Reporting live is not as easy as the people in front of the camera make it seem. Apart from the network glitches and other delays, we've realised there are other risks involved: Funny face filters.?
One has to be careful before clicking the 'Go live' button on Facebook to check if the face filter option is?switched off, but there are times when it still gets clicked unknowingly.
This US reporter faced the brunt of it during a serious live weather report segment and went on to conduct an entire show while the Facebook live changed his disguise one after another.?
According to Charlotte Observer, the reporter named Hinton was talking about snow near Asheville. In the minute-long video he can be seen wearing a jet pilot helmet, a fox mask and a wizard¡¯s pointed hat and beard.
¡°Right before going live on Facebook on the WLOS ABC 13 station account to talk about snow, I?somehow activated a filter generator,¡± Hinton posted.
¡°The photog I was working with?said something about the screen having weird faces. He didn¡¯t elaborate, so I said it would probably go away. Needless to say, it did not go away. I didn¡¯t realise it until I stepped off-camera and saw the comments where people were talking about the faces.¡±
He concluded by saying: ¡°If you can¡¯t laugh at yourself, what¡¯s the point of laughter?¡±
In a similar incident that took place back in 2019, a politician in Pakistan who was streaming live on social media turned into a cute little kitty cat when someone on his social media team accidentally turned on a cartoonish filter.?
Provincial information minister Yousuf Shaukat Zai showed up on the?livestream?with whiskers, cat ears and cat noses. Later, two of his colleagues did. Fur real.? ?