People stunned by how scarily accurate age filters are on Friends stars from original episodes
Topics: Celebrity, Film and TV, Friends, Technology
Callum Jones
Featured Image Credit: TikTok/@saniezehraa
Topics: Celebrity, Film and TV, Friends, Technology
To be honest, it's quite scary how impressive technology is nowadays, with one particular age filter an obvious sign of how things have progressed.
In fact, much of the internet has been left stunned by how scarily accurate the visual effect is after a viewer put it on the faces of Friends stars from original episodes.
The OG episodes of the popular sitcom are coming up to 20 years old now, with the cast obviously looking a lot younger compared to themselves nowadays.
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Well, a TikToker decided to use the 'Time Machine' filter from Snapchat on the main Friends stars and the results were mind-blowing.
The filter has been around for a while now, creating representations of how we may look in many years' time - whether that be adding wrinkles, fine lines or gray hair.
The TikTok video - posted by user @saniezehraa - first reveals Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe.
The screen is split into two, the unfiltered Kudrow on the bottom and the aged Kudrow at the top - with the top image looking eerily like how Kudrow actually looks to this day.
Next up is Matt LeBlanc, AKA Joey, who gets a bit more of a targeting by the filter, with the effect turning his hair grey alongside adding a few classic wrinkles to his face here and there.
While Matthew Perry (Chandler) isn't that clear, David Schwimmer (Ross) is aged next and it's as if we're pretty much looking at a recent photograph of him.
However, Jennifer Aniston doesn't really make the cut in the video, viewers only getting a brief glimpse as the filter pretty much passes over her face not editing much - but then again, considering she just doesn't appear to age, this is pretty accurate.
The post has amassed millions of views, with Friends fans flocking to the comments section to weigh in on the effect of the aging filter.
One TikTok user said: "So Jennifer really doesn’t age. AI or real life."
"Phoebe and Joey and Ross are all so accurate," another added.
While a third commented: "This is very bad news for me."
And a fourth wrote: "I don’t like this trend because it’s ACCURATE and I can’t look like the woman from the wood in 35 years I just CANT."
Others offered reasons why the cast of Friends may look so good in the ageing filter and why the effect may be so accurate, specifically on them.
"I don't know about this, I feel like celebs/public figures might have been used as training data for the AI so of course it is accurate on them," one user suggested.
Another added: "I heard that the younger you look the more dramatic the filter makes you look which I am hopeful for because I currently look like Carole Baskin."