BeReal is making a feed of simply well-known individuals

BeReal is releasing one other characteristic that appears to counter the aim of the app: a feed devoted to well-known individuals. As a substitute of exchanging each day pictures with your folks, now you’ll get to see what the highest athletes, artists, and activists of the world are as much as.

BeReal, the app that markets itself as “Your mates for actual,” provides you completely different home windows of time every day to take a selfie and front-facing photograph that will get shared with mates. The entire level of the app is to randomly share what you’re as much as with mates, whether or not you’re doing one thing as boring as laying in mattress or sitting in entrance of your laptop at work.

However now, BeReal is throwing strangers into the combination. Its new feed, referred to as RealPeople, is a “curated timeline of the world’s most attention-grabbing individuals” that options “an ever-changing assortment” of high-profile individuals from across the globe. The entire level of the characteristic is to point out that celebrities are common people identical to us (sure, actually).

“RealPeople isn’t about influencing, amassing likes or feedback, or selling manufacturers,” BeReal writes. “You received’t see photoshopped photos, product suggestions or advertisements disguised as posts. It’s making an attempt to point out we’re all extra alike than we expect.”

The app is just testing the characteristic within the UK for now, which you’ll entry by deciding on the Discovery tab after which hitting RealPeople. From right here, you’ll be able to react to posts with a RealMoji as you scroll by way of the timeline, in addition to conceal posts and report them. BeReal additionally notes that you would be able to recommend somebody (or your self) for its RealPeople timeline by way of this type, though it’s unclear whether or not BeReal has customers lined up for its feed already.