I detest animal filter poser selfies all over the internet.

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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?

I remember after the Manchester bombing one of the "missing" was shown with one of these effects - how could she possibly have been recognised? Also I have a couple of friends who use the airbrushing filter. One of them is in her late 50s - with nary a wrinkle in sight she literally looks plastic.

Eurgh! I hate them too...absolutely ridiculous!
A woman I used to work with has recently had a baby and all of her first photos with her beautiful little newborn have her looking ridiculous in them with pig ears or flowers stuck to her head! I had to block her it made me cringe so much.
Also grown women who 'babyfy' themselves, this woman also changed her FB name to 'Princess.....' I genuinely can't take someone seriously who acts like that.

The photos are just fake. I hate them.

I've seen a family member who's used a filter for a photo of her newborn. WTF? Isn't a newborn perfect enough already?

And friends who use the filters to take "cute" photos of their daughters - nicely inferring that the daughters "look so much better" with a filter ... REALLY? And you worry about body image issues? Aren't they beautiful just as they are?

And the parents who use an editing app for their child pictures

I don't think there's anything wrong with editing pictures as long as the editing is used to enhance rather than replace. I edit pictures of my daughter as I use them for portraiture practice and Lightroom. It doesn't mean I don't think she's perfect as she is; the pictures are enhanced to create mood and to bring the colors out or to soften the picture.

I hate the animal ear filters makes me cringe. Especially when it's women who are not 15 doing it. I much prefer the bears filters, now they do make me look fetching 😏

If the technology exists to make ourselves better looking in photos, then inevitably it will be used.

It's the animal noses that utterly bewildering me. Creepy as fuck and just plain weird.

My 12 yr old niece does it all the time and it makes me horribly uneasy to see them posted on Instagram. That icky blend of sexualisation and cuteness - really grim. But 'everyone does it', so it's fine...

It's not harmless at all though, it's this insidious type of crap that then makes scores of women feel bad about the way they really look. Would love for people to appreciate that they are beautiful just the way they are.

But I don't wanna grow up

It is a very ugly trait to be so judgemental about what other people choose to do with their pictures/life or whatever, especially when it's not harming anyone and is just a bit of fun.

A lot of people on here could probably do with having their sense of humour bypass operation reversed.

I'm all for being young at heart ❤️ 🐷 🌈 🦄😋

Yeah, but the creepy CREEPY thing about it is that the young teens do it to look like wannabe 20something pornstars, and the 'young at heart' adults do it to look like sexualised manga children. It's... ick.

It is a very ugly trait to be so judgemental about what other people choose to do ...

..A lot of people on here could probably do with having their sense of humour bypass operation reversed

Pot and kettle?

'Young at heart' - if posting pics of yourself looking like a doll or a soft toy makes you feel young at heart, go for it.

I still reserve the right to think it's tragic on anyone older than a teen.

Shh. Let people enjoy things.

When the lines blur between children and parents it seems a bit sad though doesn't it? I get if you enjoy seeing your kids pulling funny faces and adding animal filters to photos but adults? Occasionally if it's done in an hilarious way possibly but every day, done by supposed adults in a narcissistic context?? Each to their own I guess.......

Alright so the general concensus is that the animal/doll filters are odd and a little icky as PP said. Yes it makes teens look like 20 something pornstars and the older women look like sexualised manga children. I definitely think that constantly uploading these types of selfies (daily selfies in general) is very narcissistic and attention seeking. It's hard not to judge the content that these people throw my way with their constant posts.

What's wrong with wanting people to look like people?

Men are posting filter selfies on dating sites too now

I completely agree with you on this.

Instagram makes my teeth itch in this regard... the staged photograph of an incredibly hygge-d up dining table with a book with feathers all over it and hands wrapped around a mug of some description and a status that has fuck all to do with any of it...

I could rant for days about people's narcissistic behaviour on the internet!

At least in the old days if you wanted to show off about your fabulous home life and gorgeous wife and angelic children you had to get Hans Holbein round to paint it for you.

I am not a FB moaner but this is the one thing that gets me.

I have messed about with them in a very joking tongue in cheek way. There is a big difference between people who use them as fun occasionally to laugh at themselves and people who use filters seriously. If that makes sense. I have a great one of me as a piece of toast!

I have a FB friend who is in her 50's and she posts selfies with filters every single day. She gets loads of compliments but everyone knows that IRL she doesn't look quite that flawless.

I just find that really sad. We all like to look our best in photos and not many of us would post a really unflattering photo on FB but turning yourself into an animal and smoothing out your skin so you don't even look real anymore just makes me sad.

I have a young relative on FB and I have never seen a single photo of her that is actually natural. She is such a beautiful girl naturally and I find it tragic that she never posts a single natural photo of herself and her already perfect skin is always smoothed out into plastic. I don't think that is harmless fun.

Woooah... I didn't know there was a 'pretty' filter!!!

Where is it? how do I get it?

I never put pics of me online as I look like an old bag in every single selfie I've ever tried to take.

@nightsky

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I hate filters apart from the one that makes your mouth huge, that's hilarious