Anyway, now I get to make myself travel through time or hide amidst a zombie horde.īitstrips also provides the opportunity for people to get uncomfortably close to home truths or underlying desires whilst hidden under the blanket of humour. I never got one of those personalised Barbie books for my seventh birthday, and as a result, no Generic Brunette Character #38 was named after me and sent on an adventure in Ken’s haunted dreamhouse (giggity). Primarily, the goal is to amuse yourself and your friends, and whatever, I’ll admit it – it’s fun to see “yourself” in scenarios which you can’t (or probably wouldn’t want to) experience in real life. Like all forms of social media, Bitstrips is used for any number of reasons. Perhaps it’s a picture of you as a zombie reaching out to a hospitality worker because you’re “not human until you’ve had your morning coffee”, or one where you and a friend might be reaching out to devour a box of hypothetical chocolates in a room that you are not physically occupying together.

It’s pretty similar to how Facebook constantly wants to know “What’s on your mind?” - but instead of a pithy post or a gallery of trout pouts, Bitstrip users will put up what normally comes across as a cartoonised version of a Dad joke or, even more simply, an image of a thing you are probably not actually doing. So: a lot of people are using it - enough for posts like this to exist - but what exactly are they using it to say to one another?īitstrips is centred around scenarios that are either light takes on social interactions, whimsical fantasies, or a means to express your state of mind or an aspect of your personality. According to the app description, you can “join over 20 million people around the world using Bitstrips as a more fun and visual way to communicate with friends.”

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