Middle-age woman has been using face filter to fool her large audience into thinking she is young

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/31/middle-age-woman-has-been-usin.html

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This dystopia is simultaneously weird and banal.

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Here’s hoping this thread isn’t going to turn into a misogynistic, ageist dumpster fire, or anything.

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“Beauty cameras”?

Is this a soft-focus thing? Or more of a ‘totally change your face’ thing?

O_o

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I thought it said she was using “face filler” which is pretty common in Hollywood but just makes people look weird rather than young, I think…

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The word your looking for is Ballardian…

What? That never happens here! /s

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Thank you. Spot-on.

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Weirdly, I’ve never thought of it in those terms, but that’s precisely the perfect definition for a Ballardian dystopia - weird and banal at the same time.

I need to write an essay on that now.

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She got more followers, a sponsorship deal and is making international news over the glitch? Not bad.

So as active filters and deep fakes get faster and more accurate will this be the new avatar? Will it spawn a new class of apology video where you come out to your fans as not 1980s Tom Hanks?

I’d read that.

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Well, then I’ll let you know if I write and publish it somewheres!

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As a person who has occasionally attended conference calls “casually dressed” from the waist down I feel not insignificant sympathetic anxiety…

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Just say you weren’t wearing pants. We’ve all been there.

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“I’m not wearing pants right now!” in 3, 2…

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Blame it on the rain.

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Respect the hustle.

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There are entire apps that algorithmically “beautify” faces in photos and video.

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Reddit has a great sub for this type of content called ABoringDystopia.

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This reminds me of performance art like Mr. Brainwash, Second Life avatars or one epic Catfish.

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I prefer the Deaf-mute filter

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