Instead of opposing beautification, software manufacturers should focus on mosaic removal

Everyone has a love for beauty.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a girl named Xi Shi in Yue State. She was not very good-looking, but she was very popular among men because of her good manners, voice, and smile, and she was good at putting on light makeup. Dong Shi was also very ordinary-looking at that time, but she did not pay attention to rest, her movements were vulgar, she spit everywhere when she talked, and she wore heavy makeup. Today she was non-mainstream, tomorrow she was a Shamatte, and the day after tomorrow she was a Martian. She was too advanced. Therefore, in comparison, Dong Shi became the target of criticism.

More than 2,000 years later, beauty phones and apps related to Meitu were born in China. Currently, the cumulative number of users of related products such as Beauty Camera and Meitu Xiuxiu has reached hundreds of millions. If Dong Shi had these magical tools at the time, I believe the historical legend would have been reversed. We can't help but lament that Dong Shi was born at the wrong time.

However, different people have different preferences. You may like beauty filters, but some people may oppose them. Recently, a Japanese university student developed the iPhone app Primo, which aims to scare away the beauty filters and bring them back to their original state. Its design and operation are very simple. It aims to fight against the beauties and reverse the beauty filters such as skin smoothing, beauty contact lenses, and face slimming, and synthesize the original facial state of the person being photographed.

This reverse thinking product has been tepid in Japan, but recently it has become popular in China, especially among Fengjie who has been frequently criticized. However, I still think that this product will not be popular for long, for the following reasons.

First, the technical level of its anti-beautification product is not successful. It only sharpens photos and enlarges faces, but cannot intelligently identify photoshopped or beautified images. Many netizens downloaded and used it as soon as possible, wishing to use a magic mirror to reveal the true face of her/him and the stars. Once they used this application, they found that everyone became ugly, and it was mostly a spoof. But in fact, to put it bluntly, even if you don’t have beauty filters or makeup, you will become ugly once you use this. Looking at the comments and online reviews, there are too many negative reviews.

On the other hand, the market demand space is limited. This type of application has strong reverse and fresh elements, which are not enough to keep users hungry and loyal. There are too many applications like this that suddenly become popular and then disappear.

Furthermore, the technology of beauty phones and beauty-related applications will also be improved accordingly, and they will not wait to die in the face of the impact of such products. To put it bluntly, as long as the girl uses beauty filters and it is not too much, what else can you ask of her? Besides, she still has a good figure, don’t you think?

Of course, if the technology for this type of application is truly mature, there won’t be too many errors and it can be identified with high accuracy, or if it enters the Korean market, then its popularity may be extended.

Compared with the anti-beautification application, which is not very useful, some netizens said that if an anti-mosaic application appears, there will definitely be more users cheering.

To put it in a bigger way, there are very few times when people on the entire Internet agree on something, but when it comes to "seeking seeds" and "evil mosaics", I believe these must be the quietest and most undisputed statements on the Internet. However, after a batch of resource websites and download bases were shut down, pictures and videos have become food for many people to sustenance and use their imagination, but the most feared thing is mosaics.

The de-mosaicing software that is currently available on the market can only slightly reduce the mosaic, and the reduction may even be invisible to the naked eye. Like Primo, it is full of gimmicks and unreliable. There is not even a real mobile de-mosaicing software on the market.

However, although both are reverse thinking and anti-mainstream market, the opportunities here are actually greater than those against beauty cameras. First, from the perspective of market demand, the product is least short of users. Especially in China, where the crackdown on pornography is surging, many users have been out of power in recent years.

Let's look at a set of numbers in reverse. According to Google Double-click statistics, the number of visits to pornographic websites is extremely impressive. Among the top 500 websites with the most independent visits in the world, dozens of them are pornographic websites. Among all search engine requests, 1/4 are related to pornography, and among all Internet downloads, more than 1/3 are pornographic works. The world's largest pornographic website Xvideos has an astonishing 4.4 billion visits per month. (You're welcome).

Second, from the perspective of product commercialization, with users, in addition to being able to make profits through mobile advertising, it is also possible to enter the e-commerce market for sex products. Currently, there is no real monopoly in the field of mobile e-commerce, and the potential is also very large, and the conversion rate through anti-mosaic applications will definitely not be low.

Just imagine if there is an anti-mosaic application that is amazing. As long as the product is well-designed and the technology is strong, I believe it will become popular all over the world.

Some people may ask, do these users still need to remove mosaics? They have already mastered the art of no mosaics, and those who can enter and exit these websites are not ordinary people. Think about it, but what if they need it? After all, most users are still facing a mosaic world.

In general, anti-beautification will make women who love beauty unhappy, and anti-mosaic will make men very happy. So, are you against beauty or anti-mosaic?

There is a saying that goes like this: women all love beauty, and men all love lust. This is a bit absolute, but at least we cannot ignore the world of the same. So, from the perspective of the habits of men and women from ancient times to the present and the history of human evolution, I still support anti-mosaic.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.