Instagram Model Ella Freya Confirmed as Resident Evil 4 Remake's Ashley

Ashley screaming LEONNNN is burned into my mind. So regardless who voices her, I’ll still hear that.

@nessisonett that's the face model not the actress

But will the President have her equipped with ballistics in the remake?

Should have done a gender swap, just to mix things up.

instagram model ?? 👀

i guess it has a different meaning in Europe , lol

@nessisonett Yeah I was really expecting "LEOOOOONNNN" to be the very first thing said in the teaser. Was disappointed.

Haven’t played RE4 since release so I for one can’t wait for this. Although I can’t help take the final dialogue of the reveal trailer ( “this time it can be different. It has to” ) as a slightly ominous warning given what they did with the RE3 remake 😬

Some of these early comments by the resident folk are so... evil 😁 On topic: she does look the part. If RE4R turns out ok I'll buy it at a deep discount. Way too many games in my backlog to buy anything day one (only exception is Naughty Dog games).

@usaislie “Who would you want to voice Ashley in Resident Evil 4 Remake? Let us know in the comments section below.”

What on earth is an "Instagram Model"?

@get2sammyb That sounds more like...somebody who wants to be a model but isn't one because they're just posting pictures of themself on the internet hoping to be discovered for a gig. There's got to be a business angle in there somewhere more than that though?

@NEStalgia They get approached by clothes, makeup companies etc to wear their products. It’s a much more direct way of reaching customers. It’s an interesting one, the lines between advertising and personal accounts are very very blurred. There’s no denying it being an industry though.

@nessisonett That's weird...and...questionable...slightly unsettling really. So it's connected to the social/influencer/tuber thing, but....without overt paid advertising? And people just post glam shots of themselves hoping a company stumbles into them?

@Deadlyblack The only thing that matters!!!

@NEStalgia I have friends who’ve literally just put up pictures of themselves on a night out and they’ll get DMs from all sorts of random companies trying to get them to model for them. It’s very dodgy. Like an online equivalent of Abercrombie and Fitch and Hollister approaching ‘attractive’ people on the street. I think there might be laws coming into effect to combat the advertising though, you might have to outright say if it’s been paid for now.

I just hope we don't get another re3 situation. Removing M-Two as the head of this project was the right call.

@nessisonett That's, honestly pretty weird and creepy. Not that I don't find everything about "socials" weird and creepy to begin with, but that just puts an exclamation point on it.

Not that talent agencies are saintly, but....the ones that aren't sleazy are many cuts above just actively scanning pictures across all personal accounts for wanted faces. I assume they're actively scanning IG in bulk with facial mapping software or something. Which is extra creepy on many levels extending beyond "modelling".

@lolwhatno Yeah, the more you see into the "modelling" world the weirder and uglier it gets. I've known people who's kids are in modeling (not weird creepy instagram modeling but legit agency/competition/pageant stuff) and nothing is real on these people. Dental veneers are standard minimum, the teeth are fake from the start. Rib removals, face work, etc. Call me crazy but removing protective casing for vital organs isn't "pretty", it's kinda gross. BUT, everyone into it gladly does it and is excited about it so... I guess whatever floats their boats....

Then there's the cultural things, like the stock sweet-16 breast implants in parts of the US as standard. Not modelling related, just a normal thing every teen girl wants. And I hear in Korea the sweet-16 nose-job is basically standard (boys and girls, both.) I don't get modern humans. I remember when the "beauty" industry was just a new miracle cream that "reverses aging" and new cosmetics that are so much better (read: exactly the same) as the ones before.

@lolwhatno It's not just women anymore. That's the classic place it started but the industry invested fortunes for decades into eventually trapping the young male population and that's starting to pay off now. Ultimately humans are shallow and image-driven. They just exploited that until they broke down the collective psyche to expect it. Plus it plugs into the overall social model of the modern age: If you're not perfect, you're worthless. So at a minimum everyone needs to pretend to be perfect, always. It used to be more an American thing, but it seems the internet has made it ubiquitous.

Just wait for the future of "designer babies" where the rich purchase made-to-order genetically designed offspring for all the right attributes. There will truly be a separation of the superior and inferior humans, with a paper trail and cash receipt to prove it!

I've gone from science-nerd to anti-science, and don't trust humans to invent anything that won't be turned into something negative and think we were better off believing shiny stones controlled the oceans.

I’m gonna say it since no one else has: she’s so cute!

@lolwhatno Oh, it's already pretty well established that males are "more visual" in terms of attraction. It carries over to animal species, too, though which gender is more visual varies by species (eg. peacocks where it's the males that flaunt the brightly colored fan-tail to attract the very plain-looking females. A common theme for bird species. Cardinals, bluejays, etc are similar, the females are usually brown or gray or dull-colored and the males are the vivid ones commanding attention.) For the entertainment industry that's just standard business to use for the "sex sells" mantra (including video games, of course.) But for the beauty industry, that's not the psychology involved. It's actually self-image they break and sell the fix for, and the perception of how the opposite sex must view oneself, based on one's intentionally-broken self-image rather than the reality of it.

EG in movies, TV, games, modeling, strip clubs whatever, they're selling, primarily the image of female beauty to a receptive male audience. But in the beauty/fashion/cosmetics industry they're selling the image of a supposedly superior female image to supposedly inferior looking females (and superior males to inferior males) to make them feel like the product will fix their inferiority and make them fit the ideal they're supposed to match. In an odd reversal, while males are more receptive to visuals in actual attraction, the psychology of the beauty/fashion industry seems to work in the inverse, females seem more receptive to the impression of superior looking females in a competitive way than males are to other males. But....that's changing as they're breaking the psychology down for that. Score one for corporate psychological warfare against the consumer.

@lolwhatno never thought I will ever read about snowballing on pushsquare, lol

@nomither6 LOLL

@lolwhatno yeah I mean the other meaning, try googling it with a cheeky nsfw tag to it

Until Dawn taught me about that, I was too young to understand that joke before

@NEStalgia "I've gone from science-nerd to anti-science"

I don't think that's a science problem, so much as a captialism one.

We don't put enough money in to public education, because there's not enough money to be made, but we will sell dangerous ideas and solutions to fix those ideas.

I always thought it mad that "sex sells" and yet we literally won't let people sell it. But I guess that's the point, you can't sell products on the belief they'd get you laid, if you could just take that money and cut out the middle man.

@lolwhatno

These companies do the same thing to men.

If we ain’t rocking a six pack and muscles the size of 1984 era Arnold we are seen as “ugly” and undesirable by society at large.