Social Media: Friend or Foe? | The Daily Show

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] unfortunately due to the pandemic a lot of people are doing worse than ever because it turns out that the technology keeping us connected is also making us feel like [ __ ] with the stress of the pandemic body image issues have been on the rise 43 percent of women 26 percent of men said covet 19 negatively affected how attractive they felt the countless hours spent on zoom or video calls is causing more and more americans to be insecure about their appearance video conferencing presents a constant unedited unfiltered look at ourselves that can be unsettling and those front-facing cameras we're all using aren't doing us any favors things like the nose could actually appear larger and wider and the eyes could appear smaller not only is a person confronting their own reflection with much greater intensity and frequency than they ever had before but they were staring at a distorted reflection this is all part of an alarming new trend coined zoom dysmorphia yes zoom dysmorphia it's when you realize that it's not just everyone else who looks terrible on zoom and that's really not cool you know zoom shouldn't make you feel bad about your looks it should make you feel bad about your dirty ass living room but you have to remember people this is a new phenomenon that we're dealing with humans didn't evolve to see their own faces all the time that's not normal i mean except for twins i guess they don't count they're freaks it's like another one of you what like think about it for most of human history if you wanted to know what you looked like you had to get your friend to smash up some blueberry and rub it on a cave wall you look like this damn do i really hold a spear like that now the good news is that it's likely we'll all be using zoom a lot less in the near future but unfortunately there's another technology that also makes us feel bad about ourselves and it doesn't look like it's going away anytime soon i'm talking about photo filters yes they've helped mankind realize its dream of puking rainbows but some of the most popular filters just help you look more attractive which may sound harmless but it could be anything but cutting edge apps and social media filters are allowing ordinary people to enhance their online photos to impossible perfection in some cases it's sparking a concerning phenomena with apps like facetune you have the power to completely transform yourself bigger eyes skinnier nose and jawline smaller butt or flatter belly wider teeth smoother skin you can do it right on your phone when i take a selfie i always use filters i wish i could look like my filtered self in real life this obsession with personal appearance that selfie culture encourages may have darker implications for mental health a study in the journal of the american medical association says filtered pictures can take a toll on self-esteem body image and even lead to body dysmorphic disorder i do feel like we're losing touch with what reality looks like we're already getting there to the point where we're expecting people to look as unhuman as possible yeah photo editing filters set unrealistic expectations for beauty the same way fruit ninja sets up unrealistic expectations of how easy it is to slice floating fruit and once you have this filtered version of yourself in your head you become dissatisfied with what you really look like so in essence we're basically catfishing ourselves but if these editing apps can turn adults into quivering blobs of insecurity just imagine what they're doing to kids psychologists warn these photo filters can be particularly troubling for teens and young people who are still developing their sense of self eighty percent of girls in one survey say they compare the way they look to other people on social media on instagram like i follow people like kendall jenner and kylie jenner and they all have this like time measure like body image that everyone is expecting from this generation young girls on social media have a negative body perception with one in seven girls reporting being unhappy with the way they look at the end of elementary school and that number almost doubling to nearly one in three by age fourteen eighty percent of young girls are using photo retouching apps to change the way they look before posting pictures and those with high scores for manipulating their photos were associated with high scores for body related and eating concerns any of you ever questioned your body because of what you see on social media shame man this is a vicious cycle for teenagers social media makes them unhappy with how they look so then they use filters which perpetuate the unrealistic expectations for themselves and others plus they're teenagers so they're doing all of this while they're driving which puts everyone at risk and all the insecurity this creates is harmful for teenagers because i know it's hard to tune all of this out but teens shouldn't be obsessing over this stuff like i honestly wish i could sit all teenagers down and say hey don't worry about how you look the planet's gonna die out before you're 30. it doesn't matter now it's bad enough when people wish they had the perfect instagram look in real life what's worse is when they actually try to make it happen the more people look at doctored up images the more likely they are to actually start seeking out cosmetic procedures at younger ages these