According to a column on PopSugar, the fact that some Snapchat filters can make you look more attractive is “problematic.” In the piece, entitled “Why Snapchat Filters Are More Problematic Than Pretty,” Aimee Simeon writes that she liked Snapchat before the filters, because it was then that she “flaunted [her] most authentic self.” Later, when the filters came out, she did like some of them — like the “frightening bunny” one — but found that others “were a little more troubling.” “Troubling,” because they made people look more attractive. “At the press of a button, my rounded cheeks and nose are suddenly contoured and chiseled ...

December 22 2017

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Apparently, Snapchat Filters Are ‘Problematic’

Katherine Timpf

According to a column on PopSugar, the fact that some Snapchat filters can make you look more attractive is “problematic.” In the piece, entitled “Why Snapchat Filters Are More Problematic Than Pretty,” Aimee Simeon writes that she liked Snapchat before the filters, because it was then that she “flaunted [her] most...

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