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YouNow is the weirdest, most fascinating video streaming site. Unlike Periscope or Meerkat, you can pay a teen while he sings, dances, or even sleeps.
As Meerkat and now Periscope are being touted as a possible future of news, YouNow is the livestreaming video app where teens are flocking. If Meerkat and Periscope are competing for the eyeballs of news junkie adults on Twitter, YouNow has already won with the hordes of young people who just want to hang out with each other.
Lately, I've been enjoying a deeply creepy yet technically totally innocent new activity: lying in bed at night and watching random teens sleep. I've been doing it on YouNow, a mobile app and web live-streaming app that's a hit with teens. On its popular #sleepingsquad hashtag, I can see about 20 sleeping teens at any given time. (It usually seems around 50-plus people are broadcasting in the hashtag, but a lot of them are in complete darkness, so you can't actually see anything. Because, you know, they're sleeping.)
Some teens sleep with light music on. Some are completely silent. And some, eerily, have the distinctive soft breathing sounds of sleep.
I don't know exactly why a teen would broadcast themselves sleeping. I can't ask them.
I have asked other teens (or younger — I talked with kids as young as 10) why they use YouNow , a real-time video broadcasting app. The problem with asking a 13-year-old why they do anything is that it's quite difficult to get anything past "I dunno/I'm bored." But that's also the wrong question to ask. Why climb Mount Everest? Why tweet? Do adults really ever have a better answer than "I was bored" for anything we do? The aching desire to cut through the tedium of daily life with human interaction is the driving force of everything on the internet. In fact, boredom is such an integral raison d'être of teen life that #bored is one of the top channels on YouNow.
I chatted the the other people watching in the #sleepingsquad: Why? One girl watching a sleeping teen boy with me gave a reasonable response: "He's my boyfriend." Others had elliptical reasoning: "I think it's more that the people doing it want to get likes and fans."
Adi Sideman, the founder of YouNow, told me his theory on #sleepingsquad: "It's the addiction to the internet, it's the addiction to social media, it's not wanting to leave it behind even when you're sleeping." Andy Weissman of Union Square Ventures, who is invested in the app, described it as "an online slumber party" in an email to BuzzFeed News. "I also think part of the human condition is to look for connection with others. And this is probably more acute with younger people."
The app is sort of like Vine meets Chat Roulette meets The Gong Show . You can watch people live-streaming in different channels like "Musicians," "Dancing," or "Girls" and chat feedback or questions to them. If you really like them, you can tip them with points purchased with real money through the app, and the performer gets real money as a tip. YouNow's revenue model is based completely around the tipping system; they take a cut of the in-app purchases when fans buy points to tip the performers.
It's basically like an open-mic night where the hat is passed around: Some people will watch for free, some will toss a dollar in, and the house takes a cut at the end of the night. Currently, there are no plans to introduce ads. "We're happy with our current revenue model," said Sideman.
Fandom doesn't have a price on other platforms, like Vine or YouTube, where teen stars are made — ad-supported videos eliminate the need for financial transactions between the watchers and the watched. I asked Sideman why these mostly young users (70% are under 24, according to Sideman) would actually pony up cash to enjoy someone playing an Ed Sheeran cover instead of just enjoying an Ed Sheeran cover for free.
"Most of the fans just enjoy and chat and interact. Some of the fans want to stand out and want to participate more in, really, the content creation," said Sideman. "Because think about it — from a theoretical standpoint this thing is as much about the audience as it is about the broadcast. And that's really our focus — to let everybody participate and create content together. So if I tip or if I send a message and he incorporates it into what he's doing, we're collaborating."
The chat section for these popular YouTube stars moves fast — paying to pin your message to the top gets their attention.
During the day, the #sleepingsquad disappears. Musicians, performers, and cute charming teens dominate. I checked out the kids in the #truthordare channel. This where a distinct knot in my stomach kicked in. These were often young girls, seeming around ages 10–15, who are playing a sexually suggestive game with strangers. Coming up with harmless dares and G-rated truths is tough. So I did a few would-you-rathers instead:
For a dare, I dared the teen girls to lip-synch to a Taylor Swift song of their choosing (A+ dare, FYI. Feel free to use that one). One of them rolled her eyes and said she didn't like Taylor Swift — you could see the teen embarrassment of not wanting to like the thing that her peers liked — and offered to lip-synch instead to a parody of "Blank Space" by the YouTube star Shane Dawson.
