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FaceApp apparently now has race filters. I never got the humor in these.

Ros8105

Member
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Incredible

why'd it add a beard to the queen? LOL? was it just an old filter.
Hipster filter, I think
 

Hopeford

Member
What I had the most fun with was using the caucasian filter on me. Seems like I need to dye my hair blond if I want to pass as white haha.
 
Lollllllll


It's ridiculous that we live in a world where people are so obsessed with keeping races separated, on both sides of the political spectrum, that something as clever and if anything more unifying than divisive, in that it can show us how fundamentally similar we really are to one another beyond superficial accidents of birth, gets taken away from everyone in a torrent of blind, ignorant, knee jerk outrage.
Spittin the ice cold truth
 

CaptainKashup

Neo Member
So, anyone up for making a petition to get it back ?
It was a pretty awesome technological marvel and seeing it go just because of some racists is heartbreaking.
 

Izuna

Banned
So, anyone up for making a petition to get it back ?
It was a pretty awesome technological marvel and seeing it go just because of some racists is heartbreaking.

Yeah I'd sign the hell out of it

I'm ambiguously mixed as much, where 23andme straight up said I was 48% unknown. It was cool to see me as specific to certain races as possible
 

F34R

Member
So, anyone up for making a petition to get it back ?
It was a pretty awesome technological marvel and seeing it go just because of some racists is heartbreaking.

I gave a 1 star rating and put in the review that the one star was because the features were removed. /shrugs
 
Well that was fun while it lasted :/
lol

I really like this gimmicky lil' app; looking at the gender and race swaps makes me feel like I've monetarily stepped into an alternate reality or something, it's quite impressive.
 

Afrocious

Member
Wait did I miss something? I just got back from the gym and I see people upset about the app being taken down or something apparently.
 

DragoonKain

Neighbours from Hell
Wow some of these are hilarious. A shame they took it away.

An inanimate object can't be racist. Racism is a state of mind. It's like saying a bomb was hateful and vengeful for blowing up and killing people. No... the people who used the bomb were.
 
It's ridiculous that we live in a world where people are so obsessed with keeping races separated, on both sides of the political spectrum, that something as clever and if anything more unifying than divisive, in that it can show us how fundamentally similar we really are to one another beyond superficial accidents of birth, gets taken away from everyone in a torrent of blind, ignorant, knee jerk outrage.

Blame racists. They are why you can't have nice things.
 

Mr-Joker

Banned
Wow some of these are hilarious. A shame they took it away.

An inanimate object can't be racist. Racism is a state of mind. It's like saying a bomb was hateful and vengeful for blowing up and killing people. No... the people who used the bomb were.

No it's flat out racist, my skin colour is not something that someone can causally use for cheap 5 second laugh.
 

Ether_Snake

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Really stupid for people to get offended at this. It actually has potential to make people less racist.

On an unrelated note soon entertainment companies will use neural networks to figure out how their characters would look like if they cast this or that actor; they would do preliminary photography and replace the actor's face with another.
 
No it's flat out racist, my skin colour is not something that someone can causally use for cheap 5 second laugh.

I don't know. As someone with mixed blood, it's interesting to see what I would look like if I leaned a little more each way. In this case, it's mostly interesting to see what I look like if I was a little more Asian looking or had a slightly darker pigment/lighter pigment. Answer is I look quite a bit different with more Caucasian features (lighter and more gray hair, much more narrow nose, much thinner lips, etc), very subtly different in the eyes with more Asian features, and darker hair/very slightly darker pigment if I was Indian.
 

Izuna

Banned
I don't know. As someone with mixed blood, it's interesting to see what I would look like if I leaned a little more each way. In this case, it's mostly interesting to see what I look like if I was a little more Asian looking or had a slightly darker pigment/lighter pigment. Answer is I look quite a bit different with more Caucasian features (lighter and more gray hair, much more narrow nose, much thinner lips, etc), very subtly different in the eyes with more Asian features, and darker hair/very slightly darker pigment if I was Indian.

Pretty much how I feel about it.

I pretty much have to do what this app does anyway when I play games since I can't pick my skin colour anyway. Take fallout as a example, I'll try to make the character look like me but it's based on... White, Black, Asian, Hispanic. Never anything in between.
 
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