Snapchat has some pretty cool filters on the app, and it’s no wonder it can easy to go crazy over those. However, it seems they’ve had a couple of misses recently. Snapchat gaffed when they released a Bob Marley filter in April 20 with a blackface feature, which they quickly apologized for. However, will they be able to say Sorry out of this new incident?
EXPLAIN YOURSELF SNAPCHAT I DREW THIS PICTURE 2 YEARS AGO WHERE DID YOU FIND THIS I WANT ANSWERS @Snapchat pic.twitter.com/iqCFSM0rI3
— karls (@KarlyThibault) May 2, 2016
Twitter user @KarlyThibault cried offence when she saw Snapchat’s newest artistic filter, one that gives a neo-modernist and colorful geometric rendering of the person facing the camera. Thibault claims that Snapchat used her a piece she had drawn two years ago without her permission, and she demands answers, now.
Other Twitter denizens rallied to her cause.
@KarlyThibault @Snapchat yo she better be makin bank from this
— kk (@toastytoaster69) May 3, 2016
@KarlyThibault THIS IS SO STRANGE HOW
— Jønathan Flusser, Jr (@osxdude) May 3, 2016
Other folks corroborated Thibault’s story, …
@KarlyThibault THATS WHY I RECOGNIZED THIS FILTER
— Sophia (@smsilane) May 2, 2016
… and if other users are to be believed, this was not the first time it had happened.
@KarlyThibault it's not the first time they took someone else's work ? pic.twitter.com/6oFumKHNJo
— ️️ (@priscillastamos) May 3, 2016
@KarlyThibault @Snapchat THEY DID THIS TO SOMEONE ELSE TOO SMH
— j (@underrealized) May 3, 2016
Someone called the media’s attention to this issue.
@KarlyThibault @CNN @FoxNews @ABC @CBSNews @CopyrightOffice Get a load of this son
— kk (@toastytoaster69) May 3, 2016
And the news spread like wildfire.
IM GOIN VIRAL
— karls (@KarlyThibault) May 3, 2016
@KarlyThibault @Snapchat HAHAHAHAHA WHAT THE HECK
— Sabrina (@sabreeezzyy) May 3, 2016
@KarlyThibault @Slaydemetriaxo @Snapchat wtf omg girl u betta get paid
— LOVATIC/Ari/Queens (@michelledenese) May 3, 2016
I have the same number of retweets as Beyoncé :')
— karls (@KarlyThibault) May 4, 2016
However, others pointed out that she might not be the only one who snapchat may have “borrowed” the idea from.
@KarlyThibault @Snapchat It's like her… pic.twitter.com/NbluK6Oo04
— soyons_fous (@MarleneGamm) May 3, 2016
And the rabbit hole goes deeper: Some people cried foul and said Karly herself stole the art concept from another artist.
@KarlyThibault you stole your work from Alexander Khokhlov stop fronting for rts pic.twitter.com/H7K1V17BoT
— william (@bae_sic) May 3, 2016
Still no word of whether Snapchat has finally addressed this issue, nor of whether the face filter in question was indeed indubitably pilfered from the right source. However this whole debacle turns out, you have to agree, it’s really one great face to put on.
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