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How to do TikToks How I Would Look In The 1930s Filter and travel back in time

A new AI filter called How I Would Look In The 1930s has gone viral on TikTok which takes you back in time to the interwar period following the Roaring 20s, characterised by the Great Depression in the United States.

CROWD OF MEN, 1930, JACKETS AND HATS
Credit: Archive Holdings Inc. (Getty Images)

How I would look in the 1930s Filter

It takes a picture of you and uses artificial intelligence to change your appearance in an extremely dramatic way.

The filter turns you into black and white and changes your hair, face, clothes and background into a 1930s style.

It makes you look as though you stepped straight out of the early 20th century and lived almost a century ago.

The effect adds text that says How I would look in the 1930s and creates a cool before and after design.

How to do TikToks viral 1930s Filter

To do the TikTok filter, you need to download a free editing app called CapCut. After that, follow these steps:

  1. Open TikTok and click on Home
  2. Tap the magnifying glass in the top right
  3. Search How I would look in the 1930s
  4. Click on someone elses filter video
  5. Tap CapCut | Try this template
  6. Press Use template in CapCut
  7. You will be redirected to the CapCut app
  8. Press Use template and upload a photo
  9. Click Export to save or share on TikTok
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I would have been such a garden tool in the 30s.

♬ original sound – Aimee Hall

People want to bring the 30s back

The effect has got social media users obsessed with the 30s and everyone now wants its traits to return in the 21st century.

One person wrote: That 1930s look is way too appealing.

Can we bring back the 30s look please, said another.

A third person added: The 1930s is fineeee.

We are six years away from the 30s again, so maybe everyones hopes will come true&