TikTok just dropped a new realistic beauty filter

I think it's fine. Filters aren't a new thing. It's a problem for kids, but children should be banned from social media for an enormous number of reasons.

The problem with TikTok isn't the filters. It's the password/clipboard scraping, the enormous level of data collection on its users, combined with the fact that TikTok is ultimately a wing of the Chinese Communist Party.

> I think it's fine. Filters aren't a new thing.

The whole point though is that undetectable filters are a new thing. Like the first video said, you used to be able to know when someone was using a filter or not, and that's not really true anymore.

Plus, as some of the other videos in that tweet thread say, it's not like these filters haven't fucked with people's heads already, e.g. the photographer who takes actual photos of people and then people look behind the camera and are shocked at how "ugly" they are because the filtered view is their baseline.

I do not buy into the moral panic angle. At least for women, the result is basically like putting on professional make up. It is not obvious that it is a filter, but it is obviously make up. It is quite possible for them to look like that in real life, if they put in the effort.

Eh. Instagram had filters years and years ago, so much that people developed #nofilter. Video is different but I don't think that it so fundamentally changes the situation.