Snapchat: Removing a Filter considered racist toward Asians

A filter launched Tuesday by Snapchat allowing to transform the faces in the characters of manga has since been deleted by the responsible for the app. In cause, the indignation of several users having found "racist" and bearer of stereotypes on the Asian.

If the functions that allow you to customize and modify the photos of snapchateurs are the trademark of the appli of ephemeral sharing of pictures and videos, the possibility of expanding the cheekbones and give the eyes a form clocked has quickly created an outcry on the social networks.

"Snapchat, can you tell me how you came to think that (this filter) was a good thing? ", "Dear Snapchat, thank you for this new filter particularly racist" or "Hey, Snapchat, what is this mania to create filters racists who stigmatise the Asians? ", have notably commented on the Internet users on Twitter.
For Snapchat, this filter was however that a fun tool allowing to dive the users in the universe of Japanese cartoons. The platform to the 100 million of registrants in the world has, however, specified that the function had been deleted.

.@Snapchat wanna tell me why u thought this yellowface was ok?? pic.twitter.com/sgpW4AFPsE

— grace (@tequilafunrise) August 9, 2016

Dear @Snapchat , thanks for the overly-racist new filter...when can we expect Blackface? pic.twitter.com/vKZn18NDYM

— Brian (@bkisnah) August 9, 2016

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