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Title: Why Are Creepy Things Called 'Uncanny Valley'?

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creepy makeup trendhttps://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/article/61420/1/decoding-uncanny-valley-make-up-tikoks-creepiest-beauty-trend
same makeup techniquehttps://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3952963/freaky-nikkis-terrifying-look-in-obsession-was-a-practical-effect-inspired-by-a-tiktok-trend/
feeling of uneasehttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uncanny%20valley
professorhttps://www.isct.ac.jp/en/news/nllmibmdxrsd
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pioneering bipedal humanoidhttps://www.isct.ac.jp/en/news/nllmibmdxrsd
theorizedhttps://spectrum.ieee.org/an-uncanny-mind-masahiro-mori-on-the-uncanny-valley
more human-likehttps://spectrum.ieee.org/what-is-the-uncanny-valley
collapses into eerinesshttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/254060168_The_Uncanny_Valley_From_the_Field
plotted this trajectoryhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/uncanny-valley#/media/1/2212973/271950
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