They find out that a Japanese influencer is a 50-year-old man with a filter to look like a woman

In networks he introduces himself as @azusagakuyuki and is a motorcycle girl who travels her country, Japan, with messages full of optimism and emojis. In her biography, written in the feminine, she says that she enjoys spending time on wheels, whether motorcycles or bicycles. However, a TV show denounces that Behind this young woman is a 50-year-old man who uses facial applications and filters to feminize his face and deceive his followers.

After the rumors started to gain momentum, many users began to investigate to try to find out the truth: they noticed that if the reflection in their photos showed a man with glasses, they analyzed the lines of her face (“That face is fake, how can they not realize it?”) and even the content of their messages. Desperately, a tweeter commented: “Come? Because of such things, you cannot trust everything that is read on social media ”.

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According to an analysis of 8WorldNews, Azusaga’s success was down to its looks because he used to upload photos aboard his Yamaha.

Tired of speculation, the producers of Monday Late Show The Japanese decided to follow the motorcycle to find out, according to the portal Gizmodo, what was his real identity. After being discovered, the man is said to have said he chose to create this fictional character because “Nobody wants to see a guy” And because she discovered that by feminizing her face, she started to have more followers and more likes than before.

The gate LadBible He adds that the man revealed that to make the identity change he simply used his phone and an app that lets you play with the face changes. According to his testimony, “The beautification process” was something he enjoyed as much as the number of likes.

A history in China

The case of Azusaga is reminiscent of that of “Your Highness Qiao Bilou”, a YouTuber with Hundreds of Thousands of Subscribers in China Impersonating a 22-Year-Old Girl when in fact she was a 58-year-old female. According to Global News, the influencer used a facial filter to rejuvenate her face before filming. After the disclosure, Qiao suspended his account, although could not prevent the event from going viral.

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A growing social phenomenon

In February of this year, director Nick Bilton presented his documentary “Fake Famous” (Famous People) on young people who travel to Los Angeles to try and become influencers through hyper-produced photos that claim to be natural captures of their everyday lives. Bilton explained to New Yorker that this is a group of people who “are looking for likes, which translates to more followers, which is the most important medium in the world today, the topic that seems obsessed by everybody: they want to be famous“.