FAQ

This page contains additional guidance for content creation and answers to some common questions.

## What are the guidelines for image creation?

Though this project has been brewing for a while, it was recently reinvigorated by the boom in AI art- the ease of creating realistic images from Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and the like means that this project will hopefully be a lot more immersive than if the main method of image generation was “add picture of celeb to FaceApp, click Big Face, export.” With that being said, if you would like to create images which are not AI-generated, more power to you- nothing but respect for the old-school morphers! Just please ensure that you have the rights to any image you post, or the explicit permission of another creator if you post their images here. And regardless of where your art comes from, please ensure that it:

* Follows Fandom’s image uploading policy. The linked article is fairly comprehensive, but as long as you ensure you have the rights to what you are posting, you should be fine.
* Is not pornographic. This project is NOT sexual or fetish-based; though the main subject of this examination of this alternate world- namely, female celebrity culture- can often be sexualized, the core idea examined here is simply “What would the world be like if the female beauty standard was fatness instead of thinness?” So: keep it PG, no nudity, etc.
* Is photorealistic, generally. Exceptions can be made if you want to make a stylized movie poster, a political cartoon, etc. in order to supplement an overall narrative, but if you’re making a page about a person, the primary representation of that person should be an ostensible photograph of that person (unless they lived prior to photography, of course- in which case the style of a realistic painting or, for ancient historical cases, an artistic reconstruction would be preferred).

## Any additional advice regarding image creation?

If you’re just getting started with Stable Diffusion in particular, CyberRealistic and RealisticVision are two of the better models for photorealistic image generation; if you really want to up your image quality, look into textual inversions and LoRAs that you can use in conjunction with models to finetune your results.

Depending on the particular AI model you use, simply invoking the name of a celebrity (e.g. “chubby Jennifer Aniston”) may result in overexaggerated facial features or resistance to altering the person’s appearance. Ways to address this include changing prompt weighting to favor the incorporation of a specific feature (e.g. “(chubby:1.2) Jennifer Aniston”) or using the celebrity’s name as a descriptor rather than the subject (e.g. “chubby woman resembling Jennifer Aniston”).

Regardless of what model you use, it is generally difficult to generate images of women above a certain size (~600 lbs), likely due to a lack of training data involving women exceeding that size. There is an in-universe explanation which can help with this: the use of steroidal augmentation means that women in BBWorld will generally have more muscle than women in our world. Because muscle is denser than fat, if a BBWorld woman and a woman from our world appear to be the same size/“volume”, the BBWorld woman will therefore be heavier. This should really only be invoked when working with the most extreme sizes, however, since most image generation models can reasonably accurately represent a variety of weights.

## Given that this is an alternate reality, can I make someone who isn’t famous a celebrity/entirely invent a celebrity?

Based off the inherent premise of this project, it is equally true that some people who are celebrities in our world aren’t well-known or don’t exist in BBWorld, and likewise BBWorld hosts celebrities who aren’t well-known or don’t exist in our world. However, please don’t make pages for anyone in our world who is not publicly notable in some regard. There is some wiggle room as to what this entails, but generally speaking, make sure to adhere to Fandom’s community creation policy.

With regard to entirely inventing celebrities, this should largely be avoided unless you have a very good reason to do so (for instance, the central lore piece History of BBWorld is ostensibly adapted from a book by a BBWorld author). Once again, the main focus of this project is how female celebrity culture would be affected if the beauty standard was fatness instead of thinness, and it is easier to make these comparisons to our reality if the “cast of characters” is largely the same.

## Once I’ve decided on a celebrity to make a page for, how do I decide what size to make them?

Though on the whole this is up to your personal preference/what you think works best with their backstory, there are a few factors that can play into this.

* The weight trends page provides some statistics on the average woman’s weight over time (both globally and in the United States); as of the 2020 census, the average American woman stands 5’5” and weighs 242 lbs, with 50% of women weighing between 206 and 278 lbs. Obviously the average American celebrity would weigh more than this, but this should give you an idea of the distribution in general society.
* The weight records page provides statistics on the holder of the “heaviest mobile woman” title (and the now defunct “world’s heaviest woman” title); the current holder of said title is Florence Pugh at 814 lbs. Though there are a few women competing for the title at any given time, it is rare even among celebrities to approach such a peak. To provide some loose guidance, for every woman in her 700s-800s, there are four women in their 500s-600s, sixteen women in their 300s-400s, etc.
* Women who are early millennials and older are more likely to be traditionalists and thus have a higher average weight; women who are late millennials/Gen Z are more likely to be reformists and thus have a lower average weight. In recent history, though, the holder of the “heaviest mobile woman” title has tended to be in her mid to late 20s (which now overlaps with early Gen Z).

## Anything else I should be aware of?

Though you can have a lot of influence on how this world is built out, keep in mind that your work may be subject to modification or removal by the admin if it defies the policies set forth in this article or significantly goes against established lore. You have the right to argue your case in such instances, which may result in partial or full restoration of your content, but the admin have the final say.

With regard to editing restrictions, the History of BBWorld and weight trends pages are locked to provide a “central canon” to the project; barring unforeseen circumstances, these pages will not be edited. The weight records pages are locked to provide guidance as to the upper limit on weight at a given time, but the particular celebrities listed are potentially editable; if you have an idea for a storyline which would require the listed “heaviest woman” of a given timeframe to be swapped out for someone else, feel free to reach out on the article's associated talk page to request an edit- there’s a good chance your change will be adopted!

Finally, given that this project was in part inspired by a previous project (the FAT WORLD wiki), a grateful acknowledgement should be given to its creator, fan2000.