Final week, Snap’s Bitmoji crew introduced an replace to the best way that folks’s Bitmoji avatars could be introduced within the app, together with extra superior hair textures, face shading, and physique proportions for his or her characters.

As per Bitmoji:

“Your Bitmoji can now have a bolder smile, a extra astonished face once they’re stunned, and may specific even essentially the most refined and nuanced feelings. Plus, we’re enhancing the way you have interaction together with your Bitmoji on Snapchat, like enhanced modifying that permits you to modify your avatar in 3D, utilizing zoom and rotating options to get a better look.”

So, cool, proper? Higher wanting, extra technologically-evolved Bitmoji, aligned with the subsequent era of 3D interplay, in AR, the metaverse, and so forth.

Besides, Snap customers aren’t fully proud of the replace.

The brand new Bitmoji depictions look so much completely different to the outdated variations in lots of instances, and Snap customers aren’t proud of the best way that their digital doppelgangers now look.

Which is not any shock. Snap customers have been additionally livid with the revamped app structure that the corporate launched again in 2018, a lot in order that Snap rolled it again, to be able to re-think sure components. Snap customers have been additionally none-too-pleased that its new My AI chatbot, which Snapchat made freely accessible to all customers again in April, took up the highest slot of their inbox, shifting down all of their different chats.  

Given the important thing position that Snap performs within the interactive course of for a lot of customers, facilitating extra intimate chats with smaller teams of pals, it is sensible that there’s additionally a powerful sense of possession there, which prompts a degree of protectionism over the app that they know and love.

However it most likely makes issues somewhat harder for the Snap dev crew, who have to tread very fastidiously when rolling out new adjustments.

In any occasion, the Snapchat crew tends to settle in after a short time, so it’s unlikely to spark ongoing backlash and unrest. However so you already know, your Snap avatar may look somewhat completely different subsequent time you log in, and also you won’t prefer it.