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The hot new app for Gen Z launched this week and rocketed to the top of the download charts. The
photo-sharing app is called Poparazzi and it s gaining buzz by taking a sledgehammer to ossified social media norms.
A decade ago, Snapchat stole a generation of young users from Facebook by making photos disappear. For Poparazzi, the social media shackle to liberate users from is the selfie.
The app, created by Alex Ma and his brother Austen, encourages you to become your friend s poparazzi instead posting pictures of yourself.
Rather than a perfectly curated Instagram grid, a user s profile consists of unedited photos that others have taken. Poparazzi also eschews traditional social-media metrics: There s no follower count or likes, only total views on a user s photos and the number of emoji reactions to their posts.
Poparazzi topped the free apps chart on the Apple s US App Store after debuting on Monday.
Venture capitalists have been buzzing about the app that could challenge Instagram and Snapchat.
Here s how the new platform that bans selfies and filters works.
A photo-sharing app that bans selfies launched on Monday, generating buzz online and quickly topping the free-downloads chart on the US App Store.
Poparazzi operates as a social-media platform that mimics a paparazzi shoot. It only allows users to take photos of other people. It doesn t allow filters, follower counts, captions, or photos taken by a phone s front-facing camera.