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How to create the funniest and most uncomfortable face swaps, the biggest web craze since selfies

Perhaps the easiest way to start faceswapping is in Snapchat. If you're not already familiar with Snapchat filters, here's the easiest way to get started. Simply tap down on your face until a mesh overlay appears on it. That's Snapchat's facial recognition software working. It'll look like this:

How to create the funniest and most uncomfortable face swaps, the biggest web craze since selfies

Then, swipe left through all of Snapchat's filters — some are pretty fun! — until you get to the end, which is the face swapping filter.

Then, swipe left through all of Snapchat

Then, find a friend, or an inanimate object that kind of looks like a face, stand next to it and get swapping. Press the take photo button to capture a pic or hold down for video.

Then, find a friend, or an inanimate object that kind of looks like a face, stand next to it and get swapping. Press the take photo button to capture a pic or hold down for video.

Although Snapchat is most likely the easiest way to swap faces, considering it's probably already installed on your phone, you do have other face swapping options, like Microsoft's new Project Murphy, a Skypebot that superimposes your face on famous people or cartoons.

Although Snapchat is most likely the easiest way to swap faces, considering it

Here's Bill Gates as Steve Jobs. Try it out here.

Using the software is the easy part, though. The next step is to have fun with it. Here are a few tricks:

Using the software is the easy part, though. The next step is to have fun with it. Here are a few tricks:

If you've got friends with facial hair or a beard yourself, that will certainly kick your face swaps up a notch.

If you

Face swapping doesn't necessarily need to happen between two people. If you have a comic book or a record cover with a funny face it can create a really cool effect. Who wouldn't want to look like David Bowie?

Face swapping doesn

But when the algorithm can't find a face, face swapping can become nightmare fuel.

But when the algorithm can

Try it with magazines, record covers, and your laptop's screen.

Try it with magazines, record covers, and your laptop

Push the software to its limits! Face swapping can also work great with inanimate objects, if they resemble a face at all. Like this cookie.

Push the software to its limits! Face swapping can also work great with inanimate objects, if they resemble a face at all. Like this cookie.

Turns out, you can face swap with pretty much anything you can draw a face on.

Turns out, you can face swap with pretty much anything you can draw a face on.

Although it can backfire.

Although it can backfire.

And triple-check to make sure there aren't random people in the shot.

And triple-check to make sure there aren

Sometimes face swapping algorithms see faces where there aren't any, like in the rim of a car.

Sometimes face swapping algorithms see faces where there aren

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Sometimes if you face swap famous duos, like Mulder and Scully from the X-Files, it reveals that the two look more similarly than you’d expect.

Sometimes if you face swap famous duos, like Mulder and Scully from the X-Files, it reveals that the two look more similarly than you’d expect.

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Take off your glasses first: sometimes Snapchat's algorithms can't deal with glasses, but other times it creates funky new frames.

Take off your glasses first: sometimes Snapchat

It's even more fun when you replace your face with another celebrity. Here's Jay-Z and Beyonce.

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And it's always fun to be able to face swap with your pets.

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