This is dark? Seems pretty normal to me, and not new or only the Ghibli filter. This has been a thing since MySpace and before. Take pictures at the right angle and put hearts and kisses all over your pic to distract from the parts of you that you hate.

Hell, it most likely pre-dates the internet and goes back as far as painting portraits goes.

Hot take: ugly and beautiful are meaningless subjective concepts

@pocker_machine so like any other filter?

in seriousness, I saw my unattractive (inside and out so i don’t mind shaming a lil) cousin with a filter and i thought they were dating someone new… nope the filter went so hard i couldn’t tell it was them with one of their parents.

Small but crucial correction:

Ghibli filter trend is just people hiding how ugly they feel.

I might also say trying to hide instead. It’s usually not hard to tell when it comes from insecurity.