BeReal is releasing another feature that seems to counter the purpose of the app: a feed dedicated to famous people. Instead of exchanging daily photos with your friends, now youâll get to see what the top athletes, artists, and activists of the world are up to.
BeReal, the app that markets itself as âYour friends for real,â gives you different windows of time each day to take a selfie and front-facing photo that gets shared with friends. The whole point of the app is to randomly share what youâre up to with friends, whether youâre doing something as boring as laying in bed or sitting in front of your computer at work.
But now, BeReal is throwing strangers into the mix. Its new feed, called RealPeople, is a âcurated timeline of the worldâs most interesting peopleâ that features âan ever-changing collectionâ of high-profile people from around the globe. The whole point of the feature is to show that celebrities are regular humans just like us (yes, really).
âRealPeople isnât about influencing, amassing likes or comments, or promoting brands,â BeReal writes. âYou wonât see photoshopped pictures, product recommendations or ads disguised as posts. Itâs trying to show weâre all more alike than we think.â
The app is only testing the feature in the UK for now, which you can access by selecting the Discovery tab and then hitting RealPeople. From here, you can react to posts with a RealMoji as you scroll through the timeline, as well as hide posts and report them. BeReal also notes that you can suggest someone (or yourself) for its RealPeople timeline through this form, although itâs unclear whether BeReal has users lined up for its feed already.