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The Week We All Got BeReal: A Brief History of a Social Media Platform’s Out-of-Nowhere Explosion

By Annie Goldsmith · Apr 15, 2022 12:00pm PDT
If you know what BeReal is, you’re either a French teen or a U.S. college student, or you found out about it 10 minutes ago. The social media site—now the 28thmost downloaded free app in the App Store—was founded by two French entrepreneurs in 2020, leaped to popularity in Europe last summer and has been catching fire on college campuses since... If you know what BeReal is, you’re either a French teen or a U.S. college student, or you found...