BeReal - The Instagram Killer?
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- Опубликовано: 12 ноя 2022
- BeReal is a brand new Social Media app trying to take on Instagram - But is it going to win?
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nop i not use real bee
nah not me
Nah
I use BeReal and it's awesome!!
Not on it but I’ve heard good things about it!
At this moment I feel like RUclips is the only platform that is irreplaceable. More and more people are searching for an instagram alternative.
That's mainly because RUclips is extremely flexible and pretty barebones.
You upload a video and people comment. That's mostly it. A lot of videohosting sites exist but RUclips became super popular and needs no alternative.
It has a massive market share already which will be hard to topple (being part of Google is a big boost).
They have of course made some questionable decisions in the past but nothing major enough to drive the core audience away (core audience being people who subscribe and follow).
It's video heavy content means creators can have their audience engage for longer times. Where else can you ask a person to give you an hour of your time? Unless you start a flame war on Twitter?
Lastly, RUclips values its creators more than other companies, so people stay
Rumble is starting to take its place
@@TruthOne313 i... Haven't heard of that ngl
haha peste tot esti :))
Do you think instagram is self aware enough to know that? One would think they would change everything back to how it was before the Facebook acquisition if they were.
The thing is no one is forcing you to be "fake" on Instagram or other social media. You have the choice not to be. But people are just addicted to it, so they need BeReal as a sort of 'Rehab' where they're not allowed to be fake.
And then people still try and fake their be reals
LOL so true
Agreed! People could be real on Instagram without using just another app.
@@PedroFigs If people are real on Instagram, their posts wont get any attraction. That is why Instagram "forces" you to be fake because that's the only way a large amount of people will see and like your posts.
The problem is, if most of the people you see are being fake, then you need to be fake too or be left behind.
BeReal feels like an app that may be used by people just as an addition to their existing social media rather than a replacement of instagram. Moreover i would not want an app disturbing me at random times bugging me to post random pictures.
Huh? No one is forcing you? Who told you that bs?
Forcing? Only if you feel like it and late BeReals exist. BeReal is the main social media platform for me to post pictures on
That’s what I am saying, no one forces you, even if you download it, take a picture, then post it. You can always just turn the motivations off.
That's exactly what it is, it got popular on TikTok and has been used by the same people that also use TikTok and Instagram multiple hours a day. There's no point if you don't already have problems with social media use, but every single person I've seen that DOES and gets this app to solve it ends up deleting BeReal before Instagram or TikTok anyways.
The thing no one seems to mention is that you can post a "late" bereal which can be planned. It has to be after a certain time, but if the bereal comes at 9am, you can post your bereal whenever you want. I'm saving mine for when I'm going to do sports later cause I was eating dinner when it came up
6:58 he mentions that here
I see BeReal just as an app to talk to friends and see what they're up to.
Personally, I've made this mental switch to be sceptical about everything I see on (for example) Instagram. But i don't think BeReal will be "The Instagram Killer".
Just another app to the constantly evolving world.
Agreed
yeah agreed
Did the Be Real took your profile pic?
Here's your 1000th like!!
I think it won't be even getting to having anywhere near as active users as Reality.
It's this app where you can actually can film yourself as a V-tuber.
I also have my own model there.
it's so sad that the social media that harms us, gets us obsessed and addicted, is by its concept more successful than the one that brings us together
That's by design though, because our time and attention are a commodity now and monetized.
A trading society is inherently anti-human. We need to work toward a trade-free world. Trade is where all evil (corruption, hoarding, war, etc) come from.
@@xhbn2157 Some people might see your comment as "HURR DURR COMMIE", but you're absolutely right. Money ruins everything, greed ruins everything, the desire for power ruins everything.
The fact that they understood about those with mental health issues, makes it more successful to bring everyone together.. (2)
It's called running a Business
Not just
"Connecting Friends"
We live in ILLUMINATI world for eons and it will continue to do so
The thing is to become some Real minded Human not an Social Media user
This is a very dangerous app in my opinion...giving your location at a real time. Even friends and people you think you know can be stalkers...that's why I never post in real time💀
Another thing is school, I feel like almost every notification would be during school
You can turn it off. Just like any other apps.
@@sundalongpatpat or better yet, they could just not get the app, and move on
@@sykokilled answer late then
also just turn off the location
I feel like BeReal its designed to keep you on a leash, tied to the apps desire and keeping you pending of the phone and notifications all day long. You can be real on Instagram, and you should not care if others are real or not. Just be yourself and keep your friends on the physical world and not as much in the virtual one
100% AGREED !!!!!!
And to track you every move and who is it sharing your data with
Bruh what? Idc if I miss the notification or not. Stuff isn’t that interesting there anyways and I could also just post a late or not at all. Instagram would make me feel out of place if I just sat and took a picture of my math homework
@@thefluffernutters2572 bruh you think Instagram is better than BeReal in privacy?
