A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
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@pocker_machine so like any other filter?
in seriousness, I saw my unattractive (inside and out so i don't mind shaming a lil) cousin with a filter and i thought they were dating someone new... nope the filter went so hard i couldn't tell it was them with one of their parents.
were they playing it out like it was their last lover?
This is dark? Seems pretty normal to me, and not new or only the Ghibli filter. This has been a thing since MySpace and before. Take pictures at the right angle and put hearts and kisses all over your pic to distract from the parts of you that you hate.
Hell, it most likely pre-dates the internet and goes back as far as painting portraits goes.
Hot take: ugly and beautiful are meaningless subjective concepts
Don't we all want to hide how ugly we are?
The makeup industry has entered the chat.
I mean it's about highlighting the parts of you that you like and diminishing the parts you don't. That's all of aesthetics, makeups, digitial filters, and all of that.
A friend of mine turned a vacation photo of us into one of that style, and it really turned it into a movie-like vibe. So it was less about highlighting one's ugliness but highlighting the nicest aspects of our vacation.