Faceapp Race Change
The company initially denied their new filters were racist but then removed them.
Faceapp race change. Faceapp removes its ethnicity filters after huge backlash over their use to create blackface and yellowface selfies. But almost as quickly as the feature was launched the company promptly pulled a pack of four ethnicity filters in less 24 hours. The faceapp gender swap images.
Since removing that feature people have mostly focused on swapping the gender of subjects. The viral app had new asian black caucasian and indian filters for selfies. Bring back the old filters styles features that focused on race black asian indian and caucasian.
Faceapp launched a new race filter for their app. Faceapp pulls ethnicity change filters. First appearing in 2017 the application made waves with a controversial race filter which allowed users to change their ethnicity with filters including asian black caucasian and indian.
Before removing the filters faceapp ceo and creator yaroslav goncharov said he didn t think they were racist but users accused faceapp of digital blackface.