24 terrifying face swaps that will haunt your dreams

Who knew you could swap faces with a power strip?
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Brian Koerber
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Back in the day, you needed to have some pretty decent Photoshop skills in order to pull off a believable face swap. 

Now, with endless apps with face-swapping capabilities, you can basically put your head on any body, which means there are a plethora of nightmare-inducing face-swapped photos out there. 


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From babies with mustaches and pets with human bodies, this new generation of face swaps is weird and we love it. 

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Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.

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