yassify

Meanings

1. To apply several beauty filters to (a picture or video of someone), typically making the subject look more made-up, potentially more feminine, and often unrecognizable.
2. To present (something) as fashionable and glamorous, often by removing or disguising aspects which are considered unappealing.

Etymology

Back-formation from yassification, equivalent to yass + -ify. Popularized by the YassifyBot account on Twitter (which is not actually a bot) created on November 13, 2021 by a college student known online as "Denver Adams" who would repeatedly run images through FaceApp until they were virtually unrecognizable.