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[agoraphile]

I found this mobile app that aims to be a social medium for college students. It's sort of a farce in that regard, since it has no way of making sure that only college students use it, but I guess just saying so goes a long way toward releasing the inhibitions of actual college students. As social media goes it's not really a very good app, but you can pretty much count on a few partially-to-fully undressed bodies each day, and for the narrow goal of giving people a place to post salacious goods anonymously it works pretty well.

The app displays photos with a watermark that's layered on by the app itself. The original, if you can find it, is bigger, clearer, and watermark-free – which is appropriate since it's a user contribution.

In Er*dr posts and pictures vanish ("erode") over time. If they're upvoted they last longer, and if downvoted they die sooner. There's no quoting or conversation view, and no replying, so a common way to respond to someone is to screencap their post and submit that as a new post. Sometimes these DIY replies last longer than the originals, so a lot of the pics I've obtained only with the watermark, even though an unwatermarked original might still be out there. There's good stuff among these, but in deference to Rule 4 I won't post them.

A lot of these shots are pretty low quality –*most were taken with phone cameras in the app itself, often in low light – but I still appreciate that they're mostly pure self-posts, willingly given to a community of eager peers. There are a lot of themes to these photos. I won't try to categorize, since as new ones come in they're going to blur into a potpourri anyway.

I'm purposely censoring the name of the app to resist anyone finding this post in web search. I don't really want to slow down the stream, and I definitely don't want the app's author to change how I get the originals.

To my knowledge this is an OCC exclusive. Enjoy!

[agoraphile]

The app was developed at the University of Missouri, and most of its users are there still. It's pretty popular on the campus, and you can sample students' feelings about how the campus has been in the news in the past year while admiring their extracurricular affairs.

[agoraphile]

I see a repeat or two. Sorry for that, the way I get the pics they sometimes appear more than once in separate files. I'll try to edit when I see it.

[frosty57]

Pretty damm cool find.

I will watch with interest how this pans out

I for one am hooked allready

Thanks for the share

[Newbie1926]

Can't get the app in England

[agoraphile]

Another batch.

[agoraphile]

Butt shots are very popular on this app.

[agoraphile]

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