face” (Barker, 2020, p. 213). These small changes to your face may initially go unnoticed, but if you would compare an unfiltered selfie to one with the puppy filter you may notice your face has changed beyond just the puppy ears and nose. Snapchat filters encourage a stereotypical heteronormative beauty standard “By thinning out the face, slimming and shortening the nose, enlarging the eyes, plumping the lips and smoothing out the skin” (Barker, 2020, p. 209). These other changes are unnecessary for an animal filter.

Although these changes may be minor, they can create insecurities for users. These changes can cause users to feel insecure about their facial features and may cause them to want to surgically change their faces to match the filtered version of themselves. Filters can be described as a form of “digital plastic surgery” (Barker, 2020, p. 216). This digital plastic surgery has translated to real plastic surgery as “some users […] seek Snapchat-inspired plastic surgery in the real world”. (Barker, 2020, p. 216). This has also lead to what is called Snapchat dysmorphia which “is related to body dysmorphic disorder, an obsessive- compulsive fixation on perceived appearance defects” (Barker, 2020, p. 216).

In ““Digitised Dysmorphia” of the Female Body: The Re/Disfigurement of the Image” Coy-Dibley discusses how the pressure online users may feel to alter their image to portray a perfect image of themselves online reflects the issues within society. She says that “The popularity of apps aimed at perfecting the body, air- brushing and erasing the raw image in exchange for an increasingly narrow, standardising perception of female beauty that excludes, marginalizes or simply overlooks differences in race, able- bodiedness and even gender identities […] emphasizes how entrenched with homogenized, Westernized and unattainable beauty standards our image- saturated culture has become” (Coy-Dibley, 2016, p.9).

References

Barker, Jessica. (2020). 'Making-up on mobile: The pretty filters and ugly implications of Snapchat'. Download 'Making-up on mobile: The pretty filters and ugly implications of Snapchat'.Fashion, Style & Popular Culture. 7. 207-221. 10.1386/fspc_00015_1. 

Coy-Dibley, I. (July, 2016). “Digitised Dysmorphia” of the Female Body: The Re/Disfigurement of the Image Download “Digitised Dysmorphia” of the Female Body: The Re/Disfigurement of the Image. Palgrave Communications. 2:16040 doi: 10.1057/palcomms.2016.40

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{ 🪩 } EREN JEAGER MOODBOARD

★ general eren hcs ★

— hot type of nerdy * defo majors in computer science

— my boy by billie eilish coded

— has hot hands ( the veiny kind with long fingers but his hands defo aren’t abnormally huge 💀 ¡ALSO WEARS RINGS! )

— probably smells like weed, mint gum, and expensive cologne. i’m thinking creed aventus with a woody type of scent

— has a silver chain, not gold obvi 👎 defo does the tiktok arm leaning against door frame chain dangling pose

— solid 6’2 maybe 6’3 depending on shoes and lean muscular

— emotion damaging fuck boy (takes ‘hurt people hurt people’ on a whole nother level but he’s hot so who cares?)

— drives a blacked out camaro with tinted windows bc uh

— doesn’t vape, but will always occasionally smoke weed

— gym bro with a sleeper build * bench is probably 265-270 and rubs it in armin’s face atleast once a week

— has 1 playlist because he listens to spotifys default made daily mixes 💀 ( daily mix 4 is always his go to )

— his actual playlist consists of the most overplayed main stream indie songs but then has rnb songs with 3k listens per month mainly from eren that lowk hit?

