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Is a 0.5 selfie more playful than a front-facing selfie?

An unedited 0.5 selfie is more organically playful than a front-facing selfie. Posting the selfies on Instagram, where limbs are noodly or eyes are buggy, is meant to be silly, making it seem like the photographers take themselves — and social media — less seriously.

Is a 0.5 Selfie a self-deprecation?

"While the 0.5 selfie may seem, at first glance, to reject the cringey aesthetics of effort and sincerity, it still absolutely plays into a level of performative curation – albeit one of self-deprecation," Alice believes.

Is a 0.5 Selfie a trend for Gen Z?

Alice Ophelia, one of the authors of Gen Z and culture newsletter High Tea, points to the rise of the 0.5 selfie coinciding with a gradual shift in aesthetics that we’ve seen Gen Z embrace. "IRL stylistic curation has returned in this post-pandemic era – well, almost post-pandemic," she tells me.

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