Séamas O'Reilly: TikTok's Teen filter is the past, staring back at us


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Both are discussing the age-changing video effect they are using, and how it’s making people “my age” lose their minds. Then our dual-aged user says “and now my timeline is full of middle-aged folks trying to understand where their life went… it’s quite emotional”. Before we get to the more interesting psychological ructions caused by Teenage Look™, let’s first discuss how well it works. At its best, it is truly uncanny, the “teen” version almost unmistakeable from a living, breathing person. None of which discounts the occasional, even accidental, power of Tiktok’s Teen filter.