I'll spare you a lot of suffering and confusion: do not trust individual images she (or basically any woman) uploads on ANY platform and do not trust ANY video she uploads to Instagram. She very, very likely uses filters and for sure uses photoshop(editing software) and who knows whateverelse. In the future your best point of reference will be previously uploaded videos to Youtube and OF.
I started using IG recently and it fucked me up at first because I was unfamiliar with all this filtering going on. My brain was legit confused because, particularly the girls I followed, all looked UNREAL in IG but normal and true to real life in all other platforms. Then I started noticing just how prevalent filters have become there and it's insane, almost ALL girls are using them (even girls in tech niches, lol). You CAN spot them if you try hard enough but they're getting better every day. Flickering around the nasolabial fold and jawline are usually the biggest tells but in some videos they come out so perfect that you would need a software to analyze the video frame by frame to see the flickering. Maimy in particular is very skilled at it, so much so that I cannot 100% claim she uses them in every video but I have spotted them in some.
I think the reason she moves slowly and does very gentle movements on her IG videos is to give the filter time to resolve movement between frames and to not flicker. I am not sure. Other girls are far less skilled at it and they talk and move a lot so there's less information for the filters to work with and they flicker a lot.
For Maimy you can tell she also uses either a layered highpass filter or a layered skin texture on her face for SOME of her HQ images to improve her skinpores (even though they are almost perfect without it...). I am ~90% sure that's a manual thing and not automated. She basically has a great looking face anyway but I think it's become a bit of an arms race between women where they cannot slack off so they use all tools at their disposal even if it's not real. It's also because in the cosplay community photoshopping is standard to get the person closer to the character.
I started using IG recently and it fucked me up at first because I was unfamiliar with all this filtering going on. My brain was legit confused because, particularly the girls I followed, all looked UNREAL in IG but normal and true to real life in all other platforms. Then I started noticing just how prevalent filters have become there and it's insane, almost ALL girls are using them (even girls in tech niches, lol). You CAN spot them if you try hard enough but they're getting better every day. Flickering around the nasolabial fold and jawline are usually the biggest tells but in some videos they come out so perfect that you would need a software to analyze the video frame by frame to see the flickering. Maimy in particular is very skilled at it, so much so that I cannot 100% claim she uses them in every video but I have spotted them in some.
I think the reason she moves slowly and does very gentle movements on her IG videos is to give the filter time to resolve movement between frames and to not flicker. I am not sure. Other girls are far less skilled at it and they talk and move a lot so there's less information for the filters to work with and they flicker a lot.
For Maimy you can tell she also uses either a layered highpass filter or a layered skin texture on her face for SOME of her HQ images to improve her skinpores (even though they are almost perfect without it...). I am ~90% sure that's a manual thing and not automated. She basically has a great looking face anyway but I think it's become a bit of an arms race between women where they cannot slack off so they use all tools at their disposal even if it's not real. It's also because in the cosplay community photoshopping is standard to get the person closer to the character.
If/when she posts something, we can always count on our hero Caesar to post it here.