The photo sharing app Snapchat added a new face-swapping feature with its latest update, which allows users to pose selfies of swapped faces – but you already knew that.
Unfortunately, the app’s designers had no idea of the sheer terror they were about to unleash on the world.
Crafty users have been testing the limits of the update by swapping faces with their pets or even inanimate objects and some of the results are quite impressive, if not horrifying.
Here’s a selection of the finest the internet has to offer.
A tasty treat…
H.R. Giger would be proud…
This is just disturbing…
We know what’s in our nightmares tonight…
Man and machine merged…
We feel sorry for this guy…
Me and my sister were trying to do face swap and this happened ?? pic.twitter.com/cUZZIpDW0x
— ?? (@bebe_rayx) February 27, 2016
It looks like something Tim Burton would come up with…
oh mY GOsh whaT is wROng WitH mE!!!? i really need to stop using the @Snapchat face swap filter!!? pic.twitter.com/GN8tL3KtRs
— Alexandra Karnbach (@AliKarnbach) February 27, 2016
What?
https://twitter.com/AustinDoyle17/status/704160554332594176
They say pets look like their owners…
When you face swap with your cat pic.twitter.com/rx8pB7McTa
— DB (@dylanis943) February 27, 2016
Pure horror!
my sister wanted to do face swap with barney… pic.twitter.com/OQGWooMXO9
— princess des (@brokengrassi) February 28, 2016
It kind of looks like a skeleton…
https://vine.co/v/i6Y0aLaVdqh
Jesus…
when u dont have anyone to face swap with :( pic.twitter.com/m1K4Hw1BLr
— martin (@martinohhh) February 26, 2016
After seeing these creepy pics why not add us on Snapchat at ‘uniladsnap’, we won’t send you anything weird… we promise.
More of a concept than a journalist, Tom Percival was forged in the bowels of Salford University from which he emerged grasping a Masters in journalism.
Since then his rise has been described by himself as ‘meteoric’ rising to the esteemed rank of Social Editor at UNILAD as well as working at the BBC, Manchester Evening News, and ITV.
He credits his success to three core techniques, name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake.