[custom_adv] Mehran Modiri Seeing a lot of photos in your social-media feeds with elderly versions of people you otherwise know to not be quite so old? That's because of an app, named FaceApp, that's going viral. [custom_adv] Javad Ezzati But it's not just Aunt Judy and your old roommate getting in on the fun — everyone from Drake to Kevin Hart to The Jonas Brothers is showing up on social media looking ready to receive Social Security. [custom_adv] Shahab Hoseini The latest viral craze comes in the form of FaceApp, an app that allows you to age your face through an editing tool. It makes it remarkably easy to alter your appearance, and it is so detailed that it can make viewers do a double take. Users have been posting selfies in which they have white hair, wrinkles, sagging jawlines, and more signs of age. [custom_adv] Hamed Behdad As with all viral trends, this one has made its way over to the celebrity set, with somewhat intriguing results. Celebrities are traditionally cheaters of age; it’s nice to imagine what they might look like in 40 or 50 years, assuming all expensive skin-care products and surgical technologies somehow become inaccessible. They’ve been posting selfies, too — here are some of the best celebrity age transformations we’ve seen. [custom_adv] Bahram Radan The #AgeChallenge, which is pretty much the reverse of the Snapchat filter-driven “baby” trend from a few months ago, currently has a whole lot of people running their selfies through the app’s filter to meet their senior — or much older — selves. [custom_adv] Sam Derakhshani Of course, this means that celebrities and star athletes have been doing the same. But when it comes to those famous faces who haven’t tried the app yet, the people of the internet have been more than obliged to do it for them. [custom_adv] Mohammad Reza Golzar This also means that a lot of people have been disregarding warnings about sharing their images as part of social media prompts and on apps that use facial recognition technology. [custom_adv] Navid Mohammadzadeh Seeing a lot of photos in your social-media feeds with elderly versions of people you otherwise know to not be quite so old? That's because of an app, named FaceApp, that's going viral.
