Chasing the horizon: The glow-up trap and the space in between | Ann Elpa | TEDxTorontoMetU

In an era of endless scrolling, filters, and ever-changing algorithms, how do you know when you're enough? Drawing from her experiences as a digital storyteller, former beauty pageant queen, and eating disorder survivor, Ann Marie Elpa explores how social media has transformed self-improvement into performance. Through personal storytelling, she examines the rise of glow-up culture, the pressures of online validation, and why what many of us are truly searching for isn't perfection, but authentic community. In an e...