Recently, the topic of "selfie scoring" has been warmly discussed by netizens again. This ancient word should or should not have survived in 2022, but after sharing with netizens, it was found that the original "selfie scoring" has been upgraded from an ordinary interesting online activity to a paid service, and the sales volume is still very high!
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On the online shopping platform, we can easily search for relevant services through the keyword "selfie" or "selfie scoring". The price is generally below 2 yuan, and we can easily click into a detail page. The sales volume is more than 10000 pieces, which is amazing. Nowadays, it seems that more and more young people spend money on an app to let strangers rate their appearance. For a few dollars, they can hear strangers rate their appearance. They can also analyze specific aspects such as facial features, makeup, style, temperament, and give relevant makeup and dressing suggestions. It sounds very attractive. In fact, this activity has existed since the Web2.0 era.
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Back in the days when Tianya community and Baidu Post Bar were still the top social platforms, basically every sub section and post bar would post several posts asking for self-evaluation in the late night, and people would give real comments at the beginning. However, the Internet atmosphere is getting worse and worse. Users' comments have changed from friendly to ridicule, and even personal attacks have been made on the sender. And the beauty scoring can develop from a fun activity to an online payment service, which has something to do with the sharp increase of people's facial anxiety.
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Last year, the media conducted a questionnaire survey on the topic of facial anxiety among 2063 college students nationwide. The results show that nearly 60% of college students have some degree of facial anxiety. Nearly half of the students believe that beauty has a great impact on their life, work, education, marriage and love, and even attribute the difficulties encountered in life to their appearance. Therefore, they also pay more attention to the evaluation of others, hoping to change the current bad life according to the real opinions. To some extent, this is similar to fortune telling on the Internet and measuring marriage by name.
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It's not a bad thing to pay attention to beauty, but everything has a degree. If you focus too much on one thing, you will miss other beautiful parts. Even if you really want to hear how outsiders evaluate your beauty, you should at least go to a professional plastic surgery hospital to listen to the professional opinions of doctors. However, for the purpose of entertainment, the current AI beauty measurement is much more fun than the evaluation bought for a few dollars.