Snapchat hit with backlash for 'yellowface' selfie lens

Just four months after causing outrage over a similarly offensive selfie lens, Snapchat has incurred the wrath of its users by enabling what many see as, effectively, a yellowface lens. According to Mic, users called out the social platform on Twitter yesterday, saying the lens caused people's faces to look like racist Asian caricatures.
While Snapchat has a number of lenses that morph users' faces into dogs and monsters, this lens does recall offensive, decades-old stereotypes about A