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The uninvisibility decloak
The scam in this case claims to offer software that can reverse the effects of
TikTok’s Invisible filter, which is a visual effect that works a bit like the green screen or background filter that everyone seems to use these days in Zoom calls…
…except that the part of the image that’s blurred or made semi-transparent or translucent is
you yourself, rather than the background.
Unfortunately, the idea of being pseudo-invisible has led to the so-called “TikTok Invisibility challenge”, where TikTok users are dared to film themselves live in various stages of undress, trusting in the Invisible filter to work well enough to stop their actual body being shown.
As you can probably imagine,
this has led to sleazy online posts claiming to offer software that can reverse the effects of the Invisible filter after a video has been published, thus allegedly turning otherwise innocent-looking videos into NSFW porn clips.