cosmetic procedures are becoming so popular with teens plastic surgeons have coined a new syndrome for it snapchat dysmorphia and the number of kids getting nip tucks may astound you in 2017 nearly 230 000 teens had cosmetic procedures kids as young as 13 are getting them doctors seeing an influx of people of all ages turning to plastic surgery to look more like their filter 62 of plastic surgeons reported their patients wanted to go under the knife because of dissatisfaction with their social media profile 57 said their patients wanted to look better in selfies absolutely it's becoming more and more common where people will show me images on their instagram or even something that posted on facebook and go this is really how i want to look just last week i had a patient come in and ask me for more of an anime eye and she couldn't figure out why it's not possible okay man this is really disturbing 13 year olds in particular should not be getting plastic surgery i mean when you're 13 your physical appearance is already naturally changing that's what our faces are doing it's like long-term plastic surgery i mean this is what i looked like when i was 13. you got to let that [ __ ] play out honestly though i don't blame the teenagers i blame the parents and the plastic surgeons i mean how are you going to let them do this to themselves they can't even buy cigarettes but you're going to let them buy a new face clearly this is getting out of hand which is why there's now a movement not just against filters but all the ways that people have been distorting reality on social media many influencers have started speaking up on this issue admitting that they've presented altered images in the past and are opening up the conversation some are even posting raw totally unedited photos of themselves and breaking down how people on your instagram feed may be manipulating their angles and lighting to get that quote-unquote perfect selfie there are many celebrities exposing the dangers of digital distortion they are posting images of themselves unedited unfiltered online and this is a great example to young girls pop star lizzo made a big splash when she posted a selfie in the nude and unretouched there's no shame anymore and i just kind of post myself it's like you take me as i am you don't have to love me british mp luke evans has proposed the digitally altered body image bill which would require advertisers and publishers to display a logo whenever a person's face or body has been digitally enhanced okay first of all i love the idea of putting disclaimers on photos of people who have been digitally altered i love it and honestly i don't think we should stop there we need to do this with everything that's been digitally out like food ads those are the worst every fast food burger looks great on tv but then when i order it it looks like it fell asleep in a hot tub but i'm glad that we're finally learning the truth about what celebrities look like you know personally i'm waiting for spongebob to join this movement i mean no way that guy is that square naturally have you seen that it's like it's not even maybe he's not real then how would he have a tv show now i'm not naive enough to think that society is going to stop creating unrealistic beauty standards anytime soon all right but what i do hope is that we can better educate our kids and ourselves that our own natural bodies are beautiful i mean except for that flap of old people's skin we have on our elbows like that [ __ ] is gross i don't care who you are it looks like a mid arm ball sack but everything else is beautiful but because this movement could take a while we here at the daily show decided to come up with a filter of our own that might help are social media filters giving you body image issues are you depressed you don't look as good as your filter then good news you'll never have to worry about living up to your filter again with rootify it's a brand new filter that turns your face into rudy giuliani you'll never be happier with how you look in real life and obviously this wouldn't be effective if you could turn it off so rootify overrides all other filters and just to be safe rootify retroactively applies itself to every face and every photo in your phone the best part is the filter is permanent just like rudy himself you can never get rid of it rudify you'll be overflowing with self-esteem warning use of this filter by rudy giuliani will rupture the fabric of space and time [Music] [Applause] what is one of the biggest concerns people have about modern technology privacy right because our phones know everything about us what music we listen to how much sleep we get what our face looks like when we're pooping but now apple is going to give you a little more control over how widely that information is shared you know how it goes you search for something online then see an ad on facebook or instagram for that exact item well apple is making it harder for apps to track your online activity when you're using apps on your iphone you may start to see this apple users must now give permission for apps to track your online activity data before you could only opt out it's about time jenny gephart is with the privacy non-profit the electronic frontier foundation switching from opt-out to opt-in is huge that is what's going to really make a lot more users opt out of this tracking feature that wasn't built for users it was built for advertisers that's right people with