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TikTok just dropped a new realistic beauty filter

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207 points ZephyrBlu | 1 comments | 27 Feb 23 03:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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alanfranz ◴[27 Feb 23 05:09 UTC] No.34953221[source]▶
My 2c: it’s the beginning of the end for some tech areas. Especially social networks.

You chat with people online because you think, you know, that people exist on the other side.

You spend time on instagram, tiktok, and so, to get a glimpse of real people (as opposed to TV where a lot is fiction/sfx).

You trust photos because, barring dedicated, time-consuming and skill-intensive editing, they should represent reality.

If that’s not true anymore, and everything is fiction, it’s probably time to get back to IRL experiences.

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1. blahblago ◴[27 Feb 23 07:12 UTC] No.34953894[source]▶
It’s business and all business is show business baby! Look at all these great startups promising all these shiny things we so desperately need. I think it may be good advice to be wary of anything on the internet, or in the media. In a world so connected it’s amazing how disconnected we really are. For how fucked up everything is, we will need the fake reality being built. Just remember that the consumer demanded it, and that you must be nice and diverse to everyone and whatever.