The Snapchat filter that allows you to raise awareness of harassment in social networks

May 14, 2019

Among the new filter list created by the Snapchat app, there is one that allows men's faces to take on feminine features. That being the case, some users decided to see what was happening when a woman opened a Tinder account. The result helped to reflect on the harbadment and surprised many.

The new ones filters Snapchat can be applied to tranbadualize the user or to show what he looked like during his childhood. These add to your face factions traditionally women o male this can be used to have fun. However, a Brit wanted to do an experiment and decided to create a new Tinder account to find out what happened to the women social dating network.

The experience in Tinder

Jake Askew, from Norwich, UK, decided to open a Tinder account with her pictures of a woman to see what happened. More than 1,650 people liked their profile and received between 300 and 400 games. Jess, as he named, claims to study at the University of Derby and quickly began receiving messages from men inviting him to leave. Jake, 20, told LADbible: "A man said you're an artwork and I want to hang you on my wall." Another m & # 39; spoke about his "pig sword" and another simply asked me to "sit on his face." I did not tell them anything, I hope they realize it alone. "

Askew was not the only one to do this experiment. According to Yahoo! a user stated that his brother had created a woman account to have fun. "He used the Snapshot filter in Tinder for 30 minutes and, finally, we hated men."

"I did a Tinder using the new filter from Snapchat to see what would happen. These are the hundreds of messages I've received in minutes, "wrote another young man in a tweet. "I'm sorry for you if that's how your inboxes are."

Since November 2018, Tinder It included a section called "My Movement". This only allows women to start a conversation with another person after the "match" in the application. To enable it, users activate the function from the configuration menu because it does not appear by default.

"We are a platform based on mutual respect, consent and choice," said Taru Kapoor, managing director of Match Group, owner of Tinder, who at the time said: "we are focusing on securing the experience of women".