@@realtimestatic I think they are all shit I use instagram because there is more breeders for the type of dog I have and thats the only reason
My main issue with it is that the premise encourages you to have your phone on you constantly, with notification sounds on. I don't want to have to be essentially on call all day just to post a picture - which more likely than not is going to happen during a time of the day where I have nothing interesting to take a photo of anyway.
Exactly
I don’t think the app is incentivizing this. I think it’s just if you happen to see you it you take a picture
That’s already the case with 99% of people? Sounds may not be on but we know the instant a text comes in. The point is not to have to be interesting at all.
I don't see the issue at all. If u happen to see the notification, take a photo. If u get it and don't feel comfortable doing so in that environment, then don't. Day to day life IS boring and uninteresting. The point is to connect with people. (As a plus, the interesting moments feel all the more special)
That just says how ur addicted to post a picture everyday, u can avoid posting regularly but this app I think its a real good detox from all the glittering social media
I think the difference is that this really highlights our real life social group. Which how broad every social media platform is, from influencers, to celebrities, family, friends, artists, brands, schools, having accounts on there, the content is very unpersonal. It doesn't feel like real connections.
At the same time, Be real almost feels dystopian in how IT decides when YOU need to use it to stay "relevant"
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Sounds like it’s just encouraging users to actually be real. If you can predict it will become as perfected as Instagram.
Agreed. Once the novelty wears out, period will get bored of the redundancy. Oh cool, Mike is at work again. Kristen is with her kids, and Nick is playing video games for the 39th day in a row... Sounds fun!
Am I the only one who doesn’t understand the appeal of social media? I just don’t find social media other than RUclips to be entertaining, I just really don’t give a shit what people had for their breakfast or them trying their best to make themselves look attractive, I don’t get the appeal of scrolling through a bunch of photos that I just don’t give a damn about it’s so boring to me. It’s only really RUclips that I use as social media because it acts like tv for me, but I can watch any content I want at any time
People can fake Snaps, I am sure they can fake this too plus you can be prepared for the notification by having cool things ready to take pictures of
A lot of people have said this, but I want to say it too. What’s stoping some one from faking something in those 2 minutes? It’s dam easy to stop what your doing, make something fake and then go back to what your doing.
Nothing but there’s no incentive as it’s gone after a day and you don’t really have that many people to share it with
I honestly had no interest in downloading this app, but you did such a great job explaining the app and its benefits! Great video :)
How's it going, have you used it a lot?
@@ArunaUtd honestly have no friends / not enough friends who use the app so not really any point to download it
I think the main problem with BeReal is that it's super underdeveloped as an app. It's hard to scroll all the way to find someone. They should add an easier to find a specific BeReal feature.
As well as the ability to record videos, and a like system.
@@R.K_Chalkboard that's LITERALLY the exact seller for BeReal, the lack of those features
@@nezzled you being able to record isn’t gonna kill the app it’s going to make it better
@@shinobi._. as someone from the outside looking in, I think the app is supposed to be as minimalist as possible. It's a weird decision to exclude videos, but I think that's part of the point.
@@R.K_Chalkboard there is a like system? you can literally react with your face.
I installed it, I liked the idea... until I saw a post where they noted the danger of everyone putting where they really are. Perhaps in more advanced countries it would not be a problem, but the fact that an app or people know almost exactly where and what you are doing at that precise moment is something, at least alarming.
I thought the same. I'm not super paranoid over apps collecting all this data about me (when it's inevitable being on any device with internet or platform) but I still worry about all of the photos that are hastily being taken and shared and how it could be used adversely. Apps that constantly, and clearly track your location may be nice for use with family members but outside of that, it's kinda scary. I'm even skeptical of snapchat and haven't had enough reason to download it even after being excluded from social group communications for not having it. The authentic appearance of bereal is also compromised by "hey everyone pose for my bereal"
thats actually a good argument...privacy settings are very important here...
you can turn that setting off
Exactly. Even if you turn off the setting that shares ones location the person is literally posting a picture of their exact location and what they're doing. 🤷🏾♀️
I mean the app itself is based in France and has good privacy practices. This doesn’t stop people you added as friends from using that data against you
As someone who has had stalkers, this is terrifying that it real time posts pics of where you are. Be safe fam
this
Exactly
Your account is default private and only the users you add can see your posts.
It's not public
it's private tho
I like the concept, but I think a system like that should have ways of talking to your friends on it. Like friend circles, group chats, ETC ETC. This isn't the type of social media where you're aiming for clout, so having a way to talk to your close group of friends would be sick. The only reason I'm not thinking of getting this is that I'd still need to use Instagram to talk with my friends, and messaging someone on Instagram asking 'Did you see my BeReal?' wouldn't be very intuitive.
So this is what snapchat is? Or am I wrong?
Honestly life just moves so fast I like that you can look back and see what you were doing at random days, and the weeks don’t just all merge together.
