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Middle-aged vlogger who used filter to look young caught in live-stream glitch

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Post by zeta0134 »

maxerickson wrote: post #31
hestipod wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On casting Sir Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard: Reporter: "Surely by the 24th century, they would have found a cure for male pattern baldness." Rodenberry: "No, by the 24th century, no one will care." I doubt even a few hundred years will wash out vanity and the worst parts of us, but here's to hoping.

I have lots of gray hair before 40 and don't even think of dyeing it. Of course, this is not so different than vanity on my part, as I'd be mortified if I was dyeing it and someone found out...

When I realized I had started to bald (yaaaay genetics) I had a bit of a personal identity crisis, but I didn't really try to hide my stress about it. My coworkers joked that I hadn't accepted it yet, and they were right.

I don't like that it happened this early, so I'm fighting to delay it for a bit, but I'm sure my baldness will catch up to me eventually. It's fine really. My grandfather rocked the look and his appearance will always remind me of the strength he carried. When my time comes, and what little vanity I still have fades, I'm happy to carry on that legacy.

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Post by newen »

6gvONxR4sf7o wrote: post #84

I know this is tangential to the whole thing, but this is a cool feature of the Chinese language: >The story has been incredibly popular across Chinese social networks with more than 600 million people reading posts that use a hashtag which translates to "female vlogger experiences bug showing her old lady face" and more than 50,000 using the hashtag itself. In english, you're never going to get a twitter trend of #F…

Good chance it's actually just 6 to 7 syllables long. So, not just writing but compact speech too.

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Post by malandrew »

certmd wrote: post #36

I think a reading of the relevant passage from David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" (from 1996) re: video conversations is appropriate here. http://declineofscarcity.com/?page_id=2527

I was actually looking through the comments to see if someone would reference DFW videophony.

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Post by lostphilosopher »

cwkoss wrote: post #13

This is just a form of digital makeup. I predict that using a young attractive avatar will become the social norm and this sort of thing will be entirely unobjectionable within a decade.

David Foster Wallace predicted not only that, but its rise and fall. http://declineofscarcity.com/?page_id=2527

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Post by fizwhiz »

dlivingston wrote: post #87
SolaceQuantum wrote: post #47

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No, I mean why doesn't pewdiepie accent his cheekbones some more via technology. Maybe make his arms bigger. IDK.

Male beauty is not valued as highly among men and women as female beauty. It's all too easy to speculate on the evolutionary and sociocultural reasons why, but it is the reality.

Citation needed

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Post by officeplant »

munk-a wrote: post #61
Diederich wrote: post #40

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> quite sad. I wonder if you can expand on that.

I cannot conceive of how being able to view someone carries an equal value for a person as a week or two in Cancun chilling - or how they can spend money that easily that took them weeks of their life to earn through labour[1]. [1] There's a segment of the population that I'm ignoring those that are either trust fund babies or useless economic leeches, when those people blow 100k on a car that they immediate crash I…

I'm friends with a fairly well off single guy who has admitted a great deal of his spending to me at times. Keep in mind he's a steadily working guy in oil field inspections which pays close to $300k a year, which is pretty damn good in our poor area in the southern US.

According to him in the last year he's spent $18K+ in clash of clans alone and its not the only mobile game he plays. I've watched him drop thousands in a single night on cam girls when he strangely invited me to come along for the private viewing. He's paid for cam girls to come over for a week or more to his house. (nice house, nice looking guy tbh). He's dropped $30K on legos along in the last two years because he wants a lego room in his house. This is just a few of the things he's admitted and shown me the spending records on.

As a single guy in his 30's he has extreme amounts of expendable income for how cheap it is to live in our area. It blows my mind the money he spends on things. The Lego purchases alone were more than my last year's take home pay. I can't really fault him for using his money as he see's fit given he's a self made man who worked his way up from an extremely poor area.

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Post by ohaideredevs »

Diederich wrote: post #40
crocbuzz wrote: post #22

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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.

1. If you have enough money to throw around $2,000, you should be able to invest in yourself enough to get real attention, not buy it. If you can't, due to some dysfunction, that's sad. Not sad in a derogatory sense, but sad in the sense that you are so *cked that even $400,000/year can't fix it.

2. If it's not play money, it's sad how irresponsible the person is.

This isn't exactly complicated.

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Post by colpabar »

nabla9 wrote: post #104

And why not. Getting plastic surgery is also used to make people look good and it has become a practical necessity for any aging female performer. Filter is cheaper.

But isn't this just reinforcing that necessity?

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Post by wpietri »

sverige wrote: post #11
aiscapehumanity wrote: post #4

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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.

One phenomenon across the animal kingdom is the nuptial gift, where giving expensive resources is used to prove fitness for mating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuptial_gift

I first came across the concept in the delightful book "Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation", which covers the evolutionary biology of reproduction in the form of an advice column with letters from birds, insects, etc: https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Tatianas-Sex-Advice-Creation/dp/08...

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