face-swap

present singular third person face-swaps · participle present face-swapping · participle past face-swapped · past face-swapped · alternative faceswap

1. To swap the face (of someone) in an image or video.

   Somebody had face-swapped her with a rotting corpse. Underneath that picture was another, in which her eyes had been replaced with lips. The thread continued with more Photoshop alterations and crude graffiti.

   2018, Andy Marino, Autonomous, New York, N.Y.: Freeform Books, Disney Book Group, →ISBN, page 340

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   Whether he’s face-swapping with statues at Mia or knocking back whiskey with his pink-shirted digital girlfriend, Mailman immerses himself in the low-tech app to create a world that’s familiar while still being as wacky as conceivable.

   2017 April 19–25, “Music”, in City Pages, Minneapolis, Minn.: Star Tribune Media Company, LLC, →ISSN, page 69

   Ordinary people have already been face-swapped into videos for humorous or prank purposes and there is no reason to believe that abusers, harassers, stalkers, and blackmailers will not soon be face-swapping victims into compromising video as part of their arsenal.

   2018 April, Larry Zimmerman, “Cheap and Easily Manipulated Video”, in The Journal of the Kansas Bar Association, Topeka, Kan.: Kansas Bar Association, →ISSN, page 21