I just thought of what if you are on the toilet or showering or such
2:26 I'm genuinely dying just imagining someone rushing to get a fire extinguisher, getting the notification and just stopping immediately to take a picture of their kitchen's certain doom
sadly , BeReal died because the fact that is an app for the people , it doesn’t get popular because there aren’t any “the people” anymore . Everyone is fake . Literally . BeReal is just too good for humanity and we don’t deserve it
Or maybe because trying to distance yourself from social media by using another social media app is a dumb idea
Agree made a lot of good points. Be real might not become the next big thing but what we do learned from be real is that people want the change
I don’t really get how BeReal is that much different from any other social media app since you can just ignore the 2 minute timer and post whenever you want, still often highlighting the best part of your day, showing a ”fake” life.
@@kinoposts I mean I guess that's what makes it real? You're can't post when u want to which means you can't "prepare" to post something. It's about being real. Post whatever you're up to in the alotted time period, without preparation and the ability to "fake" it. No editing, no making it better than it seems. Just real.
It's based on a few factors:
1. It's spontaneous, so you can't prepare for it, making the thing you're posting more real;
2. Because everyone is prompted at the same time, everyone will also be browsing at the same time;
3. Because it's spontaneous, even thought 99% of it will be boring, there is a good chance at least one friend will have a mildly interesting thing going on, which thanks to the context of boring posts and how spontaneous it is, it will become a lot more interesting and engaging;
4. Because everyone is doing it at the same time, it's more engaging and interesting.
Think of it like this: you're browsing instagram and see a stories your friend post about this cat she found in the street and just came to sit on her lap. It's cool, cute, but there are another 55 stories from other friends with also the best part of their day waiting. By comparison, the cat loses that novelty.
But if when the cat sat on her lap it just so happened that she got the notification - well, first what a coincidence! That is novel by itself. Then, everyone will be seeing the picture at the same time. And finally, because most of other posts will likely be boring, her's gets a massive boost in attention.
@@krazymeanie Except this concept breaks apart after using it for a couple days, because you relaise you can just post a late be-real whenever you want after the original 2-min period and prepare for your picture as much as you want.
In a way this feature is good, because at least you don't just see the same "sitting in front of my macbook studying" picture from all your friends every single day. people can take the picture 12 hours later when they're at a party on in the park or whatever mildly more interesting thing they might be doing. BUT this kills the "Realness" of BeReal in a way.
Well, its the concept, if you want be "fake" you gonna be fake in instragam, not in this one, theres no motivation to do it here
@@chgeri2232 no but others will no that you faked it because it tells that person posted late so if anyone looked at the pics then see them as being even the slightest of perfection like make uped at a park havin the best time of your life sure would be more convincing if it is on time but personally if i saw that my friend posted late and then they have such a perfect pic then i would know it is fully faked, or in a very low chance that they were having the perfect time of their life and they were late to post but that is very unlikely since the app id spontaneously popping up these messages to take pictures, some thing they should add is how late the person posting is.
I deleted Instagram a few weeks ago for the reasons you gave. Instagram nowadays is just one big company and people trying to look successful and rich while faking most pictures they post. Also BeReal is just a simple app to keep in touch with friends without forcing you to use it most of the day 👍🏻 I think this is a very healthy alternative for Instagram.
Man, I came here to watch a review on the BeReal app. But, what I got was a video that was indeed a pleasure to watch with it's cool visuals and "attention keeping" content and narration. I immediately subbed and can't wait to check out other videos on this channel. Keep up the great work. 😎👍👍👍
For Be Real to show you who you really are, without the use of fake filters & add-ons, boosts your confidence more than any other social media app out there. It's honest and "no pretending."
I'm guessing if it actually takes off then it will either get bought by one of the big social media sharks, or more likely the time-sync feature will pop up on Insta or Twitter. So BeReals best case scenario for survival is to remain a niche social media service provider
@@dohadeer8242 yeah tiktok already ripped it off a bit but yeah
@@mikefromco a bit? tik toks is exactly the same lmaoo
Just a guess, but i think they made this app to check real consume habits and kind of a market study of what people really use day by day instead of what people want or brag about once in a while. Think about it. They have both your sides. Wants and "luxury" habits on insta and now your "normal" consume habits so they can even target what you need for those normal things to mantain them, or replace them in that range of price.
I'm not in
It's as "real" as your ex-girlfriend that would plan an entire day around being "spontaneous."
I don't have BeReal, but I know people who do, and it's astonishing to me how fake people can be within two minutes. I understand BeReal solves a problem, but at least people would post on Instagram in their own time. Sometimes I'm in the middle of a conversation with somebody where at the moment they get the notification, they stop me in the middle of my sentence and push a camera in my face. BeReal might improve the experience of social media, but it is definitely more intrusive for the people they interact with in real life. At least in my opinion.
Also, it invites people to be fake in the moment. Which is arguably even worse. I'm doubtful whether some of these 'hilarious, in the moment' BeReals are actually real and not staged. Who says that guy didn't just flip his plate the moment he got the BeReal notification to come across as 'authentically hilarious'?
