"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." - Oscar Wilde
Middle-aged vlogger who used filter to look young caught in live-stream glitch
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#43Wow, 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…
Reading the article it appears that everyone knew that this was a filter. She asked for 100k donation to reveal her face, but no one donated this much yet.
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#44I 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 imagine people exist in a virtual continuum and can change all aspects of their appearance
in our actual reality, that sentence is completed with "given they have enough money to purchase visual upgrades, and those without money using default skins are the ones that are discriminated against." (Sad, that I think that's what it would be, I too hope by the time we have that kind of virtual reality we're beyond money and discrimination.)
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#45The article links to this video of the incident:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8m4jYaALIA
Without video of the filter in action, I'm skeptical of the claim.
It seems plausible that the person on the left is using a filter of some kind.
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#46I'm impressed by how far technology has become to the point that she could do this.
Right?! I think there's lots of honest debate to be had about how superficial we are, but honestly, my reaction to this is "That worked? wow!"
This is exactly why I have problems with all the "AI / self-driving cars / CRISPR / etc" articles that correctly point out how long we've spent with revolution "just around the corner"....that corner might be far away, or it might be close and there's every reason to be skeptical of any given claim. But when it happens, it WILL be dramatically rapid, and poo-pooing the idea of thinking about it in advance just leads us to a society that was warned long ago of a coming adjustments yet is always somehow surprised.
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#47Everyone is presenting false versions of themselves, especially the people who present themselves as a true version of themselves. I'm admittedly quite sadenned by the continued commodification of female appearances in this manner. I am curious if male vlogging has similar tricks to get more $$$.
Yes, steroids. The usage is rampant.
No, I mean why doesn't pewdiepie accent his cheekbones some more via technology. Maybe make his arms bigger. IDK.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good documentary on this comes from 'Peoples Republic of Desire'. Live-streaming is considerably more mainstream, advanced, and in many cases an actual industry in itself now, outside of the west: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWdg8d18Tfs
There are quite a few making a living from live-streaming in the Anglosphere as well. I'm amazed that men send money. (OK, maybe amazed is the wrong word.) I remember reading a while back about some controversy that some of the female live-streamers were being reported to the IRS for unreported income, with the IRS sending audit notices to them.
I think the a bunch of trolls, probably the incel crowd on 4chan and the like got that going: https://nypost.com/2018/11/27/internet-trolls-are-threatenin...
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#49> 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.
It's a gamified leader board kind of thing. The more you donate the higher in ranking you go. The big whale of app games are moving to the camming world.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> quite sad. I wonder if you can expand on that.
I think the idea is the trope that people who donate "thousands of dollars" to a random person on twitch are probably lonely.
I'm not into the streaming community much though, but that would be my assumption of what they meant