Bizarre Snapchat Update Adds Demons and Rainbow Vomit
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It's a confusing addition, since Snapchat's entire model is based around ephemeral, rapid content, and I'm not certain it will catch on, but I probably said the same thing about the app itself when it first came out, so it's probably best to ignore me on that one. The other feature they've tacked on is called 'Lenses', and this is where things get super-freaky.
Lenses uses facial recognition technology to quickly alter the subjects face with filters and manipulation tools. The results range from unsettling to visions from the deepest circle of hell. There's an awful demon one, a creepy heart-shaped eyes one, a horrifying eye-enhancer and an utterly inexplicable one which has you vomiting rainbows. The one that perplexes me the most though is easily the 'Sherlock' one. The monacle I completely understand, but why it feels the need to make your face crack and melt like you've just opened the ark of the covenant is utterly beyond me. Perhaps they were trying to reflect what Holmes would have looked like after years of shooting cocaine and morphine (no, really).
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| Gfycat.com |
This addition moves in a pretty different direction to other recent Snapchat updates, which were much more geared towards making the app a more effective social media and news platform, like the Discover feature and the friend emojis. This is probably a better move, since messing around with pictures and videos was what drew people to Snapchat in the first place. The lenses are going to be updated on a regular basis, so expect to keep seeing them on your Facebook feed for the foreseeable future. Yaaaaay...
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Bizarre Snapchat Update Adds Demons and Rainbow Vomit
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