Twitter reacted to a new TikTok beauty filter named ‘Bold Glamour’ that appears to have taken the beauty filter to a new level.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) tech has been making quite a stir lately with the emergence of ChatGPT, but AI-driven graphics are also advancing rapidly. The result has been so-called ‘deep fakes’, advanced photo editing, and filters like this new one making waves on TikTok.
Twitter user, artist, and AI enthusiast Memo Akten shared a series of TikTok videos of women reacting to the new filter.
— memo akten (@memotv) February 26, 2023
This photographer demonstrated the new filter while explaining that filters such as this have altered women’s self-perception of themselves, to the point that many aren’t happy with the results when their actual faces are photographed.
The same thing I experienced when I worked with a studio years back. Women are most likely tend to be insecure about their looks although they're naturally looks beautiful. About 70% of them would asked me to retake their photos just because they feel 'ugly'. https://t.co/Dux5b38NyV
— 𝓐𝓵𝓮𝔁𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓻𝓪 🏴 (@LxY_lllIII) February 28, 2023
Many shared similar concerns about the negative impact the altered reality of these filters have created.
We’ve seen beauty filters before, but this one seems more advanced. Many women demonstrated how well the filter adjusted to movement and passing their hands or hair in front of their faces.
— memo akten (@memotv) February 26, 2023
Yeah, that’s a bit freaky.
— memo akten (@memotv) February 26, 2023
We’ve got to say, the technology was a bit disturbing … and some of the videos were hilarious. LOL.
Check the thread if you want to see them all.
— memo akten (@memotv) February 26, 2023
Okay, we’re not sure that was the Bold Glamour filter, but it made us laugh.
I will not sleep tonight knowing I have a daughter in this world.
— Bridget Phetasy (@BridgetPhetasy) February 27, 2023
It’s definitely a different world than the one many of us grew up in.
I just tried this filter on and I looked like handsome squidward, it was HUMILIATING https://t.co/INams7KQYw
— Pretend Popstar (@pretendp0pstar) February 28, 2023
LOLOLOL!
Snapchat dysmorphia is real https://t.co/zs7X3CZywX
— emily gordon (@life_naturalis) February 27, 2023
Wanting to be something other than ourselves has plagued humanity from the start. Unfortunately, our technology is exacerbating the problem.
TikTok is the devil. https://t.co/TKPHXMPHfD
— RickWriggler (@knawmeen) February 27, 2023
… like Foosball. (Random Waterboy reference, sorry.)
This is why I don’t use filters!!! I want to keep my self perception squarely set in reality. I have pores. I have wrinkles. I have acne. I’m human! I need to accept my REAL face for what it is. https://t.co/8K89Mdccta
— Lady Demosthenes (@LadyDemosthenes) February 27, 2023
We like this approach. It’s healthy.
Not good. https://t.co/4l2lXoHe2X
— Curtis Johnson (@cjohnson999) February 28, 2023
Men and women alike were uneasy about the new filter.
TikTok is a public health hazard. https://t.co/nYhEERJxDH
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) February 28, 2023
Thanks, China! LOL.
I’m so glad they didn’t have this crap when I was an awkward teenager girls and woman are already held to unreasonable beauty standards. I would never thought this was a filter https://t.co/XPm1jr8vOP
— With_enough_coffee (she/her) (@Autumn808) February 27, 2023
A heavy majority of Twitter users definitely were not fans of the filter.
And a million young American women just decided to never interact with young men again face-to-face. https://t.co/dn8KriozVD
— K T Cat (@ktcat) February 27, 2023
In this editor’s opinion, women often impose these standards on themselves even more than men.
China is destroying our youth and our women.
If you need a full-thread explainer on why anxiety and mental illness are exploding in our societies this is a big part of it. 👇 https://t.co/2cz8yPQlsi— Jewtastiq | Ron (@jewtastiq) February 28, 2023
Just be your beautiful selves, ladies.
She's more attractive without the filter, imho
— Dr. Judgmental Shoelace, PhD. 🇺🇸 (@DocKilmer) February 27, 2023
What we really need is a filter that convinces women men really mean it when we tell them they look nice. LOL.
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