Face Filters: How People Reacted To Instagram Aping Snapchat Yet Again

New Delhi: Instagram yesterday rolled out the last major Snapchat feature it had yet to mimic - face filters. With this update, users can now add live effects to their selfies like koala ears and butterfly tiaras. Instagram announced in a blog post that they have added an initial set of eight photo filters to the photo sharing app, along with other new features like a 'rewind' button and an eraser tool.
 

Today we're introducing face filters, an easy way to turn an ordinary selfie into something fun and entertaining! https://t.co/8gq9g8sVZD pic.twitter.com/VjiafDhMmv

- Instagram (@instagram) May 16, 2017

Of course, given that Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram and WhatsApp were already under fire for aping arch-rival Snapchat's features like 24-hour stories, this latest update has drawn further ridicule from social media. Check out how people of Twitter reacted to the face filters update:
 

Snapchat: stop copying us with our filters!!!!
Instagram: SToP cOPYINgg uS wITh OUR FilTeRS1!!1!1!1! pic.twitter.com/o3m6fxrEl6

- esmeralda (@Thcluvs) May 17, 2017

Instagram : hi snapchat! We now have filters. Huhu
Snapchat : pic.twitter.com/ARRQsXiIFs

- zepi (@huzaifii) May 17, 2017

Instagram announced they're making face filters pic.twitter.com/LDNTElPcU1

- Demitra (@d_mallos) May 17, 2017

Some just wanted the chronological feed back
 

us: please being back chronological feeds
instagram: here's snapchat filters but worse

- hannah (@hantbent) May 17, 2017

basically everybody: we want the chronological timeline back

instagram: ....but what about snapchat filters ON instagram tho?

- FEIM (@FeimM) May 16, 2017

A few, at least, were happy
 

I'm uninstalling my snapchat cause instagram has filters lmao

- domineque (@aishitt) May 17, 2017

But for some, this latest update spelled doom for Snapchat
 

Instagram filters now? Snapchat will die off eventually.

- Armani (@_____armani) May 16, 2017

I don't want snapchat to die but instagram rly has no chill anymore w the face filters pic.twitter.com/hVke90A13D

- lucy (@BARLLIAMS) May 16, 2017

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