Glitchless Filter Has People Feeling Bad About Themselves When They Turn It Off As It’s Eerily Realistic
Part of the fun of TikTok and other similar social media apps are the filters. They morph your face into a horse or tell you what kind of fruit you are. But there is a category of filters that are more damaging to how we view ourselves and those are beauty filters.
For the most part, you can tell when someone has one on, but technology is advancing and the newest TikTok beauty filter called Bold Glamour actually looks too realistic and doesn’t glitch even when you’re covering your face.
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A new TikTok filter is going viral for how realistic it looks and how it actually becomes your face instead of sitting on top of it
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“This filter has been used over 2 million times. It’s crazy”
“I don’t look anything like this but the filter itself is natural, like, there’s some skin texture there. I’ve seen other people use it and then do a big reveal and they looked pretty much exactly the same. Perhaps just less contoured makeup. I don’t want to say this about myself, but I actually look ugly when I take this filter off. I’ve done a lot of work to unlearn that I owe prettiness to anyone. I don’t think my brain knows how to deal with looking like this one minute and then this the next. So here’s a reminder for anyone who needs it: filtered skin is not a skin type. And we’re already the perfect edit.”
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When TikTok user joannajkenny made her video in which she talked about the Bold Glamour filter on February 26, it had been used over 2 million times, but a couple of weeks later, the number is 15.5 million and it’s still growing.
The reason behind the filter being so popular might be because it’s different from all the other filters on the app. Other filters don’t look as natural – you can see that they are sitting on top of your face and if you turn away or something gets in the way of your face and the camera, it glitches and comes back only when your face is clearly in the shot.
Maybe on some people, it looks more realistic than on others, some look more like AI-generated faces than others, but the point is that you can wave in front of your face or rub it and it won’t come off as it becomes your face.
People tried to wave in front of it, turn their face away or rub it, but nothing takes off the filter as if it was your true face
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Facial plastic surgeon Dr. Monica Kieu used the filter on herself and compared the before and after, explaining what changes the filter actually makes. She noticed that it gave her smoother and glowy-looking skin. It made her brows thicker and darker as well as the eyelashes.
She used the filter on a bare face and the filter put on some eye, face and lip makeup, using universally flattering shades. The slight contouring on her nose made it thinner, her upper and lower lips appear plumper and her eyes are slightly bigger.
The plastic surgeon also noticed that the face makeup makes her cheeks pop and her favorite part was the under-eye highlighting because the “whole center of the face looks really bright and just well lit.”
This is what the filter does on a person who looks like a woman, but you will notice that men have less of a change in appearance as the filter skips the makeup part. However, a bit of minimizing and increasing facial features make them look like a conventionally better version of themselves.
Not only does the filter not glitch, but for many people, it looks realistic because it doesn’t exaggerate their faces too much
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There were a lot of opinions about the filter. Actually, the most popular videos are of people trying to use the filter and reacting to it. The general consensus is that it is terrifying how realistic it looks and it makes people feel bad that they don’t look like that in real life.
Some people could accept that they don’t look so glamorous in real life like the filter makes them look, but then they are worried about the younger app users whose minds are so impressionable.
It smooths out the skin, highlights the right spots, darkens the eyebrows, enhances the eyes and plumps the lips
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According to the Dove Self-Esteem Project, more than a third of teenagers spend 3 hours or more on social media, so it is a big part of their lives. Also, “With 4 out of 5 girls saying they compare the way they look to other people on social media, posting the ‘perfect selfie’ can feel like an obligation rather than a bit of fun.”
Their surveys revealed that 25 percent of girls think that they don’t look good enough in photos if they don’t edit them, so 85 percent of them had used retouching apps even when they were younger than 13 years old.
People who tried out the filter were surprised by the results but they were also worried about what it can do to people’s self esteem
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Psychiatrist Josie Howard noticed in her practice that more people come to her with body dysmorphic concerts and she links that with these types of filters: “People begin to expect themselves to look like their filtered self and can become obsessed with achieving that in the real world, which leaves them depressed, anxious, lonely, and disappointed.”
