The Sleepover Club: Is BeReal ushering in a new era of authentic social media, or is it just as shallow as everything else?

The Polyester Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It's time to BeReal! As the social media app grows bigger and bigger, Ione and Halima have downloaded BeReal to try it out for themselves. The platform promises us the opportunity to see our friends as they really are - but do we really want to? How many selfies of ourselves sitting on the sofa can we really take? As we all strive for a more authentic online experience, the pair are discussing if posting genuinely is all it's cracked up to be; or if we all deserve to live in our inauthentic fantasies in the URL world.

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0:00.0	Hi, Halima.
0:00.9	Hi, Ioni.
0:01.7	And hello to the listeners.
0:21.1	Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester and the author of Quarletal Sickers. And I'm Halema, the community editor of Polyester Scene and the co-ers of the Polyester podcast. This is The Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. We pull apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all.
0:24.2	Before we get started, please like, rate and review and subscribe.
0:27.0	I don't need to we have any reviews to read out this week.
0:32.8	We do, we do, we do. Five stars, love. Lots of love from an Italian girl living in the south of France. I love to listen to you while I walk through Marseille, not as chic as can's, but still.
0:38.4	And then the emoji that has hearts around it with the face in the middle.
0:42.6	That is by Lucia Calfa Pietra.
0:46.2	Probably didn't say that.
0:48.2	That is very chic.
0:49.7	It sounds much more chic than the way I'm living.
0:52.5	Yeah, literally in the heat wave right now.
0:54.9	Just pass away. Literally. Oh, God. So, speaking of how we are living right now, what are we
1:03.4	talking about? We're talking about hashtag be real and authenticity online. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
1:13.3	What are your thoughts?
1:14.1	So for context, I got Be Real, like I'm probably about a month ago now because I noticed
1:19.7	quite a few people had it and I was seeing like the screenshots on Instagram or whatever
1:24.2	and then I will go into this afterwards but I made Halima get it for
1:29.6	research for this episode. Yeah but what is Be Real? Be Real is. It's kind of, it's like a social
1:36.2	media app although I don't know whether I would say it is like that. I don't know how to explain
1:41.5	but it's basically an app where you have a feed,
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