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Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by mkl95 on Friday March 19, 2021 @12:18PM (#26515143)
This goes to show how dangerous deep fakes can be when people are willing to believe. Several people had called him out already, and they had provided evidence, but thousands of people still believed he was a young woman.
Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by danShumway on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:31PM (#26516813)
It's only "dangerous" if being a young woman is somehow an intrinsically important transactional part of following the account -- if the followers feel like they're being defrauded or something.

But honestly, the people who have that association or who view following an account as some kind of relationship should be taking a look inward about why the physical characteristics of a biker are so important to them in the first place. I don't feel a huge need to make it easier for people to do something that I feel like they shouldn't be doing in the first place.

Down that road lies the segment of the Internet that gets mad when they find out a woman streamer is married because "she should have been upfront about it." And I just don't want to touch that part of the Internet with a 10 foot pole. I'm not worried about their ability to form unhealthy, one-sided relationships with people they've never met.

Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by JoeAltmaier on Friday March 19, 2021 @12:28PM (#26515283)
So? That's the point. He is what he represents himself to be. Not what we want him to be.
Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by mkl95 on Friday March 19, 2021 @12:44PM (#26515477)
> The man reportedly said that nobody wants to see an "uncle", and so, he turned himself into a "beautiful woman" so that his photos would be popular.

He self identifies as a 50 year old man. He admits that he just did it for attention near the end of the article.

Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by luckylion on Friday March 19, 2021 @12:52PM (#26515610)
So? He wanted to make a point, or he wanted attention, what did anyone lose by him pretending to be a young woman and get attention?

Instagram biker chicks might be annoyed because he's a competitor, but anyone else?

Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by LanceH on Friday March 19, 2021 @01:10PM (#26515802)
I assume all the instagram biker chicks are no turning off their filters and removing makeup, right?
Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by jessa0 on Friday March 19, 2021 @01:41PM (#26516176)
I'm not going to assume anything about this person's gender, but I think it's worth mentioning that the Japanese government uses violence to erase transgender existence [1], so it may not be a safe place to be non-cisgender.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/9ef16f52e9b94b9a838b17a63c6c1e8d

Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by mkl95 on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:01PM (#26516448)
Unfortunately, there are quite a few things Japan has tried to erase through history, with varying degrees of success. "Silence" is a pretty good novel that touches on one of those things (beware of descriptions of torture / extreme violence).
Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by soperj on Friday March 19, 2021 @04:39PM (#26517950)
He self identifies as a 50 year old man who identifies as a young beautiful woman, not just as a 50 year old man.
Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by NikolaeVarius on Friday March 19, 2021 @12:19PM (#26515165)
Why does anyone care