Person Tests What Happens When You Try A Gender Swap Filter Back And Forth 39 Times On Your Own Face

Chris Schoonover has just gone through quite the transformation. Well, 39 if we’re being honest. That’s how many times Schoonover used FaceApp’s gender swap feature on their photo.

As you can probably guess, the end image, compared to the first one, is barely — if at all — recognizable. But it’s the gradual, algorithm-guided process that’s really interesting. You can really see where the AI struggled to keep up with the demands to reorganize Chris’s features.

After Schoonover had a good laugh, they uploaded all of the pictures to Facebook, and they instantly went viral. As of this article, their post has over 7K reactions and 35K shares, with people applauding them for breaking the matrix. If the same software is in charge of cloning Agent Smith, we’re still safe. At least, for now.

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Here’s the original picture

Person Tests What Happens When You Try A Gender Swap Filter Back And Forth 39 Times On Your Own Face

“I’m a 23-year-old non-binary artist that comes from a rough background,” Chris told Bored Panda. For those who know them, this “photoshoot” shouldn’t come as a surprise. “Strange and macabre humor has always been how I express myself the best.”

Chris started out making funny little memes and silly experimental posts for his Internet friends when they were around 17 years old and as you can see, they’re still killing it. “I love making people laugh.”

And here are all of the variations

Person Tests What Happens When You Try A Gender Swap Filter Back And Forth 39 Times On Your Own Face

“I stopped where I did in this series of images because there came a point when the face stopped being a face and I had already achieved some very laughable results,” they explained. “I added one more image as a joke due to popular request and while some may think it ruins the fun, I found it pretty funny myself.”

Chris’s main takeaway from all this fun is that they should make more posts when they’re high. “But seriously, it was really good to see a spark of humor go viral in these times. It would be really fun to see what other kinds of creativity is born from this.”

Person Tests What Happens When You Try A Gender Swap Filter Back And Forth 39 Times On Your Own Face

I'm a Visual Editor at Bored Panda since 2017. I've searched through a multitude of images to create over 2000 diverse posts on a wide range of topics. I love memes, funny, and cute stuff, but I'm also into social issues topics. Despite my background in communication, my heart belongs to visual media, especially photography. When I'm not at my desk, you're likely to find me in the streets with my camera, checking out cool exhibitions, watching a movie at the cinema or just chilling with a coffee in a cozy place

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Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

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Kathryn Jeal 4 years ago

This is like watching a computer's slow decent into madness.

55points

Charlotte A. 4 years ago

Basically: male = dark beard, female = long hair. Also why did the app suddenly add teeth to the smile??? and why 39 times? Did I miss the explanation for that? Why not 30, o 40? (I like even numbers!)

28points