AR Face Filter Digital Beauty Templates Across Social Media, 2015-2025

A 10-year historiography (2015-2025) of augmented reality face filters on Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok, authored by Lauren A. Miller. The dataset includes a timeline shaped by seven identified 'digital beauty templates' that track aesthetic and beautification trends. It was last updated in May 2026 and is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze the evolution of beauty ideals based on the described seven 'digital beauty templates'.
• Study platform-specific technological advances in AR based on the comparative analysis of Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok.
• Critically examine the cultural and governance implications of beautifying filters using the described feminist lens.
• Trace the shift towards AI-driven, imperceptible beauty ideals based on the discussion of trends like 'Bold Glamour'.

Strengths

• Covers a defined 10-year time range from 2015 to 2025.
• Applies a specific critical feminist analytical framework as described.
• Identifies and analyzes seven distinct 'digital beauty templates' across three major platforms.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• The dataset is small (4.2 MB), suggesting it is primarily a textual and image-based archive rather than a large-scale quantitative dataset.
• Data may reflect the author's specific analytical perspective and source selection bias.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Likely contains archival research and critical analysis mapping filter trends.

Time Range

2015-2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 19:04:59