Snap, Snap, Woof!

 

It’s here, it’s the second best thing sweeping the nation (aside from Pokémon Go), it’s the one, the only, snapchat filters.

According to Tech Insider, Snapchat introduced “filters” on September, 2015. These “filters” give twist to selfies. Snapchat added 8 great filters, including but not limited to, heart eyes, rainbow vomit, old guy, eyes popping out, and the sweetheart filter. But what makes these Snapchat filters so popular among ages?

The answer; because they’re fun and they make you look attractive.

“People use filters in order to feel physically better about themselves. When using a snapchat filter, things are enhanced in a way that makes you appear beautiful, thus you feel beautiful in return,” says Brenda Sarabia, an eighteen-year-old freshman at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Brenda has been using Snapchat filters since they were first introduced into Snapchat. She explains that filters not only make you look completely different, they also grab people’s attention.“Hell, I love getting compliments from my pictures, and if a filter increases those comments, I’m down. I’d rather use a filter than be half-naked like 99% of Instagram users.”

And while some people do use these filters for the pleasure of some favorable comments, we have people who use it for entertainment.

“It’s just mindless entertainment. Most of the time you’re taking pictures you won’t even send”, says Samuel Wilby, a sixteen-year-old junior at QUEST High School. Samuel uses Snapchat filters, “usually just to pass the time (or procrastinate on my case) because there’s clearly not much to get out of it, but I’ll do it anyways”.

Not only are Snapchat filters used among average people, but celebrities such as Jimmy Fallon and Ariana Grande used these filters as a way to entertain themselves. According to People magazine, Ariana Grande and Jimmy Fallon collaborated July 14 to create an astonishing, yet hilarious lip sync video to Ariana’s hit song Into You using Snapchat Filters and was aired on The Tonight Show.

So whether Snapchat filters are for entertainment or for the luxury of looking ten times gorgeous, these filters have been given their popularity fair and square. So the next time you take a selfie, make sure you grab your puppy filter.