I mean, it's been going on far longer than 20 years. It's just been more directly relatable to how women's appearances have been critiqued since 'metrosexuality' was a trend a couple decades ago.

the thing is, those ppl have seen others with mar-a-lago face. it's uncanny. still they do it. they are like "i wanna look bad and unnatural". we have to accept that. their body; their choice.

That’s not right.

They are yelling at women that they aren’t good enough… unless they are waring their product. Oh if you use that other product you are just as ugly as you feel inside.

And then that gets hyper magnified through our little pocket black mirrors that most commonly destroy your attention span, thus ability to deeply consider any concept or do deep introspection, and it creates an incentive structure for people to turn themselves into superficial advertisement mascot people, which itself then becomes culturally normalized.

Is that why every brodude smells like tea-tree oil to high heaven now? Every nu-male must be drinking the same Faceslop and Instaslop trends

Hot take: advertising doesnt have that much impact on womens views of their own attractiveness or society's beauty standards, unless those women are completely disconnected from the outside world. If it did, women's beauty standards would be completely homogenenized. Instead, we see significantly different standards for what women strive for between cultures and social strata.

Instead, women are picking up cues from their social circles and the broader cultures they participate in.