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Original poster

I detest animal filter poser selfies all over the internet.

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Shestolethewitchesredshoes · 13/08/2017 19:58

So incredibly over the many, many, many 'bored at home/hanging out with mates/going to such and such places' status's that are accompanied by a posey selfie with any form of filter...(usually animal eyes/ears/nose/mouth etc). The selfie has nothing to do with the status ever and is such a cry for attention. AIBU to find this so annoying that I hide or delete people based on whether they post these sorts of status's online?

It's very much like 'yeh, yeh we get it. You think you're cute. You want some sort of validation that you're cute/pretty etc but you're trying to be discreet about it with your random status post'.

Come on ladies, let's be more original and better than this. 🍉🐑 Anyway. That's the one thing I hate online.

What does everybody else hate?

OP posts:
troodiedoo · 13/08/2017 21:46

I think they are vile. Designed to sexualise girls and infantilise women.

Original poster
Shestolethewitchesredshoes · 13/08/2017 21:47

Oh Girty, you have the right idea. I might start parodying the lot by posting my own set of random statuses to accompany the most interesting faces I can pull complete with some animal traits superimposed onto the picture. Not a filter. Just some cut and pasted ears/horns/noses etc.

Side note I only have some silly testrish fish to hand so the finished product may be completely questionable. Grin

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LottieTheFox · 13/08/2017 21:50

I was just a thinking the same thing today OP. Not a day goes past where I don't have pics of heavily filtered grinning women with dog ears,etc. Don't mind when it's kids/teens, but grown women? Come on! Grin

Addley · 13/08/2017 21:54

Largely harmless if intensely irritating.

But I've had to decline friend requests from people I'm fairly sure I know in real life, although I don't know their full name, because all I can tell from their profile (and all the other photos that are accessible to someone who isn't a friend) is that they're a human deer and, like 25% of women my age, called Rebecca.

Farfromtheusual · 13/08/2017 21:55

giggle that winds me up too...like why are you posting he same picture 50 times??

CockacidalManiac · 13/08/2017 21:57

When I was online dating, nearly every women has one of these bloody filters on. It was as ubiquitous as the 'bloke holding a fish' pics.

Consideringbeingamom · 13/08/2017 22:39

Evilstepmom01....are you my long lost twin? Courtsies in agreement. Yep social media seems to be a narcissist fest at the moment. Hopefully this fad (for our brainless counterparts) will pass soon.

Evilstepmum01 · 13/08/2017 22:48

considering sadly not, though my narc twin sister is a selfie queen, so the position is open!

Am just glad the 'challenges' seem to have passed. Though I did enjoy taking the piss a bit.

Brittbugs80 · 14/08/2017 21:30

I went to a wedding a couple of years ago. It was friends that we knew well and there were some people there I recognised as they had come up on Facebook as mutual friends plus I knew one lady from the village I used to live in.

Anyway, this girl walked in and I was shocked as she kissed this lady on the lips and I knew he had a girlfriend. I got my phone out to see who is girlfriend was on Facebook and realised it was the same girl but she had used that many filters, it was like a different person. She looked nothing like her photos and obviously wasn't a stranger to Photoshop.

I think all filters look daft, but yeah the animal ones bug me. It just shows how warped society is if changing yourself beyond recognition is ok.

My DH has a friend who went on a date with a woman he met online and apparently her photos had been filtered where he didn't realise she was the same person when she showed up!

Brittbugs80 · 14/08/2017 21:31

That should be lad not lady!

BuzzKillington · 14/08/2017 21:32

Utterly idiotic. I have friends in their 30s and 40s who post those fucking moronic snapchat pics with massive eyes and flowers on their heads, or even worse, animal ears and noses. Grow up you halfwits!

AntiHop · 14/08/2017 21:37

Agreed. They are pointless.

heedee · 14/08/2017 22:12

I have found my people!!! 😂 I can't stand these! Actually I can't stand selfies in general. In face even the word 'selfie' is making me angry. I have friends who are otherwise seemingly normal who constantly post selfies on social media!!! I really do not get the 'look at me' mentality of these grown women! Confused

Oysterbabe · 14/08/2017 22:34

Yanbu. They are ridiculous!! I can't believe so many grown adults use them.

polarbear33 · 14/08/2017 22:54

How do you apply a filter anyway? I'd like to do it in secret just to see of the myself....no way would I post it anywhere. I have a ex colleague who must constantly use a filter as her face outline is fuzzy and get nose non existent.

Consideringbeingamom · 14/08/2017 23:27

The flowery ones look like swimming caps.....

Temporary2002 · 15/08/2017 05:38

Those animal filters give me the creeps.

PigletWasPoohsFriend · 15/08/2017 06:06

YANBU. Very strange idea imo. Take a picture and add rabbit ears. Hmm

lunaysol3828 · 15/08/2017 06:14

That whole snapchat thing with the dog ears/tongue seems just creepy. Why would you like dog ears?!

PatMullins · 15/08/2017 06:30

Another thing we shouldn't do then...🙄

Confuzzlediddled · 15/08/2017 06:41

I noticed on holiday when all the little kids were getting photos with the characters that a heck of a lot of them poured instead of smiling! Presumably from selfies with people who do that...

Confuzzlediddled · 15/08/2017 06:41

*pouted of course....

TheClaws · 15/08/2017 06:49

It's very much like 'yeh, yeh we get it. You think you're cute. You want some sort of validation that you're cute/pretty etc but you're trying to be discreet about it with your random status post'.

I think it's the opposite actually - they don't feel cute or pretty, and a picture like this, as fake as it is, helps them feel that way even if it's just for a few moments. On that basis, YABU, and I think vaguebooking is a far worse crime anyway.

Mandraki · 15/08/2017 07:09

I'm with you, I think it's vapid as fuck and I hate it especially on babies and children.

operaha · 15/08/2017 08:19

Me and my friend were discussing this one afternoon so installed snap chat for half an hour and had a go with all the filters. I got a particularly glamourous one of me spewing red solo cups.

I quickly uninstalled and went back to being 37.
A friend a year younger recently had a baby and the first pics she shared online had filters on herself and the baby!