Teens, let me give you a word of advice from a cool adult: Liking Shane Dawson is way more embarrassing than liking Taylor Swift.
After I had dared the third girl into singing a T. Swift song, I realized… this is really fun . It was a nostalgic rush to watch these girls lip-synch along to a pop star from inside their bedrooms — an activity that I have done not infrequently myself. It didn't feel creepy or wrong; it reminded me of a fun slumber party, exactly as the venture capitalist Andy Weissman described (though I maintain I am more qualified than him to judge similarities to a teen girl sleepover).
I am thinking very hard back to my teen self, and if this would have appealed to me. I was shy, and I think I wouldn't have liked the performative nature of it, but it's so hard to compare how normalized this technology is to kids now (for comparison, Myspace didn't exist until I was out of college). The kids on YouNow seems to represent the full social map of the lunchroom: theatre kids, hot popular girls, nerds, randos, short show-off-y boys in snapbacks. The difference is between YouNow and the real lunchroom is you can pay to sit at the popular kids' table if you want.
A girl in the "dance" category receives 50 "thumbs up" points from a fan, while a guy streams in the "guys" category.
Undoubtedly, there is something extremely worrisome about the vulnerability of children on the site. Sideman has his own knowledge of the dangers of adult predators. He produced a documentary Chicken Hawk about the notorious NAMBLA (North America Man-Boy Love Association) while in NYU film school in the mid-1990s. It was shown in the New York Underground Film Festival and a write-up in the Los Angeles Times called it "coldly objective" (the film is not at all supportive of NAMBLA). A 2001 article in New York magazine about the New York tech scene mentions him in not entirely flattering terms (the article is an amazing read as a time capsule of the tech bubble; I can't recommend it enough). The the author, Steve Fishman, chronicles his year of trying to get a karaoke website off the ground, and Sideman was involved as a business partner.
"I didn't speak to Steve, who is now a friend, for a few years after that. I was upset he wrote that my loft smelled like beer," he told me, chuckling. Adi, a former Israeli military paratrooper in his forties, wears a tight T-shirt over a henley and jeans and has funky glasses. He's likable and animated and offered me a cocktail at the office. He does not seem like someone whose loft would smell like beer.
Admittedly, as nervous for these kids' safety as I felt, I never saw anything weird or overtly sexual or harmful on YouNow. No one was exploiting the tipping system for stripping, and I didn't observe anyone acting untoward in the chat feature that runs along the side. YouNow employs a team of both in-house and outsourced content moderators.
"We have a large responsibility because it's live and because it's very popular with teens," said Sideman. "We invest a lot in our community management. We invest a lot in trust and safety in multiple languages to make sure that this is a safe place, and I'm very happy to say it is."
The broadcasters themselves didn't seem to worry either.
"Do you worry if there's creepy people on here?" I asked an 11-year-old girl.
"Do your parents know you use this app?"
"Does that matter? No. It doesn't matter. They don't know."
Katie Notopoulos is a senior technology reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York. Contact this reporter at katie@buzzfeed.com.
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For the Analog Parent in a Digital World
Here are three apps all parents should have on their radar. Meerkat, Periscope and YouNow are apps used to live-stream video from your phone. More than just recording videos and sending them, with these apps you hit “record” and people can watch you – live. Sound a little scary? A little voyeuristic? A little narcissistic? I thought so too! I downloaded all three to see what they were all about and yes, there are many kids and teens broadcasting their lives.
[NOTE – Meerkat is no longer available, having shut down in October 2016]
Each of these apps allows the user to:
Periscope is the only app here with an option for a private broadcast. YouNow does have a few basic settings so you can use a nickname instead of your real name – but all broadcasts are public.
These apps are not designed for kids; they are not intended for the under 13 crowd. Each app has specific terms that state this.
In addition, YouNow specifically states in their terms that users should be at least 18 or have parental permission.
The same concerns I’ve mentioned for apps like Vine , Omegle , and Keek apply here. Namely, the possibility of encountering inappropriate content (nudity, drug use or anything else you really don’t want your children to be exposed to). While I didn’t encounter any overtly sexual behavior, others have with only a bit of clicking around . I did encounter some teen girls beings asked by viewers to lift their shirts; thankfully, they didn’t.
There are also concerns about sharing too much personal information when broadcasting (I saw several teens streaming live from their bedrooms and answering personal questions). And there’s always the issue of wasting too much time – these apps are definitely a time suck!
