The camera DOES lie! Influencers reveal how they really look

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The camera DOES lie! Before-and -after snaps show how influencers look like ‘different people’ thanks to a few clicks on a photo editing app

  • Chinese social media stars have revealed their edited vs reality pictures online
  • Bored Panda shared the viral photographs, which show the startling difference 
  • Some social media users insist the before and after snaps are of different people

By Jessica Green For Mailonline

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Social media feeds are filled with photographs that have been edited to showcase a neatly curated ‘perfection’.

But fans of one Chinese influencer were shocked to see just how much her snaps appear to have been edited before being shared. 

Social media star @Coeyyyy, who uses the Chinese-based social and e-shopping platform Xiaohongshu, or RED, looked startlingly different in the ‘before and after’ photos, with everything from the shape of her jawline to her body type changing. 

The two social media stars apparently seen before editing their snaps

Social media star @Coeyyyy, who uses the Chinese-based social and e-shopping platform Xiaohongshu, or RED, looked startlingly different in the photos that claimed to show the power of editing. Pictured, the influencer in pink with a friend, before (right) and after (left)

The comparisons, which were originally posted on Facebook by user Ex Treme and shared on Bored Panda, appear to show how the influencer changed almost everything about her appearance. 

The photos were apparently posted online after @Coeyyyy was unknowingly photographed during an outing with a friend. She later shared the edited photos online. 

It is not clear which editing app would have been used but FaceTune is among those popular with influencers. Apps including TikTok and Instagram also have in-built features that allow you to drastically change your appearance in just a few clicks. 

Facebook users responding to the original Ex Treme post were shocked at the difference in the women’s appearance.  

The 'Instagram versus Reality' snaps (above) have gone viral because of the astonishing difference apparently shown between the women before-and-after they've been edited

The 'Reality' photograph, showing the influencer before she's edited

The ‘Instagram versus Reality’ snaps (above) have gone viral because of the shocking difference  in appearance apparently shown between the women before-and-after they’ve edited the photographs

One wrote: ‘Photoshop level: godlike’. Another added: ‘Use that photo if they ever go missing and you would find completely different people.’ 

However not all social media users were convinced of the photos’ authenticity. 

One argued it was more likely to be a stunt by two women pretending to be @Coeyyyy and her friend. 

He noted that, although the women in both pictures were wearing the same clothes and posing in the same position, it is extremely difficult to ‘shrink’ an individual without distorting the background. 

The same user said edited photos are usually of a lower resolution than the original, when in fact the reverse is true in this set.    

Yet, some social media users aren't convinced that the women in the two collection of photographs (pictured, one of the before shots) are the same people

This is one of the after shots, seemingly illustrating the two women before they've been edited

Yet, some social media users aren’t convinced that the women in the two collection of photographs (pictured left, before, and right, after editing) are the same people

The social media star - who uses the account name coeyyyy - pictured after she's edited the image

One of the Chinese influencer stars posted this to her social media page, illustrating the difference in a selfie before she has tweaked it

One of the Chinese influencer stars posted these before-and-after images (pictured left, before editing and right, after) to her social media page, illustrating the difference in a selfie after she has tweaked it