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Snapchat is Animation Archivesfinally letting us share anything we want to Stories.

The app will no longer add an ugly white border around photos you share from your camera roll to your Story.

SEE ALSO: Snapchat update lets Stories spread via text, email, even Facebook

Previously, Snapchat included the white space any time you shared an old photo to your Story unless the image was originally captured in the Snapchat app. But with the app's latest update, which is rolling out now, even photos snapped outside of the app will appear without the ugly white frame around them.

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Instead, you now have the option to crop camera roll photos before you post them. The photos will still indicate when they were shot, and that they were taken outside of Snapchat.

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Of course, to hardcore Snapchatters, adding camera roll photos to your Story is still something of a faux pas, but that may start to change now that you don't have to worry about the white space.

For Snap, which has always emphasized "in the moment" sharing, the change is yet another seemingly "anti-Snapchat"-like move as the company looks to compete with an increasingly dominant Facebook and Instagram. The update also comes just two days after the company introduced its "Stories everywhere" update which breaks Stories outside of the Snapchat app for the first time.

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