W App - Anonymous polls 12+

This app is amazing, It finds everybody from your school and everybody from your contacts and snap and adds them to your questions. There are various questions with a option of 4 people. Easy option to share what people said about you to your snapchat story. And completely secret ! You can only find out the first letter of there name or if you really want to find out you can get gold which cost £4. I reccomend

First of all, this app wants your name, phone number and what school you go to! Obviously stealing that data. I've looked into it deeper and it is obvious directed at children, by not only requiring you to put in what school you go too, but also using gen z terms such as "w-rizz" and "slay". So how does it prey off insecurities? Well the app is based off of anonymous compliments, and it says whether a girl or boy sent this compliment. You get a little dopamine kick every time you get a compliment on this app leading to addiction and reliance on the app to feel better. It has a whole feature of saying that people have crushes on you. This is all clearly to make you feel happy when you use the app and addicting you in a toxic way. The app also sends you compliments, pretending to be your friends. Additionally, there have been reports of it sending a download link to the app to your contacts without consent. Now here is the crazy part. The app makes fake accounts impersonating your contacts to further make you feel left out. This is outrageous. Also, all the compliments are anonymous and multiple choice to remove any personal connections so you don't feel left out.
TLDR: This app makes fake accounts impersonating your contacts, makes kids addicted to the dopamine kick of fake compliments, using their insecurities for economical gain and shares the app with your contacts without consent from you.

at first it was really fun that you could vote for people who you actually know and a lot of the questions are really funny but then it got annoying when you had to PAY £4.99 A WEEK JUST TO SEE WHO VOTED YOU?!?! It’s a joke! I completely understand that the app needs to make money but even if it continued with the sharing the app to get hints and shorten the waiting time to vote again, or even watch the odd advert to get hints on who voted for you. Also, after having the app just over a day the poll waiting screen has started lagging a lot. Like it has said where the time would be “loading..” for the past 6 hours, and repeatedly keep going on and off?? The rest of the app has been working and after deleting it and downloading it again several times nothing has changed.

Such a shame really since it’s a fun app to have with all your friends, but just a few features ruin it. And with the lagging I don’t even know what else to say or do about it 😂😭