Driving Question

When algorithms shape what we see, want, and aspire to who is really in control of modern beauty: the patient, the platform, or the system behind the scroll?

Episode Description

Ozempic transformations. Perfect veneers. Algorithm-approved bodies. What looks like a wave of personal choice may actually be a system at work.

In this episode of culturally/INCOMPETENT, Nicholas Clements-Lindsey sits down with Dr. Leonard Johnson to examine how social media algorithms are reshaping Gen Z and millennial beauty culture. From the viral rise of Ozempic and GLP-1 weight-loss drugs to the boom in cosmetic dentistry and aesthetic injectables, this conversation pulls back the curtain on how medicine, marketing, and creator culture collide.

Together, ...