The editors of LB.ua, having analyzed the trend, came to the conclusion that similar videos were virused in the Russian segment Tiktok a year ago. Meanwhile, for the first time, the media wrote about this phenomenon back in 2013.
Then the Daily Mail publication said that women in South Korea began to contact the clinics with requests to make them the so -called Smile Lip Operation to raise the corners of the lips “in an effort to gain a more western face.”
The editors noted that patients who want to change their appearance have to transfer dangerous and painful operations, which include alignment of the upper and lower jaws to achieve a softer silhouette.
The publication emphasized that South Korea has one of the highest indicators of plastic surgery in the world, so “it is not surprising that such a rare procedure originated in this country.” 12 years ago, the authors of the article were wondering if such an operation would become popular in the future.
What Ukrainian doctors say now
Therapist Andrei Vakulenko in the OBOZ.ua commentary warns-manipulations, when children cut the corners of the mouth, may have serious health consequences.
“We have many different nerves on our face, in particular the facial nerve, which is responsible for almost everything on the face. And the child can simply damage them. As a result, the corner of the lips will not rise, as the girl would like, but will drop, the face will become asymmetric. The mouth may simply not close to the end. There will be scars,” he explained.
Children's psychologist Natalya Simonenko called on parents to talk with their children, explaining why the so -called smile of Joker or Jaconda can forever mutilate the appearance. disfigured.
Psychiatrist Evgeny Skripnik in the comment of LB.ua called the desire to change the appearance without specialists by one of the manifestations of self -confusion. At the same time, he noted that such behavior can be dictated by the desire to obtain a certain status among peers.
What does the Joker have to do with it
The new trend among Ukrainian teenagers, which was nicknamed the “Joker smile”, is probably obliged to his name antihero of comics and Batman's films – Joker, who possessed an unnaturally wide smile. It was this “smile” that became his business card.
Context
In the DC comics universe, Joker is the main antipode of Batman, his eternal evil rival. In 2019, the film by American director Todd Phillips “Joker” with American actor Hoacin Phoenix became the main history of the chief villain Gotham.
In social networks, dangerous trends or games periodically appear that motivate children and adolescents to harm themselves or bring them to suicide.
