“A scourge on our collective body image and self-esteem.”

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If you don't know what Facetune is, congratulations! It's an app primarily used for editing selfies with tools like skin blurring, teeth whitening, facial reshaping, and even AI filters that can completely change your face in one click. Some people's Facetuning skills are more subtle than others, but it's certainly not uncommon to use it.

Now might be a good time to mention that Chloe always manages to look like a supermodel even immediately after she's been flipping around on a snowboard in the freezing cold, so I personally can't imagine her ever being in need of edits to look beautiful — but each to their own! 

"Honestly, that's a very reasonable ask," one Reddit user wrote on a thread about Chloe's video, while another hailed her for being "so real."

Praising Chloe's realness, another user who edits their own pictures explained why they would still "NEVER do touch-ups on my friends." "I don’t want them seeing a picture and being like 'oh my god, did she edit ME??' or like giving the impression that I thought they needed it," the user wrote. "If my friends can tell I’ve touched up my pics, IDC, I can own that... but I would feel so freaking horrible if they noticed I edited THEM too. But like, I totally get her take. I would support my friends editing me in their pictures lmao."

"I’ve got a friend who uses FaceTune, and I really don’t like it if I get FaceTuned in her photos, too. I’ve made a conscious effort to feel better about my untouched appearance, and it feels like I’m being pulled into somebody else’s insecurities. Makes me sad, too, bc her appearance is lovely, and I wish she didn’t need to edit her pics to feel OK with them being seen," one user wrote, saying that "FaceTune is well and truly a scourge on our collective body image and self-esteem." "At least back in the day photo-editing was reserved for celebs and us normies didn’t have these tools at our fingertips."