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yeah i agree with everything you said. bereal just seems more like nuisance to me tbh
That’s my concern as well…that even though is “in the moment”, people can still be faking things…
Robert Nagel, the degree to which your comment is true, is the degree to which it indicts people for their inclinations to prefer being 'fake' over being 'real'. No technology can *force* people to want to be authentic, sincere, honest, transparent, vulnerable, etc. That's a *personal* choice. So, given the opportunity to participate in an *authentic* way, and responding to that opportunity by *conniving* how to be fake... says more about those people's character & integrity (or, the lack thereof) than it does about BeReal or any other platform that *invites* people to shed their inauthenticity.
@@RichardHarlos 100% agree
The narcissistic tendencies social media has either exposed or cultivated in people, has been the most glaring, destructive effect of social media. Self serving, nothing else gets done.. Every thing they do, MUST be shared, because of how special their every thought and gesture, is to mankind, apparently
beReal is made to be used without too much overthinking.
You don’t like having notifications on?
If in some moments you can’t post it, don’t do it! Just do it later.
I know people will say: oh but then it s fake!
Not necessarily.
BeReal is showing your mindset, if you feel like posting something stupid or boring is fun then you won’t post something fake just to show off.
Dont use anything healthiest ever still dont be antisocial 😆
The paradox with this is that social media pushes us towards getting attention. Right now it will be a "hype" to be original but with time being original will eventually become, "unoriginal" and boring. The race towards posting "most original photo" will lead to the purpose being defeated unless appropriate changes are made to the app.
Early adopters of Facebook were quite close to this app since they posted their lives. So yeah, you can say that this is a refined form of Facebook.
Short term success? Yes
Long term sustainability? Doubtful
why do you even use social media?
@@vamshitarun4399 Good question
@Tori 🤝
i think if they added messaging people would definitely stay much longer on it.
If it had a good messaging part and my friends were on it i would totally get on board even going as far as deleting Instagram.
Yes also a feature like how late the person posted is so you can tell how fake it is.
@@cricfan1880 but it also is featured
@@cricfan1880 they already have that
6:11
The captions went Never Gonna
Not Arun in par with Google, rickrolling us in the best possible way.
I think you’re right about GencZ - remember a couple of years ago, when the show Friends has a renaissance amongst that group, and one one the reasons was because Gen Z found it fascinating to see how friendship groups existed and functioned and dated in the time before the internet and smartphones.
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Honestly, at this point, nothing can even come close to killing instagram.
people said that about facebook
@@therapeutist Facebook is an ad behemoth. It's not dead with anyone over 30.
@@therapeutist and facebook still have more users than any other social media
Nothing except Meta itself - hoping for the best!
That's what they say for everything in the beginning....
The reason I never got this app is that is uses a notification you only have 2 minutes to respond to. One of the best ways to not get sucked into social media is to turn off notifications and get out of the habit of checking your phone. I often don't look at my phone for hours at a time while I focus on more important things, so this alone kills any chance of using the app for me
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ddwa
you dont have to do it in the two minute time frame, you can post it any time after that
@@lolonny777 then what's the point of it?
@@BeliaLove it’s just encouraged to do it in the two minute time frame, if it was ONLY postable within that time frame then it wouldn’t be fair no one would be able to do it everyday 😭 the point of the app still stands, and it’s a fun and quirky thing to use. it probably won’t last, but it’s fun 🤷🏽
My God, is this a script originally for a film? Its so goood. You're the boss!
I was watching to the part about how the notif always comes when least expecting it an thought that it would be funny if the notif would come right now, and it did :D
It would be a nightmare for me, if an app tell (demanding) me to socialize when I don't want to (which is most of the time)
You can do the socialising aspect later, looking and reacting to other peoples bereals, youd just have to snap a photo real quick
🤓
You know you don't HAVE to do it everyday, or every time, right?
Just don't do it
Ye me too 😅
I also think there is a severe element of privacy. It’s hard to trust any social media harvesting your data when it makes you take random pictures during your day. At least with social media today, you can control what you’re comfortable with them seeing.
That's the first thing that came to my mind too. Good or boring or whatever, this app feels like a privacy hazard to me.
This. Also, when you're given just two minutes to take a photo and no editing, it's not easy to make sure everything that needs to be secure is actually secure. For example, what if you have idk, your or someone else's ID or credit card lying around within the frame?
I used the app a little a while back. The location sharing was an instant turnoff for me. Even public pictures are often tagged with a general location. I hate it.
I believe most social medias can access anything you may have, even if you do not choose to share it on your page. When instagram and snapchat requests access to your camera, photos, contacts. Pretty sure now they have instant access to all of the photos saved on your phone as well as all of your contacts to help populate your personal profile. So choosing what you share and dont doesnt really prevent big companies from accessing your data.
Also giving access to your camera in order to take stories, make posts on Instagram already compromises your privacy. Its already known that people including the government can hack into your webcams in order to spy on you without your permission. Whats stopping these big companies from taking photos of you whenever they want once you have granted them access to your camera. If you truly are afraid of 'privacy' then your best bet is to completely stay off of social media. Other than this I don't see anyone being able to completely avoid the privacy issue.
5:43 that was littrally my exact words on colin and samir's short about BeReal lmao
Puts a lot more Pressure on us to always look perfect and live a great Life.
