I'd like to mention Taneth Montero. And the fact she isn't blacklisted. Almost all her pictures are Photoshopped. Her legs and calves are stretched out and her waist pulled in in every pic. Sometimes it's more noticeable than others.
I have noticed the use of photoshop getting worse over the years, to the point where even large influencers do it.
YouTube used to be great in the 2014 era. Same with Google in general. Then gaming the algorithm became a science, with actual PR firms hiring ex-Google employees, and in general data mining the hell out of the platform. Now Google results are absolute shit, and YouTube infested with irrelevant clickbait.
Same thing with Instagram. Money is ruining it. Studies have shown humans are attracted to exaggerated, unnatural proportions. So people do exactly that to game the algorithm.
Nowadays, I rarely browse YouTube directly. I only watch videos there if they are embedded somewhere else which provides context if the video is good or not (especially now that they removed dislikes).
Same with Google. I usually append "reddit" to my search (or use Bing/Yandex) because that site acts as a great filter to the internet's nonsense.
GWM is basically a similar great filter. Sorry for the tangent. But on this note can we also request models be reviewed for soft blacklisting as well? In fact I say whoever Goob outs ought to be reviewed, like Yarishna Nicole Ayala.
Julie Moody was particularly bad
Rhonda Mac too. like i doubt she actually looks anything like that. the only thing that would sway me is if there was a 3rd party photo of her that had no filters and was a candid.
There is a case to be made that some of the more extreme cases should stay banned, and not even soft-blacklisted. With Eun Hee Kang, she at least has videos which are mostly realistic (except maybe some facial distortion). With some other women, maybe the ones fp909 mentions are examples of this, we're approaching the realm of complete fantasy where very little of what you see is real. I don't think that should have a place on the site. I don't know where the line should be drawn, though.
Id like Yuan and Krishna back. Morphing is the worst kind of cheating but i find it’s usually obvious and stated in the comments. The discussion and analysis of morphs i think is important to educate people’s eyes.
In the end what matters most to me is that the image is aesthetically pleasing. I’d rather girls augment an image than their actual bodies with surgery or drugs.
Perhaps a morph tag would help. It’s a tough call, and it’s only going to get harder as machine learning AI creates fully convincing video morphs. It’s going to come down to independent measurements of muscle size in real life to confirm.
I don’t think it should be an automatic perma-ban unless the dimensions are fully outside the realm of possibility.
As most already know, Eun Hee Kang has been restored. This is a space for users to request other models they'd like to see back on the site who have been blacklisted for morphing their own images. This would mean that they would be "soft" blacklisted if allowed back on.
For more information on how this would work, you can refer to the Eun Hee Kang link above or read this.