BeReal fights to retain users as some find its authenticity monotonous; Apptopia: the app's daily users fell to under 6M in March 2023 from ~15M in October 2022
BeReal was pitched as Gen Z's safe haven from the artifice of social media. For some, authenticity only proved interesting for so long.
French social app BeReal, which encourages users to post one selfie per day, has exploded in popularity with Gen Z users; Apptopia says MAUs are up 315% in 2022
Downloads of BeReal, Gen Z's hot new social media app, have skyrocketed in recent months, giving the world's mobile-first generation …
A survey of 1,000 Gen Z eligible US voters finds that 59% use YouTube as a daily source for election news, 53% for Instagram, and 43% for Facebook
NLP's @PeterD_Adams, who is quoted in this @politico piece about gen Z along with @CindyOtis_. https://www.politico.com/... @politico : Gen Zers face unprecedented misinformation challenges. They're i...
Behind the rise of viral earworms on TikTok, whose musical DNA and culture of repetition often leads to the same songs being reused again and again in videos
Gen Z's favorite video app is a blessing in a pandemic. But why does so much of it sound the same? — I downloaded TikTok in April, a month into COVID isolation. Tweets: @brianroemmele , @brianroemm...
A look at Gen Z Mafia, a Discord server where young people in tech who are seeking to break into the industry can discuss ideas and collaborate
A group of young tech enthusiasts are carving their own path on Discord. — For young people, breaking into the cutthroat tech industry … Tweets: @shereeny , @geofflife , @taylorlorenz , @alexsteed ,...
How Famous Birthdays, which has 20M unique monthly users, became Gen Z's Wikipedia for new internet stars and a talent resource for the entertainment industry
If you want to know who the biggest TikTok star is right now, who is in Emma Chamberlain's squad, or where Baby Ariel grew up … Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @glenngabe , @theatlantic , @taylorlorenz , and ...