The Matt Walsh Show - January 20, 2024


This Is The Reason Why Getting Plastic Surgery Has Become Trendy [Weekly Walsh Original]


Episode Stats

Length

8 minutes

Words per Minute

199.0007

Word Count

1,779

Sentence Count

118

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

Plastic surgery is on the rise across the country, especially among Gen Z. And not all the procedures are the traditional type, if you can call any cosmetic surgery traditional. This new generation is getting innovative, often in the most grotesque ways imaginable. For instance, one of the hottest procedures on the market is called Peritopigmentation, which, along with being a great Scrabble word, is also a surgery to change the color of your eyes.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Well, cosmetic surgery is on the rise across the country, especially among Gen Z.
00:00:04.580 And not all the procedures are the traditional type, if you can call any cosmetic surgery traditional.
00:00:10.220 This new generation is getting innovative, often in the most grotesque ways imaginable.
00:00:14.740 So for instance, one of the hottest procedures on the market is called
00:00:18.040 peritopigmentation, which along with being a great Scrabble word that I think I pronounced correctly actually,
00:00:24.340 is also a surgery to change the color of your eyes.
00:00:27.700 New York Post reports, quote,
00:00:29.160 Don't want to be a brown-eyed girl anymore?
00:00:31.560 If you're not afraid of the risks, including going blind, iris color-changing surgery,
00:00:36.360 the latest procedure to go viral online, might be for you.
00:00:39.220 The process, known as keratopigmentation, involves using a laser to create a tunnel in the superficial cornea
00:00:44.840 in order to place pigment.
00:00:46.480 But experts are warning it could lead to many terrifying conditions, including blindness,
00:00:50.380 not to mention it's not approved for cosmetic use.
00:00:52.880 Just last week, the French company New Color, experts in keratopigmentation,
00:00:56.360 shared footage of one patient who changed her brown eyes to a stark, vibrant blue,
00:01:01.260 in a clip scoring 16 million views on TikTok.
00:01:04.120 But for one model, it cost her her precious vision.
00:01:07.020 Oh, my eyes! My eyes!
00:01:08.980 Nadine Bruna traveled to Colombia to change her hazel orbs to a bright gray,
00:01:13.520 undergoing a different procedure that uses a silicone implant,
00:01:16.780 only to lose 80% of her vision in her right eye and 50% in her left.
00:01:20.620 Well, that is surprising.
00:01:22.280 Apparently, if you let someone burrow a tunnel into your cornea
00:01:24.840 and inject it with ink or, I guess, an implant or whatever it was in that case,
00:01:28.960 it might do some damage to your eyes.
00:01:30.600 It turns out that intentionally damaging your eyes will result in damaged eyes.
00:01:34.280 Who could have known?
00:01:35.520 And by the way, if you're wondering what the end result of this eye surgery looks like,
00:01:41.240 well, here it is.
00:01:41.960 What's up?
00:01:42.960 What's up?
00:01:44.120 My mouth!
00:01:45.320 He's like,
00:01:46.240 I'm proud of Nayar.
00:01:46.960 I was like, shut the mouth.
00:01:48.700 He put the music.
00:01:51.000 My friend, he put the music.
00:01:52.520 I'm so sorry.
00:01:53.100 I'm so sorry.
00:01:53.640 I'm so sorry.
00:01:57.320 One, two, three.
00:01:59.740 It's really the color that I wanted.
00:02:05.600 It really looks like all my clothes.
00:02:07.320 And I'm wearing this hat.
00:02:09.300 Okay.
00:02:10.640 So you can see there,
00:02:11.500 if you're trying to look like one of the X-Men,
00:02:14.540 then this is the procedure for you, I guess,
00:02:16.440 which maybe,
00:02:17.480 it probably makes it sound cooler than it really is.
00:02:19.500 In truth, she just looks bizarre,
00:02:21.480 you know, like some kind of AI recreation of herself.
00:02:25.300 But this is the effect that most cosmetic procedures have on people.
00:02:28.120 And that's a problem because cosmetic surgery,
00:02:30.560 as mentioned a moment ago,