So talk with your kids about these apps – have they heard of them? Are they using them? Are you okay with that?
Here are a few more details about each app.
Launched in 2014, this app has been around the longest of the three. Of the three apps, YouNow did seem to have a large number of users – particularly teen users. This could be due to its longevity. Or it could be due to the way the app is designed. It is easy to browse and search for available broadcasts, especially when they are tagged with a particular topic. Popular topics include #girls, #boys, #musicians, #dance, #bored, and #sleepingsquad (for watching people while they sleep).
YouNow can be used without creating an account . As soon as you open the app after installing, you are immediately connected to someone’s live stream. Parents will want to keep this in mind; even if a teen isn’t planning on broadcasting, there is still a lot to see (and time to waste) in the app.
If you want to create your own broadcast, or comment on others, you do have to create an account and must sign in via Facebook, Twitter or Google. (And since those services also have terms that require people to be 13, again this is not intended for kids.)
However on YouNow I encountered the largest number of young people as compared to the other apps. A few did look like they might be younger than 13.
Here are some things I saw on YouNow:
Regarding Kids/Teens on YouNow ( terms/privacy policy )
YouNow terms of agreement are more specific about age than the other two apps.
You affirm that you are either more than eighteen (18) years of age, or an emancipated minor, or possess legal parental or guardian consent, and are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in these Terms, and to abide by and comply with these Terms. In any case, you affirm that you are over the age of thirteen (13), as the Service is not intended for children under thirteen (13).
Once you create an account (again, using FB, Twitter of Google) there are some settings you can change. You can hide your city, and replace your real name with your nickname. If you experience any inappropriate content or conduct, you can block or flag someone. When you flag a user, you report them to the app moderators. (Good to know there are moderators).
YouNow is rated 12+ in the app store, available on iOS and Android (the only of these available to Android users, currently). Parents may also want to know that there are in-app purchases as part of the YouNow app.
Periscope launched just about a month ago, in March 2015.
Unlike the other two apps, Periscope is rated 4+ in the app store, for iOS only. However, just like Meerkat, Periscope requires Twitter to use, and Twitter terms require a user to be 13. In fact, Periscope is owned by Twitter. While there is no specific wording in Periscope’s terms regarding use by children, due to the Twitter ownership, the same terms apply.
Periscope also seems to be attracting some big names. Celebs like Ellen DeGeneres are here. Periscope also has the most geographically diverse broadcasters, at least from what I observed.
Some of the things I saw on Periscope:
Regarding kids on Periscope (terms/privacy policy)
Our Services are not directed to persons under 13. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us at privacy@twitter.com . We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we take steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s account. You can find additional resources for parents and teens here .
Periscope is the only app of the three that allowed any semblance of privacy. When broadcasting on Periscope, you can choose to invite any of your followers to a private broadcast. The broadcast will only be available to people who follow you. The invited viewers won’t be able to share your broadcast with others.
Periscope uses your location, microphone and camera, and sends notifications (which you can turn off). You can also choose not to use cellular data when using the app (i.e. only use when you have Wi-Fi available).
[NOTE – Meerkat is no longer available, having shut down in October 2016]
I could easily see how kids and teens would be interested in these live streaming broadcast apps. Like most any app, there is some good and some bad. All the apps have content guidelines – they want to keep things clean – but it is up to the users of the app to follow the guidelines. And that doesn’t always happen.
I can see a use for brands and performers looking to promote themselves. I really did enjoy listening to some live music straight from Liverpool! Unfortunately most people are trying to promote their silly antics.
Has anyone else tried either Periscope, YouNow or other live streaming apps? What do you think? Would you be concerned if your kids or teens were using these apps? Let me know in the comments!
kids spend way too much time on these sites..they even admit when they’re supposed to be in bed because it’s 2am on a school day. their parents are totally unaware. i’m surprised how many of these kids are up most of the night like that way too frequently and getting away with it..i’m talking about kids that are in elementary and middle school…i’m wondering why being up all night is so important to a young kid like this..it’s bad enough I see it in public all year round and to see it in chat rooms so frequently is ridiculous..it seems as though kids are hell bent on being up all hours of the night and not getting proper sleep.they apparently believe they’re going to miss something if they’re not awake as much as possible..they’ll find out as they get older that they’re desire to stay awake 24/7 has taken a toll on their health.young people ‘s desire to be awake all the time was bad in the 80’s and 90’s but it’s become obsessive in the 2010’s.
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