• @[email protected]
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    1 day ago

    According to YouTube wisdom, people don’t like seeing themselves in images because they’re not mirrored like people are used to. Camera apps nowadays “correct” for that and do mirror the image for preview.

    VSauce: INSIDE a Spherical Mirror

    • @lunarul
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      71 day ago

      Camera apps nowadays “correct” for that and do mirror the image for preview

      Huh, I always thought people who post flipped photos are just technically challenged (and/or have really poor eye for detail to not notice it). Never considered someone doing that on purpose just to further their own delusion of what they look like.

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        622 hours ago

        Or maybe it’s just what the camera defaults to and they don’t bother changing it because why would you? Which is a more reasonable assumption than calling them delusional

        • @lunarul
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          122 hours ago

          Um… that’s what I said was my assumption. But according to the comment I was replying to, people prefer the flipped version because it looks like what they see in the mirror, i.e. what they think they look like.