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

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Post by fuzz4lyfe »

xwdv wrote: post #120
ohaideredevs wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Invest in yourself how? Don’t just throw out empty rhetoric, lay out a plan about how you would spend that $2000 dollars to “get REAL attention”. Money isn’t a magical cure all.

You can pay a beautiful person for a few hours of their time for that price, where as this gets you a shout out and maybe a image of a boob. The former may boost your confidence to meet someone who likes you for who you are, the former will make it worse.

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Post by xelxebar »

sdegutis wrote: post #90
inscionent wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One person's vanity is another's identity. Dressing up like Bronie can be just a fulfilling as singing a hymn. If you want everyone to stand tall with you, try meeting them where they are instead of pushing your world view as supreme.

Our outward appearance can and do represent what values we identify with. But saying "I'm worthy because I am beautiful" is shallow, which is just another way of saying empty, vain, and without substance. Besides, why would someone want their worth to come from beauty, which is so fleeting? True and lasting beauty is in virtue, even non-religious people admire the sacrifices of soldiers for the sake of freedom, or th…

> Physical beauty is empty and devoid of merit.

I get where you're coming from, as my personal values have this element in them as well. I'm probably heavily influenced by my Protestant upbringing, which also gives me the moral that "laying moral judgement on others is a vanity."

That said, it's also interesting to look at moral themes and personal values through the lens of cultural evolution. For the vast majority of history, it's pretty much been a hard fact that one's physical appearance breaks down with age (Keanu Reaves being some Magickal exception).

Therefore the "beauty is empty" moral might be seen as a distilled admonition against relying too heavily on physical appearance, since that could cause some hardship later on.

Anyway, thank you for sharing. I appreciate finding other people that pursue True Beauty, whatever that may mean. The quest itself is a thing of beauty. lol

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Post by KUcxrAVrtI »

lostphilosopher wrote: post #105
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

Turns out I need to read the Infinite Jest.

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Post by darkerside »

yorwba wrote: post #126
newen wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It's #女主播直播出bug秒变大妈脸# [1]. 12 syllables. I can get an English translation down to the same syllable count: #StreamingBugTurnsVloggerGirlIntoOldWoman It obviously still takes up more horizontal space; to fix that you'd need to use a font that squeezes about 3 Latin letters into the same space as one Chinese character. However, the gap in information density isn't actually that large, because Chinese usually requires s…

#OopsVlogetteShowsHagFace

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notimetorelax wrote: post #43
danso wrote: post #27

Wow, 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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Post by [deleted] »

notimetorelax wrote: post #43
danso wrote: post #27

Wow, 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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Post by 6gvONxR4sf7o »

yorwba wrote: post #126
newen wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It's #女主播直播出bug秒变大妈脸# [1]. 12 syllables. I can get an English translation down to the same syllable count: #StreamingBugTurnsVloggerGirlIntoOldWoman It obviously still takes up more horizontal space; to fix that you'd need to use a font that squeezes about 3 Latin letters into the same space as one Chinese character. However, the gap in information density isn't actually that large, because Chinese usually requires s…

Do you have any idea whether this is an atypical length for a trending hashtag in chinese?

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Post by WheelsAtLarge »

danso wrote: post #27

Wow, 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…

I was also shocked as to well the real-time filters work. I suspect it's also a sign of how china tech is beginning to lead rather than follow on how technology is used in everyday life. They have 100's of millions of people that have embraced technology as part of their daily life so companies have a large audience where they can try new tech.

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Post by MivLives »

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…

Not about tags but I remember a lot of discussion around this concept the difference between Japanese and English twitter when the character limit was changed. This short blog links to a more academic source.

http://www.scotthale.net/blog/?p=628

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Post by rasz »

danso wrote: post #27

Wow, 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…

It was a Photo with moving lips, not an amazing whole upper body render.
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