During the May Day holiday, an artificial intelligence mapping software called Remini became popular. It can turn the figures in the picture into ugly and silly clay figures. The first reaction of many people is: too ugly! But this kind of ugliness is also very popular. Many netizens said that they could not stop playing. In just a few days, the notes about Remini clay filter on a platform exceeded 6000, and the views of clay filter, clay tutorial, clay special effects and other related posts reached tens of millions.
In our ordinary cognition, the biggest function of the filter is to beautify people and scenery. The beautification of the filter is the main function of the beautiful picture show, the wake-up picture or the dithering special effect. The mask filter that was once used to dithering the sound of fire is called "beautiful for pigs" by people. But over the past two years, more and more strange special effects or filters have become more and more popular. They turn people into watermelon sticks, bald uncles or various shapes with facial features flying around... In short, it's just one word: ugly.
Today, when the world economy is declining and various contradictions are intertwined, people are overwhelmed by various pressures and can't wait for any window to vent. And the ugly filter can just make people temporarily liberate from the tired life and laugh freely. To some extent, being ugly to make people happy is also a kind of ability. The intelligent analysis of Weibo Wisdom Search shows that for clay filter, the public's mood "happy" accounts for 42%, "like" accounts for 19%, and "peaceful" accounts for 16%. In the view of expressing "happiness", people mainly believe that clay filters can give people a funny or ugly visual effect and cause laughter.
In addition to the ugly filter, "relaxation", "ugly clothing" and various abstract behaviors have become popular recently, which shows the change of people's lifestyle and aesthetic mentality. Today's people no longer blindly pursue exquisite or unified life patterns, but more free and diverse. People seem to be liberating themselves step by step, releasing the most pure self. From a deeper perspective, this is also a resistance to the mainstream of society and social discipline. People are no longer absolutely obedient to the set of beautiful consensus or standardized life constructed by the society, but gradually awaken, start to reflect on the self shaped by the society, and constantly have their own understanding. To some extent, the "ugly filter" and "disgusting clothing" are a way for people to fight against mainstream hegemony, so as to "declare war" on the society. I want to be different.
However, it should also be noted that entertainment and relaxation or confrontation with the mainstream by means of "ugly culture" or "abstract culture" should also be conducted in a proper way, and various novelty hunting and vulgar cultures should not be allowed to interfere. Like the "clay filter" that can bring people happiness and "health and green", we open the door to welcome; As for the culture that spreads vulgarity and damages the social atmosphere under the guise of "entertainment and relaxation" or "self demonstration", we should not hesitate to "order guests".
