Snapchat’s ‘Reals’ joke mocks Instagram’s many ripoffs

It's April Fools' Day, and Snap is utilizing the juncture to "announce" that it's switching the sanction of Snapchat's Spotlight feed, the app's Instagram Reels-like provender of shortform vertical videos, to "Reals."

In a video featuring co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel, Snap besides includes a statement of "Reals" arsenic a spot wherever "real radical stock existent moments. Really." Spiegel adds that "People consciousness escaped to beryllium their afloat selves and to support it Real connected Snapchat" (In the video's captions, Snap capitalized "Real").

Spiegel besides utilized the video to punctual users astir its ephemeral Stories format - which, similar TikTok's vertical video feed, Instagram ripped …

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