The messaging platform Discord announced its acquisition of Gas, an app that’s popular among teens for its positive spin on social media.
On Gas, users sign up with their school, add friends, and answer polls about their classmates. But the questions in the polls are intended to boost users’ confidence, rather than damage it. Teens might be asked to choose which of four friends is the best DJ or has the best smile. Then the person who was chosen will get an anonymous message with their compliment, sent from a vague “boy in 10th grade” or “girl in 11th grade.”
Gas was founded by Nikita Bier, who previously sold a similar app called tbh to Facebook in 2017 …
