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Snapchat Faces An Outcry Against 'Whitewashing' Filters (mashable.com)

Posted by msmash on from the playing-with-fire dept.

Last month Snapchat was thrown under the bus for a feature that many found downright racist. The photo-sharing app had added a face-altering filter that made users look like Bob Marley. Less than a month to it, Snapchat is getting blasted over another controversial feature. Several users are reporting about a "whitewash" filter that aims to "beautify" their looks. Mashable reports: Users of the app have noticed that many of the face-altering filters "whitewash." Upset Snapchatters point to the flower crown filter and the beautifying filter, both of which seem to lighten skin and eyes and contour the face to make one's chin and nose appear smaller. Since the debut, and subsequent popularity, of the Coachella-inspired filter, Snapchat users have taken to forums to voice their disproval with the app.

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  1. News for nerds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    stuff that doesn't matter

    1. Re:News for nerds by lgw · · Score: 4, Insightful

      SJW-interest stories belong on Reddit, not Slashdot. You're a rare member of the intersection of the Venn diagrams.

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    2. Re:News for nerds by Pfhorrest · · Score: 4, Interesting

      These threads are nothing but excuses for flamewars, and invite all the retards from both sides of the spectrum, posters and mods alike, to stir up a goddamn shitstorm. In this thread, the reactionary-tards seem to be winning.

      So fuck all your mothers' cunts with a rusty cactus and then kill yourselves you worthless goddamn niggerfaggots.

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  2. oh for fucks sake by ganjadude · · Score: 5, Insightful

    really??? if you dont like a filter.... dont use it!!! What is so complicated here?

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    1. Re:oh for fucks sake by geek · · Score: 5, Insightful

      This is the generation of "perpetually offended"..............

    2. Re:oh for fucks sake by ganjadude · · Score: 4, Insightful

      the filter adds flowers to ones head and makes it seem as if they are outside, making it brighter, and therefore whiter....

      no this is just a bunch of perpetually offended morons who would do us all a huge favor if they all got hit by a bus

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  3. These people need jobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Lately it seems there are entirely too many people with entirely too much free time to sit around being offended by the most insignificant and banal shit. Don't these people work, or have anything else better to do with their time?

  4. SJW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey everybody it's Social Justice Wednesday!

    Reply to this thread if you genuinely give a fuck about Snapchat's filters and believe this topic belongs on Slashdot.

  5. Re:Brightness sliders by AK+Marc · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not that there's a brightness filter, but that the "light" side is labeled "beautiful" and the other side is "dirty Nigger". The slider is fine. The labels are overtly racist.

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  6. Oh, I think it's useful by argStyopa · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...to identify people I hope I never have to talk to.

    From TFA:
    "The whitewashing snapchat filters are making me internalise Eurocentric beauty standards(I've avoided doing this until now)&it needs to STOP"

    Please Lord, let me never meet this person.

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  7. It's the Michael Jackson app by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who knew he was a developer?

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