tutorials georg
The new Twitter main character: "Acne didn't exist in the 80s"
tutorials georg
"Just look at old movies! (never mind makeup and the fact that indie movies with lower production values/less manufactured perfection were much harder to make let alone distribute)"
LOVE☆STRUCK
local tweeter mistakes low resolution for flawless skin
tutorials georg
I hate piling on people like this because it's happened to me (and still does), but this person seems to deserve it by using this as a tirade against seed oil. Also, what.
Rama
"I don't think" well, Karen
Rama
There's your problem
Rama
Honestly the biggest problem with social media is that there is zero barrier between a person's idle thoughts and the entire rest of the planet
Adri(an)(ne)
I guess my uncle who has really intense acne scars doesn't exist according to this person
Rama
You can just type whatever bizarre take crosses your mind and everyone will have to read it
Rama
Research? Fuck it. Asking someone's input privately? Fuck it. Common fucking sense? Fuck it.
Rama
Just shit whatever you want into the collective consciousness and prove the fucking Patriots correct once again
LOVE☆STRUCK
it's the fact that she doubled down when people were like 'm'am, this isn't it'
🦈sᴏ sʜᴀʀᴋ
i like that backtracking at the end like "omg i know it existed it just wasn't as much of a problem!"
Rama
Hell this person even manages to be half right and still be as wrong as possible
Rama
Because there is some correlation between consuming a variety of things common to sedentary western culture and increased rates of acne
Rama
Things such as fucking sugar, which definitely existed before the year 2000
Rama
The hell is an "industrial seed oil" anyway? Googling it just gets me conspiracy theory podcasts
HurricaneChris
Which is a problem that has plagued high society for centuries.
🦈sᴏ sʜᴀʀᴋ
yeah it's funny bc sugar is way more of a "the reason acne is so prevalent" than [checks notes] seed oil?
Rama
Like...peanut oil?
🦈sᴏ sʜᴀʀᴋ
sunflower oil, maybe?
Rama
Both of those things also definitely existed before the year 2000
HurricaneChris
Like, the nobility of 16th century England had a constant problem with constipation because they ate mostly meat and zero fiber.
Rama
Okay looking at one of the conspiracy theory articles it looks like this is in fact complaining about vegetable oils vs. the apparently much-better-for-you alternatives of lard and crisco
Rama
Fucking vegetable oil now
Rama
Jesus
Rama
Honestly this whole thing smells like a meat packing industry conspiracy to bring lard back
HurricaneChris
It wouldn't surprise me.
HurricaneChris
Hell, it wouldn't be the first time an industry did something like that.
HurricaneChris
Even outside of food.
Rama
(Guess what eating animal grease does to your complexion guys)
Rama
(Fucking guess)
MundersOWundus
all of these guys going "IT'S FROM STAYING INSIDE SO OFTEN"
MundersOWundus
guys. sun exposure causes acne.
MundersOWundus
google "solar comedones"
Rama
Any fucking thing you do to add sugar or fat to your body, or make yourself sweat, clogs pores and can cause acne
Rama
I guarantee you Americans plateaud in this some time in the early 20th century
MundersOWundus
ah, she's a chiropractor and "nutritionist." that explains a lot.
MundersOWundus
she's trying to sell something.
HurricaneChris
Chiropractors. 
DʀᴀɢɴHᴏᴍᴇᴏᴘᴀᴛʜʏ
She's a COVID truther too
DʀᴀɢɴHᴏᴍᴇᴏᴘᴀᴛʜʏ
CW: COVID truthing
Nadia
a better source for this would be to go to a library that stocks old magazines. Look at teen magazines from the 80s and 90s and look at the ads and articles. Chances are it won't take long to find something for an acne product
tutorials georg
Yeah... wow.
DʀᴀɢɴHᴏᴍᴇᴏᴘᴀᴛʜʏ
"Scamdemic"
DʀᴀɢɴHᴏᴍᴇᴏᴘᴀᴛʜʏ
Just
DʀᴀɢɴHᴏᴍᴇᴏᴘᴀᴛʜʏ
Wow
Rama
[My same rant from earlier, but about something that actually matters]
MNK Zoomies
skullstho
Mind blowing because a lot of acne can be bacterial too. My god. Seed oil.
𝓟𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓭𝓲𝓼𝓮 𝓛𝓸𝓼𝓽
"scamdemic"...
𝓟𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓭𝓲𝓼𝓮 𝓛𝓸𝓼𝓽
I'm not gonna rant on that as much as I'd like to but just. wow.
𝓟𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓭𝓲𝓼𝓮 𝓛𝓸𝓼𝓽
the audacity of calling an easily researched cause of millions of actual deaths a "scam" on the same account as spouting foundless conspiracies about industrial seed oil and acne
MundersOWundus
she's selling chiropracty and all natural oils.
MundersOWundus
presumably made from snakes.
MundersOWundus
all natural snakes.
MundersOWundus
this is entirely consistent marketing. though I don't doubt she actually believes this shit, after selling it this long.