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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
verb
To apply several beauty filters to (a picture or video of someone), typically making the subject look more made-up, potentially more feminine, and often unrecognizable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, transitive
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
To present (something) as fashionable and glamorous, often by removing or disguising aspects which are considered unappealing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, figuratively, sometimes
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Back-formation from yassification, equivalent to yass + -ify. Popularized by the YassifyBot account on Twitter (which is not actually a bot) created on November 13, 2021 by a college student known online as "Denver Adams" who would repeatedly run images through FaceApp until they were virtually unrecognizable.
