Tough Guy Face Lens Filter
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About
Tough Guy Face Lens Filter, also known as Chad Filter and Mewing Filter, refers to a Snapchat filter that makes one's face looks like Gigachad, giving them one raised eyebrow and an exaggerated chin. The filter grew popular in July 2024 on TikTok as users applied it to their own faces and the faces of various characters.
Origin
Snapchat[1] released a filter named "Tough Guy Face Lens". In the filter, the user's face is altered by giving it a raised eyebrow, a sharp jaw and an exaggerated chin.
It is unclear when the first edit was uploaded, but on June 21st, 2024, TikTok[2] user @idolatro24_ uploaded the earliest video to introduce the filter, using it with his face in the video. It received over 4.5 million views in one month (shown below).
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7382632881191177478
Spread
The filter didn't get much attention until July 2024, at which time many TikTokers started using the filter on their faces or other objects. For example, on July 8th, 2024, TikTok[3] user @ynzkee.3 uploaded a video recording of DC Comics film while using the filter. The video received over 30 million views in three weeks (shown below, left). On July 22nd, 2024, TikTok[4] user @mateus_hwang uploaded a video of himself using the filter. The video received over 72 million views in one week (shown below, right).
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7388986620730526981
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7394282384952282374
On July 26th, 2024, Twitter / X[5] user @UpdatingOnRome uploaded a video of someone recording various Roman statues while using the filter. The post received over16,000 reposts and 173,000 likes in one week (shown below).
Iām crying pic.twitter.com/gmcF4sDGXn
ā Daily Roman Updates (@UpdatingOnRome) July 25, 2024
Various Examples
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7376811493175610629
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7390049428356386054
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7392711747632712965
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7377626587728022789?lang=en
Search Interest
Unavailable
External References
[1] Snapchat ā Tough Guy Face Lens
[2] TikTok ā El Dios del Mewing! š±š¤Æš¤«š§š»
[3] TikTok ā La liga del Mewing š¤«š§āāļøšæ
[4] TikTok ā š¤«š§āāļøšæ
[5] Twitter / X ā Iām crying