Boyfriend Pranks Girlfriend With Snapchat Filter And It Totally Backfires

For better or worse, Millennials have led the charge as social media has evolved. From Friendster to MySpace to Facebook and Instagram, we were some of the first to adopt these platforms.

I suddenly knew what my parents felt like as I became obsessed with the chatrooms and message boards of the mid-'90s and they just didn't get it.

I pretty much only have the app installed so that I can use filters on my dogs. Which I then save and share on Facebook like the old person I've apparently become.

While not totally seamless, many of the smoothing and make-up filters do a really good job of cleaning up a basic selfie.

Sometimes it doesn't quite register our faces, sometimes they'll register faces that aren't there, and other times... this happens.

This is a photograph that will last much longer in your memory than a successful face-swap would. So an unexpected result from a Snapchat filter can be beneficial, unless you're Ryan Hill.

Ryan Hill decided to try out the gender-swapping and when it turned out pretty good, he had an idea for a prank.

There are a few tells, like around the neck of his shirt or his left eye, but I could see mistaking those for artifacts of a smoothing filter.

Thinking it would be funny, he added the text "I have your bf's t-shirt on" and sent it to Melissa Dunsmore, his current girlfriend.

It's a classic case of reverse psychology. If you tell someone not to look, they're going to look.

Personally, I feel like this would have tipped me off that something was up, but not Melissa.

Even after explaining that it was actually him and just a joke, she wasn't letting him get away with it.

To be fair, if you don't know about the filter, there's no other explanation for the picture — I definitely don't blame her for getting mad!

He's suffering through some serious silent treatment and stuck on the couch for the night. Ouch.

If it makes you feel any better, Ryan, I think it's funny.

Another Snappy prankster, Sasha, also discovered that her girlfriend didn't find this kind of thing funny either.

Sasha said she thought her girlfriend would recognize that it was her with a filter on right away, but that's not what happened.

Much like Ryan's girlfriend, Leona came back swinging. She told Sasha to enjoy her night with "that girl in your bed" and told her never to speak to her again.

Sasha said eventually she did get unblocked, but Leona didn't find the situation very funny. At least Sasha can commiserate to Ryan that at least THEY thought it was funny, even though their girlfriends decidedly did not.

Scrolling through the tens of thousands of comments, an awful lot seem to be couples tagging their SO.

Some even decided to try out the filter themselves.

So consider this a very important PSA.

If your partner sends a random pic of someone in their clothes from Snapchat, look for a resemblance before flying off the handle.

Let Ryan's prank fail be a lesson.