I was cleaning out my camera roll the other day and noticed I had somehow saved over 10,000 screenshots and videos of filter glitches. It started way back in like 2018 when my buddy sent me a snap where his face turned into a stretched-out potato. I saved it thinking it was a one-off joke. But then I kept seeing more and more of these weird distortions, like when a puppy filter would randomly stick to someone's forehead or a beauty filter would just give you a third eye. Now I scroll through them sometimes and it feels like a weird time capsule of how bad the tech used to be. I remember when the only fail was a dog nose floating next to your ear, not full body warping into a pretzel. Does anyone else hoard these clips even after they stop being funny?
Was messing around with some Snapchat filter on my iPhone 13 and all of a sudden my nose stretched out to like twice its size and my forehead just started rippling. Took me forever to realize it was because I had a crack in my screen protector messing with the face tracking.
I found out from a Reddit thread last week that the face tracking algorithm freaks out when you have a beard over a certain length, which explains why mine turned into a melting mess every time I tried it.
I was just messing around with a random animal filter on Snapchat last night, the one that adds long ears and a neck. But somehow it glitched out and stretched my whole face into this weird giraffe thing, like my nose was 5 inches long and my eyes were on top of my head. My roommate walked in and started crying laughing, and I couldn't even talk right because the filter was warping my voice too. It lasted about 30 seconds before the app crashed, but I managed to screen record it. I posted it to my story and got like 40 replies in an hour, most of them just laughing emojis. Has anyone else had a filter just straight up break your face like that? I need to know if it's just my phone or if this happens to everyone.
Last Tuesday I was filming my golden retriever for a TikTok and the "big eyes" filter glitched hard. It stretched his whole face into a weird thumb shape with tiny eyes on top. He just sat there panting while his nose merged with his ear. I spent a whole afternoon trying to fix it but the video ended up looking cursed. Has anyone else had a filter just refuse to grab the right facial landmarks on pets?
I used a dog filter on a selfie last week and my chin turned into a blob that looked like melting cheese. The glitch fixed itself after I rebooted the app but my friends already screenshotted it. Has anyone else had a filter randomly warp your face shape like that?
I kept seeing everyone raving about the big eye filter on TikTok last month. My cousin posted like 15 videos with it and got 3,000 likes. I finally tried it myself after work last Tuesday and honestly it freaked me out. My eyes looked like dinner plates and my head shrunk down to nothing. It reminded me of those old anime drawings where the proportions are just off. I realized I was only using it because everyone else was not because it actually looked good. Has anyone else noticed how these filters actually make you look less human instead of more attractive?
I always thought people were overreacting about them glitching out, but after the filter gave my tabby my dad's beard and then melted his face into the carpet in real time, I'm done trusting those things, has anyone else had a filter basically break your phone's brain for a minute?
I dropped $12 on that FaceTune knockoff app last month because everyone in this sub kept saying it fixed Snapchat filter glitches. First try, it turned my nose into a cartoon potato. Second try, it made my eyes look like they were melting down my face. I figured maybe I was doing it wrong, so I watched three tutorials. Nope, the app just sucks at handling the janky filters from TikTok. My buddy used the same app and said it fixed his weird eyebrow glitch, but for me it was a total loss. Has anyone else thrown money at a filter fix and just made things worse?
I used to think filters were just overlays and moved on. But last month I was snapping a pic of my cat for Instagram and noticed the app cranked up the exposure and sharpness behind the scenes. After the filter glitched and half my cat's face turned into a blurry rainbow blob, I went digging in the settings. Found out Snapchat tweaks things like white balance and contrast to make filters work, which is why your regular camera shots look different. Now I check those hidden sliders before applying anything, especially for low light pics. Has anyone else noticed weird camera behavior after using filters for a while?