Reason for plastic monsters – Uncanny valley
There is what’s called the uncanny valley theory. This theory was proposed by Masahiro Mori, a robotics professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in the 1970’s on how he envisioned people's reactions to robots that looked and acted almost human.
People feel an affinity toward something similar in appearance to them, and the more similar, the more likable. There is higher affinity towards whatever is moving than something staying still. This is why people like pets and children like dolls.
What’s interesting is that at some point, when the similarity to a human being increases and becomes quite similar, there’s a moment when this affinity drops dramatically. If you were to plot this relationship on a two-dimensional graph, it’s shaped like a valley where there’s a sharp decline in favorability and thus coined ‘uncanny valley.’
Typically, this phenomenon can be seen in animations or game characters using computer graphics. With the development of computer graphic animations, they were initially drawn like cartoons, but gradually became more human-like with the advancement of technology. But at a certain point of closely resembling a real person, the response turns to repulsion instead.
Since then, the background in many computer graphic animations have become more and more sophisticated and expressed more realistically, but the human figure itself was intentionally kept having the cartoon-like feeling in the past. By all means, some animations in Japan continue to develop computer graphic animations that closely resemble real life, but they have yet to overcome this uncanny valley phenomenon.
Plastic surgery changes a person's appearance. In fact, surgery is for the purpose of changing things. Of course, the direction of change should be towards aesthetic improvement. To do so, the most important prerequisite is for the changed appearance to appear real. This means that you should be as close as possible to looking beautiful in appearance as though born that way without plastic surgery. Transforming awkwardly in appearance is absolutely a problem. "Awkward but pretty" is not being awkwardly pretty but pretty albeit being awkward. Among the outpatients I meet, there are those who say, "Please make me look really awkwardly pretty." Among the thoughts about plastic surgery, there is the notion that if you get prettier, you get awkward, so getting fixed awkwardly will make you much prettier. This is a very wrong idea. Being truly pretty is not awkward.
One’s appearance is easily made awkward with excessive plastic surgery. Inadequate plastic surgery also makes an awkward appearance. You will look awkward if you shape some parts without considering the harmony of the entire face. This transformation into an awkward shape is like falling into the uncanny valley that I mentioned above, and people are repulsed by it. That's why the word plastic monster, or pla-mon, was coined alluding to a monster. You get plastic surgery to be pretty, you shouldn't end up a monster.
In order to avoid being a “pla-mon,” the post-surgical appearance must look natural. Being natural means that you should look as though you originally looked like that. The operation must shape you naturally and harmonize with the entire face. You should discard the idea that the more changes you have with plastic surgery, the prettier you get. ‘Too much is as bad as too little’ applies precisely to plastic surgery.
Neither those undergoing plastic surgery nor those performing plastic surgery should never fall into this uncanny valley.
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