Turns out there is a benefit to being a juggalo – you can outsmart facial recognition technology. With surveillence reaching creepy levels of invasion, this is quite a discovery by Twitter user @tahkion.

"I made a breakthrough." @tahkion tweeted, "It turns out juggalo makeup defeats facial recognition successfully. If you want to avoid surveillance, become a juggalo, I guess." Here is his proof:

i made a breakthrough. it turns out juggalo makeup defeats facial recognition successfully. if you want to avoid surveillance, become a juggalo i guess pic.twitter.com/kEh7fUQeXq

@tahkion pointed out that corpse paint is not sufficient enough in evading facial recognition as the software can still recognize your jawline. But the juggalo make up throws all of that into disarray.

for anyone wondering why some face changes evade facial recognition and others don't, here's a visualization of how landmarks are placed on a few examples. juggalo makeup is particularly effective as it basically totally redefines what is interpreted as the jawline pic.twitter.com/dFSx5FEGc9

KISS makeup doesn't do the trick either, as the features are still recognized:

Surprisingly, Gene Simmons of KISS seems to overcome facial recognition more effectively by nature of having his tongue out than actually due to his face paint. pic.twitter.com/ChWRjzhBHe

In conclusion, juggalo makeup is your best bet if you're on the lamb.

So, yes, juggalo face paint is genuinely quite good at avoiding facial recognition, in fact, considerably better than many of the styles deliberately created to attempt to thwart it. Whoop whoop! pic.twitter.com/qFDcYSbC1k

— tahkion (@tahkion) July 10, 2019