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

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

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Post by sverige »

aiscapehumanity wrote: post #4
mLuby wrote: post #2

> 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…

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.

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Post by hestipod »

echelon wrote: post #8

I 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…

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.

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Post by asdfman123 »

echelon wrote: post #8

I 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 want to live in a world where everyone is confident in themselves

This lady has plenty of confidence. She has as much confidence as any confidence man and was making plenty of money off of it.

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Post by duxup »

I have trouble believing the fans didn't know at some point. The article implies they didn't, but also isn't specific.

Perhaps they knew but and the mystery was part of the show?

I haven't seen any software generally available that wouldn't be somewhat obvious that it is in use.

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Post by bufferoverflow »

I'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.

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

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Post by devoply »

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.

Yeah pretty much. And no one should be against this. This is allowing people to be who they want to be instead of being limited by who they are... It is no different than someone getting plastic surgery to change their appearance... which I guess some people still despise but I don't see it any differently from someone who is transgender and wants to get an operation and drugs to make them more like their chosen gender.

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Post by hestipod »

SolaceQuantum wrote: post #5

Everyone 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 $$$.

I don't agree with this. At least except not in the most pedantic philosophical sense. My role models were people who acted the same when they didn't know anyone was looking, or there was no reward. They didn't put on fake personas or dramatically code switch. They didn't primp and accessorize to meet some vain expectation. They were of course respectful of others expectations and wouldn't go to a funeral in pajamas or anything selfishly ridiculous, but they were genuine, empathetic, kind....honest. I try to emulate them the best I can. Any human failings in that trying is not at all the same thing as the fraud that this article and so many perpetrate to gain something.

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Post by mattnewton »

INTPenis wrote: post #10
mLuby wrote: post #2

> 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 is crazy, they aren’t even promising heaven or sex. I guess they must get a sense of companionship?
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