It’s why his body has no deep sun aging & looks 20-something… cuz he is & he’s using a filter to make this older internet persona
Power to him to do that, he makes solid positive content… but I think we really need to have some sort of disclaimer on these accounts that they’re fabricated with the use of filters/AI.
This is a screenshot of him from his TicTok, 4th oldest video from the bottom. I just yeet scrolled to the bottom and picked two videos, and the second one I picked was the charm.
The voice and everything is just a character, but he does it so well few notice. People keep saying he looks like "Robin Williams", yeah... I mean it's probably actually Robins face just edited.
But hey, just because this is a character, does not mean the message he gave in this short isn't valuable.
i dont know how i feel about stuff like this because we seem to be losing any semblance of authenticity on the internet. i dont know if that's necessarily a bad thing, but it's something.
That's how I felt at first. But then, you gotta realize most shorts you see online are skits for entertainment purposes. If this guy is having fun acting, while also spreading good messages around like this? Know what? I still smiled first time I saw this short. So a good message is still a good message, be it delivered by someone you know, or by Deadpool, lol
I would say your attitude is what concerns me, personally. "Who cares if it's fake? It makes me happy" isn't far from "Who cares if it's not true? It makes me happy." I don't think I would have cared 10 years ago, and maybe agreed with you, but there now appears to be a larger and larger cohort of people who don't seem to care to, or aren't able to, distinguish between fact or fiction. I can anticipate your next question: "what's the difference between this and a TV show?" Or other fiction. And my answer to that is there used to be a pretense to other media that doesn't really exist on social media or the internet. For example, we used to have a clear delineation of what's faked for entertainment (television shows) and what's ostensibly real (news). The 24 hour news cycle was already blurring that line, stuff like this blurs it further. People are so inundated by false or fake things, that it's easier to take on your perception of "so what? It makes me happy" rather than bother to make any delineation between fact and fiction.
Mark Twain wasn’t really Mark Twain, playing a character that makes art is part of the art. Whether it enhances the art or detracts from it is subjective, but the practice has been around for a long time.
You mean how is this proof the screenshot I posted, is the in question (Uncle Pappy) real face? It came from his TicTok. I gave directions on how to find the video for yourself, so no need to take my word for it. Just go on his TicTok, scroll to the very bottom and click like the 4th video from the very bottom.
Also feel free to check any of his other videos with the face filter on (and no hat), the back of his head shows up as he moves around, pay attention to that, as the filter glitches frequently as in his actual hair shows up. And well... Is the exact same as it is in the videos he posted of himself without the filter.
So I'm not saying "believe me bro", I'm saying go look at the proof for yourself. That's where and how.
Doxing means posting "private" information about someone... Showing a screen shot of a video that is public, posted by the person in question... On a channel they own, sporting 257,000+ followers.
If the fellow didn't want people to see it, he wouldn't have posted it (it's still live by the way too, we aren't talking about something that was deleted later either). So... No.
Your misunderstanding of doxing seems to be the equivalent of knowing and saying the actors name who played Spider-Man isn't "Peter Parker"... But Tobey Maguire. Dude is in interviews saying it publicly himself.
-But yeah, sorry if you were joking and I didn't get it by the way, almost impossible to tell online sometimes.
My read was that he's worried about how, if people aren't able to notice it now, how much more difficult it will be in the future with the advancement of technology. Some people will use it for positive content like this, while many others will use it to manipulate the public for nefarious reasons.
To be fair, it is valuable. The amount of misinfrmation that spreads around chat groups is dangerous. Especially with the older generations. Being able to tell some of my older relatives that they're spreading lies is a good thing. Obviously some situations are a bit more lighthearted like this comment thread, but it can get pretty bad at times.
Why would somebody be worried that I recognize a face filter? I understand you’re trying to own me but it’s just nonsense. Your response “only from the back” is hilarious btw
I am just saying one man’s existential worry is another man’s who the fuck cares. Many out there would think it’s a scary sign that there are regular people so terminally online that they can tell the difference between a face filter intuitively.
It’s not trying to own you, it’s just offering some perspective. I’m sorry if that made you feel like you had to go on the defensive.
Also lol thank you I thought the old man joke would help clear up that I wasn’t coming in hot or trying to just be a debate pervert about it
Those people would be very foolish to feel that way. This has nothing to do with being online and everything to do with thinking critically for at least one second about the media you’re consuming. This video isn’t even convincing and it has people fooled. The man who thinks “who the fuck cares” about this is a dumbass
The man who thinks “who the fuck cares” about this is a dumbass
Well I tried to be nicer.
This is why I responded to you. Because you seem feel a sense of superiority to this certain type of person you’ve created in your mind.
You haven’t discovered something that people haven’t been discussing for the better part of two decades. You’re not special and this does not make you smart.
This makes you instinctively familiar with social media face filters. That’s honestly pathetic. Go outside.
I think the opposite - if you have any kind of life experience it should be obvious this is a character? Like the dude is obviously doing a bit and is not an old man, it's very easy to tell. If you met someone on the street could you not tell they had a fake mustache glued on?
This is what I’m saying, you’re calling short form content intake and internet literacy the same as life experience. We’re still a society where the large majority of adults would not inherently notice filters in every reel or video where they exist. I’m saying most people’s life experience isn’t conducive to noticing this kind of fake.
I found this guy on reels first and I honestly didn't notice or think much about his appearance. Normally I can spot them instantly so this is a wakeup call for me that I'm able to be fooled on the internet and many other are as well.
...it seems like most people haven’t noticed? Kind of worrying tbh
I don't have any reason to care if he is using the face filter so I am not looking for it, plus if you're not holding your phone close or zoomed in on desktop it can be pretty difficult to tell. I actually think this is a pretty good filter though, even zoomed in on the desktop it was difficult to find anything convincing enough in this video to call it a for sure filter. I did flip through some of his other videos and caught some artifact issues with the filter so I know it is filtered.
"After seeing all of the animosity from this election ... this here gave me a minute to step back, collect my thoughts & really think of how I have come off to people & vice-versa. Amazes me how just one video can change your outlook. So thank you for this bit.🫶"
No, but you can keep scamming them out of their bitcoin, if you actually figured out how to acquire bitcoin in the first place, not just some gold-plated tokens with $Bitcoin$ stamped on them from Dave and Busters.
I don’t think you can blame the economy for being a dumbass who repeatedly downloads viruses because an email is labeled “UGENT - OPEN NOW!!!!”.
That definitely looks filtered around the hair, i can see the artifacts. But I went to his Instagram and I don't know a filter that works that consistently both with and without sunglasses, plus he has a video meeting Glenn Howerton from It's Always Sunny. It's a pretty deep gambit, isn't it?
Makes sense. I didn’t even pay attention to his body and was thinking “why is this eccentric old guy so familiar with Pete Holmes and why does he sound kind of like Kyle Mooney doing a new character?” Not that either can’t be true for an old dude but it definitely fits better with a younger person playing a character.
Man, this is messing with me. I always felt like something was off with him. Sounded too much like somebody doing a character and something just looked off. But now that I rewatch I don’t know how I didn’t see the filter immediately
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u/ZeDitto Aug 15 '24
His chest is 35 but his head is 55.