00:02:31.680 has never been more popular.
00:02:33.620 Long gone are the days when only aging,
00:02:35.920 upper-class, 52-year-old women got work done.
00:02:39.220 Now everyone is doing it, especially young people.
00:02:42.260 Plastic surgery procedures increased by 20% from 2019 until now,
00:02:45.800 according to PlasticSurgery.org.
00:02:48.040 The same source tells us that the Gen Z crowd
00:02:50.420 accounted for nearly 40% of all nose jobs in the previous year
00:02:53.940 and 25% of all cheek implants.
00:02:56.860 Because cheek implants are apparently a thing.
00:03:01.120 Meanwhile, my generation of millennials
00:03:02.340 seem to be particular fans of buttock augmentations
00:03:05.340 and have accounted for more than 40% of those.
00:03:08.320 His buttocks are sublime.
00:03:10.600 Perhaps not surprisingly,
00:03:11.640 liposuction is the most popular cosmetic procedure of them all,
00:03:14.240 right ahead of breast implants.
00:03:16.440 And all of these surgeries are being performed more often,
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00:04:32.760 The New York Post again reports,
00:04:34.540 as celebrities scramble for doses of weight loss aid Ozempic,
00:04:37.880 Gen Z is booking cosmetic procedures more now than ever.
00:04:40.620 In fact, 75% of plastic surgeons
00:04:42.180 saw a spike in clients under 30.
00:04:44.760 According to data released last week
00:04:46.180 by the American Academy of Facial Plastic
00:04:48.740 and Reconstructive Surgery,
00:04:50.420 which is a consistently higher plateau
00:04:52.480 over the five previous years.
00:04:54.040 Board of Certified Plastic Surgeon Dr. Ashley Amalfi
00:04:57.740 said that she's seen an uptick in young clientele
00:05:00.580 at the Quatala Center for Plastic Surgery
00:05:05.640 in Rochester, New York.
00:05:06.880 And now about one third of her patients are Gen Z.
00:05:09.160 Quote, I really see that
00:05:10.260 as sort of this extension of the beauty market.
00:05:13.340 She called the trend great.
00:05:15.420 They are a population in general
00:05:16.920 who's just taking really good care of themselves.
00:05:20.200 Now, I'm not sure that taking good care of themselves
00:05:21.580 is the first attribute that I would associate with Gen Z
00:05:23.880 or any other current American generation.
00:05:26.200 You know, over half of Gen Z are obese, first of all,
00:05:28.260 so it's hard to say that they are particularly adept at self-care.
00:05:31.060 And they may use the phrase self-care
00:05:32.680 and talk about it a lot,
00:05:33.760 and they make TikTok videos about it,
00:05:34.880 but the results tell us a different story.
00:05:37.000 And of course,
00:05:38.160 plastic surgery is rarely an example
00:05:40.080 of taking care of yourself.
00:05:41.380 Now, sure, here and there,
00:05:42.660 you might find a person who had a procedure done
00:05:45.020 and they actually do look better because of it.
00:05:46.720 I mean, that does happen.
00:05:47.400 I'm not denying that.
00:05:48.480 There are people who have deformities
00:05:49.880 or other sorts of visible physical afflictions,
00:05:53.160 burns, that sort of thing,
00:05:54.080 where plastic surgery could truly change their lives
00:05:56.160 for the better.
00:05:57.200 But those cases are likely in the minority,
00:05:59.080 probably a rather small minority.
00:06:00.640 And most of these people,
00:06:01.600 especially the 26-year-old women
00:06:03.020 going to the surgeon for cheek implants
00:06:05.020 and Botox and lip fillers and so on,
00:06:07.440 they wind up looking significantly worse
00:06:09.640 by the end of it
00:06:10.240 because they look less human.
00:06:13.220 You're not quite human, are you?
00:06:16.220 Like that woman's eyes.
00:06:17.860 I don't know what that looks like.
00:06:20.160 Those are not human eyes.
00:06:21.200 It doesn't look like a human's eye.
00:06:22.440 I don't know what that is.
00:06:23.520 It looks artificial.
00:06:25.020 And that's the general effect
00:06:26.280 of so many of these procedures.
