No one will admit to practicing it out loud, but one of the internet's favorite sports is consuming before-and-after images of a celebrity's body.
From Instagram to TikTok, going through gossip magazines, the fascination for montages of aesthetic transformations of well-known characters are guaranteed click farms.
A lucrative magnet of attention that stalks us at every
scroll
jump .
The recent visit of the businesswoman and reality TV star Kim Kardashian to the set of James Corden has propelled, and in what way, a new bait of the genre.
People have given it exactly the same to the regular gag of
The Targashian
, where they parodied
The House of the Dragon
with very little grace.
What everyone was talking about was his body.
Or what is left of it.
A comparison of the guest with an image of her on that same sofa five years ago flew so high on the net that sports newspaper websites dedicated news to what seems like a drastic breast reduction.
Every time i see these pics on the TL I'm stunned because thin is in again and it worries me.
My early 2000s PTSD is creeping up.
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— samantha bush (@takeyourzoloft) September 21, 2022
For those of us who suffered through our adolescence admiring Kate Moss and all those bony, haggard, whitish girls who exuded an unattainable mysticism in magazines, the thickness of Kim Kardashian's boobs doesn't worry us.
What terrifies us is realizing that if the woman who has most influenced and shaped the canons of beauty in the last fifteen years is gradually disappearing from our sight, it is because that nightmare of white anorexic supremacy, the one that had my entire generation holding his breath and listening to his guts rumble, he's back in our lives.
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