The negative feelings associated with these filters prompt people to undergo cosmetic and even surgical procedures, which was confirmed by a study in the American Journal of Cosmetic Surgery.
Because it is known that unrealistic beauty expectations can lead to various mental health and self-image problems
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While it’s a creepy feeling in general to realize that technologies have advanced so far that we sometimes can’t even tell apart an actual face from an AI-generated one, it’s even more concerning how the technologies add to the unrealistic beauty standards people strive for but are left disappointed.
Do you think this new filter is a big deal? Do you think people take it too seriously? Or does it contribute to the already existing problem of making people feel like they are not pretty enough? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
Realistic my a*s, this filter is SO far in uncanny valley it’s embarrassing
Me too! And it's messed up that the AI thinks it needs to suck fat and muscle out of everyone's cheeks!!! The Kardashian eyebrows are bad enough!
Load More Replies...This is a huge backwards step in social media. More people are just gonna feel ugly. Shame on you tiktok
same, but it might just be the comparisons next to it. If I didn't know who someone was when I saw it I might just think they look like that with makeup. Those beauty standards for other people are not my personal standards either, but I don't deal with socials lol. I think all of them look great without the filters and if everyone just looked like they and that filter on all the time I'd find it unsettling
Load More Replies...I have to admit, I wouldn't mind this for early morning conference calls.
Load More Replies...Tbh it's just different in make up (heavy make up) and the chin is smaller. Other than that I see no difference tbh, nobody looked like a different person to me
I saw a lot of narrower noses and slightly adjusted eye brows
Load More Replies...Eh just don't use it then. If ya take all your pics without photoshop etc, then nobody will ever be surprised or disappointed with your normal appearance
I think it's more of hurting other people's confidence. Tik Tok has tons of teens and tweens on it, and if they think that everyone just looks like that all the time, their self esteem is going to be hurt. I mean I'm just now starting to try and remind myself that I'm good enough lol. Social media is what sets beauty standards and it has more of an influence on younger people
Load More Replies...The filter reminds me of the movies in the 90s that put people and cartoons together.
I think that many of the womens filtered pics look cartoonish. Not realistic at all. Grotesque.
Sounds like issues are being created for no reason. What's the difference between these filters and all the makeup and botox that's been around forever?
I'm guessing that with your Botox and filler when you do online dating and then you meet in person you actually still look like that in person. With this, you look one way online then you meet in person and it's not the same.
Load More Replies...Why do so many people feel the need to use these filters? I'm more than willing to admit I'm not the prettiest woman to walk the earth. But my face is one of the least important parts of myself, in my eyes. The only time I see it is when I look in a mirror. Im aware of it maybe 5% of my day. You know what I'm aware of the other 90%? My attitude. My actions. My personality. . . I'm far more interested in what somebody thinks of me after we've talked than what they think of me from across the room at a glance. I just don't understand the need for this unobtainable standard of beauty. The only thing my face says about me is "this is what my genetics did" and there is so much more to me than that.
"body dysmorphic concerts", eh? I really don't understand why sites that publish articles/listicles refuse to hire proofreaders. I'd be more than happy to do so.
This filter has two reactions, from men it's mostly this is interesting, women , especially older women break down crying or have an existential crisis and want to run to the plastic surgeon because it destroys their self confidence
My idea might be a bit too brave, but maybe - don´t use it, don´t promote it, don´t care about ist and have friends who have the same mindset. Works pretty good for me so far. How about not even using Tiktok :O
Most of them just look as if they've had a skilled professional make up applied. 🤷
Um everything that filter does can be done with makeup if you know what your doing and are willing to put the time and effort into it I had a coworker who did her makeup like this and I know it was makeup because she showed up without makeup one day when she was running late.
I hope no one was asking her if she was sick and making a big fuss. That's super annoying.