— mama’s boy and likes cats > dogs

— doberman boy

— has his snapchat in his insta bio with the ghost emoji next to it

— can play guitar and surprisingly well, favorite song to play is sparks by coldplay

— wears prescription clear frame glasses with the blue light lenses on them at night but wears contacts during the day

— all his $$$ comes from stocks, doesn’t have a job but is so smart when it comes to shit like that **defo has one of those metal credit cards that clink against tables 😏

— has dimples on his lower back and deep smile lines with that joker type of smile lol hot

— 3.8 gpa, math and science smart but not reading/english smart

— has a black phone with a clear case, black background, and his most used app is tiktok and messages

— wears street wear, wife beaters, baggy jeans, graphic tees, expensive sneakers, and cargos

— brown / green eyes, show more when they’re in the sun

— has a single diamond piercing on his right ear bc he’s slutty like that

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hopefully this wasn’t a horrible first post bc i’m new to this whole thing, i’ll figure things out after a couple youtube tutorials >:)

i will gladly go emo for eren omfg he’s such a *moan*

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heavy sigh…. no one asked for this but i’ve been reading too many dad KR fics and have to contribute.

“Have a nice day at school today! Happy Valentines!”

Belle rolled her eyes, closing out of the family text thread. This would not be a nice day at school, it would be the opposite! She-she couldn’t have a good day… it was the dreaded holiday.

Roses, pinks, reds, hearts, chocolates, people handing out cheap pieces of paper to one another in a show of fake affection.

She scoffed at that, the sentiment. Belle was too proud to celebrate such a holiday-no she was a strong, independent woman. Just like her dad said… but today wasn’t going to be a nice day.

Because…

Because…

Because…

She got dumped yesterday!

Belles eyes filled with tears, watery as she locked eyes with her phone screen under her wooden desk. Still the picture of her and her now ex boyfriend donning the front of it. A stupid snapchat filter over their love-how could he do this to her? On the day before Valentines?

She has splurged on a gift for him, a nice wrist watch and some eyeglasses cleaner. Belle always noticed he had smudges on the lenses and wanted him to know that she cared in her own way. But instead he dumped her! Over text!

And now all her friends were saying he was giving roses to some new girl with bigger boobs than her! The absolute disrespect!

And worse than that-she was heartbroken.

Belle couldn’t believe it, that the senior boy she has been seeing had been so cruel to her. After giving him her first kiss, and introducing her to her parents! He still left her, high and dry.

She didn’t even have the chance to cry about it, she didn’t want her parents to know about her being dumped. It would be too embarrassing-after she begged her dad to let her date the guy-practically promising stellar grades for an entire semester and to not talk back in her usual sarcastic tone. It was torture-but she did it for love!

Love?

A stray tear fell down her cheek, quickly wiping it away with her sleeve. Cringing at the foundation streak on her black sweater that it left behind, shit. She would have to fix her makeup in the bathroom, looking a round at her classroom she spied her friends looking at their own phones. Probably texting their boyfriends about there after school make out plans, while all Belle had was volleyball practice.

The loneliness crashed down on her shoulders, causing another wave of tears to overflow. She couldn’t stop it, hoping that Mr. Christensen’s lecture on world war two would drown out her sobs.

*ding*

Belles phone went off in her hand, she quickly scrambled to grab it. Maybe it was him! Saying that he was back in love with her and had a bouquet of roses for her at lunch!

New Message from: Old Man Grumpy Pants 👹

I’m parked in front of the school. Please don’t delay when getting out of class.

Belles face scrunched in confusion, quickly texting off a frowning face. Why is he here? Doesn’t he have work right now? Its a Tuesday afternoon, usually he doesn’t have breaks on days he has patients. Surely Belles mom would’ve said if she had an appointment she could t take her too.

Maybe she had a dentist appointment, or worse, her dad was taking her to the hospital for some freak disorder she had and wasn’t aware of.

Just like her parents, to ambush her.

———

Belle dragged her feet leaving class, ignoring her friends conversations about their boyfriends and giving a side eye to her old boyfriend in the hall giving her a weird look.

She wanted to break down in tears once more when he waved at her while giving a card to that new girl.

Once she stepped outside, her phone started ringing. “Ugh,” she groaned, looking at the screen. Belles friend Violet gave her a look, “What’s wrong?”

“Just my dad calling me-I don’t know what he wants.”

“Why don’t you answer?” She laughed, looking down at her own phone, “Where are we going for lunch, Dustin said he would drive us off campus.”

