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Contribution A (500 words)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photograph_manipulation#Celebrity_opposition

Khloe Kardashian - An unedited photo of Khloe Kardashian was leaked on the internet, without any filters or touch-ups from photoshop. The photo was taken on April 5th by her Grandmother MJ, in Palm Springs. The photo consisted of Khloe Kardashian in a small bikini with a make-up free face, smiling for her Grandmother whilst she took the photo. Khloe being unaware of the photo being leaked a few days later, seemed happy and willing to pose for a photo for a family member.

The photo went viral and people had reacted to the photo both negatively and positively causing an uproar response. Khloe Kardashian, who has suffered from body image problems and online abuse about her appearance since appearing on KKWTK (Keeping Up With The Kardashians) in 2007, she has accumulated many insecurities about her body and still suffers to this day.

Khloe Kardashian took to Instagram on April 7th by going live to show her unedited physic as she says, “after working so hard to get to this point.” To further defend herself against accusations on April 8th she posted an unedited video and took clips from her live, along with a 4-post explanation defending her choice to remove the photo from the internet. She states she wants to be “acknowledged for being human” and that “It’s almost unbearable trying to live up to the impossible standards that the public have set for me.” The post reached 5.6million likes and 127k comments and continues to rise. Khloe Kardashians posts reach on average between one to four million likes, therefore the out of the norm post caught a lot of the public’s attention.

Social media has created impractical and unattainable body expectations amongst anyone who uses a photo sharing platform such as Instagram, Snapchat or TikTok. Creating a toxic and negative environment where standards of what is supposed to “look acceptable” within the society are nearly impossible to reach. Therefore, celebrities such as Khloe Kardashian who is expected to look picture perfect 24/7, gets looked down upon for a natural photo showing real features and body images.

Although family members and real fans supported her decision to remove the image from the internet, which was leaked by her assistant, and praised her for being brave in such a horrible situation; long term online abuse has conditioned Khloe Kardashian to not feel beautiful enough just being herself and she will continue to share images of her own choice. This incident could be an eye-opening situation about how photo manipulation can damage one’s self-worth and confidence over a period of time; no matter how famous a person is everyone is human and deserves to not get punished over their body image and appearance. The beauty standards amongst social media creates this hyperreality between real vs fake and young impressionable girls view celebrities such as Khloe Kardashian as perfect, when in reality photo manipulation plays a huge role in how Khloe is perceived. This emphasises issues such a body dysmorphia, eating disorders and low self-esteem.SelinaD98 (talk) 12:43, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Contribution B (500 words)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throwback_Thursday#Popularity

Popularity - Research shows that the earliest record time stamp of an account using the hashtag #throwbackthursday dates back to the early 2000s. Originally hashtags were used as a marketing strategy to gain engagement and advertise a quick memorable message by a brand. The intend of #tbt was to post nostalgic photos of previous photos and videos with intent of reminiscing on past activities and memories. But further developed and accelerated once celebrities picked up on the trend and started incorporating the hashtag #tbt within their own personal businesses and social media making the hashtag more of a social construct and mundane use. The hashtag is now popular amongst platforms like Twitter and Instagram, with over millions of posts that used the hashtag #throwbackthursday and acquires 52% of the publics use of the hashtag, being number in the top ten used hashtags on Instagram. The hashtag #throwbackthursday has accumulated 53.7million posts that have used this on Instagram and with a popularity score of 84.9 on Twitter and 100% chance of increased activity engagement for individuals and 50% increased activity engagement for brands, proves that this particular hashtag has an international reach which can be very beneficial.

As the hashtag become mainstream popular around 2012, many highly famous celebrities have used the hashtag #tbt to show cute baby photos or previous hairstyles, fashion statements or past tweets or Instagram posts. Consisting of a wide range of celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, posting a throwback of being on set, to Reece Witherspoon, posting her younger self or Chelsea Clinton posting a throwback photo of her younger self with her parents, demonstrating how to use the hashtag. As these celebrities amongst others with large followings, it became popular by everyone to post a #tbt every Thursday, which rapidly increased the awareness of the hashtag and the usage numbers rose very quickly even to this current day.

Brands such as Pepsi used the hashtag as a marketing strategy in 2013, amid the trend, plastering the hashtag on their soda cans as they switched from real cane sugar to high-fructose corn syrup in the 1980s, therefore provided a limited-edition Pepsi soda can quoting ‘made with real sugar’ as a throwback. Another brand, called Dodge which is a lux car brand, posted a tweet asking followers if they preferred classic cars or modern cars, displaying a change in designs of taillights, asking fans to retweet or favourite their preferred style.

Throwback Thursday, peaking at engagement and establishment, the public saw how fast hashtags spread amongst the social media platforms and therefore smaller hashtags following the same style as tbt has risen in popularity. For example, a popular hashtag has been made for each day of the week starting with Monday, #MondayMotivation has become very popular among Twitter users with an exposure of 269.5k tweets and 24.8m posts on Instagram. Another example, is #Transformation Tuesday with 15.7m posts on Instagram, #Humpday with 13.8m posts on Instagram, #TGIF with 38.2m posts on Instagram, #SaturdayFeeling with 51.5m posts on Instagram and #SundayFunday with 55.6m posts on Instagram. Collectively the popularity of hashtag usage has come a long way since the beginning and now approximately billions of users have used a hashtag at least once during that time on social media.SelinaD98 (talk) 12:46, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Response to contribution A (250 words)
Photograph manipulation has become very popular across social media platforms, people use it to beautify pictures of oneself before posting it to the public. However, some users tend to overuse the technique, causing the creation of a fake body image, which is not achievable for regular-looking people, on social media. Editing body pictures to the point where it puts a pressure on other users to either edit their pictures or take on more drastic solutions for the issue such as plastic surgeries. Lot of people think that the Kardashian’s family is the main reason of that due to starting the trend of editing body pictures, thus Khloe Kardashian has fallen into a trap that she and her family have been working on for several years. Khloe’s leaked picture has proven that the impact of photograph manipulation amongst social media platforms’ users is tremendous due to the number of articles that have been published right after the leak. Her decision of deleting the unedited picture of herself from the internet shows that many people across social media platforms do not feel fully comfortable showing their real bodies online and are unable to post pictures that has not been photoshopped before, including worlds’ biggest online celebrities. This shows an unhealthy relationship between people and social media platforms that photograph manipulation has caused. Sarah.Rootek (talk) 18:57, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Response to contribution B (250 words)
One of the factors that conduces to the hashtag's growing popularity is its flexibility. It gives an opportunity to upload any kind of a memory, a personal one from late night adventures or grandparents’ wedding, a business related one to share memories from workplace with the teammates. The possibilities of creating posts using this specific hashtag are endless, but despite that fact, there are plenty of websites that give examples and instructions of how to use the hashtag or suggest inspirational ideas for the posts that are meant to be followed by the hashtag #throwbackthursday. The number of such websites suggests that there is a demand from people across different social media platforms who want to know more about the hashtag and start or continue using it to gain more followers and likes under their posts. The hashtag is also an effective marketing strategy; thus, many companies use it in their marketing campaigns. In 2013, an American fast-food chain Wendy’s tweets about the innovation that they have had come up with: the pick-up window, which was an important innovation in the fast-food history. The caption of the tweet ‘42 years ago we opened the 1st modern day pick-up window. So far people seem to like it, but only time will tell’ is proudly followed by the hashtag #throwbackthursday. Several companies such as Land Rover, Southwest Airlines, BMW or Red Bull use the hashtag as a part of a marketing strategy due to its popularity. Sarah.Rootek (talk) 22:08, 27 April 2021 (UTC)