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This goes to show how dangerous deep fakes can be when people are willing to believe. Several people had called him out already, and they had provided evidence,
by mkl95 6y ago
This goes to show how dangerous deep fakes can be when people are willing to believe. Several people had called him out already, and they had provided evidence, but thousands of people still believed he was a young woman.
- NikolaeVarius 6y agoWhy does anyone care
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoSo? That's the point. He is what he represents himself to be. Not what we want him to be.
- mkl95 6y ago> The man reportedly said that nobody wants to see an "uncle", and so, he turned himself into a "beautiful woman" so that his photos would be popular. He self identifies as a 50 year old man. He admits that he just did it for attention near the end of the article.
- luckylion 6y agoSo? He wanted to make a point, or he wanted attention, what did anyone lose by him pretending to be a young woman and get attention? Instagram biker chicks might be annoyed because he's a competitor, but anyone else?
- LanceH 6y agoI assume all the instagram biker chicks are no turning off their filters and removing makeup, right?
- jessa0 6y agoI'm not going to assume anything about this person's gender, but I think it's worth mentioning that the Japanese government uses violence to erase transgender existence [1], so it may not be a safe place to be non-cisgender. [1] https://apnews.com/article/9ef16f52e9b94b9a838b17a63c6c1e8d https://apnews.com/article/9ef16f52e9b94b9a838b17a63c6c1e8d
- mkl95 6y agoUnfortunately, there are quite a few things Japan has tried to erase through history, with varying degrees of success. "Silence" is a pretty good novel that touches on one of those things (beware of descriptions of torture / extreme violence).
- soperj 6y agoHe self identifies as a 50 year old man who identifies as a young beautiful woman, not just as a 50 year old man.
- danShumway 6y agoIt's only "dangerous" if being a young woman is somehow an intrinsically important transactional part of following the account -- if the followers feel like they're being defrauded or something. But honestly, the people who have that association or who view following an account as some kind of relationship should be taking a look inward about why the physical characteristics of a biker are so important to them in the first place. I don't feel a huge need to make it easier for people to do something that I feel like they shouldn't be doing in the first place. Down that road lies the segment of the Internet that gets mad when they find out a woman streamer is married because "she should have been upfront about it." And I just don't want to touch that part of the Internet with a 10 foot pole. I'm not worried about their ability to form unhealthy, one-sided relationships with people they've never met.