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7:04 I think a possible solution to avoiding the notification coming up at inconvenient times is having an option where you're 'offline'---the specific hours you can't be active. Say you're at school, or at work, etc., you can set the specific time you won't be active during a day. Of course, this is not a flawless solution, as people could set almost all hours of the day as offline, and people have slightly varying schedules each day. But it's an idea to think about nonetheless.
Maybe take the average sleep time (5-7hrs) and average work hour (6-8hrs) and then let people to be "offline" for those amount of hours combined
The reality is that you can't have any social media system that can't be subverted by its users in some form. At the end of the day this is essentially a social media tool for people unable to just be honest in their daily presentation through their existing social media and who need an external framework to enforce that behaviour onto them.
That was another problem I had with his description of the app. My boss is not gonna understand me posting I’ll be real right now because I don’t have a choice. It’s stupid. Social media needs to be something I can do when I’m off the clock not something that I have to do it a particular given time when a notification pops up on my phone.
You can post a late bereal. I don't post mine in work or at uni. I wait until later that day to post it
BeReal: Sends notification
Guy @ Pizza: Yeeet
Make an updated video of this app one year later
This is gonna turn into another feature on FB or Insta. Just like Stories, Reels etc they just incorporate anything that becomes a competition.
Tiktok already has
Be real is like the older days of Facebook and instagram. When you would post whatever just happened or random thought you had. And I love it.
LOL yes, i remember posting cringe stuff like 10 or so years ago and now they come up as 'memories' and I'm like wth was I thinking back then 🤦🏻♂️🤣🤣
@@kartikpadmanabhan6377 oh my god I got one of those memories posts the other day. I cringe every time I’m reminded the public can view those posts and pics lol but I’m happy I still have access to those cringey moments
my thoughts exactly too!
You can still do that. But it is trash content.
8:18 he never misses any chance to Rick roll us 😑....
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Bereal might have a change of killer instagram and nice video man :]
I've been using BeReal for a little over a month right now and I LOVE it. I live in a different country to where I grew up (ie friends and family) and a 9 hour time difference makes keeping in touch so tedious, especially when you factor in the fact that most of my friends are having kids now.
I haven't posted on IG in almost 2 years bc my day to day is quite mundane (thanks covid) and I don't have time to 'take aesthetic pictures', but on BeReal I will post myself in my pyjamas, at work, walking down the street, just little insights into what my life is like (and I can see those from my friends and family) and I feel far more connected and uptodate with them and what they're doing. Sometimes the pictures can be the most boring, unappealing shit ever and still teach me things I didn't know about them because I never see that part of their lives.
Also as someone with ADHD, I like that it does send me doom scrolling for hours on end because I don't have the internal mechanism to stop myself. Yes, it won't replace other SNS completely for me, but its ironically the most 'social' media I use, because its actually people I care about in my life who I see all the time.
P.S. My BeReal for today was me watching this video at work :'D
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Theres a reason people want to protect their privacy in photos or profile in general, but taking random images can/may cause careless uploads which may lead to depression and social anxiety if it circles around going viral. Although "BeReal" seems like a positive app it doesnt necessarily protect people's privacy which is not a very good idea in my opinion.
Agree
not agree.
You covered every possible point to consider for a rookie social media app starting the race. 🔥
Siddhant, what you refer to as _"a rookie social media app"_ presumes that there's only one legitimate goal to social media apps, and that goal is to encourage inauthenticity with an aim to promote vanity and profiteering among the participants. As such, any app that promotes the opposite of that can be more accurately characterized as *'transcending the shallow vanity of more popular social media apps, in favor of encouraging authenticity without regard for numbers and profit.'*
Back in the early days of the Internet, it was about connecting people. Today, it's about corralling people into 'categories' such that they can be 'profiled' and exploited in deeply subconscious ways in order to low-key coerce their participation on a level that amounts to vanity and dishonesty about who they really are. And, if these are the kinds of environments that you refer to as *veteran social media apps,* well... you can't fix stupid, right?
The issue of the security and safety of this concept, to take a picture of you and your surroundings at a random time of day is a beacon to where you are is just horrifying. One would hope only friends have access to this information, but you know people are going to add people they don't actually know. This seems like a stalkers dream in certain ways....(￣△￣|||)
Don’t add unknown people🤷🏻♂️ It doesn’t include followers bullshit
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If you don't feel comfortable taking a photo at the time, then don't. There's also no followers or following, u only add people. I really don't see what the issue is.
Honestly, I dont think BeReal isn't boring, sometimes, people who got the notification for being real at that moment have just woken up or got the message at 2AM and their clear annoying reactions can sometimes make me audibly chuckle.
The other apps just goin to a quire that feature though. It soinds cool in theory. Watxh ig start a "right now" tab.. or one of the others. Pressure been on the algirithim to allow a wider reach. Lets see hkw this plays out
They might make you chuckle the first time. What about the second or hundredth time??
