buccal fat removal and why white people are being weird again
since the aughts of cocaine skinny and until the sea of faux mustaches run dry, middle aged people will once again have the deal with the fallout of Tumblr and its constant erosion of the Gen Z psychoscape. this time, buccal fat removal is up for public debate.
if you don’t know, buccal fat is the fat located under the cheekbones and people get it removed to highlight the contours of the face. notable faces in the BFC are: Lea Michele (god rest her soul), Zoe Kravitz, (hers as well), and pre-Maleficent Angelina Jolie. buccal fat removal is the human equivalent of spreading peacock wings in the Hollywood world and the difference between callbacks and a ‘special coffee with the director’ on an A24 film; dusting a ghostly ‘prune’ as an RBF simply doesn’t cut it anymore in a ‘post-body posi’ era among the intellectually tainted and marginally moneyed few whose lives exist 85% on the internet, 10% in forests and 5% in a pot of 3-day old coffee.
every time one of these trends pops up on twitter and tiktok, which is a chicken/egg competition anyways, i can’t help but feel the overwhelming absence of Black imagery in the discourse. Like, the Clermont Twins have been doing buccal-booty fat transfers since early Instagram culture, so why is Demi Moore still in the social discourse (no offense to her relative obscurity)? I guess people are finally analyzing the KKK face (Kardashian Karbon Kopy) more critically, which is a yay moment, but it’s also just like, were we just not paying attention before? Did we become desensitized to plastic before recognizing what the plastic was?
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