Beautygate

I-phone users who take selfies complained their phone cameras are using a filter that smoothed out imperfections. Their hair appears softer, their crow's feet are erased, their mouth lines disappear, their aging décolletages are made youthfully smooth, facial lines, pimples, freckles, scars, spots all vanish.

They insist that Apple phone is using a filter on its camera  and they don't want that.

New Apple 'Beautygate' Controversy Claims iPhone XS Makes Selfies Look Too Good #applenews https://t.co/PlaPrJJKUN pic.twitter.com/aJxAt5w6qS

— iDrop News (@iDropNews) September 28, 2018

Turns out it's true. Except it's not a filter. The camera's compression is using a lot less detail and that gives the appearance of smoothing.

Story at Mashable.

I was watching Trump/Cruz @ Houston last night through what I thought was RSBN's deplorably compressed telecast that panned into the crowd on the bleachers behind Trump and  had women in makeup look like ghouls, one in particular. Red clothing, white faces, white hair, Foundation applied thickly erasing all character, translated as white, bright red lipstick, two black smudges for eyes, no nose. Then up front on a lower tier opposite side of Trump, a younger thinner version of the same thing. As the camera zoomed in it went:
ghoul
ghoul
ghoul
ghoul
ghoul
ghoul
ghoul
person.

But weirder than this is the opposite in a Vice video about a woman checking out the human-like dolls. This time male dolls marketed for women. Sex dolls. And people want weird things like just the feet. The whole video is gross and extremely weird. It becomes apparent as it goes that the journalist has bought such a doll and she's there to record the process. She shows herself with the doll at the end.

In the beginning the discussion is about details. Women ordering the dolls want imperfections, dots, and birthmarks, lines, skin discolorations and such. The longer you watch the more deeply strange it gets.

The video is hosted on Educate Inspire Change / science-technology.