Internet Time Machine
I’m Deleting Snapchat, and You Should Too
Keep your whitewashed filters
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3 min readAug 11, 2016
This story is part of the Internet Time Machine, a collection about life online in the 2010s.
Snapchat is a prime example of what happens when you don’t have enough people of color building a product.
Yesterday, in the Audacity of Whiteness: Snapchat released a blatantly racist yellowface filter, which excessively slants your eyes, rounds your cheeks, and adds buckteeth for good measure. The company…
