TikTok has officially hopped on the BeReal bandwagon and honestly, the pressure to take another candid selfie every day is actually too much for me.
TikTok’s version of BeReal is called TikTok Now. First I need to be “real”, then I need to be “now”? It’s all too much.
Basically, in the US TikTok Now is part of the pre-existing TikTok app. Makes sense. That version launched earlier in September.
In the rest of the world though, TikTok Now is a whole seperate app.
It’s not available in Australia just yet, so you’ll just have to keep posting cursed selfies to BeReal for now.
Like BeReal, you’ll get a daily notification for TikTok Now. According to Elite Daily, it says “Time to Now” — an existential command if I’ve ever heard one. Users will then have three minutes to take their candid content, which is of course wildly different to BeReal’s two minute timer.
The thing that differentiates the ‘ol Tok from BeReal is the fact you can take a 10 second video as well as a picture. Great, video footage of the most boring part of my day as well as picture evidence!
In a media release
Get ready for daily push notifications, prompting you to capture either a 10-second video or static photo of what you're up to at that moment in time.