@@NahshonWebb have you seen the tiktok now feature? 😪
I'm from the future
the answer is no
Me who's sitting on my bed and runs to grab my laptop and seem like I'm watching an interesting video🤣
the amount of very fun content that people have been able to produce from be real is astonishing,.it goes to show we can embrace a world without perfectionism .people will definitely embrace it .
Be Real is definitely interesting. I personally wouldn’t use it since I am normally a “ghost” on social media. I almost never post, comment, or like. Except on Twitter but that’s the only social media I actually engage in. That being said the one person I would use Be Real with is an SO. I think it would be great to see them at a random point in the day.
A thing that i think could help it is having a messaging system, wouldn't kill the real factor and it would give it another use. Especially since come to find out a lot of people who have it are people who don't like/have regular social media and would be a good way to communicate, if they wanted they could do a like a Snapchat but with bereals to individual ppl but i think that's a stretch
I just remember Arun saying that BeReal was a flop and a fail in one of his tech fail vids. Interesting turn…
My only interaction so far with BeReal was some teenagers riding their electric scooter in flood water asking me to take a photo of them. I had no idea it would show me in my ruroc helmet too till I took the photo.
I guess that's why they asked.
I also didn't know there is a time limit.
6:04 really no makeup... Wow how shocking, that's honestly sad to hear, imagine needing makeup for a picture..
bro insecurity is real
@@entitypolyhedron so what if it is, I've hated make up all my life, you know what worse than your own insecurity being "fake" or whatever you wanna call it... (as in excessive and or noticeable make up) if you use make up and it doesn't look like you put plastic or multiple layers on your face its fine
@@elismart13 uh?
okay good response i guess
Always so Fun with this Rick Astley things in the Videos :)
I like the platform and it’s a great video one thing though as you mention you can post late… and I’d say the majority of people do that so you could theoretically „plan“ as you mentioned and
I like the incentive though that you can only view others bereals if you post yourself
Its single gimmick is also strangely painted as some kind of "take your freedom from social media" feature, when the app is literally telling when and where to use it and how, and everyone must just follow that command to engage at all. I use apps like Insta but while sometimes I might spend a few hours a day on it I often go without launching it for a month or more, I can choose how to engage with it (whether it's to DM, check a friend's story, or look at memes or educational content).
Really the worst thing that happened to insta was just its attempt to tackle TikTok by becoming TikTok (copying a good idea like stories to add another point of engagement is one thing but to gimp your own platform and shadowban your users to become a bad copycat is mental).
BeReal seems like a fad, and it's like stories with extra steps, how long will people be entertained looking at their friends' desk? Also, when you think about the extent that people would go to be popular online it's not hard to imagine what people expect will happen: some users will try to always have something interesting going on around them to make sure that when the notification comes they're ready for it.
not just that: any self respecting company will ban this app immediately. The chance of trading secrets or other information being leaked by this is just too high.
The thing is it is kept between peoples you friended so if you friended some weirdo then really it is your fault and later problem 😂😂 also many kids do not shut their insta down and go off in a camping lodge for a month for example, it is actually becoming a problem and it gives others the idea of that their life isnt as perfect as their friends.
@@cricfan1880 These reals are being displayed at random to random people.
Further: other apps don't force you to take a picture of you and your surroundings.
@@boahneelassmal that's gotta be the worst take I've ever heard. Just point the camera to your knees or the ceiling.
The company will definitely up the requests with time because capitalism, not charity. The app won't get rid of the big social divide, which is always going to show itself in pictures and push people towards faking to look better.
6:23 The best thing in this video
I love this so much. I hope it catches on!
R.I.P to BeReal
Plot twist: BeReal only named themselves "BeReal" so Arun could make his joke at 7:06
Nica attention
Legit
*With this expression
Cool to see you make a video on this. I've generally been a bit against most social media platforms, however it's been really fun using it for the past two months
It will be fascinating to see for how long they can grow without an actual business model, and what will the model turn out like eventually.
Man I want this to be a real thing. I want real connection again, no fakeery on stories.
6:38 that was legit most authentic face I make while scrolling mindlessly through social media.
as someone in gen Z who doesn’t use Instagram and hasn’t joined bereal, like…there is quite literally nothing there but the gimmick, and IMO it’s an annoying and potentially dangerous one. “Oh, driving home? Well, better pull off the highway and take that snapshot, or you’re gonna miss your daily online interaction with all your friends!”
And past that surface level sort of problem, I feel like it has the potential to push social media influence even deeper into peoples’ lives. It’s the early days of the platform; what’s to say as it evolves people _won’t_ start to curate and expertly manipulate their bereal posts? What’s to stop people from literally loitering by wherever they want to take a post until the notification comes? Or, with that pizza one, dropping a pizza on the ground then waiting for bereal to pop the notification? And IMO bereal exerts even more pressure on users than apps like Instagram do, because they’re essentially telling people “you have to do this every single day or else you miss out on interacting with everyone”, so IMO that _is_ the likely direction the app is going to go.