the new ios updates you have to opt in to being tracked online instead of having to opt out and i know it might seem like a small change but this is a huge deal because people are lazy as [ __ ] like think about it if apple said that they were gonna put all your nudes online unless you opted out you'd probably be like what no ways wha where's that opt out option ah settings general uh well you know what i'm proud of my third nipple let's just do this i don't care anymore i got things to do and people don't understand how much information facebook is actually getting from your other apps like you think it's a small thing you know how you always like to your friends oh i was talking about something and then it popped up is my phone listening to me no it's the apps like if you're in atlanta and you check the weather in vermont it won't wait for you to search for a winter coat before it starts showing you ads for one and if you've been ordering pizza every night on grubhub well then the ads will show you a coat that's two sizes up because it knows so this new privacy feature is good news for iphone users but it turns out it's very bad news for one of apple's biggest rivals facebook in fact it's so bad for them that they've started throwing up pop-ups begging everyone to let them keep tracking us and warning us that if we don't facebook might stop being free of charge and i'm not gonna lie to people that seems like an empty threat to me because who would pay to be on facebook with the type of people willing to pay to be on facebook i mean that's like if a crack house had a cover charge i actually wouldn't mind if facebook started charging people because i think if they did maybe people would actually think for a second before they posted the government puts fluoride in the water to brainwash us post two dollars i'll keep it to myself now the reason facebook needs to track its users is so that it can charge big bucks to advertisers who want to target very specific audiences but mark zuckerberg knows that people don't care if he can't afford to give his hovercraft a lamborghini for its birthday so instead he's asking you to think about the poor companies that'll suffer if he can't track you facebook said apple's move will harm their small business advertisers it's going to kill us it's going to kill us but for monique wilson debriano who was featured in a facebook campaign and owns charleston gourmet burger the change has already affected sales and she's had to cut costs it's not about you know small businesses you know wanting to take away anyone's privacy all we want to do is really to service our customers better so if someone loves hamburgers and they're looking for something that is just awesome you know to make your hamburgers taste better i would like to show my ad to you and this update takes that away from small businesses like mine okay now this is interesting i mean i don't like getting tracked but it is true that it does help some small businesses target their ads you know and the truth is in life bad things can have good side effects you know it's like how serial killers are bad we all agree that they're bad but you do get a lot of really interesting podcasts out of them yeah no so i can't see what facebook is trying to argue here they're saying do you really want to hurt small businesses before amazon has a chance to bankrupt them and honestly i wouldn't mind targeted ads that much but the thing is it's how it is how facebook tracks all of us that i don't like like it would be one thing if facebook asked me hey trevor do you like hamburgers ah we're gonna show you stuff about food but what facebook actually does is basically just send some guy named gary to just stalk my entire life hey trevor i heard you like hamburgers what how did you know that i read an email you sent to your girlfriend so maybe you're still not swayed by the effect of this change on small businesses and that's why facebook is also warning of the bleak future that awaits all of us if they can't track our every movement anymore facebook's pushing back it relies on that data to target consumers with relevant ads so if people do opt out here's what facebook says could happen say a young man is looking for a new pair of sneakers on his phone facebook claims that with apple's new rules it won't be able to use his search history and information about what other apps he uses to show him ads for things he wants to buy so on facebook or instagram he could end up seeing ads for women's clothing or furniture really this is a real argument come on man get the [ __ ] out of here guys we've lived our entire lives watching untargeted ads right tv ads newspaper ads billboards none of those were targeted and we were fine all right now all of a sudden they're making it seem like we can't live without them like we're gonna be like oh no oh no i'll have to watch untargeted ads but how will i know if a product isn't for me what if i buy tampons because i didn't know that i don't have a period what if i buy dog food but i don't have a dog am i a dog and my dog won tampon i don't know we can handle untargeted ads in fact sometimes untargeted ads introduce you to things that you never knew you needed yeah like a shower seat i didn't think about that before i came to america and then now that i'm here i realize just because i'm not 80 doesn't mean i can't get clean and comfortable and you know on top of all that facebook makes it seem they make it seem like