Discord, a renowned messaging platform, declared the acquisition of Gas which is a famous app among teenagers for its positive take on social media.
Users enroll with their school, add their friends, and participate in polls regarding their fellow students on Gas. The poll questions, on the other hand, are intended to boost instead of weaken users’ confidence.
Teens might be asked to choose one of four friends who is either the best DJ or possesses the best smile. The selected person will then receive an anonymous note having their remark from an unknown “fella in 10th grade” or “girl in 11th grade.”
Nikita Bier established Gas after selling an identical application known as ‘tbh’ to Facebook in 2017. However, ‘tbh’ has been shut down since then.
Gas has received 7.4 million downloads and nearly $7 million in consumer expenditure ever since its release in the summer of 2022, as per Sensor Tower data. Users can pay for a feature called “God Mode,” which provides users with clues as to who their secret compliments are from.
“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,” Discord wrote in an announcement.
Source: techcrunch.com
Bier stated that Gas would have four team members as of October.
Gas has had a difficult exit even though it became popular rapidly. The app was the topic of a widely spread sex-trafficking rumour, which was untrue but had an impact on downloads.
Bier told the Washington Post that as a consequence of the hoax, he and his team got a lot of graphic death threats. Other renowned social media apps, such as IRL &WalkSafe, have also been blamed for human trafficking.
Gas is one of the numerous anonymous applications that have recently gone viral, some centered on compliments and others not. However, TechCrunch discovered that apps such as NGL & Sendit were using bots to replicate engagement.
These apps, like Gas, allow people to pay to find out who asked questions. After it was disclosed that the questions just weren’t posed by their mates, some users were justifiably upset. In the meantime, 9count, the company behind Spark and Summer, is developing nocapp, an app similar to Gas.
Even though Discord will continue to offer Gas as a standalone product, the company recently stated that it would incorporate several apps into its servers. As a result, we may see these wonderful community polls on the messenger service platform in the future. The terms of the Gas acquisition by Discord are unknown.
“We’re always working to create an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider and we’re excited to welcome Gas to the Discord community as our next step to fulfilling that vision,” Discord wrote in its announcement.
Source: techcrunch.com
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