Right?

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Hashtag no filter? Hashtag no brain

Hashtag I'm going fucking insane

   with all of these girls using Valencia and 1977

   hoping their selfies will get them into heaven

But why post a hashtag no filter when all I'm gonna get

   are thirty likes when you sure as hell bet

   any other selfie could have gotten me a hundred and ten

'Cause likes are currency and retweets are straight-up gold

Online acceptance is more important than anything tangible to hold

Hashtag no filter means

   hashtag acne, hashtag redness, hashtag ugly

Hashtag I’m trying and I’m trying, but I just can’t get it right

Hashtag yes filter and I get ridiculed for not looking like that in real life

& then it becomes a social issue

Why are girls pressured to look such a way they need to use a filter?

Why are girls pressured to please anyone with their looks besides themselves?

Why are girls

Why are girls

Why are girls

Why are girls

Why are guys

   Doing the exact same thing and being called fags for having Instagram accounts and using a hashtag yes filter?

But, I mean… Hashtag no filter means

   Hashtag fat, hashtag tool, hashtag ugly

Hashtag I’m trying and I’m trying, but I just can’t get it right

Hashtag yes filter hashtag no filter hashtag how about you filter

   Your mouth and shut up about how I do or don’t look

   And stop scrutinizing everyone for everything they do

Hashtag use a filter or not, no one really judges others based off social media anyway, though

   Right?

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