- I'm a supermodel!
- Why do I look like a child?
- Oh my gosh, this is scary! - (Jack) Nothing moved.
- (React) So we've taken some of your photos.
- Oh God. (camera shutters clicking)
- (React) And we've done a little something with them.
- Did you like smooth out my blemishes and...
- Oh my God, you are perfect. You have no blemishes at all.
- Oh, is this that TikTok thing?
- You guys have almost like 10 years worth of footage of me.
- I have facial and body dysmorphia, I'm not gonna know.
I barely know what I look like.
- There you go.
- Okay, go ahead.
- Ah! - That doesn't look like me.
- It is the TikTok thing!
- I wouldn't know that. I wouldn't know that.
- This is a TikTok filter. - That does not look like me.
- That does not, no, it really doesn't.
- Oh, now that looks great. - That's me!
- Okay, you made my nose, oh, this is the teen filter, isn't it?
Like the child filter?
Yeah, that's not what I looked like as a child.
- I feel like they rounded out my jawline very intensely.
- Eyeliner. (laughs)
- Oh, that's you high school.
- (Jack) Oh! - I'm like...
Something is so off! - Something is different!
- Oh no! - (Izzy) Aw, look at the little baby!
- Why do I look like a child? (laughs)
(Izzy babbles)
- That is not my face. (Jayka laughs)
- For context. - (React) Oh my God.
- You were a scene kid. - (React) You were such a scene kid.
- Wow, look at that hair. - Get into that.
- (React) (gasps) You look like Christina Grimmie,
do you remember her? - How dare you, and yes.
- (React) Does this make you feel nostalgic?
- I'm holding back tears, quite honestly.
- (React) Are you? - Yeah.
- (React) The teenage look filter has gone viral on TikTok,
and it has 3.9 million videos that have used it so far.
'Causing some people to be very emotional,
seeing their younger selves, and reflect on them a little bit.
So we're gonna try it out live!
- Wait, it kinda looks good in person, I feel like.
- (React) Yeah?
- (gasps) Oh my...
- Oh my God!
Dawg, I don't like that I still have facial hair.
- This looks like a child. - (Daniel) It does look very child.
- Like this isn't a teen, this is an infant.
- Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah! - Give me that!
- Unfortunately, the filter doesn't do the chin.
- (Jayka) But you just look pure and innocent,
like a little baby, but like...
- (React) Cute! - (Jayka) Still the same.
- (Catherine) I don't like the hair.
- Something's strange about the hair, I don't recognize that.
- It looks like I'm wearing makeup right now.
- It's too weird, 'cause I'm not that age,
and I think overall to me,
this is gonna be very upsetting.
- (Jayka) Huh? - (React) Okay.
- (gasps) Oh no! Oh my God!
- Oh! - (Izzy) Yeah!
- Oh dear God.
- You look [censored] stoked!
- It looks like I have false teeth there.
- Well maybe you do 10 years from now.
- No, I just went to the dentist. I have the gums of a 30 year old.
- I'm excited to be old though. [Censored] yeah!
- Oh God. Oh!
- (React) Yours didn't change that much.
- Dude! - (Brian) Oh my God!
- I'd [censored] me. (both laugh)
(Jayka laughs) - (Jack) I think it's great.
- (React) Totally, 100%.
- They didn't do enough.
- This is my grandpa.
- This makes me feel better about aging.
- I would hope 90, rather than like 50, Jesus.
Yeah.
- You know, that's bleak for 50. - Yeah. (laughs)
- I'm looking forward to being that age.
- (React) Are you?
- I get a lot more work,
'cause my competitors are all dying out.
- It's giving slay boots the house down, gram gram.
(Daniel laughs) (React laughs)
- This is me in Vegas,
when I haven't had a glass of water in three days.
- Aw, look at my hair! I love it!
- Oh yeah, so it just gave me gray hair.
- (Jayka) It's like dragging you down! - Droopy!
And my eyebrows are like drooping down, I'm like, mm.
- Stop with your cougar ass!
- You have to do that when you're...
You still gotta keep it going!
- Woah.
- (Jack) I'm kinda here for the gray hair, not gonna lie.
- I'm like, it's kind of an ashy gray tone moment.
Like, let me show this to my hair stylist really quick.
- Okay, it's the jowl man.
What happened, I look like I'm going to the bathroom and straining.
- Oh God!
- Nothing, nah.
(Izzy laughs) - (React) Honestly, didn't do a thing.
- Nothing, you wanna know why? Look, okay?
- It's literally how I do my makeup. (laughs)
- Look at this!
- Okay, pumped up the lips. Pumped up the jams.
This is just me in full glam.
- That's just me, oh, I look pretty though.
That's me with makeup. - (Izzy) You look beautified yeah.
