Instagram has announced it will be removing beauty filters – but the damage is done
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Meta has announced third-party augmented reality filters will no longer be available on its apps as of January 2025. The removal comes far too late.
  • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Instagram has it’s fair share of blame for the trend, but I don’t think they were the progenitor, as it were. Snapchat was far more heavy-handed with face altering filters from the get-go, as I remember it. Instagram was mostly just the “old-school” sepia tone, black-and-white type filters for the most part until that picked up.

    • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Meta should probably never be blamed for innovating when all they do is steal ideas from potential competitors and crudely duct tape them onto existing products. Instagram was once a useful, good app and now it’s 80% features from Snapchat and TikTok and you maybe see a friend’s post a week late.