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Remnants of Iron Age in Malampuzha

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Noticed how your timeline and social media feed is flooded with photos of people suddenly looking aged? No, you aren’t stuck in a time warp. Posting ‘old person’ selfies on social media is the latest fun thing to do. Move over all those beauty missions and apps meant to flatter you into thinking slim, young and radiant. Celebs and influencers are posting these ‘old person’ selfies thanks to the FaceApp, a photo editing app developed by Russian company Wireless Lab.

FaceApp is designed to create realistic transformations of faces using various filters and features, the first version of which was released in 2017. The free version offers a limited choice of filters including the one that is going viral right now. The feature that has tweeps going crazy for the app is the ‘old’ option where the app gives you three versions of your face — two young and one that looks really old and probable.

This app is no different from Snapchat with the baby-face and gender-swap filters and now Instagram’s many additional filters. The app is popular, obviously, because of the final outcome. Using a picture of any person, the filter throws back an image of them looking considerably older.