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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: 0.208s | 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. BulgarianIdiot ◴[27 Feb 23 19:52 UTC] No.34961040[source]▶
Social networks are bad for the reasons you outlined, but where you are wrong is that we'll actualize this understanding of fakeness into abandoning social networks.

We've had fake faces forever. Make-up is a face face you draw on top of your face. What this filter does it 99% just what you can do with make-up.

We have lip-fillers, we have breast implants, we have fake teeth and eyebrows.

And we embrace this, we consider it essential, expected. We've given up on thinking, and given in to feeling, enjoying. Hedonism doesn't require substance, just surface.