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Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

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Re: Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

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Post by Mirioron »

derefr wrote: post #66
daenz wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Similarly, I'm transgender and use those applications to come up with new ideas on how to make little changes to my appearance to feminize my features. Do you ever feel like these applications are re-enforcing physical gender stereotypes? Like "you selected female, here is what females should look like." If gender is a social construct, tech like this is clearly maintaining that construct, yet nobody seems to have a…

There's nothing inherently wrong with maintaining the construct of gender, if it has been defanged to do no harm to anybody. If "gender" just means that you put on a dress and makeup and now you're "a girl", or you put on a suit and cut your hair and now you're "a dude", then "gender" isn't really anything to be afraid of, because anyone can put on or take off a gender any time they like, and it's no longer an inhere…

This seems really alien to me. When I grew up the idea was to do away with gender roles, but what you're saying seems to be pretty much the opposite of that. I guess a lot of this comes from people using the word gender, but they mean sex.

Re: Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

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Post by dang »

giggles_giggles wrote: post #11

Physical gender stereotypes? The differences in physical appearance, like the shape of the bones in your face and the fact some people have penises and other people have vaginas, caused by activation of the SRY gene (the sex determinism gene), are not social constructs.

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Re: Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

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Post by chipperyman573 »

ebg13 wrote: post #67

I'm guessing this filter is only available on certain phones? I installed Snapchat to play with it, but apparently I don't get access.

Did you find the filters? You have to hold down on your face when the selfie camera is activated. It's on my LG G7, which basically nobody uses, so I doubt they only targeted certain phones (unless they block generic criteria like less than 2 GB ram or something).

Re: Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

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Post by chipperyman573 »

wtdata wrote: post #32

It's fantastic to see how far this tech came in such a short time. It's also scary, because soon it will be very dificult to trust anything you see in video. What now demands a big CGI budget, will be possible to do with a simple App.

I would argue it's a good thing. This was already possible for people with a lot of money, but nobody knew about it because it was so rarely done. When anyone can do it, these fake videos will become common and people will realize you can't trust it just because it's in a video. The only drawback is that there will be an awkward period where smart people can do it but most people can't, so nobody realizes what's going on.

Re: Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

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Post by jedberg »

chipperyman573 wrote: post #73
ebg13 wrote: post #67

I'm guessing this filter is only available on certain phones? I installed Snapchat to play with it, but apparently I don't get access.

Did you find the filters? You have to hold down on your face when the selfie camera is activated. It's on my LG G7, which basically nobody uses, so I doubt they only targeted certain phones (unless they block generic criteria like less than 2 GB ram or something).

> Did you find the filters? You have to hold down on your face when the selfie camera is activated.

This right here is why I hate Snapchat. I've never seen a more unintuitive UI.

Re: Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

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Post by chipperyman573 »

jedberg wrote: post #75
chipperyman573 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you find the filters? You have to hold down on your face when the selfie camera is activated. It's on my LG G7, which basically nobody uses, so I doubt they only targeted certain phones (unless they block generic criteria like less than 2 GB ram or something).

> Did you find the filters? You have to hold down on your face when the selfie camera is activated. This right here is why I hate Snapchat. I've never seen a more unintuitive UI.

Some people think it's a feature, not a bug: https://www.inc.com/kevin-j-ryan/the-ingenious-reason-snapch...

Re: Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

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Post by striking »

ebg13 wrote: post #67

I'm guessing this filter is only available on certain phones? I installed Snapchat to play with it, but apparently I don't get access.

You may have to have someone send you a snap from their phone with the filter installed and hit the Unlock button in that snap. It's weird.

Re: Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

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Post by StavrosK »

chipperyman573 wrote: post #73
ebg13 wrote: post #67

I'm guessing this filter is only available on certain phones? I installed Snapchat to play with it, but apparently I don't get access.

Did you find the filters? You have to hold down on your face when the selfie camera is activated. It's on my LG G7, which basically nobody uses, so I doubt they only targeted certain phones (unless they block generic criteria like less than 2 GB ram or something).

I've found the filters, but I can't find one that does this.

Re: Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

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Post by peteretep »

Raphmedia wrote: post #3

> I have a friend who does drag. It's a lot of work! I'm excited for technology like this, because it will make it easier for makeup & drag artists to experiment with new ideas and identities cheaply and quickly. Similarly, I'm transgender and use those applications to come up with new ideas on how to make little changes to my appearance to feminize my features. Sometimes coming up with makeup ideas is hard since I l…

> I'm transgender and use those applications to come up with new ideas on how to make little changes to my appearance to feminize my features

I've been recommending FaceApp to people who want to buy new glasses or sunglasses for a while. It seems pretty stable.

Re: Fun with Snapchat's Gender Swapping Filter

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Post by [deleted] »

striking wrote: post #77
ebg13 wrote: post #67

I'm guessing this filter is only available on certain phones? I installed Snapchat to play with it, but apparently I don't get access.

You may have to have someone send you a snap from their phone with the filter installed and hit the Unlock button in that snap. It's weird.

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