yassify

I first encountered the term 26iii25, don't know how I missed it for so long. Some useful explications:

yassify Wiktionary

yassify Cambridge Dictionary

What Does Yassify Mean? The Queer Term, Explained Maggie Zhou at refinery29.com

What do you get when you put iconic celebrity and pop culture moments and FaceTune into a blender? Yassification!

...The term 'yas' originated in the 1980s by QPOC (queer people of colour), according to William Leap, a professor of anthropology at American University and a scholar of gay language. It became popularised through drag culture which filtered through to the mainstream through shows like Broad City and RuPaul's Drag Race... an exclamation of excitement or joy. To yassify means to make something better or queerer. The term yassification was first used on Twitter in August 2020, according to Know Your Meme.

...On TikTok, the hashtag #yassification has over 268 million views

What Does It Mean to 'Yassify' Anything? NY Times 24xi22

...To "yassify" something, in the account's parlance, is to apply several beauty filters to a picture using FaceApp, an A.I. photo-editing application, until its subject — be that a celebrity, a historical figure, a fictional character or a work of fine art — becomes almost unrecognizably made up.

...The process for making each image is simple: Take a face, run it through FaceApp until it looks generically or grotesquely sexy, post, repeat. Mr. Adams said in a Zoom interview that each image takes only a few minutes to create.

...The word "yass" — which can also be spelled "yas," "yaas" or with any number of A's and S's for emphasis — has been circulating in L.G.B.T.Q. vernacular for more than a decade. The word was further popularized by a 2013 video of a fan admiring Lady Gaga. The Comedy Central show "Broad City," in which Ilana Glazer's character frequently deploys the phrase "yas queen," also helped to bring the word into wider use.

..."It evokes drag in that drag queens sometimes look plastic and way overdone," Prof. Barrett said in a phone interview.

"Part of it is that it looks good, but it clearly looks fake," Prof. Barrett said. "That positive view of artifice is something that is common across gay culture."

The "yassify" memes also share some DNA with the internet subculture of "bimbofication," which valorizes a vapid and surgically enhanced brand of femininity.

...All memes have a shelf life, and yassification fatigue has already set in. On the day the YassifyBot joined Twitter, one user tweeted: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by yassification."

How to Yassify Your Friends: The Ultimate FaceApp Filter Guide wikihow.com

Yassify Photo Beauty Filter Funny Meme Sarcasm PopSockets Swappable PopGrip : Cell Phones & Accessories amazon.com

Gen Z Slang: Yassify Meaning FamilyEducation.com

(don't miss this site's section on "Incorporating "Yassify" Into Your Vocabulary! How can parents use this term in daily life? Here are some tips! ... cringe...)

The gamut is pretty much run with the above.