The YouTube ad for PixVideo - AI Video Maker, seen in January, showed a "before" and "after" image of a young women, with red scribble overlaid on her midriff in the former, and parts of her bare skin exposed in the latter.
Text across the bottom of the picture stated: "Erase anything" followed by a heart-eyes emoji.
They tell young men how worthless they are.. then offer themselves up as the solution.
"They sell courses on how to increase your sexual market value (SMV) - basically a measurement of how attractive you are according to their scale."
The higher your SMV, he explains, the more likely you are to have sex with a woman. Looksmaxxing, to a certain degree, becomes a way to climb the attractiveness ladder. If a woman doesn't want you after all that then either you haven't done enough self-improvement or it's their fault, as the logic goes.
Called Nearby Glasses, it is an Android app that scans Bluetooth signals to detect smart glasses and other recording devices nearby. It alerts users to potential surveillance technology.
Tech platforms would have to remove intimate images which have been shared without consent within 48 hours, under a proposed UK law.
The government said tackling intimate image abuse should be treated with the same severity as child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and terrorist content.
Failure to abide by the rules could result in companies being fined up to 10% of their global sales or have their services blocked in the UK.
Abusers are increasingly using wearable technology like smartwatches and rings to stalk, harass, and coerce survivors.
New data released by Refuge shows a 62 per cent rise in referrals to its technology-facilitated abuse and economic empowerment team in 2025 to 829, up from 512 in 2024.
The charity said the rise is being driven by the “increasing accessibility” and “reach” of wearable technology that allows abusers to “stalk, surveil and control survivors” even from a distance.
Meta’s new wearable glasses have spawned a whole new seam of ‘content’: men covertly videoing their attempts to pick up women and uploading the footage to social media.
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