Meta’s AI-integrated smart glasses, dubbed “pervert glasses” for their ability to film people in public, are enabling a content genre called joybait, according to the article. A now-viral clip uploaded by public prank content creator Levese, first spotted by journalist James Vincent, shows Levese spotting author Travis Schick shopping with his partner in a Walmart, using his phone to snap a photo of Schick’s face and searching it on a facial recognition site, then approaching Schick while recording with his Meta glasses and falsely claiming to love Schick’s book “The Readhead.” The article states the interaction was based on a false premise constructed through facial recognition software. The stunt was made for Levese’s 225,000 TikTok followers; the reel has over 60 million views and 30,000 comments on Levese’s TikTok page alone. Vincent said it embodies “individualized surveillance culture posing as feelgood content.” Comments under Schick’s novel “The Redhead” on Quotev are flooding in by the hundreds, and Schick’s TikTok page went from around 150 followers to well over 12,700 in just a few short days.