NEW YORK — Imagine that you’ve just met a guy on the gay dating app Grindr and things are going well. Really well. He asks for a picture of you without your shirt on. You stand in front of your mirror, lift your phone to take the shot, and that’s when you see it: A fleshy tummy hanging over your waistband. If only you could wave a magic wand and give yourself rock-hard abs instead, right?
A new virtual reality experience, Perfect Eggplants Don’t Exi-, a title that references the “nobody’s perf-” meme, is all about fulfilling that wish, to give you the power to design the body of your dreams — and then show you that a “perfect” body is actually unattainable. Except, instead of a person, you’re a giant eggplant.
Perfect Eggplants Don’t Exi- offers a goofy, sobering look at the futility of pursuing a perfect body
At Wednesday’s Games for Change festival in New York, designer Mikei Huang presented Perfect Eggplants Don’t Exi- in one of the event’s many panels. He explained that it was born out of a desire to critique the harmful, shallow standards by which gay men judge each other online.
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Source: Mic