Weird face appeared on friend’s story
A few hours ago, my friend posted a collage of them being silly with their Percy de Rolo figurine on their instagram close friends story. After it finally uploaded, this weird, overexposed face showed up behind one of the photos (see attached image).
My friend took these photos at an amusement park and was on public wifi. The story was taking an annoyingly long time to load because the wifi was so bad, so they turned off wifi temporarily. They didn’t check their story again until much later.
When they checked their story notifications and saw the face, it freaked them out and they deleted it immediately. They then uploaded a new story with the same photos shortly after, and the face wasn’t there anymore.
Something probably important to mention is that the photo that the face appeared on was the “base” photo.
We do not know who the face belongs to. We both agreed that it kind of looks like them, but the hair doesn’t match up. And even if it was, why would it be there and why is it so overexposed??
I’ve tried looking up similar glitches, but couldn’t find anything like this. We’re both so confused and don’t know what this could possibly be aside from an obscure bug. Has anyone else experienced something like this? Could it have something to do with the wifi?? Please help
EDIT: We have been made aware of an instagram glitch involving the app's ai filters seeing faces where there aren't any. There's a strong possibility that this could be what is happening here. My friend could have accidentally posted the story with a filter without realizing since they were in the middle of ordering something at the time.
But here's the thing, we have tried recreating this incident by putting the photos through various instagram filters, but the face hasn't shown up again. Maybe my friend just so happened to arrange the photos in a way that triggered the ai to see a face? Not sure, I'm just guessing at this point.
UPDATE: LMAOO OK SO it turned out that this whole time that it was just a sticker my friend made as a joke with their cousin and then forgot about. They accidentally added it to their story without realizing.
Thank you to everyone who provided their input! If your guess was "sticker" then you were correct. Good things will happen to you in the future O(∩_∩)O or something