Instagram and Snapchat don’t have a ton in common, but they are both image-focused social apps, and that alone invites some comparison. They both have filters, too, which means those filters can be compared. Unfortunately for Instagram, it’s not really a contest. On one side, you have Instagram’s basic artsy hipster filters, making things a little sharper, a little redder, a little black and white, but essentially doing nothing that 30 seconds in an image editor can’t. Meanwhile, Snapchat has a rotating list of face-recognition masks (called “lenses”) that do everything from adding rainbow vomit to face-swapping, often with hilarious results. Let me tell...
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