On the third day, she stopped looking. She deactivated everything. She wrapped her phone in a dish towel and shoved it in a drawer. She sat on her couch in the dark, tracing the edges of her own face with her fingertips. She could still feel it—the bone, the skin, the soft tissue of her lips. But it felt borrowed. Like a Halloween mask she couldn’t take off.
In all these cases, the original person disappears under the weight of commentary. They are no longer a person; they are a character in the audience’s story. On the third day, she stopped looking
There are five primary reasons why a face might be covered (blurred, pixelated, or obscured by an emoji) in a viral video: On the third day