[Avshalom]

Internet commenters slagging off beauty contestants as identical barbies? News at eleven.

No, it's that people are getting het up about this particular instance that feels a bit... xenophobic at least. Especially because of the apparent credulity that a bunch of press photos was received with.

[marshray]

Jeez, can't a guy read an article about principal component analysis on a published sample of photos without being painted as some kind of racist xenophobe?

It's hardly the first time those looking for something to take issue with have found it in digital imaging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna