Don’t believe everything you see on social media. A seemingly motorcycle-obsessed “young woman” in Japan has been unmasked as a 50-year-old man with great hair, after he revealed that he used a face-changing, gender-swapping app to become an influencer on Twitter.

The individual, who goes by Azusagakuyuki on Twitter, attracted more than 23,000 followers by posting photos of himself as a young woman on a motorcycle in recent months. Many of the posts were filled with optimistic sayings and emojis, and a few of them show the “woman” posing in a towel or topless. Others show her striking “cute” poses in a style known as kawaii.

Some followers started to get suspicious when they noticed the hair on Azusagakuyuki’s arm in a few recent photos, Gizmodo Spain reports. Some also thought they saw a man reflected in the mirrors on Azusagakuyuki’s motorcycle.

Azusagakuyuki finally cleared up the suspicions by unmasking himself in an appearance on the Monday Late Show, a popular Japanese TV program, earlier this month.

source globalnews.ca

feature image credit Zonggu, right, is shown alongside his digitally-altered social media alter ego, Azusagakuyuki, in this screenshot from Japan’s Monday Late Show. Monday Late Show