With the recent coming outs of beautiful female YouTubers who are actually men, internet celebrities seem less and less trustworthy. On top of that, recently a 53-year-old man revealed himself to be behind the face of a pretty woman in her 20s.
A popular application, FaceApp contains the switch gender option. This means that you can see what you would look like as the opposite gender. One Japanese man took advantage of that function to create an online persona by transforming himself into an attractive, realistic-looking young girl. He managed to build quite an impressive following on social media with ‘his’ looks. This shows how much netizens respond to beautiful women.
The 53-year-old man, who describes himself as ‘addicted to FaceApp’. He spends his free time taking selfies, editing them, and uploading them on his social media profiles.
However, unlike the other ‘impostors’ this man is actually up-front from the beginning about his true identity.
“I’m an uncle in his 50s who usually works from home,” the man wrote on Instagram.
Despite the man’s openness, he got mixed reactions. Some were not pleased. While others praised the man’s skills in figuring out all the settings on FaceApp to achieve this degree of realism.
The 53-year-old FaceApp addict started uploading photos on Instagram last summer, and he currently has over 13,000 followers there, plus another 7,100 on Twitter.
Source: Oddity Central, INF, Zaitaku_iyada