Everywhere online now, every movie, every home video, has been passed through so many filters that people don’t look human any more. Nobody has any lines in their face, their teeth are florescent white, their eyes are filled in and have no veins. Nobody ever looks tired, or natural. Add to the mix the fact that everyone is getting lip implants to look like a blowfish, and I’m just tired of it. I miss seeing real human beings.
The lip implants rarely look good.
Have you considered watching English or Scandinavian shows?
I haven’t. Can you recommend a good one?
Detectorists
QI (if you like Stephen Fry, British humour, and learning random facts). Most of the guests are pretty “normal people” looking. Except when Victoria Coren Mitchell is on. She always look fabulous.
Peep Show if you’re into humour as dry as sandpaper. It definitely has peopley people.
Taskmaster. Pretty sure it’s all on YouTube.
Inside No. 9 is excellent, along the same lines as Black Mirror, but comedy
The Gentlemen is pretty good. The movie or the show. Fuck, anything by Guy Ritchie. He’s good at showing the dirty edges of things as well as the pretty.
I agree, but I doubt this opinion is unpopular.
Are you watching videos strictly on tiktok or something?
As a furry: People don’t look non-human enough.
I’m convinced that part of the reason of this over processing is because of streaming. You can compress a movie or show far FAR more when colors are smooth and uniform (I know this from compressing multiple hundreds of movies and TV shows). So now that everyone is “streaming all the things” they have to look for ways to get 4k out the door and to the normal consumer who might only have 100mb internet.
Edit: not defending it, just sharing my observations as a media enthusiast.
they have to look for ways to get 4k out the door and to the normal consumer who might only have 100mb internet
They do this like YouTube does by scaling the resolution based on your connection speed.
Though they do compress all resolutions to a fraction of their full bitrate regardless of the service or speed because ISPs are greedy fucks.
I’m mean, they are both methods to do the same thing (get smaller sized videos) and it doesn’t have to be one of the other, both can be used. With better compression you can stream higher resolution.
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