"In interviews for Bustle's Plastic Surgeon Summit, doctors who have encountered surgery-speculation content expressed everything from mild amusement to outright opposition, but they all advised viewers to take it with a grain of salt: At the end of the day, those videos are just educated guesses with wildly varying degrees of education to back them up."
"But just as social media is changing how we feel about our own faces, it's also changing how we talk about others'. Surgeons have become influencers, influencers have become experts, everyday users have become critics - and they all share the same stage. From doctors marketing their practice to anonymous rage-bait accounts assembling their own before-and-afters, a new generation of plastic surgery pundits has popped up to dissect what the stars have and haven't had done."
Social media transformed celebrity plastic surgery speculation into a public ecosystem where surgeons, influencers, and everyday users comment, market, and critique. Doctors, influencers, anonymous accounts, and viewers produce before-and-after analyses and guesswork that range widely in expertise. Medical professionals report reactions from mild amusement to outright opposition and commonly advise skepticism because much content consists of educated guesses with uneven evidence. The boundaries between entertainment, education, and exposé have blurred, fueling commercial incentives and emotional conflicts between creators and subjects while some creators aim to destigmatize cosmetic procedures.
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