Posted on 01/17/2023 5:35:51 PM PST by algore
Discord has acquired the Gas social app. The poll-based app has become popular among teens in recent months, allowing friends to share compliments with each other. The app is designed for anonymous compliments and positive affirmations or, as kids say, gassing your friends up.
Gas has polls that ask users to vote for things like the most beautiful person they’ve met or the classmate that isn’t afraid to get in trouble. It has soared in popularity among high schoolers since launching in August. One of the co-creators of TBH, a very similar teenager app acquired and shut down by Facebook, created Gas, which has caught the attention of more than 1 million daily active users and 30,000 new users per hour in October.
“Gas’ founders have a proven track record of creating exciting apps and experiences, and we’re thrilled to work with their team to take things to the next level,” says Discord in a blog post announcing the Gas acquisition. “At this time, Gas will continue as its own standalone app and the Gas team will be joining Discord to help our efforts to continue to grow across new and core audiences.”
LOL, OMG, GAS
and it will end up being all like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SwcXDJ3-bs
Discord has added a lot of “extras” to channels lately, like little bots that run games or polls in the channel, etc. So I imagine they are going to want these devs working for them to develop more stuff along those lines. They’re trying to transition from just being a chat app for gamers to being more like a real social network.
How many teens know “I was born in a cross-fire hurricane...”?
“You don’t sweat much for a fat girl.”
GAS as in Gaslighting.
From the comments in your link, lol!
“Watched this for a whole minute waiting for the song to start”
What on earth was that? You can’t actually call that song can you?
Discord is probably singlehandedly responsible for the most sexual dysphoria in this country.
Great. More mental health destroying addictions for young people.
Great minds...
And yet another way to avoid face to face contact.
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