When you reward people for their physical appearance (and certain standards of beauty), it is no surprise that they take advantage of technology to look as expected by the public.
Middle-aged vlogger who used filter to look young caught in live-stream glitch
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#22> her fans urged her to show her face and remove her filter but she refused, instead apparently saying: "I can't show my face until I receive gifts worth 100,000 yuan ($11,950). After all, I'm a good-looking host." Followers began to send her donations with the largest reported to be 40,000 yuan ($5,813, £4,780) during the session. > The story has been incredibly popular across Chinese social networks with more than…
I want an interview with someone who is willing to donate over a thousand dollars to a person they're watching talk on a webcam.
Go on some of the most popular Twitch.tv channels, you'll see lots of that happening. Too many to count on two hands. It's unbelievable and quite sad.
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#23This should send a clear message to all those people trying to look younger: use makeup.
Yeah, here's a great makeup tip: draw a 3d barcode or marker on your face so that the tracking doesn't fail as easily.
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#24I want to live in a world where everyone is confident in themselves and doesn't care what others think about superficial details outside of character. In the far-far future that may never come, I imagine people exist in a virtual continuum and can change all aspects of their appearance such that they never feel slighted by their perceived place in a fitness gradient they cannot change. Maybe technology is helping us…
I don't think she was using the filter because she was self concsious, she was trying to mislead young men so they'd give her money. Similar things happen on twitch. There was one woman on twitch who hid her marriage so people would think that if they donated enough money, they'd have a chance at a relationship with her, and people who donated thousands of dollars to try and win her favor were really upset when they found out she's married. The streamers are just selling a relationship fantasy to lonely young men.
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#25When you reward people for their physical appearance (and certain standards of beauty), it is no surprise that they take advantage of technology to look as expected by the public.
To look at it another way, some people have a natural advantage in life that they did not earn. This helps even that playing field.
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#26I'm a guy and I have no idea why some guys throw ridiculous money at good looking girls online. You have no chance of meeting them, let alone anything else. If anything, throw money at not so good looking people, their lives are harder on average.
Pay-for-attention is what's occurring there, in most cases. They're attempting to buy attention from the woman in question. In a context of competition, where there are many men trying to talk to one woman, spending money is a means of stepping above the crowd that is trying to get her attention.
It mirrors what goes on in the physical world. Men spend extraordinary sums of money to attract/buy the attention of women, using status objects or spending lavishly.
And of course the perpetual debate between whether this is a normal biological behavior for signaling purposes, or whether it's mostly society induced and isn't necessary or useful.
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#27Wow, this shows how out of touch I am with social media and technology. I know that Apple's 3d-camera phones enable chat via Animoji, but that applies a cartoon image across your face. I didn't realize reality-enhancement filters (e.g. face thinners) were good enough to work in real-time? I'm confused because the links in the article just show the woman's real face [0], and not footage of when the filter was actually working. I guess I expected to see the glitching in real-time, like the "Mission Impossible" hallway scene [1]
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#28I'm impressed by how far technology has become to the point that she could do this.
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#29I want to live in a world where everyone is confident in themselves and doesn't care what others think about superficial details outside of character. In the far-far future that may never come, I imagine people exist in a virtual continuum and can change all aspects of their appearance such that they never feel slighted by their perceived place in a fitness gradient they cannot change. Maybe technology is helping us…
I don't think this is a matter of self-confidence. It's a business decision. Appearing young/attractive means more money for your efforts.
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#30I want to live in a world where everyone is confident in themselves and doesn't care what others think about superficial details outside of character. In the far-far future that may never come, I imagine people exist in a virtual continuum and can change all aspects of their appearance such that they never feel slighted by their perceived place in a fitness gradient they cannot change. Maybe technology is helping us…
We can’t deny reality though, underneath all our behavior is sexuality and violence. Beautiful people will always be treated differently, physically intimidating men will always be treated differently.
If you were born 500 years ago would you even be alive today? I had a hernia when I was 3 so I would have just been one of the millions of babies who never even made it past 5. I am constantly torn by your vision (a world of perfect equality) which is also a world of pure stagnation, and our current world.