Oh great. Another app for us to get excited about and then stop using it in one
to two weeks. Welcome back to What's Trending, I'm Candace Carrizales. Subscribe for more
social media news every day. Ah. Nothing quite like a nap that's just like
Instagram and doesn't even work. It's the new smash hit app called, Vero.
Vero has over 500,000 downloads in the Google Play App
Store, and it's evidently surging ahead in the iOS App Store (whatever that means).
So this app is kind of like Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook all mushed into
one app. I gotta say I think the interface is pretty sharp. So what sets
this app apart from I don't know insta-snap-book. Get it? Instagram, Snapchat,
Facebook. I'm so creative. It doesn't have any advertisements, which causes the app to
be free of algorithms. Algorithms are typically what screw people over. Like on
Instagram, the posts are not in chronological order. Vero is in
chronological order. Typically the most important posts in your Instagram feed
come first, and by more important, I mean it's probably a sponsored post, or it's a
very popular person on the website, etc. and so forth and such as. So Vero is
free of that, so every post is posted in the app when it was posted. So you can
just scroll down and be like this was *scroll* posted first and then *scroll* this
was posted later. You got me? Earlier I mean. Okay. Great. But because this app
is ad free, it's gonna cost you a monthly fee. Yeah. I mean would you prefer ads, or
would you prefer paying a million dollars a month. Personally, I'm cheap and
love ads. I'm a little freak for ads and free stuff. Like I made a fake Costco
card so I could just get into Costco, eat all the free samples, and then I never
have to cook or buy dinner ever again. $50 a year. The app will be
free though to the first million users, so quick! Download it right now. But, wait.
You might want to know more about it first. It hasn't been announced how much
it will cost. I did read that it's gonna be expensive.
I'm gonna guess anywhere between $10 to $15, but if people are saying
it's expensive, which I think $10 is expensive, maybe it's more like $30
a month, which is like crazy to me. That's too much money. A lot of people
that are using the app are reporting that it's difficult to use, and it's not
even loading. $30 a month. Someone at Vero said something along
the lines of we didn't know the app was gonna be popular. Oh my gosh. Our app
isn't working. OMG. Crap. But probably in more business-y terms. So basically Vero
is just a picture that's just of a loading bar. Wouldn't that be cool if
that's what the app was? People are like I'm paying $30
a month for this new app where you just look at a load bar
that never loads. So the trailer for the app says this. We started with a name,
Vero, meaning truth. Cool. A truthful app. I always loved the truth and the apps that
are truthful to me. I was curious about the name Vero, so I went on to the App
Store and I typed in Vero and I was really sad to see how many unsuccessful
Vero apps there've been. I'd like to take a moment
to remember all the Vero apps that will never be as good as the big Vero app
that doesn't load.
Those weren't even all the Vero apps I found. As I did more searching, I came
across the Vero YouTube channel, which surprised me. I came across this trailer
for a Vero original short film that looked kind of cool and good.
So they're making original content already? It's interesting that an app that just
launched, well you launched a few years ago but
it's being buggy and it just got a ton of users and it's like, it's interesting
they're treating themselves kind of like a Netflix in addition to the other apps
it's like? Also Vero isn't like a website you can log on to on your computer so
like this original content they're making you can only watch on your tiny
phone screen that doesn't load. Like I think the app has potential for sure, but
right now it's just is seeming a little bit woah. Oh, and also warning. You might want
to read the Terms of Service before you download this. Especially if you're an
artist of some kind. In the Terms of Service, it states you have all rights
necessary to grant to Vero a limited, royalty-free, sub-licensable,
transferable, perpetual, irrevocable not...
I'm no lawyer, but it sounds like they can use your art on a billboard and you
can't sue about it. But I mean then again who read the Instagram Terms of Service.
Maybe we all sold our souls to Instagram and we're required to work as a janitor
for them within the next 20 years or else we go to prison. The Instagram
building is gonna be so clean. So this app that has over 500,000 downloads, what
are people saying about it? What are the techie kids online saying about it? This
girl tweeted: "What is vero I'm so confused."
Someone else said: "I'm not sure if you all considered/thought about this but vero
seems very sketchy, I've been wondering the other day why it suddenly popped up
after existing since 2016 and reading this just confirms my uneasy feeling
about this app." "Don't upload art to Vero they can copyright it and distribute it as
they please it's not a great place for artists." Other people were more positive
about the app saying: "I think I'm deleting Instagram and Facebook. Vero is
more crackin." And honestly that was the only positive Vero tweet I could find
besides people sharing their account links. They're like check me out. Here's
my link to my account. Someone else who made a big statement about Vero was
iJustine. Heard of her? In a tweet, iJustine said: "All you guys praising Vero
may want to take a timeout.. here's a great thread with some background. I'm
also trying to delete my account but I don't know if you can." She's right. You
have to ask to delete your account. You have to like send them a message and be
like hey can I delete my account please. I don't want this anymore.
You're stealing my life. iJustine also said: "This seemed shady from the first
second I signed up." So that's what's up with Vero. Are you downloading it? Does it
sound like the best app you've ever had? Are you so excited? Did you already
download it and now I scared you? I'm sorry. I've been Candice
Carrizales and you can check me out on Twitter at @candacesucks and on my
YouTube channel Hunan Penguin. For more stories like this go to whatstrending (dot)
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