Face Swapping Is Sweeping The Internet

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f you haven’t heard of face swapping by now, consider yourself lucky. It’s the latest online trend, in the fine tradition of lolcats, planking, and ORLYs. And like those previous trends, it’s something that you’ll quickly go from never having heard of to chuckling at to hating with a passion, all in about a month’s time.

Put simply, face swapping is when you take a picture of two people and you—that’s right—swap their faces. Previously this was something you’d need a copy of Photoshop and an intermediate level of Photoshop expertise to accomplish, but now there’s a host of apps that make face swapping so simple even a child could do it.

That’s a good thing, because children are likely to be the ones who get the biggest kick out of face-swapped photos. Swap a dog’s face with its owner’s, swap a baby’s face with her mother’s, if you have barely any imagination, you can imagine the possibilities.

Here are a few examples of face swapping to help you get past the chuckling phase and move directly to the hating phase.