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FaceApp Face Morphing

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About

FaceApp Face Morphing refers to the "Morphing" tool and several similar tools available in the mobile photo-editing application FaceApp which allow merging two faces into one. Added in early 2020, in August 2020, the tool gained significant popularity on 4chan with multiple threads in which various people and characters were merged together.

Origin

In January 2020, mobile photo editing app FaceApp added[1][2] a Morphing tool that allowed to merge two faces into one, adding more similar tools such as "Our Son" and "Our Daughter" which allowed to produce a derivative morphed images in early August 2020.


Morphing Morphing Morphing CHANGE PHOTO CHANGE PHOTO #OurSon Select morphing partner Find Celebrity Pick from Gallery Reverse Reverse Original Morphing Our Son Our Daughter Original Morphing Our Son Our Daughter riginal Morphing Our Son Our Daughter Style Cancel Apply Cancel Apply Cancel Apply

The tool did not reach viral popularity until on July 12th, 2020, actress and influencer Skai Jackson tweeted[10][11][12] her face morphs with Harry Styles, Zendaya and Timothee Chalamet. The tweets received over 6,100 retweets and 117,200 likes, 3,000 retweets and 63,500 likes and 2,900 retweets and 50,400 likes in one months (shown below).


Skai Jackson @skaijackson Me and Harry Styles morphed together. Wow BA 5:45 PM · Jul 12, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone Skai Jackson @skaijackson Me and Zendaya morphed together? Umm yes ma'am le T 7:36 PM · Jul 12, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone Skai Jackson @skaijackson Me and Timothee Chalamet morphed together.. ummm wowl 7:18 PM · Jul 12, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone

The tool did not see notable use in memes until on August 13th, 2020, an anonymous 4chan[3] user started a FaceApp thread in /tv/ in which users posted face morphs of various actors. The thread received over 344 replies.


/tv/ FaceApp Thread Anonymous (344 / 138 / 83] Thu 13 Aug 2020 17:48:51 No.137843658 View Reply Original Report Quoted By: >>137843681 >>137843754 >>137843783 >>137843928 >>137844129 >>137844278 >>137844572 >>137844706 >>137848745 >>137851974 Let's bring back those edits shall we? FaceApp 443KİB, 1121x1251, FaceApp_1597355025364.jpg View Same Google iqdb SauceNAO Trace L View Same Google iqdb SauceNAO Trace + FaceApp_1597344504680.jpg, 201KIB, 900x750 Anonymous Thu 13 Aug 2020 17:49:32 No.137843681 Report >>137843658 FaceApp

Spread

Starting on August 13th, 2020, more threads in which users posted images created with the tool were created on the /tv/ board. For example, another August 13th thread[4] received over 337 replies; a thread[5] started on August 15th received 363 replies.


FaceApp thread Anonymous Fri 14 [112 / 60 / 38] Aug 2020 02:20:08 No.137859882 View Reply Original Report Quoted By: >>137860185 >>137860440 >>137860947 >>137861265 >>137861854 FaceApp 457KIB, 819х1024, FaceApp_1597378627510.jpg View Same Google iqdb SauceNAO Trace L View Same Google iqdb SauceNAO Trace 10129DBD-ODD9-43D1-AB9C-F9D92F53 ...).jpg, 339KİB, 768x594 Anonymous Fri 14 Aug 2020 02:20:55 No.137859905 Report Anonymous Sat 15 Aug 2020 [363 / 138 / 116] 13:18:12 No.137916884 View Reply Original Report Quoted By: >>137916953 >>137917086 >>137917148 >>137917751 >>137917940 >>137921141 >>137921289 >>137921368 >>137921712 >>137921786 >>137921920 >>137922820 faceapp thread FaceApp 94KIB, 360х450, FaceApp_1597511789503.jpg View Same Google iqdb SauceNAO Trace L View Same Google iqdb SauceNAO Trace 1597381605066.jpg, 682KİB, 1278x1598 Anonymous Sat 15 Aug 2020 13:19:41 No.137916931 Report Quoted By: >>137916953 >>137917036 >>137923090 AF SANE

On August 16th, an anonymous /pol/[6] user created a similar thread inviting other users to create face morphs of various people and characters. The thread received 377 replies.


[377 / 155 / 134] FaceApp /pol/ Edition Anonymous ID:YZO8WALI Sun 16 Aug 2020 02:39:09 No.272775526 E View Reply Original Report Quoted By: >>272775549 >>272775593 >>272775674 >>272776687 >>272777075 >>272777249 >>272777458 >>272778344 >>272778798 >>272778999 >>272779942 >>272780153 >>272780598 >>272781018 >>272781577 >>272781925 >>272782037 >>272784959 >>272785041 >>272785051 >>272785612 >>272785904 >>272785936 >>272786424 >>272788140 >>272789543 >>272789899 FaceAp New face merge feature 49KIB, 224x224, 1ВС55BОЕ-ЗАЕ8-4F18-98DE- 7E9398862425.jpg View Same Google iqdb SauceNAO Trace View Same Google iqdb SauceNAO Trace + 2BD44CE3-0555-4E6F-9118-9B6F1949 (...).jpg, 206KIB, 602x753 Anonymous ID:YZO8WALI Sun 16 Aug 2020 02:39:23 No.272775549 EE Report Quoted By: >>272776089 >>272777650 >>272777875 >>272782364 >>272784888 >>272787973 >>272775526 FA

On August 16th, three[7][8][9] additional threads dedicated to images created the tool were created in /pol/.

Various Examples


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Search Interest

External References

[1] App Store – FaceApp – AI Face Editor

[2] Google Play – FaceApp – AI Face Editor

[3] 4chan – /tv/ Thread #

[4] 4chan – /tv/ Thread #137859882

[5] 4chan – /tv/ Thread #137916884

[6] 4chan – /pol/ Thread #272775526

[7] 4chan – /pol/ Thread #272809760

[8] 4chan – /pol/ Thread #272821680

[9] 4chan – /pol/ Thread #272851628

[10] Twitter – @skaijackson

[11] Twitter – @skaijackson

[12] Twitter – @skaijackson

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