Snapchat’s ‘Reals’ joke mocks Instagram’s many ripoffs

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Instagram Reels-like Spotlight feed has been renamed to ‘Reals’ — for today, at least. The Instagram Reels-like Spotlight feed has been renamed to ‘Reals’ — for today, at least. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s April Fools’ Day, and Snap is using the occasion to “announce” that it’s switching the name of Snapchat’s Spotlight feed, the app’s Instagram Reels-like feed of shortform vertical videos, to “Reals.” In a video featuring co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel, Snap also includes a description of “Reals” as a place where “real people share real moments. Really.” Spiegel adds that “People feel free to be their full selves and to keep it Real on Snapchat” (In the video’s captions, Snap capitalized “Real”). Spiegel also used the video to remind users about its ephemeral Stories fo