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FaceApp just added 'ethnicity filters,' and it's going about as well as you'd think.
http://styleveryday.com/2017/08/11/faceapp-just-added-ethnicity-filters-and-its-going-about-as-well-as-youd-think/
FaceApp just added 'ethnicity filters,' and it's going about as well as you'd think.
These are some major bad-idea jeans.
FaceApp went full “Milkshake Duck” on Wednesday, adding filters that let users alter the race of someone in a photo.
It was exactly as cringeworthy as one would expect.
um… FaceApp? pic.twitter.com/5avg89otG9
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) August 9, 2017
Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes.
GIF from “Dodgeball.”
For those not familiar with FaceApp, the iOS and Android app became popular earlier this year, allowing people to morph photos of themselves and others into different ages and genders.
#FaceApp is so weird pic.twitter.com/zSRyy7b0BY
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) April 23, 2017
Mostly harmless and a little funny, the app drew some criticism for its “flash” filter (which had the effect of lightening the user’s skin tone) and for its ability to put a smile on anyone’s face (some said this was sexist). Still, it seemed that most people agreed it was just a bit of fun.
Using the #FaceApp to add smiles to Pence’s staring-at-North Korea photos pic.twitter.com/8ZIwZTInIz
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) April 23, 2017
#FaceApp pic.twitter.com/N4helu1wgi
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) June 8, 2017
The newly released ethnicity filters, however, drew some quick “WTF?” responses on Twitter.
Y’all: the Faceapp flash filter just makes you look whiter
Faceapp: *actually makes explicitly racialized filters*
— ec-stasis (@samschrvr) August 9, 2017
Why would faceapp think this wasn’t the worst idea they’ve ever had pic.twitter.com/Xqy20kejvJ
— Mayzie 🦎 (@mermayzie) August 9, 2017
So #FaceApp has easy blackface, brownface and yellowface options for all your racist needs now
— Toby Sinbad Walker (@TobySinbad) August 9, 2017
“For the record I’m mixed white and Indian and I find every part of this offensive,” Toby Sinbad Walker added via tweet. “It adds to insecurities about my natural bone structure.”
HOLY SHIT, WHEN DID FACEAPP BECOME RACIST AF WITH THEIR NEW FILTERS 😡😡😡 pic.twitter.com/iQhIa786mj
— Dalibor 💬 (@DaliDimovski) August 9, 2017
FaceApp giving people the ability to easily make ill-advised blackface jokes seems like selling very flammable silly string. Bad idea.
— Kevin Buist (@KevinBuist) August 9, 2017
FaceApp: i mean rly, what could go wrong?
Me: pic.twitter.com/pw10CGRB45
— rob69 (@robcosta69) August 9, 2017
a couple of poetic things happen as you become more caucasian in faceapp. one is the area around you grows darker pic.twitter.com/nwTnCMp2rV
— LYDIA BURRELL™ 💻 (@LydiaBurrell) August 9, 2017
As much as this seems like an obviously bad idea, FaceApp stands behind its product.
CEO Yaroslav Goncharov doesn’t see the problem, writing in an email:
“The ethnicity change filters have been designed to be equal in all aspects. They don’t have any positive or negative connotations associated with them. They are even represented by the same icon. In addition to that, the list of those filters is shuffled for every photo, so each user sees them in a different order.”
He seems to miss the point just a bit. It’s not the order or the ranking of the filters that’s getting people upset, but the stereotyping mixed with America’s fraught history with blackface that has people feeling uncomfortable.
In a 2015 editorial at The Guardian, writer Sisonke Msimang masterfully explained why “hi-tech blackface” — editing photos to look like a different race — is hurtful. Msimang uses a powerful analogy about an alien visiting Earth and trying to understand the underlying point of changing someone’s race if all groups truly are equal, and how it’s only through looking at the broader context of civilization and systemic inequality that the alien can understand why this is offensive. In other words, this isn’t something that exists in a vacuum.
Worse app ideas probably exist. I just can’t think of any right now.
