After years of launching unwitting viral figures by wannabe Twitter cops, it seems internet doxxing has finally met its match — yassification. Last week, comedian Michelle Collins put a new spin on the old internet pastime of dunking on strangers, using yassification — a.k.a. The act of layering so many FaceTune filters on someone they enter a weird uncanny valley of hotness — to disguise the identity of a woman who brought a tube of mayonnaise with her on vacation.
A lady at the airport brought her own personal tube of mayonnaise. I’ve yassified her to maintain anonymity but she’s my hero. pic.twitter.com/vaBvoZpdWX
— Michelle Collins (@michcoll) February 18, 2023
“A lady at the airport brought her own personal tube of mayonnaise,” she wrote alongside the snap, which has since garnered more than 21 million views. “I’ve yassified her to maintain anonymity but she’s my hero,” she quipped.
Yet much like MayoWoman (Marvel, we’ve got your next Avenger right here), it seems Collins’ tweet granted her a hero status all her own, with commenters commending her creativity, bringing up Gordon Ramsay in drag, and even pondering the implications of her Lana Del Rey-ian question for the culture.
Yassified to maintain anonymity pic.twitter.com/Zj3j9vQ0bV
— Claire St. Clair (@sleepy_homo) February 20, 2023
“I’ve yassified her to maintain her anonymity” has now officially entered the culture https://t.co/f1geQZnHfW
— Liam Gareau (@liamgareau) February 20, 2023
Here’s to hoping yassss facing strangers in public becomes the ethical gold standard for putting strangers on blast.
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