Most people can look really good through an angle or a filter on a good photo, and in real life people are just average

I doubt this is a unpopular opinion. But anytime I am on the apps, and go on a date with the person after seeing their profile, I will never stop being amazed at how average the person before me looks. Just another person. I see instantly the angles were perfected, or maybe a slight filter was on, and and that the person before me is a nothingsauce of all the images they perfectly selected out on a dating app.

Not only that, I've seen women / overheard women when I'm out and men who are doing influencer events and seeing the angles from another view (where I am standing) without the filters these people look like normal douchebags 90% of the time. The way photos are edited, the angles that they come from are all perfectly picked out and it's obvious its a fake version of reality at this point.

It's harmless except if anyone honestly thinks this is how people should look all the time. My father used to tell my mom to get pretty and tell her anytime he said she should put on make up she better otherwise he'd divorce her.

Unrealistic beauty standards are propagated by social media (no duh) but honestly when as a society did we ever stop realizing that we're all just meh people? There's maybe 10% if that that are extremely pretty, and they start wrinkling at 29 too.

It's a joke and we're all sorta pretty but pretty the same imo.