![]() ![]() It also pretends to hold some clue about your true identity or appearance, which is what the rest of TikTok is essentially about. The Barbie, Bratz, or fairy trend has all the elements of a viral TikTok feature: It sorts people into boxes (what does it mean if you’re a Barbie instead of a fairy?), thereby making you feel a little bit special no matter the answer. Considering so many of the other TikTok trends that revolve around face filters pretty much only exist to accentuate the conventional attractiveness of the user, the Shapeshifting filter doesn’t necessarily have to be used for for it Follow me on instagram #fyp #voldemort #harrypotter #comedy #cosplay ♬ Elevator Music - Bohoman You can also use the filter to make some pretty dark jokes about going “Copmala” on a drug dealer ex who broke your heart. Another genius uploaded a photo of the holy trinity (Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton) to determine where his spirit lay. There’s one - of a guy who dresses progressively more like Voldemort and still fails to land on the character - that made me laugh so hard I cried. That’s not to say that the TikToks the filter has spawned haven’t been extremely entertaining. I obviously don’t know enough about facial recognition technology to understand how this works and why it is so insistent on humiliating me, but I am determined to find out. I used the Harry Potter cast photo at least a dozen times and kept getting Draco Malfoy, which was not nearly as horrible as when I tried the Glee version and was told that I resemble internet villain Matthew Morrison. But if the mechanism were completely random, it would seem that people shouldn’t be getting the same exact results no matter how many times they try. This filter isn’t just rude, it’s objectively bad: Several TV and film actors have tried the Shapeshifting filter on press photos of themselves and their castmates, and the filter reliably gets it wrong.Īt first, I assumed that the product was just randomizing facial patterns to connect two unrelated faces, sort of like those Instagram filters that tell you what your animal lookalike or “vibe of the day” is, even though everybody knows it’s essentially a slot machine. Or you’re trying to see which BTS member you are, but you’re the businessman the band is posing with. Or you’re a white woman trying to see which Kardashian sister you look like, but instead you end up as the little floating Kanye head. Say, for instance, you wanted to see which 2016 presidential candidate you looked like, and it keeps telling you that you look like Ted Cruz no matter how many different expressions you try. (Which sort of explains the whole idea around getting famous “for doing nothing” on TikTok.)īut the Shapeshifting filter is a specific kind of terror, because the Shapeshifting filter is almost always wrong in the worst way possible. It’s human nature to delight in instances of unexpected familiarity - I once interviewed a psychologist who studies fame, and she said that the joy we receive from a celebrity sighting or recognizing an actor in a movie isn’t necessarily because we like that person, it’s because your brain is screaming, “You’ve seen that before!!!” and it rewards you with dopamine. I, like you, love all those fun tools that tell you what celebrity or historical painting your face looks like. In short, the Shapeshifting filter is a violent act, and it must be stopped. A BRATZ PERIOD #fyp ♬ original sound - tattoobabyyy
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