--- title: "Youthful Vlogger’s Face Filter Fails, Exposing Her as 58-Year-Old" description: "A face filter failure ousted Chinese vlogger and live streamer Your Highness Qiao Biluo as a 58-year-old woman who was pretending to be much younger." date: "2019-07-31" modified: "2019-08-06" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/face-filter-chinese-vlogger-fails" categories: - "Future Society" tags: - "beauty" - "china" - "live stream" - "live streaming" - "the digest" --- # Youthful Vlogger’s Face Filter Fails, Exposing Her as 58-Year-Old ![Chinese vlogger "Your Highness Qiao Biluo" was ousted to be a 58-year-old woman with a different appearance when her face filtering software glitched.]() *\Image: Doyu\* ## Face/Off A seemingly youthful Chinese vlogger known as "Your Highness Qiao Biluo" was outed to be a 58-year-old woman when the face filtering software she used to make her look younger glitched during a livestream. The vlogger used a beauty filter to pose as a much younger-looking woman on Chinese live streaming website Doyu. During a live stream with a different vlogger, Qiao Biluo's face filtering software stopped working, revealing her true likeness to her viewers — and raising questions about how we present ourselves on the web. ## Livestream Qiao Biluo is one of more than 425 million livestreamers, many of whom use face filters while singing karaoke or filming themselves eating snacks, the [*BBC* reports](). According to [China's Lychee News](), many of the livestreamer's followers — mostly men — stopped following her, causing her to notice that her real face was showing on the stream. Many donations originally made during her live stream were withdrawn. According to Doyu, the vlogger had more than 100,000 followers and was known for her "sweet and healing voice." [According to *Yahoo Finance*](), she sometimes received donations of up to $14,500. ## Unmasked The incident sparked a debate online about whether Qiao Biluo had tricked her audience into giving her money as tips, or whether it wasn't her fault and didn't deserve the backlash. Qiao Biluo, meanwhile, has since decided to suspend her account following the incident. **READ MORE:** [Chinese vlogger who used filter to look younger caught in live-stream glitch]() \[*BBC*\] **More on vlogging:** *[Astronauts Are Out. American Kids Would Rather Be YouTubers]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()