Why Your Bitmoji Looks So Much Like Your Actual Face

Bitmoji has nailed the concept of making adorable, eerily accurate cartoon avatars to text to your friends. Here's how they did it.

The other day, I texted a friend my Bitmoji, a lookalike cartoon avatar I created using this app. "Wow," he said. "That actually looks strikingly like you." He isn't the first person to tell me the little brown-haired caricature looks eerily like my actual, human self—nor is mine the first Bitmoji to get that reaction. My friend Alex's Bitmoji looks like it ate him and stole his soul. When another friend texts me his emoji likeness, I get chills.

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