Editing Hyperreality (section)

=== Consequence ===
The truth was already being called into question with the rise of media and [[technology]], but with the presence of hyperreality being used most and embraced as a new technology, there are a couple of issues or consequences of hyperreality. It's difficult enough to hear something on the news and choose not to believe it, but it's quite another to see an image of an event or anything and use your empirical sense to determine whether the news is true or false, which is one of the consequences of hyperrealism.<ref>{{Citation |title=11 The Gulf War Did Not Take Place |date=2002-05-01 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781503619630-014 |work=Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings |pages=231–253 |publisher=Stanford University Press |doi=10.1515/9781503619630-014 |isbn=9781503619630 |s2cid=246263911 |access-date=2022-04-12|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The first is the possibility of various simulations being used to influence the audience, resulting in an inability to differentiate fiction from reality, which affects the overall truth value of a subject at hand. Another implication or disadvantage is the possibility of being manipulated by what we see.

The audience can interpret different messages depending on the ideology of the entity behind an image. As a result, power equates to control over the media and the people.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bordon |first=Yvonne |date=2013-01-21 |title=T cells take a break from IL-7 |journal=Nature Reviews Immunology |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=71 |doi=10.1038/nri3388 |pmid=23334243 |s2cid=9536781 |issn=1474-1733|doi-access=free }}</ref> Celebrities, for example, have their photographs taken and altered so that the public can see the final result. The public then perceives celebrities based on what they have seen rather than how they truly are. It can progress to the point where celebrities appear completely different. As a result of celebrities' body modifications and editing, there has been an increase in surgeries and a decrease in self-esteem during adolescence.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ozimek |first1=Phillip |last2=Bierhoff |first2=Hans-Werner |date=2020-10-02 |title=All my online-friends are better than me – three studies about ability-based comparative social media use, self-esteem, and depressive tendencies |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0144929X.2019.1642385 |journal=Behaviour & Information Technology |language=en |volume=39 |issue=10 |pages=1110–1123 |doi=10.1080/0144929X.2019.1642385 |s2cid=199008994 |issn=0144-929X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Because the truth is threatened, a similar outcome for hyperreality is possible.