Is BeReal—a Social Media App Without Filters—Coming for Instagram's Throne?
glamour.comseem down-to-earth on social media, but you don’t need a blue check mark to know the levels of prep, repositioning, and editing that go into even the most convincing “candid” shots.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.BeReal is only the latest in a long string of trending attempts to escape the pressures of social media…via social media.
Apps like HujiFilm and David’s Disposables became available as a way to mimic pre-iPhone photography by revoking the ability to immediately examine and edit photos.
And as TikTok first gained popularity, it was praised as a for users to be—and look like—themselves. However, even Tiktok has .
These trends point to the same conclusion: We’re exhausted by the obligations dominant social media platforms enforce to retake, retouch, and reinvent ourselves every time we want to post.
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