- Is that the glam one?
- Wow. - (laughs) Very similar.
- Okay, the goal is just to look like you.
- No, definitely not.
- Because any filter, she's just like,
I'm already the filter. - (React) Yeah, literally.
(Jayka laughs) - I love that.
- Oh, I look, no, that's so off.
The eyes are like, when I work,
that's what they do with my eyes.
They put a lot of makeup on the eyes.
I don't, obviously, wear that much.
- Ooh, wait, is this the one? - It's just the makeup one!
- Is this the bold and glamor? - (Jayka) Yes!
- Oh, I'm here for it. - (Jayka) Yeah.
- This filter has gone viral incredibly fast,
currently at 15.7 million videos using it.
It definitely caters towards a very specific beauty standard.
It's known for not glitching when you touch your face.
Let's try it out.
- It's giving cheeks. (laughs)
- (Izzy) Wow yeah! - It is giving cheeks.
Look at, and again, see? - (Izzy) Wow!
- Barely anything happens.
- (React) Run your hand in front of your eyes
to show that it's not glitching.
- (Jack) Isn't that crazy?
- Oh my gosh! - (Jack) Nothing moved.
- This is scary! Hello?
Hello?
- I like funny, it doesn't, to me, it doesn't look like me,
and I certainly would not ever do that to my lips.
- (Brian) Ow, you better stop giving them the eyes!
You better stop giving them the eyes!
- I feel gross!
- I don't know what it is, I wanna look like this so bad!
(Jayka laughs) Oh my God.
- (React) Researchers found
that 94% of female and nonbinary participants
said that they felt pressure to look a certain way.
Young women in the study also felt overwhelmed
by pressures to view themselves from all angles,
and have 360 degree perfection. - Correct.
- (React) What do you think about this?
- Yes. - It's not surprising.
- Before I was on here,
I would always use like a Snapchat filter,
and I didn't like the way I looked
until I got on here,
and I was forced to accept what I look like,
and be happy with my face.
- Very interesting.
- And that was like a really hard journey to go through,
because I felt like it started with Snapchat,
and now the filters are getting even worse.
And I'm still guilty, I still use filters!
- I feel like a lot of them, too, keep pulling from,
whether it's like cartoons or anime.
It's about like making your eyes bigger,
or your eyebrows more bold,
and like perfect symmetry, I feel like.
- Mm-hmm.
- Maybe a little help makes 'em feel better.
- (React) I'm gonna show you another filter
that has been going around lately.
- Oh wow!
- She's already a gorgeous person,
but she just looks so naturally beautiful.
- Oh my gosh.
- (React) You're comparing... - Oh, I see, yeah, I see.
- (React) Yeah. - That's clever, very clever.
- Okay, but she's [censored] beautiful.
- I was gonna say, 'cause... - She's beautiful.
- There's, you can go either way with that.
- Wow, that's ugly.
- Yeah okay, so we got full-on guyliner.
Once again, hit me with all of the highlights and contours.
- I wish it would do like a clean guy aesthetic.
- (Jayka) Yeah.
- There's a lot of the girl filters.
- All, like basically every subtle filter ever
makes your nose smaller, and I'm like why?
- (React) Yeah, why do you think filters do that?
- Because it's a beauty standard that's it's basing it off.
It's what everybody, quote unquote everybody wants.
- You know, I gotta be honest, I'll take me the way I am now.
- (Phil) Yeah! - (React) Yeah!
- I'm like yeah, that's me. (laughs)
I like that guy.
- Honestly, the orange is distracting.
- Ugh.
- You look the same, just a different color.
- I like definitely would prefer the natural side, because...
- (Jack) Mm-hmm.
- Because that just looks kinda scary,
and I look orange, and I'm not. - (Jack) Yeah.
- (React) In the same study from the University,
the City University of London,
they found that the five most common edits
made by women in photos
are evening out skin tone, brightening skin,
whitening teeth, bronzing skin,
and looking slimmer.
So, basically teens have all of this right at their fingertips.
- They're there already, they're so beautiful,
just 'cause they're young.
You don't realize it 'til you get older.
- No, of course not.
- And all young people are beautiful.
- I personally have always struggled with my skin.
Like, I went through so much.
I was putting on makeup, and trying to cover my skin
when I was really, really young.
- As somebody who works at a makeup store,
that's our customer base in general.
That is what it is that you're doing
with the products that you pick up
from the place that I work.
Like, you are looking to even out your skin tone,
you're here for foundation, you're looking to maybe
try to get rid of some of the bags under your eyes.
You're grabbing concealer.
If you want a little extra glow, you'll grab a dew,
or your setting spray, or you're going to grab
some stuff for skincare, okay?
That is what...
