Gia (Jia) Tolentino
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first heard Aug 2026
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Fresh Air · Best Of: Jia Tolentino on plastic surgery & AI / ‘Beef’ creator Lee Sun Jin · 8 Aug 2026
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And Gia Tolentino, welcome back to Fresh Air.
Thank you so much for having me.
Okay, as I mentioned to you, this piece has hit a nerve and so much of the reaction is basically, Yes, we are seeing this, we are feeling this.
what can we actually do about it?
And the same thing actually happened seven years ago when you coined this term Instagram face.
And so I thought before we actually get into your latest piece, remind us what Instagram face is or was.
Right.
So sometime last decade, if you were on Instagram, you probably noticed that most of the most prominent, most highly visible faces, who generally all belonged to white female influencers, they started to kind of converge on a singular face.
I remember someone I a makeup artist described it as a sexy baby tiger.
You know, it was the kind of
Kim Kardashian looks like Kendall Jenner, looks like Bella Hadid, looks like Emily Radikowski.
There was this kind of convergence of the face towards a certain mean that seemed to me to be very overtly shaped by the algorithm.
The face looked like the beauty filters that Snapchat and Instagram provided to kind of
Lift your cheeks and plump your lips and you know
Make your chin a little more heart shaped and
You could press a button or you could use Face Tune.
to digitally alter your face to fit this kind of algorithmically approved
Beauty standard, like this was a face that the algorithm liked.
If your face looked like this, you would get more views on your pictures.
And then, you know, concurrently.
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