Popular dating App Plenty of Fish is banning filtered pics to make the experience more authentic.
According to @dailymirror, the company will embark on a full audit of the 70 million images on its platform, by removing images that they consider to be overly filtered. Newly uploaded photos will also undergo the same strict guidelines.One of the main photo issues will focus on lens filters, such as those heavily used and popularized by social media apps like Snapchat. Those filters allow you to place digital images onto the user’s face to create a filter effect that changes your appearance to hide blemishes, look thinner and more52% of those surveyed also admitted they thought photo filters should be banned from dating apps, and 30% said they have avoided messaging someone on a dating app because their photos were too heavily filtered. This ultimately led POF to encourage current users to present true, unedited photos of themselves on their profiles.