has anyone ever seen a non-faily before/after ad?

[ratcreature]

One involving humans, I mean, not some sparkly clean bathroom. They seem to be disproportionally racist, sexist and of course fat-phobic. Like the poster advertising some kind of beauty parlor near my father's place. It has before/after images, one worse than the next, but the one that never fails to make me go WTF? is the photo of a black woman,

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[lilacsigil]

I think the first question would be: have you ever seen a non-faily PRODUCT using a before/after picture? I mean, if you're selling fat-zapping, life-changing, magical electrode pants, why not go the whole way with your fail?

[ratcreature]

That is true.

[trewestriandta]

I've seen a couple that were less disgustingly tragic than most. One was for a scar reducing solution called bio-oil. The image was a young hispanic man with bad acne scarring and hte after photo, you could still see some scars but they were reduced.

[ratcreature]

So they do exist! A proof of concept!

[trewestriandta]

yeah but they're rare. The one I usually see is a weight reduction one that makes hte tragic assumption that if you're larger than a size 6 you're desperate to 'look good'. It has a pic of a woman who's a healthy 160 in the pick. Yeah maybe a little loose in the cage but not a bog monster. ANd the after picture, she's maybe 120 pounds and gross looking.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, the weight loss before/after are so often horrible. But then the attitudes towards weight are so warped it would be hilarious if it wasn't so depressing.

Like a few years ago I fairly suddenly lost a lot of weight (like 15 kg) in a short period of time for no clear reason (I mean, I had dental problems my dentist didn't seem to be able to fix, but I was still eating), was feeling awful and considering whether I ought to brave the doctor about this, because my mental hypochondria conjured all kinds of horrible scenarios. Yet even after I explained to people that I was in fact not dieting and concerned about my weight suddenly being unstable, I was constantly complimented about how much better I looked and asked what diet I was doing. WTF. I'm sure if I ever have some sort of terminal wasting disease I'll get congratulations to my weight loss on my death bed.