Maybe it’s just me being too cynical or skeptical, but this doesn’t seem like some sort of moral savior of social media to me, just another platform. Sure, they’re not quite toxic yet, and their gimmick supposedly gets around the big complaints about Instagram, but I don’t see any ‘safeguards’ or anything. And it’s done nothing to actually combat the invasiveness of social media on peoples’ lives, if anything it’s actively poised to make it worse. If the gimmick manages to actually carry the app past its lack of content and features, I really doubt this is going to end up anywhere good.
Same situation
wow best comment here, very insightfull. Someone who can see!!
Its really up to yourself, but nobody with basic critical thinking skill is gonna stop in their car to take a BeReal.
One thing your kinda right about, is the fact that people will just wait to take their snapshot (cuz yes, u can do that) to show off something fun, or to make it look like they have a good life (which is really sad, ive known a couple of them), so your criticism is very valid!
@@sanderengelen9140 you assume I’m talking about anyone with basic critical thinking when the entire problem with social media for years has been a slowly dwindling level of critical thinking
Or doing something really stupid just for the BeReal, such as dropping your pizza on purpose after you get the notification
The idea is good and fresh. But I am not sure about the random time of notification 🤔
People are treating this as much bigger thing than it is. It feels like it was designed for friend groups to learn what each other does when they aren't hanging out. Privacy isn't an issue because you can off your location. You can very easily make your account private so only your friends know what you are doing.
This might be an a bit longer comment since I want to put together all my thoughts on BeReal.
To have my opinion be clear straight from the beginning:
I love the concept and the idea behind it.
I've never actually actively used Instagram to check out other people's lives.
And I have always been aware of the fact that all I'm seeing is "the best" of a person.
I think that BeReal requires its users to have a specific mindset.
The mindset to be open and committed to posting random moments of your life without editing or setting them up even a bit every single day.
There's a couple of things that prevent this kind of mindset.
Those being the already high standard that people think they need to have.
That's why, as you mentioned in the videos, some people don't want to share pictures of them without make-up and/or filters.
Lots of people think that being less pretty and being random is less appealing to others.
In my opinion, that is complete nonsense.
I think that randomness and the fact that people are open to do this sorts of things just makes them overall more wholesome because you know exactly that they aren't afraid of showing themselves and their daily life.
People these days forget to see more than just what's in front of them.
Just a quick question:
When you see a random person's post and they don't have make-up on... do you even notice that?
Do you care about it in the first place?
I would bet that you don't.
And that's how other people see you.
Most of them simply don't care how pretty you're making yourself look.
The pure insecurity we have is one of the main factors that would prevent people from using BeReal in a serious manner.
But I think if people would be more open towards the idea of doing this, it would lead to a way mentally healthier society than what we have now.
I downloaded the app a few hours ago and it already gave me this feeling of my life not being as boring as I initially thought.
It shows me that others have this standard, straight forward and sometimes "boring" life, just like I do.
It makes the things I do feel way less like a waste of time thinking my life is so boring compared to others.
But what this app really needs is contribution from everyone.
Because sending blacked out pictures every day or simply being too lazy about it won't achieve the goal this social media platform is following.
It needs the contribution of every single one of us to take part and show the world how plain and simple our lives can be.
This is all I had on my mind right now, thank you for taking your time to read this.
Have a wonderful day everyone, stay safe and be happy!
At this point, BeReal is pretty ineffective because it falls by the wayside while other platforms remain unrestricted. I know people who use Insta, TikTok and Snap in conjunction with BeReal, and it’s almost redundant. Social media is still as addictive as it always has been.
I think I found a solution for how BeReal could get their finance, by introducing some features that are locked in a subscription. I'm thinking kinda like how Discord does. Like maybe being able to comment in GIF and Animated stickers but only when you are in their subscription? Or maybe you can create and customize groups where you can share BeReals in only this specific group, only for people with subscription? I never used the app though, im just throwing out the idea out here 😅
1. I'm finally early for one of your videos
2. I've heard about this and I know a few people using I already, I must admit that I really enjoy the concept, it is an honest portal to social media. It's a way to see the real sides of people, and their everyday, non fake lives. I think I should start using it myself
Another issue is that most people only have 1-2 close friends they’d want to share each random moment with. You did mention it, but left out that not only would the potential user need to be interested, but they’d have to convince the specific people, where with other social medias you could, as you briefly mentioned, add those you are less close to.
Listening you listing the negative side, it made me love BeReal even more.
Could you do a full video on plant gadgets?
I wonder how easy it is to fake those as well. Let's say I have a lazy day off work and I don't do a lot except sitting around. In theory I should be taking the mouldy pizza out to the trash bin but I can't be bothered to do so. In this moment a realization hits me like a freight train on a beautiful summer day, I could place the pizza upside down on my kitchen floor and when the notification arrives I just snap a pic. Everyone will think that this really just happened to me and I'll get loads of this sweet, addicting internet credit and more importantly attention!
