Meitu, the Chinese app for selfies with 1,000 million downloads

Precisely one of these applications- Meitu -has reached the best figure of 1 billion downloads , as we read in The Washington Post.We are talking about a source tool Chinese valued at a million and whose success shows us that the Internet reality in China, in addition to having huge dimensions like everything there, goes far beyond censorship. Not surprisingly, in that country there are 700 million internet users who represent, more or less, 20% of those around the world. Jeffrey Towson, a professor at Pekin University, He explains to The Washington Post, that the spectacular growth in the use of this application has its origin in the concurrence of two factors: the affordable price of smartphones -for example, the Meitu M6 for selfies-and the growing importance of women in the economy and society of that country .Good s reasons are.

terrifying results with meitu

As here we are very curious, we have not been able to resist the temptation to try the desktop version of this application that delights millions of Chinese and we must recognize that, or because of the poor quality of the raw material, because of the lack of expertise or because of our difficulties with the language-we realized after there was a global version🙁-the results were terrifying.

But don't blame Cai Wensheng and Wu Xinhong , who gave birth to this creature in 2008.Downloading the app from the Apple Store helped us recover from the scare and check that, indeed, Meitu improves selfies a lot (this time we save the results).

tips for a good selfie

In any case, and despite the curiosity generated by everything related to China and the world of apps, the reality is that filters are not always needed to show the best of ourselves in selfies .

Fortunately, there are charitable people in the world like the companions of designtaxi.com who, with the help of Caisa Nilaseca, have developed didactic GIFs c like these that we reproduce here.

These tips will help us break the heart of one of our followers on social networks or, at least, not to make too much of the ridicule.

And if these and other tricks that you can see on their website do not work, we will always have the option of resorting to a photo retouching application.Maybe Meitu, although that is already your thing...