Fashion or Some Such Shit
Bearing in mind I know nothing about fashion, nor do I particularly care to, can someone kindly explain to me the purpose of this site?
Because to me it looks like a site where pictures of people are literally scored by a numerical value according to how cool and sexy other people think they look. Is that fine? This would be creepy enough in its own right except that these people actually upload the pictures themselves. For other people to rate.
How did this get to be a thing? I get that the whole Facebook thing is kind of a way of people rating pictures of other people, but at least there are limits there. People have to be your 'friends' before they can 'like' your pics, to start with.
What this monstrosity seems to be about is letting anyone in world decide if a picture of you is worth a mouse-click or not. The only thing that makes me feel a bit better about it is that the only people who upload pictures there look like tremendous posing idiots, and presumably need the social comfort of people clicking on a picture of them to help them sleep through the night.
Now obviously I just don't get this at all, but what are we (not actually us, the people who actually frequent this balls) actually supposed to be judging these people on. Judging may sound harsh, but that's literally what's going on here, so some guidelines would be nice.
Are we judging these people purely on hotness? Because, subjectivity of personal taste aside, that's not what appears to be happening. Are we judging their clothes? Or the composition of the photo? Or the trendy lens effects they've used? Some of them just appear to have whacked some opacity on their photo for no real reason. Maybe it makes them look mysterious and alluring, how the hell should I know.
This kind of fashion balls simply baffles me, because is it me or is it not proper fashion? Maybe I'm wrong, and assigning an arbitrary score to pictures of people wearing some clothes in a place doing a thing at 20% opacity is now the literal definition of fashion. I know shit all about fashion, so I just find it hilarious and also a bit worrying. I'd feel sorry for the people in the photos except they did it to themselves, so lord knows what rational people are supposed to think about it. Um, good for you, 500 people clicked on a picture of you in a sweet dress?
Turns out there is an FAQ which you can read for a bit of a laugh if you want, otherwise I'll summarise: it's about Fashion or Some Such Shit. And karma. And inspiration.