Belle chewed her cheek, looking at the crowds of teenagers flooding the parking lot. She quickly made eye contact with a vehicle parked idle at the front lot, no one else could own such thing.

“Isn’t that your dad right there?” Violet pointed in the same direction.

Belle whimpered, “Sadly… I think he’s taking me to the dentist.”

“Sucks for you, having to hang out with your dad on Valentine’s day. Doesn’t he like-hate everything?”

Belle shrugged, “Let’s just get this over with.”

The girls followed Belle on the way to the Jeep, dodging sophomores, juniors and seniors. Bumping shoulders with couples left and right, Belle was growing more and more depressed the closer she came.

The window rolled down as she stepped up, grasping the handle. Violet jumped up, huge grin on her face before waving dramatically, “Hi, Dr. Ren!”

“Hello Miss Violet,” Belles dad spoke through the window, “Princess-I told you to be quick and now there’s swarms of teenagers around my car.”

“It’s a high school, dad. There’s gonna be teens,” Belle rolled her eyes, bidding her friends goodbye as she strapped into the seat. Not bothering to give her dad another glance before the sped off.

———

“She looked so sad this morning, you have to go see her today. Take her to lunch, bring her flowers, something. I heard her crying in the bathroom last night.”

Rens grip tightened on the steering wheel as he remembered his conversation with you the night before. Thinking about his baby’s face, drooping and sullen all evening while she adamantly refused to admit what was wrong.

He wanted to snatch her phone from her hands and find out what had happened, but you were right to calm him from that. Belle would never forgive him if he broke that trust.

So, he called his nurse, got all his patients out of the way this morning and took the rest of the day off. To show Belle how much he loved her, and how she should be treated on such a trivial holiday.

His princess deserved it.

He glanced towards the passenger seat, sulking into the black leather was his baby. Dressed in head to toe black, not her normal color palette, and her mascara heavy (that was normal for his teenager). But it looked clumped and messy, like she’d been fighting back tears all day. He couldn’t have that.

Ren cleared his throat, “How was school this morning?”

“Fine.”

“Anything interesting happen?”

“No.”

Silence.

He prompted further, “Did you get anything from your friends? I bought the nursing staff flowers today because your mother told me it would be nice.”

“That’s cool.”

Ren scowled, stopped at the stop light to glare at his child. Deciding to just rip the bandaid off and make her spill what was wrong.

“Did Matt give you flowers today, or is he giving you them after school-“

And suddenly Belle was sobbing.

Uncontrollably.

Ren had no idea what to do, was she broken? Did something happen that he should be made aware of? Did someone hurt her? Hurt his precious little monster?

“Belle, sweetie,” he started, only to make her sob even more, he could barely hear himself think as she wailed into her little hands. This was so much worse than what he was imagining, he thought maybe asking would prompt her to admit that he forgot or something stupid but this was so much worse.

Ren pulled off the road into a Walgreens parking lot, deciding he should comfort her before she became dehydrated. He didn’t want her to be hysterical, the only thing he encountered this type of crying was when you were pregnant with Odin… oh god no.

“Belle are you pregnant?”

“What?” her voice raised an octave, looking at him like he was crazy, “What the fuck dad!?”

“I just have to be sure!”

“No!”

“Then what is wrong? You’re getting your makeup all over the car, and your nose is running, stop wiping your hands on your pants Belle-it’s disgusting!”

And her tears came flowing down again, maybe he was apart of the problem… He looked inward, thinking of how he should approach his hormonal (maybe) teenager.

Ren reached an arm across the console, careful to not startle his child. She flinched at his touch, it was unexpected, he handed embraced her as often as he wanted to as she had gotten older. He began rubbing in soft circles on her shoulder, shushing her as her tears dried down.

“Hush now, there’s no need for that. Its-its going to be alright. Just breathe a little bit,” he placed his left hand over her own, pulling her hands from clawing at her tear streaked face. His heart ached as he looked into the heartbroken eyes of his child, realizing now what had truly happened to make her so hysterical.

