What's Happening On the Socials?
/Michael C., informs me this is making the rounds again. It’s a filter that makes it look like your eyes are closed so you can “intuit” how many fingers people are holding up.
It’s fairly well F’d out now for people on Instagram or TikTok, but I did think that maybe “exposing” this would be a good lead in to doing it “for real” with Echo Sync.
But I quickly dropped that idea. I don’t think you want to implant the idea of manipulation of the audio/video in any way when you perform that trick. I’ve never had anyone suggest that as a method, but they might if introduced via something similar.
So I wouldn’t bring it up myself.
But… If someone happened to mention this trick/filter to me, then I might consider building off of it and saying, “You know, there’s actually ways of doing it for real. In fact, I’ll have you guess how many fingers I’m holding up.”
Khaled A., brings this post to my attention…
With millions of views, it wouldn’t seem out of the blue to use it as a springboard for a drawing duplication effect.
“This came up on my feed the other day, and I was wondering what the big deal was. I’ve always done this sort of thing with my friends. I thought it was just something people could naturally do if they spent a lot of time around each other.”
Or whatever premise you want to go ahead with.
Watching Justin Flom squeeze his little daughter into this box was funny. But I really wanted to see him toss it into a wood chipper to really send those dolts on Instagram spiralling.