French Girls is supposed to be fun a way to draw strangers. 8chan trolls are using it to abuse women, children, minorities, and gays.

Here's how French Girls, an iPhone app, is supposed to work: Users upload selfies, and anyone else with the app can then draw a portrait of the user and send it back to them.

The name is a play on the Kate Winslet line from Titanic ("draw me like one of your French girls") that has become a meme in its own right. In the short time the latest version has been around — it lets users pay for high-quality commissioned drawings — it's generated a lot of discussion on Twitter.

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