The lip implants rarely look good.

Have you considered watching English or Scandinavian shows?

Are you watching videos strictly on tiktok or something?

I agree, but I doubt this opinion is unpopular.

Where do you live that this is real?

I watch a lot of German and Scandinavian (and other European) TV series, their actors still look like people rather than Hollywood Barbie dolls.

If you're looking for recommendations Dark was good, as were Deadwind and Dark Spot.

As a furry: People don't look non-human enough.

Duck lips are so disgusting. I just want to shake a bottle of Benadryl at them and ask if they are having an allergic reaction or something.
"Did you get stung by a bee? You might want to see a doctor about that."
Plastic surgery is intended to make you look beautiful, not ugly. Are we in opposite world???

I'm more confused to what era of film do you consider ppl looked real. We've been touching up actors to look less natural since Shakespeare

I'm convinced that part of the reason of this over processing is because of streaming. You can compress a movie or show far FAR more when colors are smooth and uniform (I know this from compressing multiple hundreds of movies and TV shows). So now that everyone is "streaming all the things" they have to look for ways to get 4k out the door and to the normal consumer who might only have 100mb internet.

Edit: not defending it, just sharing my observations as a media enthusiast.

When HD first came out people marveled at how you could see folks pores on TV and every minute flaw became visible. I wonder if they're connected

You need to get off social media. Humans still look like humans IRL.

watch some local theater, although the actors are always done up in stage makeup, it usually is a good down to earth experience

especially local civic theater, maybe you could volunteer your time with a local theater and then come back and remind yourself why the medium was cherished.

Movies and television use makeup and special effects to make the actors look exactly how they are supposed to look in the scene. Young and vigorous, old and tired, strung out, beat up, it's almost never "real" even when it is supposed to look real.

Home movies, yeah autofilters are weird. I make home movies for future me and people who care about me. Why would I want them to remember someone who doesn't look like me? But then I'm not the target audience for video filters.

I agree.

Sometimes I wonder if it's the modern, absurd extension of the stage makeup concept, taken to the extreme.

My ex-wife was a professional dancer, and her stage makeup made her look absolutely insane in person. But under stage lighting, it looked amazing.

Sometimes I wonder if cosmetic surgery was initially incorporated as something that would bring more popularity or work to an actor, because it would make them look more striking under the absurd, unreal lighting conditions of tv and film.

And that this has gotten completely carried away. Especially now, since nearly all cinema is greenscreen with scenery digitally added later. Which brings a tremendous amount of lighting incongruity, so we end up needing block-like, exaggerated, un-contoured faces, slathered in 42 layers of stage makeup, to look "proper" under these conditions.

I don't know if this is totally out to lunch or not.

nobody ever looks tired

???

Have you seen movies from [insert year here]? Heavy makeup has always been a thing.

I agree. Now Imagine trying to wade through the online dating scene... it ain't no pic-a-nik, Yogi.