all they use that data for is to sell us the products that we want but don't forget that the reason you often only see posts that make you mad as hell is because of all the time facebook is tracking you and they use that targeting to piss you off it's not a coincidence that facebook is always telling you that joe biden is going to make the bible spanish only or that trump stole all the mailboxes to give to kim jong-un it's because they know how to keep you engaged for as long as possible and they know this by tracking you and again i'm not pro apple here right but apple didn't build their entire business model on stalking you facebook did and if moving society away from tracking people means that gary has to find a new job then you know what so be it but then trev who will recommend creams for your toenail fungus get the [ __ ] out of here gary [Music] [Applause] let's take a moment to talk about selfies they're the top way to show people what parts of your body are on fleek uh yeah for me personally it's my elbow uh or as i like to call it my omni but um as innocent as the selfie craze may seem it can have real world consequences and for more on this we're joined by senior technology correspondents ronnie chang everybody thanks trevor selfies used to be a harmless way to show everyone how hashtag blessed your life is but as it turned out looking at pictures of your own head all the time can actually start to mess with it in this age of the selfie there's been a surge in lip augmentation procedures the love affair with lips leading to a record number of lip jobs last year doctors say because we see so many images of ourselves almost constantly on social media we're much more aware of how our lips look are you serious people are having surgery to enhance their lips just look better in selfies what happened to just doing duck face it always works for me [Applause] yo no one's judging your lips okay or judging your double chin and your weird nose i guess what i'm trying to say is that why are you stopping at your lips just face your whole face yeah fix your whole face and not only are selfies blowing up lips they're also shrinking bank accounts nfl prospect laramie tunsil should have been celebrating being drafted into the nfl last night tunzell was projected to go at six to the baltimore ravens ended up falling to 13th that drop right there cost him about eight million dollars in salary over the next four years before the draft open a two-year-old video posted to tunzel's twitter account showing him taking a massive bong hit out of a gas mask come on how do you even know that's laramie tonsil it could be anyone it could be a time traveling world war ii soldier it actually took days of investigative journalism to figure out his identity they had to go through the video frame by frame and it also helped that he took his mask off and showed his face yo if you're recording yourself doing something illegal and you're already wearing a mask just leave it on that's what masks are for also why does the nfl even care if players smoke pot oh oh wait i get it because marijuana could cause brain damage and brain damage is trig mod by the nfl but hey at least tonsil was just doing something stupid and not dangerous like snapchatting or driving a new lawsuit filed against snapchat and 18-year-old crystal mcgee snapchat has a feature called a speed overlay filter and it measures how fast users are moving while they are taking a photo or video the man is suing the social media giant claiming that an 18 year old drove more than 100 miles an hour and crashed into his car while she was using the app snapchat used to be about dick pics okay now you're encouraging people to take selfies or speeding i never thought i'd say this but snapchat i like you better when you are just sending me dicks right and well hey at least this woman is okay and she learned her lesson right but even the crash didn't stop mcgee from snapchatting attorneys say mcgee sent out this selfie strapped to a gurney she types lucky to be alive she sent a snapchat right after sending a snapchat nearly killed her that's like having an allergic reaction to shellfish and then on the way to the hospital swinging by red lobster for the seafood trio all right also what adamantium phone case are you using like your car gets totaled and somehow your phone magically survives meanwhile my phone shatters if i drop it on a pillow unfortunately selfies aren't just addictive according to some people they're a god-given right a south carolina man learned the hard way that trying to take a selfie with amy schumer is no laughing matter the comedian says that she was scared when this man ran up to her and started recording video i told her this is america i said in america when you see a celebrity you go and take a selfie this is america that you says it like it's in the constitution listen nowhere does it say we hold these truths to be selfie evident look when we see famous people we all want to take a selfie of them all right i want to take a selfie with travel right now so i could get a ton of likes all right not as many likes as if i took it with amy schumer but hey still a lot all right but you know what i resist the urge that's what being human is about resisting your base impulses all right that's why i'm not humping this desk right now so go ahead and keep taking selfies just understand there's a time and a place all right and everyone else stop acting like narcissism is