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/ˈjɑːs.ɪ.faɪ̯/ · verb
(transitive, Internet slang) To apply several beauty filters to (a picture or video of someone), typically making the subject look more made-up, potentially more feminine, and often unrecognizable..
To yassify yourself and get stuck in with the yassification trend on Twitter, it's kind of up to you on your best photo editing method. The most commonly used one, though, is FaceApp. Once you've got the app, you can play around with the various different filters available and yassify yourself to your heart's content.
Out of curiosity, I downloaded the app in an attempt to "yassify" myself. Once I uploaded my photo, the first thing I noticed was how I was gender-coded as male. Despite not indicating my gender to the app, most filtering options I was offered were tailored for making male-presenting people look more masculine. Much of this means looking hairier, more tanned and visibly older.
You can't really do any of the intense beauty edits without the pro version of the app, which, like, who the hell wants to buy an app subscription? I don't. But I wanted to see what I looked like and my friends also were like "someone yassify this."
Requests to yassify certain trans and non-binary celebrities, and people of colour, felt problematic to many; the FaceApp's eurocentric beauty filters implying BIPOC are only "yass"-worthy when they're made to appear more caucasian or racially-ambiguous.
One viral TikTok, with over 1.7 million views, shows Tate being yassified into an early 2000s Paris Hilton–era socialite with a Juicy Couture velour tracksuit, Victoria's Secret underwear, and the Playboy logo.
Unlike the Grimace Shake incident, the Barbie Shake "yassifies," or glamorizes, its lucky drinkers. TikTok users are seen taking a sip of the pink drink before transforming into a real-life Barbie. That means donning a dress, wearing a blonde wig, sporting a pair of heels or pulling up in a pink Corvette.
With DLSS, human character designs seem to transmute into someone else entirely. It almost seems like what you'd get after prompting an AI to come up with a realistic video game character. Everything comes out outrageous and yassified.
Over the weekend, people shared memes across social media pointing out the ways the church yassified Jesus through their artistic renderings of him. The juxtaposition shows just how inaccurate and curated our depictions of Jesus can be. The white church has yassified Jesus for centuries.
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Yassify means (transitive, Internet slang) To apply several beauty filters to (a picture or video of someone), typically making the subject look more made-up, potentially more feminine, and often unrecognizable..
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To yassify yourself and get stuck in with the yassification trend on Twitter, it's kind of up to you on your best photo editing method. The most commonly used one, though, is FaceApp. Once you've got the app, you can play around with the various different filters available and yassify yourself to your heart's content.
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