Adoptly, the Tinder for adoption, was actually an art project
January 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Adoptly, the “Tinder for adoption” app that was suspended from Kickstarter earlier this month, wasn’t a real service after all.
In an email sent to reporters this afternoon, Adoptly’s creators said it was in fact part of “an ongoing art project” by directors Ben Becker and Elliot Glass. The duo were also behind the fake app Pooper, which fooled a number of news sites into writing about a supposed “Uber for dog poop” last July.
The project, Becker and Glass write, is meant to satirize “our tech obsessed world and our cultural desire to make everything faster, easier, more convenient, and instantly gratifying, and raise questions about where we draw the line, or whether we do at all.”…
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