BOW WOW
Can You Keep Up With Your Fake Face?
Ain’t nothing like the fake thing, baby
My sister, who is trés anti-technology, asked me what online face filters were for.
I had been complaining to her about these poor tweens who were getting plastic surgery to look more like their filtered selves online.
“I don’t get it,” she said.
I told her tweens were getting plastic surgery and Botox at a young age because they couldn’t stand what they looked like in real life. They wanted to look like their fake selves.
“I still don’t get it,” she said.
“Fine,” I told her. “I’ll send you a filtered picture someone took of me.”
“That’s weird,” she said. “It looks like you and yet, it doesn’t look like you.”
“Bingo!” I said. “That’s the point. Filters are like a fake ID for your face. But instead of looking old enough to get into a bar, you look young enough to get a job.”
Filtered, I look like Tom Brady’s Ex, Giselle. On the other hand, so does filtered Danny DeVito —…