just a millennial thing okay oh people you would have done the exact same if you had access to the technology what's weirder taking two seconds to snap a selfie or spending six months painting yourself now i mean look look how easy it is to just do one of these look i thought you said you weren't going to take a cell what are you doing you're taking a selfie yeah i also said i wasn't going to hum the desk but you know you gotta do what you gotta do all right so all right thank you ronnie ronnie chang everyone [Music] you may or may not have heard of black twitter but it's huge and if you wanna understand it imagine a barber shop i know what you're thinking it's a barber shop i'm a black dude we bout to do all the usual stuff lebron james dunked on fire [ __ ] kids man shut your ass up bootleg man bootleg man the boys ain't got no daddy marquis you got a daddy that love you look for decades the black barbershop has been the epicenter of black cultural discussion but the internet has changed things let me introduce you to black twitter black twitter is an entire i think we need somebody more qualified let's go with jamila lemieux executive writer and most importantly black person jamila what is black twitter it's just really an extension of how we communicate in our neighborhoods and our barbershops and our churches and our schools it is our village think of black twitter as harlem black folks made it cool and now white people trying to move in what we do on social media and of course we over index and we use it more than anybody else and we use it on mobile which means we have it you know by our side 24 hours a day that's right while we make up just 12 of the us population 25 of american twitter users are black and they're three times more likely to post daily on twitter than white people but that's not the only reason black twitter is important and if anybody can back it up it's a brother wearing a hoodie and a kangol elon james white one of the major parts of of quote-unquote black twitter is the ability to force a conversation that otherwise would be ignored oscar so white made the oscars more black you got ferguson black lives matter bring back our girls ferguson when it first happened mike brown getting shot i knew about that before it hit the news because i was seeing tweets from uh st louis and ferguson that his body hadn't been picked up yet movements that once took weeks to mobilize can come together in mere hours george zimmerman i believe would not have been arrested or or tried at all were not for black twitter people love to say oh if dr king had twitter he would have got more accomplished woody how you know he wouldn't have just been up all night arguing with trolls martin come to bed loretta i can't malcolm x still popping off at the mouth i snatched the bow tie off his ass black twitter is just as complicated and nuanced as the black community itself like within black twitter you still have an intellectual twitter you have academics and then you have hotep twitter whoa everybody don't like to be called a hotep according to the root a hotep is the clueless parody of afrocentricity someone who's loudly conspicuously and obnoxiously pro-black but i think that's a little harsh i prefer to call these brothers black enthusiasts that's why they got a b black do black shot black buy black date black smoke blacks and of course you got the bay hive one of them twins ain't even jay z's who's talking about beyonce no beyonce slander shall survive she represents joy for so many people particularly black women she's on the wall with martin malcolm barack beyonce black twitter is also the place to keep up with the latest in fashion music and racial slurs i have been called every type of on the planet e r e r a h igz it's types of i didn't know existed until like i caught them on twitter anybody can get it on black twitter even if you're in the nfl hall of fame just ask jerry rice who thought it was all good to wear a fried chicken helmet in a popeyes commercial i don't think there's ever excuse for a chicken helmet you decide to put on the chicken helmet that's between you and your guys sometimes people need to be shamed black twitter has no qualms about calling anybody out this is live footage of jerry rice getting drugged on black twitter [Applause] and it's not just people corporations try to be too cool and they get on the wrong side of black twitter all the time by doing things like using black slain to sell pancakes ihop is one of those brands and she's done weird like pancakes on fleek pancake man pancakes on fleek like you just don't throw on fleek behind something and call that you know engaging with the culture here's a general rule of thumb to all corporations if you wouldn't say it to a black person's face don't tweet it boy bye yes retweet to win you wanna say don't say it just shut black twitter challenges spaces of power in a way that we haven't seen before black experience in america is diverse but more importantly it's vocal so if you're wondering how to find black twitter it's probably not for you they should just give us twitter we have appropriated twitter this is the first thing that black people have effectively appropriated and made our own as long as black twitter is there the fight for justice just got a bit easier appreciated i got you i know where you were okay yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah [Music] [Applause] social media it's affected every aspect of