Snapchat released a**ther racially insensitive filter
 

Snapchat released a**ther racially insensitive filter
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Snapchat has again released a filter that seems to channel racial sterotypes, igniting a backlash from users accusing the company of trafficking in digital yellowface. The new filter debuted Tuesday, and gives users slit eyes and contorted facial features.*



It appears that Snapchat has taken the filter down as of this morning.*

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"This anime-inspired lens has already expired, and won't be put back into circulation," Snapchat said when asked to comment. "Lenses are meant to be playful and never to offend."



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**netheless, the filter was seen as tone-deaf, given America's history of yellowface, a term usually referring to **n-Asian actors playing stereotyped or caricatured versions of Asian people onscreen. Read more...

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