One Snapchat filter is too real for some teens

TFW you're a Snapchat filter IRL
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Brian Koerber
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It's me.

If you haven't opened Snapchat in a while, the app has an ever-changing pack of face-morphing filters, which allow you to swap faces with others and transform into everything from a dog to someone with an abnormally large forehead. One such filter turns you into a stereotypical geeky teen, complete with glasses held together with tape and a set of braces.

Now, while it can be fun to return to your awkward adolescence, a huge core of Snapchat's users are, well, teens. So naturally, a few of them will already look like what the filter is trying to emulate.


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Popular person of the internet Freddy Amazin tweeted a photo of an IRL nerdy braces teen earlier this week, which was retweeted over 9,000 times.

And while it's hilarious to some, other teens with similar hardware shared side-by-side comparisons of their likeness to the filter.

Too real, Snapchat. Too real.

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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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