- I'm such a victim. (both laugh)
- Oh, the Bella Hadid filter.
- I've never seen that, woah.
- It's the fox eye, that's how I know Bella,
and the slim nose. - I mean.
See, that's the thing. - She did look like Bella.
- She already cute!
- You can see like this nose contour though,
if you turn your nose, like you can see it puts a line on there.
- (Jayka) Ooh, I need that. - A little weird,
and it does glitch. - (Jayka) Just kidding. (laughs)
- I'm a supermodel! I have a new job!
- (Phil) You're hired!
- (Brian) (laughs) Oh God! - (React) Slay!
- Woah, that's so realistic. - Yeah.
- That's insane.
- Oh, she's beautiful. - (React) Beautiful!
- I like her better this way!
- Woah! - Oh!
- See, that's the thing that I don't like about these filters,
is they make you orange.
- Interesting. - (Jayka) Okay.
- Should I take it off, that's one way...
(Jayka screams) Oh!
(Jayka laughs) No!
- I literally look like this was last night's makeup.
No dear. - (Izzy) Okay, but...
- No. - (Izzy) The eyes are giving.
- (Catherine) And throw tea parties.
- Let's do lunch.
- I feel like, oh my God. - (Brian) Oh, there we go.
- I'll come and haunt you. (laughs)
- I mean, I look dangerous.
- (narrator) Featuring a multitude of filters.
- I used to want to look like a Snapchat filter,
not gonna lie.
- (Erin) We also get a self esteem boost from other people...
- Of course! 100%.
- (narrator) 62% reported their patients
wanted to go under the knife,
because of dissatisfaction with their social media profile.
- Oh for...
- No way. - (Jack) Mm-hmm.
- Huh?
- Take it all the way back to like magazine shoots.
- Oh yeah.
- Where you can clearly tell that things have been altered.
- Mm-hmm.
- Like, it's been around.
This is just a new way that it's happening.
- I mean, I started struggling with body dysmorphia
at such a young age,
and I can only imagine with how many teens,
and how many young, like literally not even teens yet
are on social media,
that it's just gonna keep getting younger and younger and younger,
and that is so worrying,
because, you know, as progressive as we have been trying to be,
there's still all these filters being created,
and all these new beauty standards,
especially with how plastic surgery has been affecting it.
It's really bad.
- We're all aware of this. - Yeah.
- Yet I feel like we perpetuate it to each other.
Like, we're all very, very well aware of the impact
that these things have on us, but I don't...
It doesn't seem like there's sort of like a conscious effort
to like, tackle it.
- (React) Say a teen posts two photos, okay?
One has a lot of filters, it has that bold glamor filter on,
the second one has no filter, it's just their natural beauty.
The filtered photo gets 500 likes,
the unfiltered photo gets maybe 10 likes,
how do you think that affects the teen?
- It's conditioning. - It's conditioning.
- Yeah. - It's Pavlov's dogs.
We are Pavlov's dogging each other.
- When I grew up though, it was like,
you could be on social media, or you don't have to be.
Like nowadays, I feel like you have to be on social media.
- Right.
- So you're kinda forced to literally play
to these beauty standards, and be a part of it.
- Accept yourself the way you are,
and if people don't like it, find some new people.
- It's just like, you know,
you notice that you get more attention with it,
and now I'm kinda accepting it.
I used to not be able to outside the house without makeup.
Now I don't give a crap.
- Who cares?
- That's it, it's like just put up a picture of yourself happy.
- Honestly, I wish I could tell my younger self
that perfection doesn't exist.
- These things aren't bad,
unless you take them to a place that is unhealthy.
Just like everything else in the world.
Always in moderation.
Enjoy the filters, they're fun,
but they shouldn't affect the way that it is
that you feel about yourself.
- Stop caring what people think.
Like it's easier, the second you get over that,
like, I feel like the world just opens up,
and life is just so much easier.
Like who cares what people think?
- You have like a brand new perspective once that hits you.
- Don't isolate yourself, get into yourself so much
that it affects your behavior.
- Don't, don't, especially on social media,
it's just, that's not reality.
That's not real life.
- Just know if you're basing yourself off of another person,
it's all fake.
- You're beautiful the way you are, I just, just be you.
- Social media is not reality! Just give it a rest.
- As a model, I have learned to shapeshift my body.
What you see in a photo is not what my body looks like
if I'm just vibing, if I'm just chilling.
So like never compare yourself to a photo,
or honestly, videos.
- Do you have one of these that shows we're dead?
- You better stop giving them the eyes!
- I feel gross!
- Don't forget to take your medicines and your vitamins!
- Why did you look like it was beauty filter,
and mine actually looks like a baby.
- It's because you're perfect, that's why.