“Princess,” he whispered after her tears had died down a little more, “Is there anything you’d like to tell me?”

She shook her head side to side, squeezing her eyes shut in the process.

Ren tried again, “If not, it’s okay. I just want to make sure you’re okay. You know I don’t want you to be hurting like this, especially when you are doing it all alone.”

Belle sniffled, her voice was so small when she finally spoke. “It’s stupid…”

“No, nothing can ever be stupid if it hurts you.”

She nodded, “It’s just,” she took a deep breath, “You know that guy I was kinda dating?”

“Yes,” he growled a little, “The blonde one who wore glasses too big for his face? And called me ‘old man’?”

“Yeah…”

Ren rubbed her shoulder a little more, encouraging her. Belle took another breath, “Well, yesterday he broke up with me.”

His heart sank.

He broke up with her? His little girl? The most wonderful and beautiful girl in the world (aside from you of course), that anyone would be lucky to have grace their presence with? That lanky, big nosed jerk who said his Jeep was stupid that one time, dumped his little precious bundle of joy?

Absolutely not.

Ren quickly leaned across the console, not caring about smothering his daughter but needing to embrace her. No words he could share could lend the wound this silly boy had given her. All Belle needed right now was to know that he was there for her, and that he always would be.

He held onto her for a long time, letting her cry into his shoulder, and smear her too caked on makeup and mascara and snot all into his scrubs. He would wear the mess proudly just so his daughter knew that he was there for her. Ren hummed and shushed and rocked her back and forth as best he could until she tapped her little fingers on his biceps. Whispering out a pained, “I’m okay,” when she was through.

Ren did not take her back to school.

It was not important, instead he took her home. Briefly explaining to you what had happened while Belle washed her face and changed her clothes. You were angry, wanting to go tell the guy off and hold Belle in your arms but Ren talked you down from that ledge.

He took Belle to the nail salon, let her get whatever manicure and pedicure she wanted while he sat and worked on his emails.

Took her out to her favorite diner that serves waffles all day, every day, and watched her eat two servings of ice cream.

Bought her a necklace with a little cheesy heart on it, so she felt like she was loved by him. And she could keep it as a keepsake for when she was older. She wore it proudly out of the jewelry store, smiling down at it while they drove off together.

Ren even let her pick out some flowers at the store, that way she could keep them in her room. And have ones that would be unique to her, not the same bouquet everyone else gets on the holiday.

The two pulled into the garage at the end of the day, looking at one another as he sighed. Holding onto his daughters hand before squeezing it tight.

“I love you, Belle. And I’m sorry your first romance didn’t turn out like you wanted it to.”

She shrugged, squeezing his hand back, “It’s okay, I’m glad I got to spend it with you. I love you too, dad.”

———

:)

i always wanted my dad to take me out of school on valentines but that NEVER HAPPENED.

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[otterish]

Fun with Snapchat filters! Maybe I should try wearing blue contact lenses sometime

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SnapChat, available on Android and iOS, is a top choice if you’re looking for a quick and easy way to share photos and videos. If you’re curious and want to know how to unlock the Butterflies Lens on Snapchat, then this article is for you.

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Another ESC Site Award for Blah!

Blanka with a K had a bit of a redemption at the Eurovision. She still can't sing, but they masked it beautifully with backing vocals. They gave the entry a modern Snapchat/Tik tok feel which appealed to the youth audience. An older person just saw a girly narcissist and her backing troupe of dancers. The rhythm of the song is labored and mind-numbingly slow. But it made the final, so she is now the pride of her nation.

I think someone in the Polish delegation has a decent sense of humour. Blanka, for all her girlish ways, looked mutton dressed as lamb. This is a 24 year old, but I honestly thought she looked like someone who was in their thirties trying to be cool, young and fresh. The outfits were strange. I apologise for what I am about to say but it looked like an below average outfit worn by a drag queen. It also seemed like a someone forgot to insert their contact lenses before painting Blanka's face.