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They tell you: try to be like him but have a plus of difference

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Apparently the expressions, the gestures, the way we speak, move, the things we do and what we say is a constant echo of who has been popularized on the Internet, or at least that's how I see it. From a very young age, children acquire these similarities with the people around them, in these cases the parents who allow the child to interact on the web, we could say that children are much closer to the screen than their parents. The so-called youtubers, influencer, public figures are the profiles that appear first, remember the algorithms that control the network, they are who we will follow more easily. Thus appears a subject who quickly consumes trends, inhales the content as if it were a good for his mind and we adapt our personality to the likeness of that subject, since if he makes people laugh, if he has enough followers, he earns good money, makes many trips and It entertains you why not think about being like him.

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I build myself from the traits of some characters that set trends in social networks, however I constantly observe children and adolescents talking like them, doing what they do, recording, imitating them, etc. I start from the common, from fame, from what we see daily, each fragment corresponds to a part that has been recognized, Yuya's mouth, Kardashian's eyes, Villalobos' hair, JLo's legs, my cheek. of course that is me acquiring the form of another, perhaps having all these features and the way I speak with the help of all could belong to this guild. I was building my identity, when I had part of them I wanted to edit myself more, perhaps it is that extra difference, I transformed and muted.

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I virtually identify myself as a person, as well as a queer, as a drag queen, a trans but in the editing systems offered by the play store I have not been able to be identified, I have eyes, a mouth but I have not been recognized. I'm being shunned by these platforms, and we might identify a problem later when the fictions start to wake up. Facial recognition will be obsolete and policies must once again be reinvented to establish who is considered a person or not, they are no longer symmetrical or stereotyped faces, they are all left to the will of design, of a counterproduction of contemporary identities. Which have been strongly established in the world of beauty, consumption and the formation of subjectivities formed by the affection of the entire media mass, or perhaps thinking of restructuring these applications to accept differences and new characters that will appear.

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Title: Alg (Be)

Category: Video

Technique: Projection

Year: 2020

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