The good the bad and the ugly, other than being a Clint Eastwood movie are three terms that sum up the "ugly" selfie. The ugly selfie redefines what is good, bad, and ugly in the eyes of today's society. As this new revolution comes to play, people everywhere are redefining beauty from the palm of their hands. The guidelines society sets out for individuals to be "attractive" are absurd, especially to this new generation. The ugly selfie has become a movement that is taking over the internet. It does many things as Richie hills entails in her article "Ugly is the New Pretty: How Unattractive Selfies Took Over the Internet.". Hills quotes, " It sort of deconstructs our obsessive relationship with showing only our perfect selves",
Rennee Taylor, a poet of the bay area. Taylor began what she calls "Bad Picture Monday" where every Monday she posts an "ugly" picture of herself as her profile picture on Facebook. Taylor is not the only one a part of this movement many other people inspired by her or other blogs have joined in.
The ugly selfie as Hill explains is a movement away from perfection. Through Taylor's experiences she found herself untagging unattractive pictures of her from her Facebook page, and only putting up images that "pleased the eye," just like millions of others who do the same. After a while people grow tired of that and they begin to appreciate unfiltered, unedited, and natural pictures.
The ugly selfie not only redefines beauty, but it can also move people away from some narcissistic attitudes they pick up or draw from with the regular selfie. "Australian feminist Clemintine Ford" describes how the ugly selfie as Hill writes, " puts personality back into superficial practice of self documentation." People are tired of "perfect" photo shopped images they now crave authenticity a movement trickling down and influencing newer generations. The ugly selfie does just that puts a bit of real in an internet filled with facades.
It sort of deconstructs our obsessive relationship with showing only our perfect selves