Load More Replies...Girls in grey hoodie "this is what I look like" and purple hoodie "this filter ruining us all" are goddesses without filter <З omg I look at them 5 hours
It just looks like they put on a little makeup to me. People use subtle contouring to make their noses appear smaller all the time. A little bit of shadow powder in the right places and people think you've had surgery. This filter wasn't anything extraordinary. It's just makeup. It didn't really change their face. Most of these people had good skin anyway. Good skin always looks great in makeup. I mean, I do wish I looked as good without makeup as with it - but hey, reality sucks AND we women have hormones. My face is always changing and doing annoying sh*t. Lol
Realistic my a*s, this filter is SO far in uncanny valley it’s embarrassing
Me too! And it's messed up that the AI thinks it needs to suck fat and muscle out of everyone's cheeks!!! The Kardashian eyebrows are bad enough!
Load More Replies...This is a huge backwards step in social media. More people are just gonna feel ugly. Shame on you tiktok
same, but it might just be the comparisons next to it. If I didn't know who someone was when I saw it I might just think they look like that with makeup. Those beauty standards for other people are not my personal standards either, but I don't deal with socials lol. I think all of them look great without the filters and if everyone just looked like they and that filter on all the time I'd find it unsettling
Load More Replies...I have to admit, I wouldn't mind this for early morning conference calls.
Load More Replies...Tbh it's just different in make up (heavy make up) and the chin is smaller. Other than that I see no difference tbh, nobody looked like a different person to me
I saw a lot of narrower noses and slightly adjusted eye brows
Load More Replies...Eh just don't use it then. If ya take all your pics without photoshop etc, then nobody will ever be surprised or disappointed with your normal appearance
I think it's more of hurting other people's confidence. Tik Tok has tons of teens and tweens on it, and if they think that everyone just looks like that all the time, their self esteem is going to be hurt. I mean I'm just now starting to try and remind myself that I'm good enough lol. Social media is what sets beauty standards and it has more of an influence on younger people
Load More Replies...The filter reminds me of the movies in the 90s that put people and cartoons together.
I think that many of the womens filtered pics look cartoonish. Not realistic at all. Grotesque.
Sounds like issues are being created for no reason. What's the difference between these filters and all the makeup and botox that's been around forever?
I'm guessing that with your Botox and filler when you do online dating and then you meet in person you actually still look like that in person. With this, you look one way online then you meet in person and it's not the same.
Load More Replies...Why do so many people feel the need to use these filters? I'm more than willing to admit I'm not the prettiest woman to walk the earth. But my face is one of the least important parts of myself, in my eyes. The only time I see it is when I look in a mirror. Im aware of it maybe 5% of my day. You know what I'm aware of the other 90%? My attitude. My actions. My personality. . . I'm far more interested in what somebody thinks of me after we've talked than what they think of me from across the room at a glance. I just don't understand the need for this unobtainable standard of beauty. The only thing my face says about me is "this is what my genetics did" and there is so much more to me than that.
"body dysmorphic concerts", eh? I really don't understand why sites that publish articles/listicles refuse to hire proofreaders. I'd be more than happy to do so.
This filter has two reactions, from men it's mostly this is interesting, women , especially older women break down crying or have an existential crisis and want to run to the plastic surgeon because it destroys their self confidence
My idea might be a bit too brave, but maybe - don´t use it, don´t promote it, don´t care about ist and have friends who have the same mindset. Works pretty good for me so far. How about not even using Tiktok :O
Most of them just look as if they've had a skilled professional make up applied. 🤷
Um everything that filter does can be done with makeup if you know what your doing and are willing to put the time and effort into it I had a coworker who did her makeup like this and I know it was makeup because she showed up without makeup one day when she was running late.
I hope no one was asking her if she was sick and making a big fuss. That's super annoying.
Load More Replies...Girls in grey hoodie "this is what I look like" and purple hoodie "this filter ruining us all" are goddesses without filter <З omg I look at them 5 hours
It just looks like they put on a little makeup to me. People use subtle contouring to make their noses appear smaller all the time. A little bit of shadow powder in the right places and people think you've had surgery. This filter wasn't anything extraordinary. It's just makeup. It didn't really change their face. Most of these people had good skin anyway. Good skin always looks great in makeup. I mean, I do wish I looked as good without makeup as with it - but hey, reality sucks AND we women have hormones. My face is always changing and doing annoying sh*t. Lol
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