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Snapchat lets you swap with any face in your camera roll — and it's insanely fun

Alex Heath

2016-04-22T19:06:06Z

Snapchat face swap

By now you've probably seen people swapping faces in Snapchat. It produces a hilarious and often frightening effect.

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Until now, you could only face swap with someone if you were both in the camera view of Snapchat's app. It was an inherent limitation that kept the feature reserved for people you're physically next to (or maybe an inanimate object that looked like a face if you were lucky).

Now Snapchat lets you face swap with any photo in your phone's camera roll, which is a game changer. It's insanely fun to play with.

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You can find Snapchat's camera roll face swap by tapping and holding on your face to activate the app's list of special lenses.

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You'll eventually find this purple face swap lens next to the original yellow one. It will automatically pull up photos in your camera roll that have faces to swap with.

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Just tap on each photo to have the face placed over your own. Here I am as Kylie Jenner, Kanye West, Nic Cage, and DJ Khaled:

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Snapchat users are already face swapping like crazy.

—Caroline Szwed (@CarolineSzwed) April 22, 2016

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It's something to behold.

—Dadam McCrankyPants (@adambonini) April 22, 2016

I decided to save a bunch of photos of famous people to my phone to put Snapchat's face swapping to the test.

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Here I am as Ben Affleck.

Elon Musk.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's face looks pretty weird on top of mine.

I had to see what I looked like as Jay Z.

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And Queen Bey.

It turns out that face swapping with yourself is also weird.

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