Seeing your face lined with wrinkles thanks to a filter is the latest hyperrealistic trend of the moment on TikTok. If the Chinese platform is not the first to create a filter of this kind, it “stands out because it predicts what the user will look like later using artificial intelligence”, precise The Washington Post.
Le hashtag #agedfilter [“filtre vieillissement”]which accompanies the videos, has been used more than 169 million times in less than a week. “The filter has become so popular that even businesswoman and millionaire Kylie Jenner, 25, has tried it”, continues the American daily. Faced with her face altered by the years, the reaction of the young woman was categorical: “I do not like it at all. No. No.”
The American star is far from alone in refusing the way old age transforms her body. Tatyana Latafa, a 26-year-old beauty influencer, also tried the filter. “I’m not saying that I’m afraid of aging but I can tell you that I’m going to do Botox until I die because no way”argued the content creator, quoted by the American title.
obsession with youth
Because if it is harmless, the filter of the Chinese application actually awakens one of the oldest fears of our society: aging. Growing old, and showing it physically, goes against “the national obsession with youth” predominant in the United States.
Although the fear of becoming old dates back at least to the beginning of the 19th century, it is only recently that the idea of “aging well” has developed. Sarah Lambs, professor of psychology of aging at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, explains:
“We have seen the idea develop that a good person will take care of their body so as not to be a burden on their family or society. This is where anti-obesity and anti-aging come from.”
However, it is difficult to resist the temptation to know what we will look like in a few decades, underlines for her part Monica Kieu, specialist in facial plastic surgery in California: “And [ce filtre] is viral it is because it plays on a fundamental fear of human beings […], fear of death. It reminds us that we are human.”
2023-07-22 13:54:21
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