Hit 10,000 filter fails bookmarked on my phone and it got me thinking

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?

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jessica_ross381d ago

Honestly yeah I totally get this. I have a folder on my phone called "glitch art" and it's got like 800 saved clips of filters just completely breaking people's faces into melting candles. My favorite is one from like 2020 where a guy tried the aging filter and it turned him into a Picasso painting melting into his shirt. It stopped being funny after the first few but now I scroll through them when I need a laugh and it's like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

ellis.mia1d ago

Oh man, that's gold. I had a friend who tried one of those "chiseled jawline" filters and it stretched his face so bad he looked like a cartoon character who got his head stuck in a vice. We still bring it up at parties a couple years later.