That's the mainstream im China btw.
There're so many funny fail videos of like streamers who accidentally revealed how they look without filter, like in this one. And it's many time so fucking hilarious.
The filter those Chinese are using are on another crazy lvl. Just see yourself one of them. It's worth it
There was a somewhat viral one I saw a few months back about how the purportedly 20-something actually turned out to be like a 50-something and she lost like a bajillion followers in seconds.
Anyway, just a reminder that many things on the internet aren't real.
Wasn't there something similar where a young woman turned out to be a middle-aged guy? I feel like it was in Japan. I don't know I might be misremembering
Every single time someone mentions that no one is able to actual source where she lost followers, just blindly repeating what they heard from some rando
All my co-worker’s profile picture is heavily edited. I mean, they’re not even ugly irl. But literally every single one of them has photo edited pictures.
The only time I've edited a profile picture was when my headshot came back and I saw a massive nostril hair sticking out that I had somehow missed. Edited that bad boy out sharpish!
When I met my China-based colleagues in-person for the first time, not a single one looked like their picture. I was confused for a moment how these “strangers” knew my name.
this was I think about a decade ago but I really wasn't familiar with how prevalent filters were becoming. I remember going on a date with an international student from China I matched with online and they were just a completely different person when we met. I recognise the smoothing out that we're used to now but I just assumed it was make up in her photos at the time.
It's actually a better idea now with the start of ai training models that can train on your face and they can replicate it with just a click. Beauty filters + stickers over the face + heavy drag makeup etc is the only way around it. Palantir already has it tho, the government already ran your face data through it.
When a face filter makes your head shaped like the typical alien head where your chin looks like it can be used to chip ice.. yeah.. that's a straight up China feature.
Asian beauty standards. My cousins in the Philippines do this to their family photos it's so weird. Like they went and paid for a family portrait and when they posted it online they filtered it to give them tiny heads with narrow chins.
I've decided to delude myself for the sake of personal peace by believing they do this to not have their alteregos be recognized by either their coworkers or their government.
They literally shop their beauty treatments from Illicit clinics as if it were office supplies on TEMU. If you bring a friend to your "inject stuff into face" routine, you get 66% off!
Stick figure and limbs, toddler face, melon breast and super clear pink/yellow-ish skin seems to be something that's really popular there. I've seen some normal video about food, places but the women in the video have to use filter to give themself those traits.
The US certainly has problems, but at least there are different faces and skin tones that are considered beautiful. Every Chinese filter is literally just the same exact face they’re going for. They look like plastic dolls.
Immigration helps a lot with that. China is not an immigration country so for the most part it’s a homogenous society like Japan. Their tastes will be more homogenous as well as a result.
You cannot be serious. Chinese people use these ridiculous filters literally all the time, they are never without them if they can help it. It's an epidemic not found in mainstream US society. Also, obsessed with Selena Gomez? You need to brush up on your US pop culture before your next "but America also bad!!!!1!!1" comment.
These filters are insane. Kids who grow up watching these think that people really look like that and it's giving the fucking body dysmorphia because they think anyone without a tiny neck and chin is fat.
Because filters have caused huge body dysmorphia now. People always take picture and video with it and forget how they actually look. Plenty of people even avoid mirrors entirely. Look it up if you wish. It’s rather sad imo.
Okay, I've seen these performers do that PLUS the mask coming back on, only parts of the mask changing, and the entire outfit itself changing. I just wish there was a breakdown for it.
Probably just detailed variations of this. Parts of the mask changing would be easy to accomplish by just having a partial mask, and having the mask return would be easy to accomplish by putting the same mask on as another layer underneath.
To make it look like a previous mask came back on, just have another layer of that same mask again. Same idea with only parts changing, have another layer with the same mask but some part different.
I agree, this may be one of the methods used but it doesn’t explain all the advanced tricks you can see! I think sometimes they use a mask that can flip back over the face for the bottom lauer
Same. They give the impression that there are dozens of masks, whereas this makes it seem like the whole act is only a little different than those helmet visor covers worn by racing drivers 😅
How about rigged up for no mask to drop but sets up another mask to drop behind? Or even a person looking mask that you can't tell is a mask from all the way in the audience
I've seen comments in this very post disparaging her actual face as the "scariest of them all" and similar. People are even more unkind on Chinese language social media. Even if that's a minority response, it still hurts. Using a face filter is pretty normal and should be the least interesting part of this video but here we are
They're making those comments here because she used the filter. Sorta a Streisand effect thing. If she didn't use the filter and just showed the trick everyone would've found something else to argue about, but it wouldn't be her actual face.
Did a quick look at who posted the initial video does pass the FLG smell test. Ill take everything added as caption with a grain of salt. I do want to applaud OP for dissimulating a political post
Chinese or more generally Asian social media is absolutely OBSESSED with face beauty filters. You will essentially never see a photo/video of female Chinese influencers that are not using filters, and many Chinese phones even have filters built into the camera app that are default-on.
Why are people ignoring the things being said in the video? Her video and whole account got restricted for showing this and the reasoning behind it is that they don't want the Chinese cultural "magic" to be revealed. Like, there's some real censorship happening that's being explained.
Why are you assuming text written over a video on TikTok is 100% true. Are people incapable of any rational thinking nowadays and just believe whatever assortment of words is plastered on a photo or video.
Btw this isn’t even an ‘embarrassing filter fail’ like it used to be because in China its just completely normalised now so she didn’t even care to edit it. If you go through their social media using the filter is the standard no matter how thin or small you are, man or woman, any channel you watch it glitches on everyone all the time and nobody cares at all
That face tune that snaps on when the last mask comes off. You can see the face filter trying to change the masks too. They get thinner and wider a few times. They warp a bunch.
I haven't been back to rednote in a while but face filters are expected to be used by just about everyone who shows their face. Not enforced or a rule, just if someone isnt it's like a double take situation.
Weird thing to censor. I dont think we would need a team of our brightest minds to figure this trick out. A beginner to intermediate magician could have cracked it in an afternoon. Not exactly Cicada 3301
No one is censoring anything. You’re just reading subtitles put on a TikTok video and taking it as fact. If it was they use unicorn piss to create the colour yellow you’d probably believe that too.
Like holy fuck people need to start being a bit more rational and use a touch more critical thinking instead of assuming every meme, caption, and text put on a picture is absolute fact.
Their first step to solving a magical trick is to affirm that magic isn't real so obviously it happened some explainable way. If masks are being ripped of at that speed, there are two options. They were pushed off or they were pulled off.
Pulling seems like the easiet of those options to implement and a thin string is a pretty logical device to assume. I have no idea why this would be some kind of secret, it's absurdly obvious.
The technique to do it smoothly with small motions is very impressive, so I have no problem acknowledging that as something they might have some interesting techniques to it, but pulling something with a sting isn't tradecraft.
I... don't think this has been particularly secret for like, 200 years? The EXACT techniques maybe, but i'm pretty sure it's been fairly well known that it's a system of strings pulling away paper thin masks.
People have missed the point of this video, the tiktoker get banned for unknown reason. Some said that it might be because of exposing China’s historical performance. Some said that it might be spreading misinformation.
Saw this whilst travelling once. And if I'm honest, given it's tradition and artistry, was actually perfectly happy letting it keep a touch of mystery. I suppose it's my own fault for being on the internet.
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u/Impossible_Stock8885 21h ago
Literally face changing