Avatarify, a cell phone face-changing App that has recently become a hit in the mainland with its “ant-yeah-hey” special effects, was suddenly taken offline in the early hours of last Tuesday (2) for unknown reasons, causing public concern. The media speculated that the reason for the shelving may be related to privacy and security issues.
Avatarify is reportedly named after the movie Avatar, and was originally developed by a Russian engineer who was bored during the Chinese Communist pneumonia Epidemic.
Although the app has been online for a long Time, it has only recently become a hit on the mainland with the special effect “Ants Ya Hey”, which is set to the famous song “Dragostea Din Tei” by the Romanian group O-Zone as the BGM (background Music).
The app uses AI face-changing technology to make pictures “move”. Users only need to input face pictures and choose a movie template, and the software can automatically generate short videos. In the week before it was taken down, the total number of plays on topics related to the short film platform Jitterbug “Ant Ya Hey” had exceeded 2.9 billion times, and the special effects had been used by 7.85 million people.
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