I know it is a lot harder to fake pics than on Instagram but judging by the examples in this video I think that there are still mostly fake ones or at least artificially created ones. E.g. the pregnancy test one. Maybe she is pregnant but it is so easy to carry the test around in your bag for a bit, hoping that the notification may arrive soon. Sure, the pic would still show the truth but she did't just found out about it. Or the guy at 1:49 leaning against the red car. It just seems odd that he was leaning against a nice looking car in a cool pose in exactly the moment the notification came in. Since you have two minutes that is enough to stage a lot of things if you are at least mildly prepared. Burning pan? No problem with two minutes time! Leaning against a nice car? Just run out of the office if possible and lean against you collegues car.
I appreciate what the app is trying to do and it captures normal mundane tasks way better but I think you can still easily fake it. An if people and Influencers can get attention by doing so, they will find a way, no matter how obscure and difficult it might be, remember that people already died for the perfect instagram photo, so they will do whatever it takes for the adrenaline kick when a lot of followers like your pic
@Vidéo Graphisme LFJM a few minutes, was at my pc, on mobile it would've taken me a bit ;-)
Arun speaking seriously while me vibing to the music (5:30)
Liked it, although problem is what if your in the middle of a class in school.
I hope RUclips does not mess up (more), because I can't imagine watching my favorite platform die.
Thanks for the feedback, and comment, Expect more videos soon
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4:15 Thats quite a fluffy person.
Fr
cute too
Yup :P
3:12 Rick Ashley face Rick roll, me so hard great job that was very creative lmao
The thing I don't like about BeReal is that you're supposed to be with your phone waiting for the notification at all times. If you don't, you're fake. I rarely take my BeReals on time just because I wasn't on my phone at the moment, or I was in class, or on the toilet. No one wants to see you on the toilet. It seems like a lot of people are just obsessed with NOT being "fake" that it's just as toxic as Instagram.
Man!!! I love your mid jokes🤣🤣🤣
man ur one of the only ones who produces high quality videos very fast, ur always energetic and trying to be funny, respect!
4:27 Oh.... He is Rick Astley
6:15 - I think a very possible way to solve this location-based security issue while still keeping the concept.
The first part is to modify the location data gathered to display a general name (ex. If you are at a starbucks, it would say "Coffee Shop").
The second part is to modify the environment of the pictures taken (so that stalkers can't track you). This would entail 2 parts. First, you would have to detect humans and important objects and non-locational features & lock their pixels. Secondly, you would run all remaining, non-locked pixels through a img-to-img image generation AI with an auto-generated prompt based on the photo and location (and other data) & the original image percentage (priority) set to a high value.
This would result in the image functionally being the same, yet removing all identifying featues (ex. If that flag 4chan-ners found used something like this (and was a picture), the star patterns and plane locations would be different as to mask its location). All of this is possible with currently existing software and would 100% be possible for beReal to write in-house software (or even just use existing open-source options).
@6:25 man here in dk in my city... its 24/7 i can hear the ''woooooooooo'' ... xd
Hit me up
You are among my selected winners
We don't talk enough about Arun's effort to research and the way he presents these videos in scholarly fashion. Giving you the pros and cons and arriving at an objective conclusion.
As a Gen Z person myself I can confirm that I don't want to use Facebook, Snapchat or Instagram because they are all fake as you said. BeReal is just a different, more natural way to keep in touch with the people you know.
fr I dont use face or insta at all. but snap is the life
@@tacothepaco factssss snapchat still on top
People can still fake doing stuff with Bereal lol. The guy who dropped the pizza could have dropped it himself just to have a more interesting bereal
I can Tell you're gen z by your name and pfp
Hey Gen Z, I am also a gen z solution aint bereal. Solution is stop using social medias. Use it only for business and professional work. More than Bereal its better to talk to your friends through phone. Yeah voice or video call. Nobody is forcing you to post something.
I think Be-real would be fun for people who likes Snapchat but without the filter and also for the photogenic people or anyone, who loves taking random pictures of their day, its not like they don't care about what others think , it just they love their reality.
Thanks a lot for the info!
I like that this app lets you see what eachother are doing insted of just chasing clout or other stuff. I like how its kinda fun to see real life things happening and its only a small part of your day 😂
Sounds like instagram lmao
@@AleonNovelle but it happends right then, in insta you can chose what to post whenever
@@Random.Planet you still have to show what you want. So in essence its the same. Literally the same.
@@AleonNovelle true, but i agree to disagree. Because most people on insta wanna show the best parts only once in the while so depending on how you use it it is different. For example The examples he showed are different from insta. but i mean its your opinion so. 😉
@@Random.Planet i mean. If you used the app you would know how similar those two are. I've used both.
After reading some comments, BeReal also seems like a more supplemental feature to instagram. Similar to the different tabs on a profile for feed, reels, tagged, and the latest paid subscription feed function-- a daily catchup feed focused on the now. Though I don't know how it would do long term as a standalone app, as an added feature, people could look at the profile feed and then the daily feed and mitigate their expectations.
I also only see it as an addon to existing platforms. Its like Clubhouse. Im not even sure if that app exists anymore tbh...
BeReal would perfectly fit into apps like Insta and imo even more into Snapchat