If I’m not so busy with my personal life, maybe up to 40,” says FixedYouu. “In a month I probably edit for 20 to 30 people. Most people don’t realise that beyond celebrity makeovers, pages like FixedYouu and The Photoshop Surgeon offer edits for people IRL. “This bummed me out, because I thought ‘How the heck will this surgeon know what I want?’ Back then it was a small group of us, maybe around 500 followers.” “When I was researching plastic surgery and looking at consultations, most doctors didn’t offer simulations,” says the 21-year-old behind the FixedYouu account, who wishes to remain anonymous. The page was set up in October of 2019, to help people in the “SX” community – how the online surgery community refers to itself – by giving them simulations their plastic surgeons didn’t offer as part of consultations. “Of course people have discomfort around the idea that particular faces might be more aesthetically pleasing than others, but if it’s true that we have certain universal aesthetic preferences, then we really need to understand what they are, how they work and what implications they have for our behaviour,” The Photoshop Surgeon concludes.įixedYouu’s backstory is a bit different. For a lot of people watching the Photoshop transformations, the content is intriguing or funny, but after reading multiple comment sections, it’s clear some are worried that content like this, far from being radical, is promoting certain notions of Eurocentric beauty standards, leaving no room for diversity. “I was interested in doing radical transformations, an extreme artistic challenge of what can be done with Photoshop,” The Photoshop Surgeon tells me. Similar accounts like Photoshoppe also exist on TikTok, speed editing celebrities in 60 seconds to the hashtag #perfectface. It’s a timelapse of The Photoshop Surgeon using the stencil to “fix” Billie’s face. A recent video called “Is BILLIE EILISH perfect?” has been watched by 3.3 million people. On YouTube, The Photoshop Surgeon, an account followed by nearly a million people, uses a “golden ratio” stencil to transform celebrity faces. This type of content isn’t only on Instagram.
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