00:06:27.660 They make you look less real, less authentic.
00:06:30.500 And looking less real and less authentic
00:06:32.000 automatically means that you look worse
00:06:34.020 because to look less human
00:06:35.220 is to look worse as a human.
00:06:38.540 Because as it turns out,
00:06:40.000 you as a human being
00:06:41.020 are a whole, complete creature.
00:06:42.800 You are not a potato head doll.
00:06:44.580 You cannot mix and match your parts
00:06:46.400 and reassemble yourself however you choose.
00:06:48.560 Well, you can do that,
00:06:49.720 thanks to the wonders of modern medicine,
00:06:51.000 but everyone will be able to tell
00:06:53.480 that you've done it.
00:06:55.020 You know, we'll look at your reassembled face
00:06:57.040 and think, hmm,
00:06:58.480 something's a little bit off about that.
00:07:00.380 It's not quite right.
00:07:02.000 So you may not like your eyes
00:07:03.680 or your lips or your nose or whatever,
00:07:05.200 but those are your eyes
00:07:06.920 and your lips and your nose.
00:07:08.220 And if you go and get different eyes,
00:07:09.480 lips or nose,
00:07:10.260 they're not going to be yours anymore.
00:07:12.120 Your cheek implants may look like cheeks,
00:07:14.800 but they probably won't look like your cheeks.
00:07:16.920 It will appear as it is,
00:07:18.480 like parts have been artificially attached to you
00:07:20.640 or artificially inflated
00:07:21.980 to resemble a size and shape
00:07:23.380 they were never meant to be.
00:07:24.680 It's certainly the case
00:07:25.400 for every lip augmentation
00:07:26.780 that's ever been done.
00:07:27.920 And that's what makes plastic surgery so uncanny.
00:07:29.800 The weird thing about it is that
00:07:31.480 like if I see you for the first time
00:07:33.960 and I never knew you before,
00:07:34.940 I never saw you before,
00:07:36.080 most of the time,
00:07:37.680 I, like anybody else,
00:07:38.740 will still be able to tell
00:07:40.400 if you had work done on your face.
00:07:41.680 It'll be obvious
00:07:42.420 that those artificial
00:07:43.780 or artificially accentuated features
00:07:45.500 are not your features,
00:07:47.020 which is kind of interesting
00:07:48.440 when you think about it
00:07:49.000 because I don't know you.
00:07:49.820 I've never seen you before.
00:07:51.940 But I know that how you look right now
00:07:54.300 is not how you really look.
00:07:56.400 That's because the picture
00:07:57.300 doesn't quite make sense.
00:07:58.200 The features don't fit together.
00:07:59.520 It doesn't match.
00:08:00.380 It's not real.
00:08:00.980 There's something asymmetrical
00:08:02.000 and inauthentic
00:08:03.320 and out of balance about it.
00:08:05.420 You don't look how you were made to look.
00:08:07.180 And even people who don't know
00:08:08.180 how you were made to look can tell.
00:08:10.440 But of course,
00:08:10.720 people don't believe
00:08:11.280 that they were made these days at all.
00:08:12.620 That's part of the problem.
00:08:13.400 The reason cosmetic surgery
00:08:15.520 is as popular as it is
00:08:16.640 is exactly that.
00:08:17.660 Many people think
00:08:18.300 that they basically materialized
00:08:19.660 out of the ether
00:08:20.320 for no reason
00:08:21.180 and for no purpose.
00:08:22.920 And now they are gods over themselves.
00:08:24.920 They are in charge
00:08:25.600 of their own self-creation.
00:08:27.340 They set to work.
00:08:28.120 Then rebuilding their own bodies.
00:08:29.960 And at the end of the whole process,
00:08:31.040 if it ever does end,
00:08:31.860 which often it doesn't,
00:08:33.260 they have become
00:08:33.920 some pale imitation
00:08:35.280 of what they were before.
00:08:36.560 Some weird Picasso-like
00:08:38.020 rendition of themselves.
00:08:39.820 Which, like any remake,
00:08:41.580 is only very rarely
00:08:43.680 an improvement
00:08:44.440 over the original.
00:08:46.080 And that is why
00:08:46.660 the plastic surgery craze
00:08:48.360 is today cancelled.
00:08:50.900 In the Barbie world,
00:08:52.620 in the Barbie world,
00:08:53.120 I think plastic,
00:08:54.700 it's fantastic.