2019·The platform era
Instagram face
A single face, arrived at independently by millions of people and a filter.
A trend people joined in with
- SourceNo single original
- MediaNot held by ViralWorld
What this was
The convergent look Jia Tolentino named in 2019: high cheekbones, catlike eyes, full lips, ethnically ambiguous. Produced by filters, cosmetic procedure and imitation, and legible enough that people recognise it as one thing.
It first appeared in 2019, during the platform era.
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Related
Nothing related yet. Relationships are recorded where evidence supports them, not inferred from similarity.
Behind the recordWhere it came from
There is no original to identify: this spread through many separate posts at once rather than from a first one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is the record.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this, because research established there was not one — it appeared in many places at once.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
- What happens
- The convergent look Jia Tolentino named in 2019: high cheekbones, catlike eyes, full lips, ethnically ambiguous. Produced by filters, cosmetic procedure and imitation, and legible enough that people recognise it as one thing.