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Johanna Herrstedt

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Johanna Herrstedt is a Swedish blogger whose only claim to e-fame is photoshopping herself to an absurd extent that was almost believable until she decided to star in Kerbera's music video, "Ghost Town", where her appearance revealed that she looked nothing like her edited selfies. Up until that point though, she had been arrogantly claiming that all she did was “basic editing” and that it was impossible to edit instagram videos (which we can now see were either edited or her taking advantage of camera angles).

She is hardly a person of note otherwise. Her sole purpose online was to post her edited selfies or post soundbites about self love, sex, Skyrim (perhaps the only video game she plays anymore), and humor that doesn't pertain to anything. There was also a period of time during early 2014 where she was replying defensively to criticism of her photoshop and behavior.

History

Johanna has been active since 2008, her old haunting grounds the now deactivated Dailybooth. Though it’s been reported she had been using photoshop on her photos at the time, one must question when she started photoshopping herself into a completely different person. What can be determined from her old photos is that her photoshop metamorphosis started as late as 2011:

This means that Johanna has been photoshopping herself for at least 4 years.

The Candid Photo

Prior to the Big Reveal of Johanna's unedited self gracing the internet, someone found a candid of Johanna that was promptly posted to the internet for all to see.

It wasn't much, but it was enough for people to lose their shit over, including Johanna herself who promptly made this post:

This post was gone so fast that her VK fanbase didn't even have enough time to copy/paste it to their wall.

After she made this post, her next task was to deride the person who uploaded it:

She then went directly to the person to try and defend herself:

You'd think it'd stop there, but she also took this shit to Twitter:

And answered two asks about it:

Some time after she responded to this ask:

And sent an ask to someone who uploaded her school ID comparison:

B-but it's not thinspo guise!!!!!

Off and on Johanna has been under fire for posting thinspo online and has reacted to said criticism by saying it's discriminatory (becuz thin people get so much hate for being skinny, rite?) Thus she has often held off from posting anything too obvious lest she incite the rage of da haturz (who she repeatedly feels the need to deride to prove that she doesn't care about them). Still, you'll see her turtlenecking to get dem neck cords to tense, all the while claiming that her neck just naturally does that. In any case, here's a gallery of her not-thinspo images:


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The Frankenstein of Photoshop, Angles, and Forced Expressions

So you're probably wondering how Johanna has been managing keeping her online persona consistent with her videos. Well, look no further, friend. Explanations are at hand.

To Start With

First off, Johanna flips her images for as most of her images are taken from the right side of her face. She has stated in the past that the left (our right) side of her face is skinner than the right. So one could reason that preferring to photograph the right side is simply to make her face seem slimmer/more angular.

In any case, you can tell the image is flipped from the beauty marks on her body:

The current alignment of this image is correct. If you see the opposite of this in any of her photos, it's flipped.

Most of her videos are filmed from the right side of her face. But on one occasion, she decided to film from the left. The video has since been deleted from her instagram. But if you want to see it purely for the awkward effort she's making, you can find the video here and here.

Expressions

While it's true that Johanna also sho0ps her images, she also relies a great deal on contorting certain aspects of her face to create the image you see online. Mainly, the eyes and nose (which is something that also shows up in her videos).

With her eyes, the main thing she relies upon is opening the upper lid while simultaneously closing the lower lid. This completely alters the shape of her eyes that we see in the Ghost Town video:



Specifically it makes the upper lid look much shorter and even in addition to making her eyes look more narrow/less round than their natural shape. Of course, this varies from photo to photo, but that's generally what's happening in most of her images.

With her nose what she does is tense the muscles in her nose and upper lip downward. This why in some of her images her nose and mouth are drawn downwards, as exemplified by this GIF:


Photoshop Use

Frankly, it's difficult to tell what's attributed to sho0p and what's attributed to angle. Though generally, the entire image is suspect considering these comparisons (which uses Johanna's most sho0ped images):


But these were sho0ped in 2012. Jo's editing takes a more minimalist approach these days and relies more heavily upon the listed techniques above.

The Look In Action

A recent video she uploaded (recent as of January 2014) illustrates all these points quite well. Here are some comparisons to give you an idea of what's going on:


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Kerbera's Music Video

Several months prior to the video’s release, Kerbera released the album cover with a teaser of the song.



Because it was a closeup of Johanna's face, it seemed likely that it was a photo/selfie takeb by herself. A point which was actually brought up in the comments section of her IG, where she uploaded the cover:



Johanna was so butthurt after this encounter that she decided to vagueblog about it on twitter off to twitter:



Due to the butthurt of one of the bandmembers and the fact that the image has all of Johanna's typical edits, it can be safely assumed that the image was taken and edited by Johanna herself.


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