Instagram face
This spread through many posts rather than one canonical upload.
2019·The platform era
A single look, produced by filters and copied with make-up and surgery: cat-like eyes, long lashes, a small nose, high cheekbones, full lips.
At a glanceThe facts
- Spread in
- 2019
- Format
- Phenomenon
- Made by
- Named by Jia Tolentino in the New Yorker, in an article titled The Age of Instagram Face
- Where it started
- Origin
- No single original
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
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.
LegacyWhat it left behind
- Critics call the look unrealistic and uniform. One wrote that it erases “heritable quirks and lived history”.1
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast
Where it came fromWhat we know
This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
SourcesWhat was read
Sources last read on . That date is about the history on this page. Whether the media still plays is checked separately and can change any day. How ViralWorld documents things