“This wasn’t the first time my ex had sent me an account using my photo on a dating app – nor was he the first person to do so...”
A few days ago, an ex sent me a picture of me that ruined my entire day. Not because I didn’t like it, mind: part of the problem lay in it being a good one. It was a screenshot of my face staring back at me from a Hinge profile that wasn’t my own, an old byline photo in which I had been rechristened as “Delira” for the dating app.
When he sent it I was surprised, but only by the picture choice. The photo in question is normally appropriated for video thumbnails; usually, on dating apps, catfish stick to using my selfies. You see, this wasn’t the first time my ex had sent me an account using my photo on a dating app – nor was he the first person to do so.
We are well aware that online, we no longer really own our image or images. It’s part of our silent, sacred blood oath with the internet that we try not to think about too much. We know theoretically that at any given moment, our mugs could be pouting back at us from MTV’s, or we could be reborn as a meme for pulling the wrong face at the right time.
It’s something I try not to overthink in order to avoid an overdue panic attack, but this most recent instance made me think about how flippantly we treat image ownership online and how little we think of the original purpose of what we reshare. People using my photo has never been a straightforward case of identity theft – they never pretend to be me, rather use my image as a stock photo of sorts to apply a narrative to. And there is more than one way to steal someone’s face.
There are countless things we attach our own meanings to, many of which have origin stories that make doing so even more inappropriate. Take the, in which cast members Taylor Armstrong and Camille Grammer are arguing about Armstrong’s late husband’s alleged abuse. Or the
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