Is there a divide between human and animal? The jarring nature of this faceswap suggests that there must be. After all, the simplicity of the swap (a nose for a nose, equivalent exchange) should in itself not create such angst. And yet, this image is deeply unsettling. Examining the figure on the left (it would be daring to declare this figure the “boy”), we see that his feet are elongated, his hair is coiffed, his eyebrows coquettishly raised, and his trunk quite small. This trunk also has some suggestive significance; the impending onset of adulthood, for one, and its missingness from the figure on the right (“elephant”?) invites comparison to the Freudian anxiety of castration. But is this creature so different from the figure on the right? On a first glance, yes. In more detail, however, we see that the right-most figure also has many left-like characteristics. The elongated feet, not seen in natural elephants. The ill-fittingness of the skin, comparable to the ill-fitting red garment. The cheery eyebrows. The coiffed hair. And most strikingly, the knowing, cameradric smiles. Overlooking the mundane (colour, tail vs. probable absence of tail), these two figures are in essence, twins. This is a very bold message advanced by the faceswap. It invites the viewer-victim character to pose themself certain questions. What difference does one nose, a small thing really, make? How did the elephant get eyebrows, and what happened to its feet? Why does the elephant have a pixie cut? How many fingers does the human have? The answer, we may venture to posit, is yes.

Is there a divide between human and animal? The jarring nature of this faceswap suggests that there must be. After all, the simplicity of the swap (a nose for a nose, equivalent exchange) should in itself not create such angst. And yet, this image is deeply unsettling. Examining the figure on the left (it would be daring to declare this figure the “boy”), we see that his feet are elongated, his hair is coiffed, his eyebrows coquettishly raised, and his trunk quite small. This trunk also has some suggestive significance; the impending onset of adulthood, for one, and its missingness from the figure on the right (“elephant”?) invites comparison to the Freudian anxiety of castration.

But is this creature so different from the figure on the right? On a first glance, yes. In more detail, however, we see that the right-most figure also has many left-like characteristics. The elongated feet, not seen in natural elephants. The ill-fittingness of the skin, comparable to the ill-fitting red garment. The cheery eyebrows. The coiffed hair. And most strikingly, the knowing, cameradric smiles.

Overlooking the mundane (colour, tail vs. probable absence of tail), these two figures are in essence, twins. This is a very bold message advanced by the faceswap. It invites the viewer-victim character to pose themself certain questions. What difference does one nose, a small thing really, make? How did the elephant get eyebrows, and what happened to its feet? Why does the elephant have a pixie cut? How many fingers does the human have? The answer, we may venture to posit, is yes.

(Source: disneyfaceswap)

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