our lives how we communicate how we stay informed how we showcase our booty clapping skills uh yeah i used to i used to make homemade dvds to get that out now it's so much easier but lately but lately conservatives have been complaining that tech companies are biased against them and yesterday they took action in real life the justice department is looking at whether facebook and twitter are intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas twitter ceo jack dorsey told a house committee his company is not censoring conservatives jeff sessions doubled down and says he'll gather state attorneys general to discuss whether social media companies stifle conservatives that's right jeff sessions has announced that he's going to look high and low mostly low to find out if social media companies are censoring conservatives yeah he's probably going to come back like well i couldn't find any bias i'd be like did you check the top south no and now now the reason the justice department and both houses are all over this issue is because clearly they're taking cues from the top you look at google facebook twitter and other social media giants and i've made it clear that we as a country cannot tolerate political censorship blacklisting and rigged search results we will not let large corporations silence conservative voices that's right folks i donald j trump and sick of being silenced when was the last time you saw a tweet of mine when was the last time you saw something about me on the internet folks it's been almost half an hour why is that is it because i've been up here for 30 minutes or because i've been centered come on get the [ __ ] out of here man how is the guy who became president because of twitter claiming that twitter is censoring him and how to get him yeah like the out to get him elected it's like superman bitching about earth like man this planet is holding me back it's like no this planet is what made you if you don't like it superman why don't you just go home and be carl the accountant oh that's right you can't go home because your home blew up sorry i get angry when superman shits on earth but but maybe maybe the president feels like conservatives are being censored because his only source of information keeps telling him so the tech giants are obviously politically biased against conservatives no one really disputes that you cannot have them dominating the information space only on behalf of left-wingers sometimes when you uh search my name uh certain articles will pop up that are more uh disparaging and more negative and for you know three or four years ago instead of anything current okay now to be fair i understand what the stale prince of ballet is saying sometimes sometimes google prioritizes older negative stories but that's not anti-conservative bias that's just the internet right the negative stories get much more attention than the positive ones like when i google myself the news is never about some cool joke that i told no it's always something negative and i tell cool jokes all the time all right you never hear about the good stuff for example for example right today i saved this baby on the way to work but are you gonna see that on the first page of my google search results no but if i do this if i do this if i do this number one news story on google news and i'm not even a comedian anymore all of a sudden i'm just a south african baby slam that's who i am the internet is cruel to everyone everyone but but according to many people on fox news the only explanation for this is bias i tweeted out um a clip from cnn of james clapper basically admitting that president obama was the one who directed all of the intelligence agencies um at the at the end of 2016 to launch an investigation uh into president trump so i tweeted out it got no life it got no life and i know that's something that my followers and viewers care about big time it got no life so i'm just wondering was i shadow band no no maria about aroma your post was just boring and i'm not even saying that to be mean we've all been there every one of us has posted something online that we were sure was gonna break the internet right all of us had that one tweet where we were like oh man this tree is gonna blow up this tree's gonna blow up and you're like should i say no not yet not yet oh man this tree's gone oh wait hold on hold on hey cancel all my meetings i'm about to go viral and then you're like and then you hit send and then you're looking and you're like come on anytime now anytime all right no likes refresh hold on relax no likes okay hold on hold on is the wi-fi working no wi-fi okay i'll just like it myself and get it started there you go all right one like it happens to all of us and look i'm not saying there should be no regulation of tech companies don't get me wrong i just i'm just surprised to see conservatives all of a sudden in favor of you regulating private businesses right because when it's consumers or gay people or polar bears saying hey can you regulate some industries conservatives are like it's not the government's job to regulate private business but then as soon as they feel like they're not getting enough retweets suddenly it's like we're launching an investigation we've got to nationalize tech companies long live socialism bernie bernie bernie bernie [Music] you

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Length: 34min 23sec (2063 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 30 2021