Snapchat Users Outraged After Seemingly Racist ‘Yellow-Face’ Selfie Lens Appears

Information technology has been only four months since the last social outcry against Snapchat'due south selfie filter and we have one over again. The video and selfie sharing network is now facing another period of wrath past its users as presently as information technology enabled the yellowface filter. According to Mic, the social media platform rolled out the new filter this Tuesday and was followed by a series of rants from users on Twitter. The users complained that the new filter made them look like racist Asian caricatures; users chosen information technology overly-racist.

Users get all gun blazing against Snapchat's new filter

Snapchat actually does a wonder when making filters, morphing monsters, demons and all sorts of different characters onto our faces, simply sometimes their filters are misunderstood (at least that'south what they claim). Whatever the reason, you have to admit that this filter does call out the decade'southward quondam stereotype about Asians with closed eyes and yellowish faces, which is not something nosotros would want the younger generation to catch on to. A skilful number of users snapped their photos with the new filter and Tweeted their wrath before Snapchat actually removed the seemingly racist filter.

Snapchat told the Verge that the filter was inspired past anime and was never meant to be humiliating for anyone. If they didn't desire such a response maybe they should've just expressed this anime filter more clearly with big open optics rather than shut ones. But the team said the filter has been taken down and won't be in the mix again.  Some of the users have reminded Snapchat well-nigh the customs standard rules proverb:"Practise non bother or make other people feel bad on purpose." All of which seems a bit ironic after this.

Back in April this year some other similar incident happened when Snapchat rolled out a Bob Marley filter. That too was taken equally an insult by many users and was found thought to resemble a greasepaint. A

At the time, Snapchat representatives told CNN in a argument, "Millions of Snapchatters take enjoyed Bob Marley's music, and nosotros respect his life and achievements.[The lens] gives people a new way to share their appreciation for Bob Marley and his music."

Fifty-fifty though the dreadlocks did look cool, it's still something Snapchat needs to work on. Given that their user base is increasing everyday they need to be more careful when deciding what filters to roll out any given twenty-four hour period.

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