Update 8/9/2017: Goncharov says in an email that the new filters will be removed today.
#039Ethnicity #Added #FaceApp #Filters039 #It039S #You039D
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<p>FaceApp just added 'ethnicity filters,' and it's going about as well as you'd think.</p>
These are some major bad-idea jeans.
FaceApp went full "Milkshake Duck" on Wednesday, adding filters that let users alter the race of someone in a photo.
It was exactly as cringeworthy as one would expect.
um... FaceApp? http://pic.twitter.com/5avg89otG9
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) August 9, 2017
Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes.
GIF from "Dodgeball."
For those not familiar with FaceApp, the iOS and Android app became popular earlier this year, allowing people to morph photos of themselves and others into different ages and genders.
#FaceApp is so weird http://pic.twitter.com/zSRyy7b0BY
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) April 23, 2017
Mostly harmless and a little funny, the app drew some criticism for its "flash" filter (which had the effect of lightening the user's skin tone) and for its ability to put a smile on anyone's face (some said this was sexist). Still, it seemed that most people agreed it was just a bit of fun.
Using the #FaceApp to add smiles to Pence's staring-at-North Korea photos http://pic.twitter.com/8ZIwZTInIz
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) April 23, 2017
#FaceApp http://pic.twitter.com/N4helu1wgi
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) June 8, 2017
The newly released ethnicity filters, however, drew some quick "WTF?" responses on Twitter.
Y'all: the Faceapp flash filter just makes you look whiter
Faceapp: *actually makes explicitly racialized filters*
— ec-stasis (@samschrvr) August 9, 2017
Why would faceapp think this wasn't the worst idea they've ever had http://pic.twitter.com/Xqy20kejvJ
— Mayzie 🦎 (@mermayzie) August 9, 2017
So #FaceApp has easy blackface, brownface and yellowface options for all your racist needs now
— Toby Sinbad Walker (@TobySinbad) August 9, 2017
"For the record I'm mixed white and Indian and I find every part of this offensive," Toby Sinbad Walker added via tweet. "It adds to insecurities about my natural bone structure."
HOLY SHIT, WHEN DID FACEAPP BECOME RACIST AF WITH THEIR NEW FILTERS 😡😡😡 http://pic.twitter.com/iQhIa786mj
— Dalibor 💬 (@DaliDimovski) August 9, 2017
FaceApp giving people the ability to easily make ill-advised blackface jokes seems like selling very flammable silly string. Bad idea.
— Kevin Buist (@KevinBuist) August 9, 2017
FaceApp: i mean rly, what could go wrong?
Me: http://pic.twitter.com/pw10CGRB45
— rob69 (@robcosta69) August 9, 2017
a couple of poetic things happen as you become more caucasian in faceapp. one is the area around you grows darker http://pic.twitter.com/nwTnCMp2rV
— LYDIA BURRELL™ 💻 (@LydiaBurrell) August 9, 2017
As much as this seems like an obviously bad idea, FaceApp stands behind its product.
CEO Yaroslav Goncharov doesn't see the problem, writing in an email:
"The ethnicity change filters have been designed to be equal in all aspects. They don’t have any positive or negative connotations associated with them. They are even represented by the same icon. In addition to that, the list of those filters is shuffled for every photo, so each user sees them in a different order."
He seems to miss the point just a bit. It’s not the order or the ranking of the filters that’s getting people upset, but the stereotyping mixed with America’s fraught history with blackface that has people feeling uncomfortable.
In a 2015 editorial at The Guardian, writer Sisonke Msimang masterfully explained why "hi-tech blackface" — editing photos to look like a different race — is hurtful. Msimang uses a powerful analogy about an alien visiting Earth and trying to understand the underlying point of changing someone’s race if all groups truly are equal, and how it’s only through looking at the broader context of civilization and systemic inequality that the alien can understand why this is offensive. In other words, this isn’t something that exists in a vacuum.
Worse app ideas probably exist. I just can't think of any right now.
Update 8/9/2017: Goncharov says in an email that the new filters will be removed today.
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