Today, the use of filters in photographs is a very common practice on social networks, a tool that people use to improve and perfect their physical appearance to the style of the image, always seeking to give it a unique and aesthetic touch. However, there are those who abuse them and, far from improving it, make it look unnatural and even false, making the people who use them unrecognizable.
Given the excessive use of filters in network photos, the uncomfortable moment that this young man and the girl with whom he had a date lived recently went viral, because through a video, the boy says that the woman did not look alike at all to what he showed in his photos, so he let him know and refused to continue with the appointment, an act that generated debate on the internet.
The person in charge of generating controversy with the anecdote in which he himself claimed to have been a victim of “catfish” is the TikTok user identified as Joe Delgado, who, through a video of just over two minutes, shared the moment in which He rejected a girl he was dating because she didn’t look like the one shown in his social media profile picture.
In the recording, Joe is heard telling the girl that he does not mean to be rude or offend her, but that in person her physical appearance changed a lot, because, according to him, the excessive use of filters in her images made her look much more attractive, for which accused her of “catfish”, a scam in which certain people online pose as one person but are actually someone else.
He has a date with a girl he met on social media, but not seeing her in person was not what he expected. pic.twitter.com/Ss1eqNgmOj
— tacodealacran (@tacodealacran) April 18, 2023
Honestly, you don’t look like anything. Forgive me, seriously, but you don’t look like anything. I thought you were very pretty on social networks, in person you also look very pretty, but… you’re not what… Really, excuse me, but don’t do that, don’t use so much filter, I have to tell you.
In her defense, the girl is heard telling her that she is the same one that appears in the images. In addition, he assures her that everyone uses filters on social networks, to which the boy replies that he is aware that it is her, but that he feels cheated because in person she does not look like how she looks on the networks. social of her
After a long dialogue in which the young man insists that he does not look alike and advises her to stop using so many filters, the video did not take long to attract attention on social networks, where it generated a debate of opinions among users, who criticized Joe for the way he addressed the girl.
Comments such as that it didn’t cost him anything to simply tell her that he was not interested or wait for the date to pass and then leave and never go out with her again were written by some users in the publication, where Joe was harshly criticized for simply looking at the physical and not give her the opportunity to get to know her a little more.