Project Harpoon Photoshops Overweight People To Look Skinny
Fair Or Foul: #ProjectHarpoon Photoshops Plus Size People To Discourage People From Believing Obesity Is Okay
Plus Size Stars And Regular People Are Photoshopped Thin By Project Harpoon
We’re pretty ticked off about how they did our girl Anita Marshall but do you think it’s a photoshop fail or nah? The photoshopped images are the work of a group called Project Harpoon who are on a mission to “inspire” overweight people to see what they could potentially be… while also hoping to kill the notion that obesity isn’t unhealthy.
In an interview with People.com, Project Harpoon leader Nick Baskins explains the group’s mission:
A group of fat-shaming gamers is sparking outrage across the Internet for Photoshopping pictures of plus-size people – including stars and models – to make them look thinner.
Nick Baskins, a leader of the group – which has been in existence for about a week – exclusively told PEOPLE that he and his friends don’t mean to offend. “Our intention is not to harm, oppress, or ‘trigger’ anyone … We get dozens of messages a day talking about how our photos have inspired them to go to the gym and maintain a better lifestyle.”
According to Baskins, Project Harpoon’s mission is to promote “thinner beauty” and “skinny acceptance.” The project’s Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts show side-by-side photos of plus-sized women (and a few men), with one side showing the original picture and the other featuring the person digitally altered to have a slimmer frame and sometimes narrowed bone structure.
The project, which Baskins says aims to show “both sides of modern-day beauty,” started when its founders met through a video game group and the online message board Reddit. They were dismayed by “transformations” of the game’s heroines, who went from stick-thin to more “realistic” body sizes. Changes like this have “paved the way for many people to renounce exercise and personal healthcare,” says Baskins.
“We are targeting the HAES movement (Healthy at Every Size),” he tells PEOPLE. “We believe that is simply not true, and while we respect any and all individuals, we believe it’s simply wrong to accept being obese as OK.”
Baskins declined to name the others involved in the group and would not reveal his age, where he is from, or release a photo of himself. “There are many people who will try to send me death threats,” he says.
Baskins makes it seem all good intentioned, but you can see form many of the instagram and facebook captions they aren’t always the kindest with the messaging.
Hit the flip to see some examples of their work.
Instagram/Twitter
Can you see the difference? #ThInnerBeauty #ProjectHarpoon pic.twitter.com/R9WVFgITS3
— Project Harpoon (@ProjectHarpoon) August 19, 2015
This is the new official unofficial Twitter for #ProjectHarpoon. Please tweet me all of your #ThInnerBeauty shoops. pic.twitter.com/gUHoBLlkV2
— Project Harpoon (@ProjectHarpoon) August 19, 2015
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#ProjectHarpoon #thInnerBeauty pic.twitter.com/BfTKEPM9Iw
— Bolo Thunder (@SteelThunder13) August 13, 2015
Dawn of the thin. #thInnerBeauty #theinnerbeauty #ProjectHarpoon pic.twitter.com/WxdhTCJJRR
— Captain Neckbeard (@sirskeleton79) August 14, 2015
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