The Hot New Snapchat Lens Snapchat anime filter is the latest effect to make waves on social media. Unsurprisingly, with the ability to instantly have a video or image transformed into an anime version, the filter has already gone viral on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. Here’s how to find the filter and start using it.

Effects and filters are nothing new and all of the main social media services tend to offer their own versions for users to play with. In early 2020, Instagram filters proved particularly popular with carousel-based ‘which are you’ filters and effects taking over social media. During the year, TikTok has also seen a number of its effects take on a life of their own, with the green screen sky one of the more recent examples.