“Snapchat is the prime example of what happens when you don’t have enough people of color building a product. Yesterday, in the Audacity of Whiteness: Snapchat released a blatantly racist yellowface filter, which excessively slants your eyes, rounds cheeks, and adds buckteeth for good measure.”
“We can all agree that Snapchat filters have four primary objectives: to make you look hotter, uglier, fun, or weird as shit. But you know what they shouldn’t do? Paint you as a racist caricature ripped straight out of World War II propaganda. Apparently, Snapchat hasn’t gotten that memo.”
Read: Snapchat Doesn’t Think Its ‘Yellowface’ Filter Is Racist
“We can all agree that Snapchat filters have four primary objectives: to make you look hotter, uglier, fun, or weird as shit. But you know what they shouldn’t do? Paint you as a racist caricature ripped straight out of World War II propaganda. Apparently, Snapchat hasn’t gotten that memo.”
Read: Snapchat Doesn’t Think Its ‘Yellowface’ Filter Is Racist
“Snapchat has been around since 2011, but it wasn’t until last fall that the platform introduced “lenses,” the filters that distort or accessorize faces in real time. (You may recall seeing clips of people with bush baby eyes puking rainbows around that time.)”
Read: Snapchat filters: the engineering behind augmented-reality selfies
“Snapchat has been around since 2011, but it wasn’t until last fall that the platform introduced “lenses,” the filters that distort or accessorize faces in real time. (You may recall seeing clips of people with bush baby eyes puking rainbows around that time.)”
Read: Snapchat filters: the engineering behind augmented-reality selfies