Have you seen the crying filter on Snapchat? There’s a theory that Amber Heard‘s recent appearance in court was the inspiration for the filter and now the company is responding.
The filter dropped on Friday, May 6, right after Amber took the stand in her trial against ex-husband Johnny Depp.
Amber tearfully testified in the trial and revealed many bombshells about her relationship with Johnny. A photo of her on the stand went viral on social media and fans think that the crying filter on Snapchat looks just like that pic.
The 44-year-old actor has debuted the trailer for his upcoming show Ryan Doesn’t Know, which will be airing under Snapchat’s Discover feature.
Here’s what the show’s about: “It may come as a surprise, but there are a lot of things that Ryan Reynolds doesn’t know. So in his new Snapchat series Ryan Doesn’t Know, Ryan is going to take some time for some self-improvement, learn some extremely useful skills, and meet some new friends.”
“He’ll be joined by a group of talented emerging artists and creators from an array of fields. He’ll speak with incredibly talented experts to collaborate and try his hand at their honed craft. Throughout the series, Ryan will chip away at ice sculpting with Shintaro Okamoto, have a go at visual trickery with VFX expert Trevor Bell, learn floral sculpting from creative designer Aurea Molaei, attempt axe throwing and so much more!”
The 12-episode series, produced by Westbrook Media, premieres Saturday, January 30 with new episodes airing every other day.
You can now earn up to $1 million dollars on Snapchat!
The app company just launched a new initiative for creators calls Snapchat Spotlight and will pay them for the most-viewed daily video posts.
According to a new blog post by the company, Snapchat Spotlight will show users a stream of publicly submitted posts surfaced based on personalized content algorithms.
Then, those creators who contribute are eligible to receive some money through that, and it could be even more than $1 million daily. Those who are eligible must be over 16 years of age.
“Spotlight shines a light on the most entertaining Snaps created by the Snapchat community, no matter who created them,” the company said on their announcement site. “We built Spotlight to be a place where anyone’s content can take center stage — without needing a public account or an influencer following.”
At the moment, the $1 million daily payout will run at least until the end of the year, and maybe beyond that. Earnings are determined by a proprietary formula primarily based on the total number of unique video views a Snap gets in a given day (calculated using Pacific Time) as compared with the performance of other user posts in Spotlight that day.
Check out the promo video for the program below!
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Quibi was set to make a series about Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel, but the series is no longer moving forward.
The new streaming service, which launched last week, is all about “quick bites” of content and episodes of the streamer’s shows last for just 10 minutes or less.
The planned series was going to be based on the screenplay “Frat Boy Genius” by Elissa Karasik.
“We want to tell a story that’s as compelling and interesting about Snapchat and Evan as The Social Network was for Facebook,” Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg said while announcing the project last year.
Variety reported on April 13 that she show will no longer happen. If you didn’t know, Evan is currently married to model Miranda Kerr and they have two kids together.
The 32-year-old model took to Twitter on Saturday (March 24) to reveal the list of reasons why she stopped using the app – and one of those reasons includes Rihanna.
“I stopped using snap. The update, the constant complaints of people not being able to find me, plus the Rihanna poll…no bueno,” Chrissy tweeted.
If you didn’t know, Rihanna called out the app for featuring an ad for a “Would You Rather?” game that presented the option to either slap Rihanna or punch Chris Brown. She denounced the ad, and the company issued two apologies.
Rihanna‘s criticism is being felt hard financially by Snapchat.
The stock price for the app fell around four percent on Thursday (March 15), according to CNN. It then fell another one percent on Friday (March 16). The loss wiped out “nearly $800 million from its market value.”
If you didn’t know, Rihanna called out the app for featuring an ad for a “Would You Rather?” game that presented the option to either slap Rihanna or punch Chris Brown. She denounced the ad, and the company issued two apologies.
This follows another celebrity hit: Snapchat’s stock dropped $1.3 billion in value after Kylie Jenner said she doesn’t use the app anymore last month.
Snapchat is once again apologizing for an ad that ran on the app.
The ad, for a game launched on the app early in the week, featured a “Would You Rather?” question asking users to pick between “slap Rihanna” or “punch Chris Brown.” (You can still see a screenshot of it here.)
After Snapchat issued an initial apology, Rihanna put the company on blast with a scathing post.
“This advertisement is disgusting and never should have appeared on our service. We are so sorry we made the terrible mistake of allowing it through our review process. We are investigating how that happened so that we can make sure it never happens again,” a spokesperson for Snap Inc. said to ABC News on Thursday (March 15).
The game was pulled from the platform and the advertiser has been blocked from the app.
