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Facebook is Women Without Innocenceworking on customizable cartoon user avatars, a totally original concept that is not similar to Snapchat's Bitmoji in any way.

Twitter user Jane Manchun Wong spotted the feature in the code of Facebook's Android app, first reported by TechCrunch.

SEE ALSO: Facebook's working on photorealistic VR avatars and they're kinda creepy

Much like Bitmojis (which, again, are not these at all), you'll be able to send stickers featuring your new avatar in comments and messages.

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Facebook hasn't indicated when the feature will begin testing.

Cartoon avatars are a definitely becoming a thing for Facebook. The social network has been heavily invested in Facebook Spaces' VR avatars lately, and it has upgraded them a couple of times to make them more realistic and customizable. Facebook also recently announced a way to automatically generate them via AI.

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It's possible Facebook Avatars could be generated automatically from a picture of a user's face in the same way. Still, we wouldn't be surprised if users will instead create these avatars the old-fashioned way, by adding traits to a blank starter face. You know, definitely not the way you create a Bitmoji.

UPDATE: May 8, 2018, 2:21 p.m. EDT A Facebook spokesperson sent Mashable the following statement: "“We’re looking into more ways to help people express themselves on Facebook.”

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