--- title: Watch These Twin Brothers Try a Face Swapping App description: Thanks to the hilarious videos that often result from people switching facial features, face swap apps have become all the rage recently. canonical: https://time.com/4291050/twin-brothers-face-swap/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-12T17:59:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:34.738Z og:title: Watch What Happens When Twin Brothers Try a Face Swap og:description: You may see this coming og:url: https://time.com/4291050/twin-brothers-face-swap/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch What Happens When Twin Brothers Try a Face Swap twitter:description: You may see this coming twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch What Happens When Twin Brothers Try a Face Swapping App  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 12, 2016 5:59 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 12, 2016 5:59 PM UTC Thanks to the hilarious photos and videos that often result from two people switching facial features in real time, face swapping apps have become all the rage. But when this pair of Russian [twins](http://time.com/4091210/chimera-twins/?iid=sr-link3) decided to try one of the apps, the outcome was a bit unusual. Andrew Yarunin shared a video of himself face swapping with his [brother](http://time.com/4187647/premature-newborn-twins-holding-hands/?iid=sr-link4) Sergey that showed the app having almost no effect on the [identical siblings’](http://time.com/3974707/twins-day/?iid=sr-link6) appearances. As Sergey moves in and out of the frame, it even becomes difficult to tell when the app is working and when it’s not. **Read More:** [See the Dramatic Differences Between Identical Twins Over Time](http://time.com/45301/see-the-dramatic-changes-of-these-identical-twins-over-time/?iid=sr-link1) The clip was posted to YouTube on Monday and has since been viewed over 15,000 times to date. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4291050/twin-brothers-face-swap/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4291050/twin-brothers-face-swap/"},"headline":"Watch What Happens When Twin Brothers Try a Face Swapping App","datePublished":"2016-04-12T17:59:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:34.738Z","description":"You may see this coming","url":"https://time.com/4291050/twin-brothers-face-swap/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","twins","brothers"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4291050/twin-brothers-face-swap/","name":"Watch What Happens When Twin Brothers Try a Face Swapping App"}}]}] ```