Snapchat's new face swap feature is a hoot
- By Sarah Guenther
- Feb 29, 2016
- 2 min read
Snapchat is perhaps the most popular photo sharing app among millennials today. Snapchat users send over 410 million snaps per day, and the number of new monthly users increases every month.
In the last year, the company has introduced a lot of new and exciting features for the app, including geofilters, which are filters that are specific to locations and events.
Last September, the company introduced “lenses,” which allow users to do a range of things from puking rainbows to aging themselves. New lenses arrive almost daily, but few have been as popular as their latest lens.
The app introduced this new lens on Friday, which allows users to swap faces with each other. The faces are often distorted and misshapen, but the results are nothing short of comical.
In order for the face swap to work, the camera must be front facing toward the user and another person (or pet, picture, doll, etc.) The user then presses and holds down on the screen until the lenses appear. The face swap lens shows two smiling faces and arrows. The two faces must be inside the smiley faces, and once the camera recognizes them, the swap happens. The last step is to snap a picture and voilà, you have hilariously (or scarily) swapped faces with someone!
People have shared their often amusing and sometimes creepy results all over social media. Snapchat’s Twitter account has retweeted many people’s results, and many a face swap has been featured on users’ stories.
Image by Sarah Guenther
The feature still has some kinks to work out, as the results are never a perfect face swap, but rather a mangled version of each swapper’s face. Perhaps this was Snapchat’s intention; the feature is making waves across the Internet and though it has only been out for a couple of days, it is bound to make a lasting impression on Snapchat users across the globe.
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