These images of #thebirdspapaya are from the same date: June 20, 2024. They were taken hours apart. #thebirdspapaya is wearing the same outfit. Her makeup and hair are unchanged. The lighting is similar. Both images were screen grabbed from iphone videos. Both iphones used are the latest iphone model. The birds papaya has earned millions of dollars for being a body-positive, body-confidence influencer. #thebirdspapaya has stated multiple times (in the press) that she has not edited, filtered or photoshopped her physical appearance since 2019. When questioned why she looks dramatically different in real life vs what she posts on instagram, Sarah Nicole Landry aka the Birds Papaya claims that makeup, angles, lighting and lenses cause the visual differences. In the above Instagram vs Reality side by side comparison we are able to eliminate lenses, lighting, makeup and angles as the cause for the visual differences. To us it looks like Sarah used the “no slim beauty filter” from tiktok and loaded the saved, un posted tiktok video to her instagram stories. This theory explains the multiple glitches found in the Instagram video. We were not able to see or capture any glitches from the IRL video. Both videos were taken using the same iphone model.
This looks like a difference of focal length from the camera being used. A wider angle for the images on the left than the right. See this article for examples of the difference.
The front vs back cameras on an iPhone have different focal lengths, which can explain a difference while still using the same phone.
I might buy this if she didn’t coincidentally look the same in every candid shot, while presenting a million different faces all with her same iPhone camera. Or potato quality pics and videos from her new iPhone camera. Or the obvious filter glitches that happen in posts where she is controlling the camera. This is a hell of a lot more than lenses and angles.
This only explains so much. In some of her photos a videos you can see the filter glitching. Focal length is not making her look about 1/2 her actual size. There’s lots of documentation of it in this sub.