This article was very click baity. Supposedly tech workers are getting invasive cosmetic surgery because they look at themselves all day on Zoom. The author highlights an insecure man who says he was border line suicidal. The reader is left believing that fringe online culture is making young men engage in drastic surgeries to be chad like.

Here is an alternate hypothesis: People with expendable income, or the insecure, are paying for cosmetic surgery just like they always have.