Against my noisy objections, I am shown the evidence – a BeReal notification on his phone: “michael.pdf just posted late”.
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Reluctantly, I download the app.Īm I being real yet? Photograph: Michael Sunīomb defused – at least until I return downstairs, where I am promptly told off by my partner for posting outside the allotted time. I relay all of these protests to my friends. Nothing is ever “good” if it can be “sooooo slay bestie fjlsdjkflasdjklf it’s giving everything”. This is the way I communicate on a daily basis: a parade of all caps and unintelligible screeches that some would call “performative” (and most would call “annoying”). Like anyone else who did drama in high school, I am barely even being real in real life: exaggeration is my baseline hyperbole is my bread and butter (which, by the way, is LITERALLY my favourite meal and simply transcendent as a gorgeous mid-morning snack when ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE will suffice). Clearly, the promise of a spontaneous alternative has struck a nerve: people are fleeing to BeReal in droves – 7 million of them, in fact, making it the top free app on the App Store across Australia, the UK, and the US.īut when the invite rolls in, I think, “be real?”. Facebook, meanwhile, is a crypto bro packed with phishing memes and none of your friends. As we learned over the last week, Instagram hates you now and won’t stop blasting full-volume videos from accounts you don’t follow – despite Kim and Kylie’s best efforts. The aim is to offer an antidote to the manicured worlds of other platforms and all their algorithmic anxiety.
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