You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose. But you can’t pick your friend’s nose. But you can pick a new nose for yourself—if you don’t like the one you are born with, that is. You just might get chewed out on TikTok. Call it the self-agency tax, a price you pay for making choices about your body that may contribute to external stigmas. This becomes especially true if said plastic surgery is an “ethnic rhinoplasty,” a highly scrutinized procedure circulating the TikTok zeitgeist . Social media and plastic surgery Plastic surgery is one of the most contentious topics of the digital era. The battle between the perception of self-love versus our right to do whatever we want to our bodies to make ourselves happy has been an endless tug-of-war. In a socio-political system that rewards desirability and proximity to whiteness above all else, it’s almost impossible to make any choice about our appearance that’s void of any external components. Then, add in our growing cognization...