Snapchat's end-of-year review congratulates grieving users on gardening skills

Snapchat has come under fire after its end-of-year review congratulated users on their gardening skills after picking up on photos of flowers at family funerals. Like all social media companies, Snapchat uses algorithms to analyse and categorize pictures. Unfortunately for the people affected, it couldn’t differentiate between flowers placed by a grave and those planted in a garden. The error was highlighted in Twitter user @leahclarkxx’s post where the photo Snapchat used for ‘a year of flexing green thumbs’ was of her Nana’s burial. Responses to the tweet and others posted separately revealed this wasn’t an isolated incident, either. My favorite part of my 2020 recap on Snapchat is the part where it says “flexing your green thumb” and proceeds to show me pictures of flowers from the week my grandpa died. pic.twitter.com/CjJiwv1BUv— Hanah (@hanah1n) December 18, 2020 Snapchat told me I’m flexing my green thumb and then proceeded to show me a picture of my fathers grave right after we buried him🥴🥴😭— sahira (@The_Amazing_Cat) December 18, 2020 This isn’t the first time that automated software has made a gross miscalculation when it comes to revisiting photos posted on social media. As Anoushka Sarup pointed out on Medium, in 2014…
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